Motorola has launched Motosmart Mix XT550, an Android 2.3 based music phone, in China. The phone comes with a high quality earplug, Dolby mobile entertainment experience technology and SRS WOW HD high-end audio processing technology. Besides, it has access to various services that allow easy music download and better music management.

The stylish looking phone comes with Android 2.3 operating system, and 4-inch touch screen. The MOTO micro music phone XT550 is equipped with a 1735 mAh battery with support for up to 30 hours music playback.Moreover, the Motosmart micro music phone is equipped with resonated and symphonic versions of headset, along with independent external music player keys.The phone has Sina music application in built for easy music management and sharing. However, since it’s a China only application it is not likely to appear in any other.

The Motosmart XT550 is also equipped with a 3 megapixel rear camera and a front VGA camera. Motorola has also included social elements for music sharing.

However, the phone only has an 800 MHz processor and 512 MB of RAM. The phone is priced at Chinese equivalent of Rs 14,500. Motorola has not said anything about its international availability yet.

Popular media player application, Double Twist has announced a major 50 per cent discount on all its products and services for Android users. Double Twist has announced the offer to celebrate 2 million download mark which it has reached recently.

The offer is applicable for Double Twist player and all its related in app purchases that customer can make in order to enhance the product. Along with that the Double Twist alarm clock and Double Twist Air Sync utility are also available for sale for about half of their original price.Double Twist application allows users to sync their mobile phones or Android based devices with the music stored on their computers over the air, without any wires. With the use of the Double twist player, users can easily sync up their songs, favorite radio channels and Podcasts with their cellphones.

The offer is active as of now and the company has not yet announced the ending hours for this offer. So, all the users who like Double Twist player can head to the Google Play Store while the offer lasts.

Starring : Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt, Anjana Sukhani, Rana Daggubati

Music : Dharam Sandeep

C.B.F.C Rating : A

Genre :  Action, Crime

         Rating : 2/10

HOW IS IT..?

WHATS IT ABOUT..

When police officer Mahadev Bhosale (Sanjay Dutt) is asked by his bosses to form a hit squad to take on the Mumbai underworld, he recruits Shiv Narayan (Rana Daggubati), an honest and brave police officer who had been suspended for an encounter killing.

Together, Mahadev, Shiv and others in the ‘Department’ take on Sawatya’s (Vijay Raaz) gang. Sawatya, in spite of many exhortations by his number two, D.K. (Abhimanyu Shekhar Singh), and D.K.’s feisty girlfriend, Naseer (Madhu Shalini), does not hit back at the police.

There is another rival gang, lead by one Mohammad Gauri.

There is also the gangster-turned-minister, Sarjerao Gaikwad (Amitabh Bachchan), who takes Shiv under his wing after Shiv saves his life at a public rally. Mahadev warns Shiv that Sarjerao is just using him. After a certain turn of events, it is exposed that Mahadev is actually working for Mohammad Gauri and is, at the ganglord’s behest, finishing off Sawatya’s gang.

While Shiv declines to be a part of Mahadev’s corrupt world, and Mahadev agrees to let him be, things start falling apart between the mentor and the apprentice when Shiv starts taking on a sub-gang formed by D.K., under Mahadev’s protection.

What happens next..? Do Mahadev and Shiv come to loggerheads..?

Analysis..

“I used five matchbox-sized digital cameras to shoot Department… I didn’t know which camera is capturing what…,” said Ram Gopal Varma in an interview, adding that he’d figure it out on the editing table. We wished to figure out a lot more sitting through this extreme pain and abuse-inducing film on the senses. We should have known what we were signing up for.

The best acting chops are displayed actors’ crotches, coffee mugs, newspapers, spectacles, carom board and striker, dumbbells, earrings, wigs, moustaches, ash trays, tables, the list goes on. RGV’s favourite topic, the politician-police nexus forms the crux of Department.

Rana Daggubati as the gun-wielding, remorseless renegade policeman, who seems to have a knack for shooting unarmed people, is an unadulterated waste of talent. That’s it, nothing more for the actor who so charmed us with his act in ‘Dum Maaro Dum’.

Cut to Sanjay Dutt. For his viewers his Kancha Cheena glory might be behind him, but for the actor it seems a tad too hard to shed the scary wrinkled eyebags. Thank heavens that he’s finally decided to let go of the eyebrow ring. The maverick paunchy Sanjay Dutt is given the gift of a licence to kill as far as the underworld is concerned, and is ordered to round up the toughest and fiercest of all cops for the task – and hence The Department comes into being. With a half-dozen cameras zooming on the actual act of shaking hands, the official birth of The Department is an affair that can hardly be missed. And once it has been engendered, the film walks, jogs, runs and flies into territories which are – simply put – absurd.

Amitabh Bachchan is known to have single-handedly shouldered the responsibility of acting in films. Several of his movies in the recent past bear strong testimony to that fact. In ‘Aarakshan’, for example, Bachchan alone was the person who steered the film towards its incomplete completion. Past glories aside, Big B’s talent too, is brutally wasted in the film. Ram Gopal Varma’s numerous cameras rob him of his acting skills and focus on his cup of tea or semi-sucked kulfi – to a level that is nothing short of ridiculous.

Abhimanyu Singh and Deepak Tijori are actors put into the film only to add to its pool of wasted skills. Abhimanyu Singh’s awful clothes might have set a trend in fashion elsewhere, but he just isn’t a fashionoclast. And as far as RGV’s cameras are concerned, they don’t waste a moment not focussing on least important things.

And somewhere in the middle of things stands the attractive Lakshmi Manchu, delivering dialogues as if reading off a Hindi teleprompter.

An experiment this may well be, but it is a pointless one. Uninspired scenes are slowed down and fed to us through staggered shots in wildly varying resolution — one shot showing you every hair on a flabby chest in hideous detail and the next looking like it were shot with a cellphone — and while it must be liberating for Varma to not worry about storyboards (or even stories), this cannot possibly be taken seriously.

Ram Gopal Varma’s experimentation breaks the film. What otherwise could have been an average cop thriller is turned into a volley of unconventional shot takings which distract the audience to such an extent that it forgets that there is story going on in the film. The digital quality print, which often means that several frames appear pixellated, is also something that won’t be appreciated by many among the paying public. Unfortunately, Ram Gopal Varma does not focus on narrating the story in an interesting manner; he gets caught up with the unconventional camera and editing techniques. The background score is ear-piercingly loud.

Bangnext says..

Watch ‘Department’ if you have been missing your headaches for a long time.

Watch ‘Department’ to see the way in which brilliant actors can be wrung dry and left skill-less.

And above all,

Watch ‘Department’ if you are an ardent Ram Gopal Varma fan. And then leave the theatre cursing yourself for watching this brilliantly crafted piece of – well, by now – you know what.

Samsung reportedly received over 9 million pre-orders for Galaxy S III smartphone world-wide. With Galaxy S III, Samsung must be hoping to break the record of its last two flagship devices – Galaxy Note and Galaxy S II. Recently, the company had unveiled its online eStore for India and now the same store has opened up pre-booking for the Galaxy S III smartphone. Pre-booking is available on products that have not be launched in the market and are expected to arrive very soon.

Customers who places a pre booking order for Galaxy S III will receive special coupon which will contain a code that can be used at the time of buying Galaxy S III from Samsung eStore to get the discount of Rs 2,000 and a surprise gift. At the time of launch, an email will be exclusively sent to customers who have pre-booked their Galaxy S III on the eStore, informing them of the availability of the Galaxy S III.

The Galaxy S III pre-booking coupon will be valid only for completing your purchase of the Galaxy S III and will not work with any other product.

This coupon will be valid for 15 days from the date of the product launch. You should use this coupon before the expiry date. The amount will not be refunded to the customer upon coupon expiry.

Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone comes with a quad-core Exynos mobile processor and Mali-400MP4 graphics chip. With Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, the Galaxy S III uses new TouchWiz UI and comes with 1 GB RAM for smoother multitasking. Packing 8 megapixel camera, the smartphone is capable of recording full HD videos. Samsung has also added new S-Voice virtual assistant feature and also Smart Stay eye tracking feature that shuts down the screen when its user is not looking at it.

Samsung toppled Apple as the world’s biggest smartphone maker in the first quarter, helped by its line-up of Galaxy named devices running on Google’s free Android software.

The latest version of its flagship phone, unveiled this month, will first go on sale on May 29 in Germany before being rolled out to other countries.

The newspaper, which cited an unidentified Samsung official, also said the company’s smartphone factory in South Korea was running at its full capacity of 5 million units per month.

Samsung declined to comment.

It said late last month that the new Galaxy S smartphone would “substantially contribute” to its second-quarter earnings.

by:-Reuters

The new accuser is a gym employee who has accused the Grease star of groping and fondling him against his will.

“As a result of the published lies about my client we expect some ‘John Does’ to come out of the woodwork and assert false claims,” RadarOnline quoted Marty Singer as saying, adding that he has not yet been contacted by an attorney representing the new accuser.

The previous three men comprise of John Doe, a masseur who has recently hired Gloria Allred to represent him after being dropped by his previous attorney; an Atlanta based masseur, who is being represented by Okorie Okorocha and Chilean-born former cruise line employee, Fabian Zanzi.

The gym employee/personal trainer claims that he would open the gym for the 58-year-old when he was on location for a film shoot, after hours.

“The gym was opened as a courtesy to John Travolta so that he could avoid the public yet maintain his fitness in this physically challenging role that he was doing at the time. The gym employee says that John Travolta groped and fondled him against his will,” a source said.

Travolta’s powerhouse attorney, Singer has vehemently denied the allegations.

Travolta has been married to actress Kelly Preston since 1991.

Opera Mini has long been the reigning king in the mobile browser space for feature phones. But now, that space has been taken by UCbrowser from UCWeb.

According to the latest data from Mobango, a popular India-based applications marketplace, UCBrowser registered close to 33 per cent more downloads than Opera Mini Browser.Another surprising entry in the list of most popular browsers is the recently launched QQ Browser from the Tencent Group, which has seen rapid uptake on Mobango.

iBrowser, at third place after OperaMini, is a version of QQ Browser for India. It integrates customized content within the browser for Indian users, and is amongst the fastest mobile browsers today.

UC Browser, which, like the QQ Browser, also has Chinese roots, has close to 20 percent market share in India and over 300 million users in more than 150 countries.

But the user base of Opera Mini is still much higher, and with many feature phones coming with Opera Mini browser built in, the need to download Opera Mini doesn’t arise. For instance, MediaTek, which provides chipsets for many feature phones in India, has a tie-up with Opera to pre install the browser in feature phones. Opera has many similar tie-ups with handset brands as well

Nonetheless, till last year Opera Mini was number one even in terms of downloads and therefore UC Browser is certainly challenging its dominance.