Read this wonderful article exposing one of the biggest fraud’s in recent memory in the name of life-time validity by cellphone operator’s. [Full Story]

When one signs up for lifetime validity, he foregoes the option of switching over to another network. “Locking yourself into a scheme may not work for you if call charges come down in the future, which is likely to happen,” says Mahesh Uppal, a Delhi-based telecom consultant. So, it is better to keep your options open instead of locking yourself into lifetime validity with just one service provider, and that too at a rate higher than the prevailing charges.

As it has been rightly pointed out by readers like Rawan & Dashanan, cell phone operators are actually cheating their subscribers in the name of free lifetime schemes. Read the terms and conditions carefully.

1. After recharge of Rs. 999.00 Customer will get Rs. 25 talktime.
2. Outgoing call will be at Rs. 1.99 instead of Rs 0.99
3. Connection will be permanently deactivated if either of the following events i.e. no incoming / outgoing / recharge happens for any continuous period of 6 months.
4. Validity for Lifetime is subject to change in regulatory or license conditions in the future.

If you have any doubts/comments/suggestions to your fellow reader’s, please post in the comments.

In a first-of-its-kind, Samsung recently announced the opening of a new web site, www.anyfilms.net, offering a series of unique short films for mobile and Internet users. [Full article]

Does a first: pre-paid users can get incoming calls for life after a single recharge for Rs. 999/-. For more info. please visit www.airtel.in. [Full Story]

This implies: a pre-paid user can continue to receive incoming calls for life after a single recharge, as against the current system of restricted validity, based on the recharge package.

What is the quickest way to get out of a relationship without going through the melodramatic phase of confrontation? Well just pick up your cell phone and type in a text message to say ‘U R dumped‘, or ‘I H8 U‘. Read the rest of this entry »

Japan was the first to introduce the chaku motions. The world already has it’s eyeballs glued to incoming calls rather than ears alert. They are also called watchtones. We are talking about video ringtones, and they are available for the first time in India, via a wireless solutions provider. Read the rest of this entry »

Take part in the First Time Mobile FilmMakers awards and win $ 10,000 USD and a Nokia N90 cell phone. Anyone with a camera phone is eligible to participate. As far as I am concerned, the winners are the DPS MMS clip couple. What a movie! Visit http://www.mobifilms.net/ for more info.