Samsung Star Nano 3G

Samsung India has launched it’s cheapest 3G touchscreen phone in India the Star Nano 3G. The Star Nano 3G is the latest addition to the Star series which had the SAMSUNG STAR and Star3G and WiFi.Samsung is calling this phone ‘My first 3G touch phone’ and is aimed at the youth

The S3370 is known in Russia as the Corby 3G and with too many Corby’s in the Indian market , Samsung decided to call it the Nano 3G. With this launch the company has over 21 touch screen devices in the country.

Speaking at the launch, Mr. Ranjit Yadav, Director- Mobile & IT, Samsung India Electronics Pvt. Ltd. said, “The launch of Star Nano 3G is significant as it represents our most affordable 3G touch screen handset as well as strengthens our portfolio of 3G enabled handsets as the country gears up for the roll-out of 3G services very soon.”

Samsung Star Nano 3G Features

• 2.6 inch screen
• compact and curvilinear design
• 1.3 megapixel1.3 megapixel camera with video recording
• FM radio
• Music recognition
• Full Screen Video playback
• 35MB internal memory
• 2000 contacts phonebook memory
• 800 SMS memory
• microSD card slot expandable upto 16GB
• SNS 2.0 Social Networking
• Pop Up SNS
• Downloadable Apps from Samsung Apps
• English dictionary
• Vocablite, Sudoku, OC2ps, Shorthand, Rocketalk, MBA lite.
• Mobile tracker, fake call and mobile prayer
• The Touchwiz 2.0 Plus UI with home screen widgets, Gesture control and 4 page menu
• GTalk, AIM, Palringo chat
• Active Sync Google Push email service and sync calendar

Samsung Star Nano 3G Price and Availability

This touchscreen phone will cost you Rs.7320 and it comes with a 2GB memory card, stylus leather pouch free in the box

Latest Mobile in market-Alcatel ICE3

The Alcatel in association with ICE communication is bringing

up a new qwerty phone named “Alcatel Ice 3” in the Indian market.

The Ice 3 attracts women with its funky colors and cubic design.

The Ice 3 has good social networking features, a good 2.4” display,

music player with FM radio, Stereo Bluetooth, 2 MP camera, and

Opera Mini browser. Alcatel has plans to launch many handsets

in near future. The Alcatel Ice 3 is available at an affordable price of Rs.6600

Design

The Alcatel Ice 3 has unique “cube” design compared to all other phones.

The Ice 3 is refreshing and youthful. It comes in two bold colors namely

pink chrome and dark chrome. At one point, it some what look like a

tiny netbook with square display panel along square keyboard.

the body has metallic shiny appearance. Overall, we liked its design.

The Ice 3 has an external 1.1-inch OLED display, which resolution of 128×36 pixel.

The external display is oriented diagonally. It indicates the caller ID, time, date,

battery life and signal strength. You can just customize its backlight time and contrast.

When you flip open the phone, you will reveal a main display and a qwerty keyboard.

it sports a 2.4-inch TFT display, which has a resolution of 240×320 pixels (QVGA)

and supports 65,000 colors. the image quality is quite good, but not the greatest.

The keyboard is spacious. The keys are large and tactile those have proper

travel.

The typing is lot easy on this phone. The navigation array include a four

way toggle

with middle confirmation key, the two soft keys, the call/Send and End/Power key.

The toggle can be customized with user defined shortcuts.

Features

The Ice 3 has decent interface. The menu style, icon and folder types

look attractive.

The navigation in the phone is absolute breeze.

The connectivity features are more than adequate at its price range.

You can avail data transfer through Bluetooth with A2DP and USB v2.0.

can stream audioto Bluetooth headset wirelessly. The internet can

be accessed through GPRS and EDGE.

The main attraction of the Ice 3 is social networking. The Ice 3 is nicely

integrated with all popular social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter,

and Youtube. The qwerty keyboard is well made for this social networking.

Fortunately, it comes with built-in faster Opera mini browser.

That enhances the browsing experience. It also features WAP 2.0 browser.

The Alcatel Ice 3 comes with a good music player which supports various

Audio file formats such as MP3, WAV, WMA, AAC, eAAC+ and eAAC.

The video player support MP4, H.263, 3GP video formats.

It also has FM radio with RDS feature. The interface is simple and

convenient. the player controls includes usual playlists, shuffle and

repeat. It comes with 80MB of internal memory and you can extend

the external memory up to 16GB in the form of the microSD card slot.

The Ice 3 is equipped with good 2 megapixel camera that captures

the images in the resolution of 1600 x 1200 Pixels. The camera features

digital zoom, and basic editing options like adjusting contrast, brightness.

You can record videos in this phone. It supports video calling feature.

You can share pictures and videos with the social networking sites l

ike Facebook and Youtube. The image quality is quite decent but the

video quality is mediocre.

The Ice 3 comes with sophisticated phonebook of 1000 entry with

provision for

caller groups. You can pair the contacts with ringtones, polyphonic

ringtones and a photo. You can customize the phone with the

several themes, wallpapers, graphics and sounds. The other

essential apps are converter, calculator, size converter, world clock,

To-do list, organizer, stopwatch, Alarm, calendar, speakerphone,

vibrate mode, text and multimedia messages. It supports almost all java games.

Performance

The call quality is pretty impressive. Even callers at another end also

don’t have any problem. The speakerphone quality is bit average.

The Alcatel Ice 3 is powered by 850 mAh Li-Ion battery. It offers

decent battery efficiency. It provides 9 hours of talktime, 490hours

on standby and 35 hours of continuous music play.

Alcatel ICE3 Features

• Full Keyboard
• Clamshell design
• 2.4 inch TFT 65k color display
• 2 mega pixel camera with Video Recorder and Image editor
• MP3 Player& FM Radio RDSFM Radio RDS
• Music playback time up to 35hours
• Internal memory 80MB and Micro SD card up to 8GB
• GPRS, EDGE
• WAP 2.0WAP 2.0, Bluetooth stereo 2.0 (A2DP)
• USB 2.0 high speed
• JAVA MIDP 2.0JAVA MIDP 2.0
• Battery - Lithium Ion 850 mAh
• Standby time: up to 450h
• Talk time: up to 9h

Alcatel ICE3 Price and Availability

The ICE3 is available in two color variants in pink chrome and dark

chrome. The handset is priced at Rs.6600 and will be distributed by

ICE Mobile network systems.

KITES-FILM REVIEW

Get ready to savour the Indian curry with spicy Mexican nachos. Do they make a heady combo? Well, they surely do. Kites, touted as India’s first crossover film for global audience, soars high, dips, soars again and leaves you levitating in your seat with its heart-wrenching climax.

Agreed it’s not a film for connoisseurs or for an average film-festival-going Joe. And it’s not exactly a piece of path-breaking cinema. But hey! It’s two hours twenty minutes of an edge-of-the-seat roller coaster ride full of stunning visuals, tender romantic moments, heart-stopping action, non-stop chases, and, of course, two gorgeous actors, Hrithik Roshan and Barbara Mori at the centre of it all.

At its core, ‘Kites’ is a love story. It’s about J (Hrithik Roshan), a small-time hustler in Las Vegas who plays the love game with the superrich Gina (Kangana Ranaut) so that he could be a part of her superrich family, comprising of a casino owner dad (Kabir Bedi), a mom and a snooty brother Tony (Nick Brown).

Coincidentally, Natasha (Barbara Mori), an illegal Mexican immigrant in Vegas, is playing the same game with Tony.

J and Natasha’s get-rich-quick plan seems to be succeeding until they fall for each other. Both paupers with dreams of riches. It’s a tussle between love and money. But by choosing love, J and Natasha not just kick the riches they could get, but also win the animosity of Gina’s dad and brother Tony, who’s hell-bent on killing J and getting Natasha back.

From then on, it’s a wild ride for the fleeing lovers, with not just Tony, but also cops and bounty hunters on their trail.

The real strength of ‘Kites’ lies not in its story, but in the flourish with which director Anurag Basu presents it on the screen. An ordinary tale of lovers on the run turns into a ‘Thelma and Louise’ kind of adrenaline stimulating road ride during which the lover duo rob a bank, cheat death, escape the cops and a bunch of money-grubbing bikers, and smuggle themselves into Mexico. And in between all the action and explosions, there a sweet little love story brewing between the Indian hustler and the Mexican stunner, despite them not knowing each other’s language. And it’s all told in non-linearity, with Basu never trying to follow the convention and jumbling together sequences that all make sense only when seen in entirety. A job well done indeed, but how one wishes the writers had more meat in the story’s second half, when the movie turns into a cat-and-mouse game with an Abbas Mastan-meets-Rohit Shetty kind of chases, car crashes and explosions.

Hrithik Roshan has never looked so hot on screen before and he does enact his part well. Note the superbly enacted soul-baring moment between him and Barbara when he talks about the day his mother died. His stupefying dances and stunts make one sit and watch. And his chemistry with Barbara is simply crackling. Though she prattles on in Mexican and flashes smiles for a good part of her role, Barbara shows flashes of terrific acting in many sequences like the bank robbery or the one at the station. Nick Brown is aptly vicious while Kangana Ranaut hardly has a role to write about.

‘Kites’ would not have been the same but for the captivating cinematography by Ayananka Bose. From the casinos and fountains of Las Vegas to the desolate deserts of Mexico, Bose’s camera catches beauty in every frame. Stunts are superbly executed, the best of the lot being the one in which Hrithik hops from train to train. The music is, however, mediocre.

Foibles apart, it’s the spirit of ‘Kites’ that wins you over. The ceaseless action, romance and drama unspooling at a pace that hardly gives you a moment for thought. Go, watch it. It’s not a seminal work. But it’s definitely fun while it lasts.

Adios.

Rating: 3 / 5

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Video-Life Of An Engineer

Human Resource management is people management

Human Resource management is people management and the role of managing people lies on the shoulders of a Human Resource manager. People Management is a wide section that involves numerous aspects ranging from hiring to invigorating. Managing people is utmost important as it is only the employees that can make up an organization. The employee directly or indirectly influences and effectuates the organizational augmentation.

The aspects that the manger highlights begins with hiring the appropriate individual well suited for a task on the basis of their education and experience. Once the person is appointed, their role in the organization is explained to them along with the ways to achieve their goals and how their role can enhance the organization. Befitting to the task training is provided that makes the employee acquainted with the task.

A buffer period is given where the employee actually starts working but under supervision. The HR manager makes sure that the right amount of motivation is provided to the employee to generate quality work. The employee work is evaluated to ensure that the employee works swiftly and the errors could be eliminated. A disciplinary environment is created that allows the employee to work without interruptions. Incase the employee is not up to the mark or the organization has to adopt lay-off principles, the HR department takes the authority and helps in detachment.

The salary negotiations, compensation and benefits all come under the HR perspective. Adopting rejuvenating mechanisms like games and events is the HR manager’s responsibility. The HR team is appointed to serve the employees thus it is said that human resource is people management.