Micromax today launched new Andro A60, an android 2.1 (eclair) powered mobile phone in a Delhi bloggers meet. A60 would be launched in market in next 3 days and TV promos would also be expected soon.

Andro A60 would be available at Rs 8000/- or less. Micromax is planning to launch more android phones in the coming months and expected to be under Rs 10,000/-. Micromax is also the second Indian mobile company to launch its andorid handset, Videocon is the first one. They are also planning to launch an android powered Tabloid soon.

Check out the specification of A60 Andro.

Micromax A60 Andro Features:

• 2.8” Resistive Touchscreen
• Expandable Memory
• 600 MHz Processor
• 256MB RAM/512MB ROM
• GPS with Navigation Maps

Micromax A60 Android Mobile Technical Specifications:

• Android v2.1 Operating System
• GSM/GPRS/EDGE 900/1800/1900 MHz
• HSDPA up to 7.2Mbps
• HSUPA up to 5.76 Mbps
• 2.8” inch (320×240 pixels) Resistive Touchscreen Display
• 3.2 Megapixels Camera with Video Recording and Autofocus
• Micro SD Card slot for Storage Expansion
• Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
• GPS with Google Maps
• Bluetooth + A2DP
• Stereo FM Radio
• 3.5mm Standard Audio Jack
• 1280 mAh Li-Ion Battery
• 4 Hours of Talktime

It is expected that soon many other Indian mobile brand would be coming with cheap android powered phones.

This week we can see a part by part review on Nokia’s new N97 Phone  @TechGearz, just arrived from WOMWorld Nokia. Thanks to the team @ WOMWorld /Nokia for giving this handset and to  have clear view on whats Nokia upto with all those new gadgets and gearz in market.

N97 is in market for quite sometime now, but its popularity is increasing with the social networks and internet market taking a leap. N97 is truly a WOW phone with all those internet and social tools. You can easily find live updates from all you social networks on your home screen with few configuration.

Its a touch screen phone with high quality QWERTY key board and a HD wide screen 5mpx camera. It has 32 GB in-built memory and also support for external micor SD card. Its also powered by new Ovi tools and Ovi map software from Nokia.

Something i liked the most is N97 QWERTY keyboard, easy to type and quick access to internet. Till now i found it a great gadget for internet and social networking geeks. We would be having more details and important features review in the coming articles. Don’t miss it @TechGearz.

Desktop competion is now taking a new direction towards mobile networks. Every Major IT want to be part of it and Microsoft expecting the same is not at all a surprise. Microsoft has finally entered into mobile phone market, to compete Apple and Google directly with its new ” KIN ” powered by Windows Phone OS and QWERTY keyboard.

But the question asked by user community is, can KIN compete iPhone and Nexus One  ?? Also many people did like the eggy look of KIN, b’coz its not a business look. Doest it matters ??

Well Microsoft has already answered most of these questions. Unlike iPhone and Nexus One, KIN is not a business phone yet, its a social phone powered by some cool social networking apps by Microsoft. Its designed for teenagers and not for executives. KIN has also inherited many popular features from Zune HD, specialy the music player and HD quality video.

As said, KIN is more focussed on social networking apps and Internet applications, Microsoft have developed some gateway application for KIN. Users can use this app to access My Space, Twitter and Facebook from a single login.

Two Models of KIN would be launched,

KIN One –  5 MPx camera phone with 4 GB Memory

and

KIN  Two – 8 MPx Camera phone with 8Gb Memory

Let us know your comments on KIN and will you buy this phone when it comes in market.

Social Networking giant Facebook is ready to keep its foot steps in India by starting its first operation team in Hyderabad India.

According to Facebooks blog, Facebook has seen a huge growth in past year and hence the need of good user support team is very valid. Facebook has already reached 400 millions users and 70 % of its users is out of US. Also, according to their statistics 8 million users are daily Facebook users. (WoOw isnt that a big number ) And would be the main reason for a office in India.

Facebook will be starting with a small team working on Facebook Advertisement platform, Support and Product development along with some sales process in India. It will also focus on helping the Facebook apps developers / company with their query with the Facebook platform. check out the blog . It would not be wrong to suspect that Facebook would be planing for some new features and products soon.

In past we have seen that many growing MNC’s attracted towards India due to its cheap labor cost and talented brains. And thats one of the major reason many company opt India when then they think of iterating their business. Orkut and GMail are some good examples, Google shifted its support and operations for GMail in India when they found their mail business kicking off.

Hope Twitter bird will also find its way to India.

anways… so if anyone is interested to have career in Facebook – India … check out Facebook careers.

We have observed that in past few months every other technology blog having a post on cloud computing and cloud OS. Cloud Os is also called future of OS by many blogs designed for accessing internet and web application primarily and compatible with any netbook.

It was Google who first came in public about its cloud based OS, Chrome OS which is much awaited Cloud OS, yet to be released (god knows when). Its not just google coming up with this futuristic idea on cloud OS there are many other companies in Q and already in market.

Some months back on techgearz we saw an article on gOS and cloud OS built on Ubuntu 9. Jolicloud is another such cloud OS release 2 weeks back again built on Ubuntu.

Idea of Jolicloud started in summer 2008 when Tariq Krim started thinking about the possibility to build an “organic” laptop, a combination of the greenest technologies and a fair trade production. This device would run an Internet operating system and replace existing costly software with their web alternatives.

He meet few manufacturers, designers and industry friends regarding the same, later he decided to drop the hardware to focus only on building the Internet OS. He was later joined by Romain Huet and Tristan Groléat, two young developers who shared his vision. They spent a few days drafting the blueprint of what an Internet OS should be. They decided to buy a few netbooks, refresh their knowledge of Linux and rented some office space in the Montorgueil area of Paris.

Jolicloud is a lightweight Ubuntu based cloud OS designed with netbooks and internet it mind, according to @jolisupport (Joulicloud’s online support team on twitter) joulicloud support almost 98% of netbooks available in market and it has the latest Linux kernel. Its not just limited to netbooks, you can install it on PC too with minimum configuration of Pentium processor with 300 Mhz and 32 MB Ram – 256 MB recommended.

( Normally, netbooks comes with AMR based / Atom processors and 1 GB Ram ).

At a Quick glance, desktop of this OS reminds me of a simple portal website with all necessary links to your favorite web sites and applications, just a click and get started. Unlike other Linux based OS its not too bulky and loaded with many desktop apps, its just a 602MB ISO file (click here to download), ported with basic applications like Firefox, Ping IM etc and other Linux basic apps for administration purpose.

It also has a Internet tab where you can find many internet based applications like facebook prism, shortcut to Firefox, bittorent client and any internet based software which you installed (check the above image, i have installed Linux based chrome & Twitter Prism and it started appearing in Internet tab on desktop). Unlike many Linux versions, Jolicloud doesn’t contain a Open Office pre-installed, but can download it from “My Jolicloud – App Directory”. It contains quick reference to internet based office apps like Google Docs and Zoho document editor.

My Jolicloud is a web app to access joliclouds online community, you need to create an profile / account for accessing this space., this can be done once you install the OS. You can synchronize your My Jolicloud profile contents with your Facebook profile.

My Jolicloud also contains list of users who are using jolicloud, you can follow them and check their statuses like you do in twitter. This status basically contains which software they have installed recently, what update did they do to their profile and so on. I saw around a 300 registered users when I logged in, this may increase soon as many users start using it.

Another interesting part in My Jolicloud was something called App Directory, you will find many application like Open Office, Google Chrome, Skype etc and Firefox Prism of many web apps which includes, Gmail, YouTube, Zoho office, Twitter, Facebook to name a few.

( Firefox Prism allows you to have a quick reference to any web apps on your desktop, which you frequently access. )

Google’s Chorme OS claims to have a 7 second boot-up time, well jolicloud took me around 30-35 secs to boot completely and around 10 secs to shutdown. ( It might be b’coz i am using it on VMware Player and not a netbook, with a shared CPU was already running window vista)

Well apart from the above features, you can find easy to access system administrative tools, etc. It would be out of scope of this article to explain every details of this OS, so soon you can expect a video post on joulicloud.

You can join discussion on cloud with us @ Facebook and Twitter

Check out some screens shots from joulicloud  below  OR Click Here

Day before yesterday on techgearz we have mentioned that [reffer this] twitter will be under going a maintenance fix and their is a possibility of rolling out retweet feature. This was a perfect guess and yes now retweet feature is available on twitter officially, though its a beta stage now.

Since it say its a beta version and available to few selected people only. We really don’t know what is twitter criteria of selective people, but for those who don’t have this feature enabled yet they will see the retweets from their friend with a ” RT ” in the tweet and the people for whom it is enabled will see the Retweets with as in the bellow image. If the original owner of the tweet is not in your friend list then it will show a magic box which says “Wondering who is this?”

You will find this Retweet link next to Reply link in all your tweets, when you retweet a tweet your followers will see those tweets. This will also help your followers to follow the original tweeple if like to do so. See image for a red box ><

This Retweet feature does not allow you to edit / add any comments on any tweet before retweeting it, for that u will have to follow the traditional retweet method [Ctrl + C; Ctrl + V + edit it ]

Twitter also allow you monitor all the recent retweets along with the user details and you can also retweet it. You can also manage your retweets and your tweet which are retweeted by your friends / follower.  Owner of the tweet will be person who tweeted it first. [check below image, how it looks like.]

I have noticed on twitter that many people didn’t like retweet, probably they where expecting something better and also it doesn’t allow you to edit / add comment in any tweet before retweeting like you can do on other twitter apps.

But yes it will allow you to keep a track on retweets made by you and who all have retweeted your tweets and this was something that i like about retweet. Do let us know your comment on this new twitter feature on techgearz. Post in your comments.

Today morning twitter started showing alert which states that “Twitter will have a maintenance window on Nov. 17th at 11p Pacific“. i.e on 18th Nov 12.30 pm (IST) twitter will go for a maintenance release.

So Tomorrow 12.30 pm IST [afternoon]  Indian twitter users might face some issues accessing there account.

Few weeks back on Techgearz Facebook page we also saw about twitter rolling out the “retweet” feature soon. We will have to wait and watch whether this maintenence fix will include this feature and any other new feature as well or not.

In last article we saw that Google has completely re-written the code using the Google Web Toolkit [GWT], and hence it was expected that Orkut has to get a performance boost. Orkut has maintained its clean look and also added with some cool feature with some glossy and spin effect. We will go through some new feature that we have noticed.

More Personalized.

Personalize Orkut profile color to your personality, though the themes are not enabled in the new Orkut you can still select different colors which could match to your identity and taste in to your new orkut profile.

Comment on user’s status message.

Now you can comment on any of your friend status like in facebook. You can also see the updates done by your friends in the update section and can comment on your friends status and other updates. You can also comment on the videos uploaded by your friends, which are also a most awaited feature, since many people share YouTube videos on Orkut.

New Friend list and community list section.

Now u can see all your friends and community in one page just u need to scroll the section or search friend with hi/her name. You can also select group of friends to be displayed. i.e if you have grouped your friend based on any criteria like best friends, school friend, work etc then you can select those groups from dropdown on the friends section and you will see only those friends in that specific group.

Fast photo upload and improved album management.
Uploading photo has been faster and it could be manages and edited easily. One thing that exited in the album section was drag and rearranges the photo in the album. This was far better than facebook album.

Send pure HTML content Scraps.
This is a good new for those who play with html, you can send HTML through the scraps, this was available in the initial stage of the Orkut but this was blocked by Orkut due to security reason. I am not sure whether it support writing JavaScript. We have tried with some simple HTML like creating table etc its works perfectly fine.

Rich Contents in about me and Testimonials.
As we saw Orkut scraps can be richer than before, so is the about me. You can put HTML, Videos photos into your Orkut about me. You can also copy paste rich html content from any of the site to this section, like we did, we have coped some video details from the YouTube and pasted it into the Orkut about me.. ( lol it worked) . Same can be done to your communities also; you can put rich html contents into your communities about section. For example you can refer to about section of new Orkut community.

Same apples while writing a testimonial to your friend, now you can write some awesome, interactive, graphical testimonials to your friends. (Isn’t that cool… let see how many such comes to my profile.)

Video Chat.
If you remember Orkut already have the Gmail chat application available and it wont take them much of investment to implement the video chat into Orkut. With the integration of video chat, Orkut claim it self to a complete social networking site.
[Now only thing remains in Orkut is capturing videos and photos directly to the Orkut profile... isn’t that cool suggestion: D]

Important part, you are allowed to invite at least 10 of your friends to try this new Orkut. More invites may be added soon, as per the Orkut blog. [Depends on their mood actually ]

Feel free to post in your comments about the new Orkut and the article above. Teachgearz will keep you updated on any new features coming into Orkut and other social networks.

DailyBooth has also come up with a same concept, but instead of 140 characters here you can share what are you doing now in the form of  Photos i.e “Share your life in pictures” This site is bundled  with some cool Adobe Flash apps like in Yahoo Web messenger  which helps you to share your pics with the people following you live and instant.

All the contents you found here are so raw, user generated and original. Unlike in twitter where its hard to find out the fellow person is original ?? unless you know him personally.

This startup was found in feb 2009 and according to a recent news it has already raised a fund of $1 million from an all-star team of institutional and individual investors. This also includes the Co-founders and Digg &  Yahoo Flickr.

Check out some snaps of the apps bellow>>

This is Twitter like timeline of fellows you are following on dailybooth. These users where added default when i joined this service

This is the space where you can click your pics and share in Daily Booth, you can also upload photos from your PC

This is a user profile of a user who as bu default added to my profile.

This is list of people whome i am following now, lol no one is following me in DailyBooth. Do Follow me "@anix86" when you register DailyBooth

Orkut comes with another creative idea that is orkut “Promote” tool. Now orkut users can promote there profile or any thing they wish to promote with their friends on orkut. This promotion / Ads will appear in the advertisement column in the orkut homepage / profile.

If your friends like your promotion then they could promote it to there friends using the share promotion link. This would be a chain process, your friends share your promotion to his/ her friends who could share this with their friends.

Orkut Promote link could be found in the left menu bar in your Orkut profile. You can promote simple text message, latest photos  form your Orkut album or a YouTube video link. You can any time stop promoting or delete any of your promotion.

Users can also check statistics of the promotes, how many users have viewed the Promotion and clicked on it, Also how many friends have  shared your promotion with their friends, etc.

Maximum you can create 5 promote for your profile. Thats a limit as of now.. hope this will be increased

Check out the above video from “Orkut”, “how to use this promote”

Well i have made some promotions for techgearz also … follow techgearz on orkut to see some of them. (Click Here)