Asus Bangalore Divas Meet.

Well, I happen to attend a Divas meet. Yes, I am not a Diva. But was forced to attend. Courtesy one of two most important Divas in my life, My wife. She was invited to one of All-Girls only affair blogger meet at Taj Vivanta, Bangalore by ASUS. She wanted me to also come there as our 10 months son, Akshaj, need to be taken care of and at the same time Akshaj wanted his mother's company. In all this affair of mother, son and Asus a poor dad, that's me, got involved.

After a lot of reluctance, I had a call to the organisers and they agreed that it was fine if I can accompany my wife. This gave more ammunition to my diva for life to convince and attend. Well, I finally succumbed to all the emotional "attyachars" and we went ahead with our plans to attend. I have to admit the event was really good, even though I was initially reluctant to be part of it as it was a Diva meet.

We reached the venue - Taj Vivanta, M G Road, Bangalore on 13th Aug 2015. We were late by 30 mins, courtesy Bangalore traffic and heavy rains which took place. Event started a bit late too probably for the same reason. I utilized the time to go over to counters which had the Zen Phones displayed. One of the counters had Zenny - the ASUS mascot. There were some Zenny Pen drives too.

The other counter had all the new Zen phones getting launched. I got chance to get hands on all of them.

Arindham & Komal from Team ASUS gave all the guests a brief overview of ASUS and what this event was all about.

Peter Chang, MD of Asus India, took over the centre stage and gave more details about the devices launched in the ZenFestival by ASUS. Steffi later on gave a live demo of the devices from the Zenfone portfolio.

Anusha Dandekar, one of the most popular VJs was the surprise for the divas. She gave them a good know how on make-up tips and poses required for perfect selfies. Divas also had a Selfie Ramp walk & group Selfie contest anchored by Anusha. All the exercise were really liked by the guests present at the venue.

Winners of both the contests were given Asus Zenny pen-drive and a Lolli Flash accessory from Asus. At end, ZenTalk, a platform to connect with ASUS users,  was introduced. Nice Dinner was also served there.

The phones at display were:

ZenFone 2 Deluxe This device delivers powerful all-round performance. It has a gorgeous new multifaceted polygonal finish accentuating the signature ZenFone 2 Ergonomic Arc design. It features a display size of 5.5-inch with Full HD IPS display, 13MP/5MP Pixel cameras, 2.3GHz  processor and 4G/LTE connectivity. With 4GB RAM, the device's responsiveness was really good. It has a fast-charge technology which can charge for 60% capacity in just 39 minutes. 

ZenFone 2 Laser had a powerful 13MP camera with an f/2.0 wide-aperture lens to capture stunning, high-resolution photos with zero shutter lag — augmented by laser auto-focus technology that empowers users to capture perfect clarity in just 0.3 seconds.  It is Available in 5-inch (ZE500KL), 5.5-inch (ZE550KL) and 6.0-inch (ZE601KL) versions with up to 1920 x 1080-pixel Full HD resolution. It has Corning Gorilla Glass 4 and also boasts an up to octa-core 64-bit Snapdragon processor with up to 3 GB of fast memory for unwavering performance.

ZenFone Selfie (ZD551KL) has a dual 13MP cameras, dual-color, dual-LED Real Tone flash both front and rear, plus laser auto-focus for ultra-fast shots with complete clarity. Ergonomic Arc design and intuitive rear key makes capturing selfies much easier than ever before. It has a huge 13MP resolution and an f/2.2-aperture, 88-degree wide-angle lens to capture more of every smile in selfie mode. The unique Selfie Panorama mode enables selfies with an outlook of up to 140 degrees, so everything and everyone becomes part of the shot.

ZenFone Selfie’s rear camera is just as advanced, with a large f/2.0 aperture lens for superior low-light shots. Both cameras are engineered with five-prism Largan lenses and top-quality Toshiba sensors, and include dual-LED Real Tone flash technology for perfect illumination in any lighting conditions. ZenFone Selfie also delivers superb macro photography that works on subjects as close as 6cm, plus rear laser auto-focus to compose shots in the blink of an eye.

ZenFone Max (ZC550KL)  has a incredibly-long-lasting high-capacity 5000 mAh lithium-polymer battery that gives users an unprecedented amount of battery life. It has a bright and clear 5.5-inch IPS display with wide viewing angles, protected by the latest Corning Gorilla Glass 4 for unrivalled scratch-resistance, strength and everyday durability. At the heart of ZenFone Max is a powerful yet power-efficient 64-bit Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 processor with up to 2GB of RAM. ZenFone Max features a 13MP  /5MP PixelMaster cameras with a wide f/2.0 aperture, and the rear camera also boasts laser auto-focus for sharp, near-instant shots. 

In Short I will say, Overall all the devices are good. But depends on your present pain area.

• If battery life is the most important thing for you, go for ZenFone Max (ZC550KL). 
• If you do lot of picture capture & sharing, then go for ZenFone Selfie (ZD551KL)
• If you want a highly responsive device, then go for ZenFone 2 Deluxe or ZenFone 2 Laser

Airtel - The Fastest Network in India

Recently Airtel launched 4G services nationwide roll-out across 296 cities in India. With the launch, Airtel has become the first telecom operator to roll out 4G services. The expected download speed on Airtel 4G can be as high as 42 Mbps and Upload speed of about 12 Mbps on airtel 4G TDD network. That's simply amazing. It will definitely move India up in the ranking of nations based on that mobile data speed average. Airtel is undoubtedly the fastest mobile data network in India at the moment.

 For any user to start using 4G services, user needs the below three things

1. 4G Device
2. 4G SIM
3. 4G Plan

To make it even simpler, you just need to input your airtel mobile in the Airtel 4G website, to check if 4G ready. Based on your check, if you don't have a 4G device, you can buy one, e.g. say Moto 3 gen or any other device of your choice. 

Most of us will probably not have a 4G SIM. So if you are an Airtel customer with a 4G capable device, Airtel offers a free upgrade from 3G to 4G. Getting a 4G sim is easier than ever before. Just tweet using #GetAirtel4G to get a 4G SIM delivered to your home for free, Once you tweet you will get a reply from @AirtelIndia twitter handle directing you to a link where you can enter your details for 4G SIM delivery.

Isn't it amazing that one can just upgrade from 3G to 4G for free and get a 4G SIM delivered at home real fast that too for free. Now no more waiting for song or movie downloads or picture uploads.

One can get speed as high as 42 Mbps. Just imagine now we can download movies in less than 3 minutes. If we are streaming a movie we don't need to wait/stop in between because of slow data connection.  Songs can be downloaded in just 1 seconds.

Interestingly, the TV commercial by Airtel clearly show the difference the huge leap which this launch will take in common Indian's life who were deprived of good data speed.

Video Downloads:-  Just imagine with 42 Mbps download speed a movie of say 900 MBs can be easily downloaded in less than 3 minutes. Its real. No more waiting for download to complete.

Photo Uploads:- With upload speed of 12 Mbps, one can upload an album with 40 pictures of 2 MBs each.

Download Songs:- With 42 MBps download speed a song of 5 MB can be downloaded in just 1 second.

Well I'm moving to Airtel 4G as soon as my Moto G 3rd Gen is getting delivered to me. When are you moving to the Fastest network in India?

Airtel 4G laga dala to Life Jingaa La La !!!!

#FlipkartImageSearch : Look --> Like --> [Shoot --> Search] --> Buy

Thanks to Flipkart for giving 120 odd bloggers an opportunity to  to meet on 1st of August 2015 at Hard Rock Cafe. Well many might say that Saturday 10:30 am is early, but I was happy that with this timing I get to meet the blogger friends as well spend time with the family in the evening. Anyways coming to point and talking about my experience.

I took metro to reach MG Road from Indiranagar. I was astonished to see good number of people presence on Saturday morning. Hard Rock Cafe was completely energetic and gave an awesome atmosphere to the whole meet. Most of the folks looked excited and were waiting to know whats in store coming from Flipkart.

The meet started with a jamming session and introductions. Once team Flipkart, lead by Punit Soni (CPO, Flipkart), took over we were enlightened with what they are doing in the mobile application side to make e-commerce buying experience better for the Indian consumers.

Now it was turn for the demo of #FlipkartImageSearch by Flipkart team. Using #FlipkartImageSearch, a typical user whenever he likes any fashion accessory can just capture the image and search using #FlipkartImageSearch . #FlipkartImageSearch will search based on various attributes like color & pattern and provide good list of similar items for user to select and buy.

In 4 simple short steps,

1. You LOOK at something
2. If you LIKE and have a desire to buy it
3. #FlipkartImageSearch :- Take a Camera SHOOT of the item from Flipkart App & SEARCH 
4. If you like the options shown, select and BUY

After demo, we had some Question and Answer interaction session, in which we interacted with Flipkart team on various other areas like their future plans, seller network, avatars, etc.

The short break was also utilized for networking. I got a great chance of having good interaction with Punit Soni and many other Flipkart folks.

After this short break, it resumed with a new session which was an eye opener. We had got demoed about #FlipkartImageSearch, but this session gave us a real feel about how this #FlipkartImageSearch feature works. All were divided into teams with 20 members each and they have to find the exact item in Flipkart App as available with any of the folks present in the meet using Image Search from mobile device. Yes, after this exercise I realize that Image search from Flipkart was really good & easy to use. If i would have missed this activity,I wouldn't have realized the potential of this new awesome addition.

With the conclusion of team event results, it was announced that all the attendees will get a free copy of "10 love stories" - book published by Indi-Blogger. Lunch was very delicious and great along with Hard Rock Cafe's bar serving drinks. At the same time, we had an inexplicable dance performance by Hard Rock Cafe team.

You can download Flipkart App from here .

Thanks to Flipkart & Indi-Blogger team for organizing such a great event. Had loads of fun and good time. 

Alla Re Alla Airtel 4G Alla !!!

I remember few years back when I was reading one of the reports from Bloomberg which talked about India being at No. 20 with respect to mobile data speed among the 20 countries surveyed. I was disappointed to read that. It also projected the approximate position a nation will obtain by 2017 and expected data speed they might achieve. The projection in 2017 also ranked India to number 17 with average data speed of ~2.5 MBps.

I recalled about that article today when I saw the news that Airtel launched 4G nationally. I was delighted to read and about this. With this expected download speed on Airtel 4G can be as high as 42Mbps and Upload speed of 12 Mbps on airtel 4G TDD network. That's simply amazing. It will definitely move India much more up in the ranking of nations based on that mobile data speed average.

Interestingly, the TV commercial by Airtel clearly show the difference the huge leap which this launch will take in common Indian's life who were deprived of good data speed.

Video Downloads:-  Just imagine with 42 Mbps download speed a movie of say 900 MBs can be easily downloaded in less than 3 minutes. Its real. No more waiting for download to complete.

Photo Uploads:- With upload speed of 12 Mbps, one can upload an album with 40 pictures of 2 MBs each.

Download Songs:- With 42 MBps download speed a song of 5 MB can be downloaded in just 1 second.

Wow. I simply can't wait to get hands on Airtel 4G. I will just say "Alla Re Alla Airtel 4G Alla !!!"

UC Browser can make a difference

India is a nation of cricket, movies, festivals, relatives, friends, work & lot many social activities. Most of us are always busy with one or multiple activities at the same time. We tend to compromise one activity over the other and somehow do a jugaad. Life has been like that for quite sometime, until the advent of smart phone. With arrival of smart phone, people have started doing more work systematically and looking for ways not to compromise one over another. Few good examples are

• Bigbasket, Youmart - These online grocery startup have made people save their time on grocery market and use the same for some other recreational activities including watching cricket.
• Ola, Uber, TaxiForSure - Online taxi booking has saved people from haggling with auto-wallahs and unnecessary time spent on searching for cabs.

Similarly there are many other aspects. At the same time, in India the infrastructure is choked w.r.t. Data Bandwidth / Speed, Road traffic etc. Most of the smart phone users are just unhappy with the speed of browsing specially when they are live streaming one of their important cricket matches involving Team India. One such new solution in market which is getting a good adoption in India is UC browser because its faster & better. Here is one such story on how UC browser played its part between two friends sharing an apartment in Bangalore, while watching ICC cricket world cup.

Both of the friends, Amar & Ajit were planning to watch India v/s Pakistan World Cup 2015 match. As usual many Indian fans, Ajit & Amar also had superstitious belief when they wanted their team India to win. This time they decided that they will not watch match live in TV, coz last time when they watched India lost. So they decided, they will be watching using their mobile & stream the match live show.With India v/s Pakistan encounter in a World Cup match, they dared not challenge their belief.

They started streaming the match separately using their android mobile phone. Slowly as the match started to heat up, they started betting on whats going to happen in the next ball. To the surprise, most of those bets were won by Amar, resulting in Ajit feeling disappointed & disheartened as he had to pay for all the Pizzas during the world cup matches as per the bet. Ajit came back that he will only pay for Pizza and not all the side items like Garlic bread, soft drinks, etc. To Amar's surprise Ajit agreed.

Next game was between India & South Africa .Unfortunately, Ajit lost again the overall next ball predictions by a big margin. Now Ajit has to sponsor both Pizza's & Side dishes like Soft drink & Garlic breads. Now the only item left /consumed during the match still under the shared budget was Pop-corns. But the poor Ajit lost again for India v/s West Indies match. Amar was elated, Ajit was so upset that he decided he will not bet again ever and not even watch cricket match. On knowing this Amar felt bad. Amar went to Ajit and said we can share all the bills and explained him that he won most of the bets just because of better browser which he has in his mobile phone. Ajit asked him we both share the same WiFi connection, similar android based device still your browser is faster than me. How can it be possible?

Amar explained that UC browser is the next generation advanced browser for mobile devices which uses cloud accelerations & data compression technology. This makes browser load web pages faster than any of the present mobile browser. Amar continued for cricket fans in India they have a special section just dedicated to cricket : UC Cricket . Even Yuvraj Singh of India Team recommends the same. Ajit was convinced and he installed UC browser. 

For all the new cricket matches the next ball prediction was more fun and more balanced. UC browser made friends more closer at the same time improved the experience of watching cricket matches enjoyful n lively...

My Favorite Phone - Asus Zenfone2

One person can have many reasons for liking one or the other new mobile devices. To judge which is my favorite device is going to change from time to time. As the technology is changing faster than the time, means we will have more advanced device with much higher capabilities.

Its hard to say which is my favorite device as it keeps changing with time & technology. After thinking through it hard enough I have chosen one - the chosen one. Well before I reveal the name I thought its better to note down the logical reasons for my choice. So I will divide it in two parts one was the must things which I won't compromise on for my own reasons.


Criteria : Must YESes for me

1. It should be based on Android. Well the simple reason for me is that I am used to Android and it has the highest number applications available in any of the play stores as compared to that of other Operating Systems.
2. Both Front & Rear Camera. Its must for me for the obvious reason that I am very social in different social media channels like instagram, twitter, etc. So for me Selfie is a necessity & not luxury. So both the cameras are basic needs.
3. Higher resolution device close to 1080p resolution. The main reason for this was I like watching video & playing games in mobile phones. So looks and feel of the display has to be good.
4. Higher RAM. Many of the devices will show good space and processor but are low in RAM. So one have a frequent Lags and slowness in device. For me this is to be avoided at all the cost. I just hate any ANR or Force Close dialogs , ahhh.... I mean any application crashes or activity getting freezed.

My Choice: My Favourite Phone : ASUS Zenfone 2

Well I will list the reasons why it should be in anyone's best list based on parameters which made me love Zenfone 2. 

• 4 GB RAM. Once I heard it, I was like WOW. No more slow devices. No more applications saying that they will crash (ANRs or Force Closes) soon. Typically most of the other devices fulfilling my criteria has either 1 GB , 2GB and few with 3 GB RAM. For me 4GB RAM was a key differentiation.
• Games were faster and very responsive.
• Applications were fast & smooth. Literally No ANRs
• Touch & responsiveness gave a very nice feeling & experience.

• Quad Core Atom 2.3 GHz processor is well matched with higher RAM. This means that neither the performance of Chipset or RAM is going to be a bottleneck. I being a power user, aka heavy user, this fulfills my need as a power user.

• 13 MP Rear Camera & 5 MP Front Camera, meant that I will have much more clear and beautiful pictures. The pictures and selfie taken can be shared to social medias like Instagram. Camera is fairly simple & easy to use with all the features like White Balance, 1080 P Video Capture, etc. In short, great pictures with nice quality and ease paired with a good response time.

• Good display with 5.5 inch Display with resolution of 1080 * 1920 pixels.This gives good pictures taken more clearer and sharper. Corning Gorilla Glass adds more to protect the display by making it scratch free.

• I loved the design of flip cover. So beautiful & amazing. It made me recall some classic phones like Razer with those watches. I simply love this design.

• Dual SIM - I have two mobile numbers and I wanted to keep both while migrating from Moto G to ASUS Zenphone 2. It adds an extra comfort to stay the same instead of carrying to mobile devices.

• Affordable. Many of times a good device with a good specs are heavily priced. But that's not the case with  ASUS Zenfone 2.

In simple words, if you are a power user who is social and expects phone to work well and in a very responsive way with good pictures and gaming performance, #Myzenfone2 is definitely the best pick in the present lot of devices.

My Airtel "Simple And Intuitive" App

With the penetration of Smart Phones in India, its quite evident that many of the consumer websites will make way for Smart Phone Apps. As accessing applications in smart phone is much easier as you can transact or make use of them even when you are travelling.

In most our present busy life, as in mine, many times we may miss paying few bills due on time or we may actually make more effort to do things easily when we have better options. To make life easier we make some choices to make it easy better, cheaper & convenient.

In my case, to make it more convenient I have taken most of the services from one vendor, Airtel, so that I have one place to go for Broadband, Postpaid Mobile, DTH & Airtel Money. Still each one of them have a due date at different dates. Neither I was inclined to pay most of them much earlier nor I liked logging in multiple times. Now I have found a way and is relieved more with My Airtel Application.

There are many features which I like about this application. But few things which is loved are:

1. User Interface & Usability .

It has a very nice intuitive UI. When I first installed this application I wasn't sure if it will last many days in my Android phone. But my perception completely changed in just 5 minutes because of nice UI design.

As soon as application is launched a nice Hint screens come, which tells user what this application really does. At the same time, its not forced to the user to go through each and every Hints and user can skip this at any time as desired. Look and feel of these screens are very soothing.

      

2. Managing all Airtel services.

This application integrated all Airtel services at one place. It has made my life easier. I can keep track of my usage as well as payment due date at one view. Also, it has option to pay, so all Airtel services are taken care. So Airtel is now making our life more "Truly mobile" in a sense.

With this application payment is much more secure and safe as we don't need to input any of the details in someone else's system or laptop. Payment is also faster as card informations are stored, so one need not carry the card always with him/her.

3. Offers & I want to options

It also provides new deals and offers. This adds a new option to save more and get more value. These coupons are available across categories. I want to options provide a way to make a frequent task as a short-cut, helping us more to customise based on our needs.

One of the major differences between a website and phone application from a user perspective is that in the smart phones you will not want to keep or install all the applications. So it becomes important from user perspective to choose few good quality as well as usable applications. I believe if you are an Airtel customer My Airtel app definitely deserves atleast a place in your personal mobile device,

My Airtel Application is available in literally all smart phone applications. You can also download this nice application using below QR code.

Start your Smartphone Journey !!!

Well, I have already #chooseToStart long time back, when android launched its cupcake version. With the time i have migrated from Cupcake to Donuts to Froyo to GingerBreads n KK to finally, Lollipop. Throughout these transitions the phone has got smarter and smarter day by day.

As an experienced traveller in this smartphone journey, I will recommend all the folks to #chooseToStart their SmartPhone journey. Many would ask what's the need? I just do calls and nothing else. I don't need complex phones. They get damaged easily and bla bla. I will say to them availability of a feature doesn't mean you have to use it, it means you have power in your hand to use it or not to use. With feature phones its more like disability.
The main thing which used to differentiate smart phone & feature phones was price. The standard definition of feature phone is phone with few selective features at a moderate price. Smart phone used to be high on features but more costly than feature phone. But with Moto E the difference from the price point of view has disappeared. If you are a hardcore feature phone user and don't care about new features, I would like to ask you would you like to see pictures of your loved ones when you are travelling and have an idle time? Would you like to click pictures of some thing special to show it to your kids? Would you like to talk chat with your kids in the medium which they want? Would you like to interact with all your family members in a WhatsApp group and hear them, even though when they are silent? Would you like to not look good and technology aware in front of your kid & friends? If the reply is yes at a moderate price, then #chooseToStart this new journey with Moto E .

Change is rule of nature (Evolution). Everything evolves. There was a time when we used to use Landline telephones which had literally no mobility. But as the technology has increased so has increased the need & desires. Designs & ergonomics of devices have improved. Darwin's theory of evolution also says that species evolve and improvise to stay ahead in the race. Why to stay behind in the race, if its a moderate cost. So why wait, follow the rule of nature and #chooseToStart your smartphone journey.

Now, if you are convinced to start your smartphone journey. Next question for you might be from where to start? 

Price: Since you were reluctant to start the hurdle to start the journey should be low i.e. price should be low. Go for the low cost Best Smartphone. 

Operating System: Since the cost should not be high, it can't be APPLE. ;-) To be safer, you would want one OS which is adopted by big mass of people i.e. follow the BandWagon (Band Wagon Effect). So based on above two points atleast we can reach to a conclusion that it has to be Best "Low cost Android based smartphone".

Network:- It has to connect to all kinds of network globally accepted like GSM, HSPA, LTE. 

Dimensions:- It should be light and you should be able to carry it in pocket. You shouldn't be doing weightlifting for it.

Display & Built :- Screens should be bright with sensors to change the brightness based on the sunlight so that you can see or read easily and it doesn't stress eyes. Resolutions should be good so that clarity of the screen is good and pics doesn't look hazy. Screens should not be weak and have some protection similar to Gorilla Glass.

Fast & Smooth :-  It should have enough RAM and memory space to handle hundred of photographs. You should have flexibility to add more space if required. It shouldn't make you wait as if tortoise or snail is walking. It should be fast with this new age.

Camera:- It should have both the cameras - front & back, so that you can take a selfie as well as others pic. Pictures taken should be clear and crisp i.e auto focus feature should be there. Ability to take videos and better camera of 5MP. 

Sound:- Phone without a sound is of no use. It should be able to tell you if you are receiving a new call or message with soothing ring tones or any tunes which you like. You should be able to hear it loud in loud speaker as well as with headphone depending on the need of surroundings. It should be able to vibrate so that you don't disturb others while in a meeting.

Communications:- It should be able to connect to Wifi so that you can avoid hefty data charges from the carriers. Bluetooth to share the files and even connect to bluetooth headsets while riding a car. 

Locations aware:- GPS to tell your locations to friends at the same time use GPS for customised search & posts. It should have Maps to tell you the location or ride to a particular destination. So that you are never lost. Its a friend in need.

FM Radio: If you like music, FM radio can make you hear to some really good music.

Battery Life: It should be enough to last atleast 24 hrs or more. So that you have your phone alive and reachable whole day.

Different Needs: It should have access to big list of applications from where you can download new games, applications for your different needs. With android you have the biggest list of application/games with different features addressing different needs.

Features:- It should support all the basic features like calls, SMS, MMS, EMail, etc.

Brand:- Brand should be known and good.

If there is any phone which definitely caters to all these needs at a very moderate cost, its  Moto E.

So I will recommend to you to #chooseToStart your smartphone journey with Moto E .

The Future Of Shopping - Shopping Intelligence using Avatars, QR Codes, M2C

I wonder what will be the future of shopping in year 2030. Many ideas crossed my mind, but after thinking through them, I can say for sure that no one way of shopping will rule.

Different industries will use different channnels, Branding (4Ps of Marketing), consumer behavior and lot of environment factors e.g. Network effects will come into the picture.

Few of the ideas which I believe will be more prevalent are :

1> Usage of Social network for shopping -

• Companies will have their own page on social network and user will just order or select good and just click purchase, it will be delivered to the user taking information from social network mediums.
• Usage of Instant Messaging for ordering goods
• Request of Custom orders - E.g. sending a picture of purse design looking for
• Requesting and sending quotes in IM (Instant Messaging)

2> Usage of QR codes for mobile as well as personalized shopping

• User enters a store, scans QR code, application installed in his phone fetches information from website about the layout of store and other details and guide users for items placed in big shopping mall, which is in his wish list
• Shoppers know which user is inside the store, based on profile and past purchase trends 
• User is greeted by his name when he enters. Yes this emotional quotient can't be measured but it adds a personalised touch.
• Analytics is used to push some offers and messages to his mobile either through SMS or App

3> Mobile Banking:- At Point of Sale, he just swipes his mobile phone to pay for his purchase (usage of NFC, EDY by Docomo, Google Wallet, etc) and just walk out with his purchase. Thus, avoid standing in any queue.

4>Usage of Avatars:- All users can just send their Avatars which is closer to their body size, skin color and other personal attributes or receive a product's avatar. Both the avatar is used to show to user how it looks  together or even if it fits properly or not. So users are buying or trying goods/services just based on avatars rather than physically going to stores or trying out.  One frequent usage could be you just send your avatar to tailors/boutique/designers and they will use that for all measurements and create a dress for you.

5> Business Intelligence : Usage of BI to see the buying behavior of consumer, say a person buys utensils on every dhanteras / diwali. Based on that, even without any user initiation the APP siting on mobile aggregate all the utensils quote and on that particular day provide you all the information ready even before you step out. Its like customized catalog for shopping even before you step out.

Its for sure that shopping behavior is going to change by 2030 with variety of shopping methods. One of the new ways which you can try out is eBayCheck. Surely one of the prevalent ways of future shopping, but whether it will be monopoly or oligopoly only time will tell

Moto Cliq

Moto Cliq

Finally, the much awaited first Android Phone from Motorola has been officially introduced. Though I had a chance of looking it before also as one of the developers.

But had to hold any of the comments till the official release.

I wont say much, just that this is an awesome phone if you are addicted to social sites/blogging, etc.

Unfortunately, its not introduced in India yet. But once it comes people will

definately like it as its feature rich and nice integration of all sites, especially the Blur home screen.

So if you are addicted to social sites and are in US and are looking for a good new feature rich smart phone, don't miss to checkout http://www.motorola.com/Consumers/US-EN/Consumer-Product-and-Services/Mobile-Phones/Motorola-CLIQ-US-EN

http://www.t-mobile.com/promotions/GenericRegular.aspx?PAsset=Pro_Pro_MotoCliqLaunch&WT.mc_id=637m3

Motorola Deluxe ic902 released

The First phone which I had worked is finally released. It is a great feeling to read the awesome reviews of the phone, which also had my contribution.
The link for the details of the phone is :
http://www2.sprint.com/mr/news_dtl.do?id=17060
It was really awesome to read comments for the phone like "This phone is great, the best nextel phone everrrrr!! Great call quality (no more dropped calls). It has the best features of Sprint (music store, web, sprint tv) along with the greatest creation to nextel DIRECT CONNECT! IF you are with any other carrier please break your contract and throw your old phone in the garbage and replace it with the ic902."
Also more reviews are there at : http://www.phonescoop.com
This phone is surely going to rock the market.