Mobile apps Revolution

The mobile apps revolution is here. Market research firm Gartner estimates that this year alone, mobile users across the globe will pay more than $6.2 billion to buy 'mobile applications' -- games, social networking tools, productivity and entertainment-based mini programmes for mobile phones.

And this despite the fact that 80 per cent of these will be free downloads anyway this year.

Apps have become the business with the fastest turnaround time in the software industry. In just one month an application can be developed and marketed to a global community of enthusiastic downloaders.

Sample this. In January this year, 3 billion apps were downloaded from the Apple app store, which has more than 100,000 titles in categories such as games, business, news, sports and health.

BlackBerry App World has around 4,000 titles and Google's Android Market, 20,000.

Little wonder, then, that mobile app developers, a non-existent breed just five years ago, are crawling out of the woodwork. Students, teachers, even doctors have jumped into the fray, competing with career software professionals.

In India, the world's second biggest mobile phone market of more than 500 million consumers and a large community of software programmers, there is fierce competition among developers to deliver apps that run on different handsets and technology platforms.

What's driving their business are online app stores on the Apple, Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson websites, and on Facebook and Orkut, where developers can sell directly to consumers. Of course, they must pay a yearly fee and 30 per cent of their revenues to the service platform.

But this is a better scenario -- there was a time when app developers earned a paltry 10-15 per cent as royalty from mobile service providers.

Uninor To Launch Its Service in Few Days Exclusive Look Into Tariff Details

Uninor the GSM mobile service of Unitech Wireless, a joint venture between India’s real estate major Unitech and the world’s 6th largest mobile services provider Telenor Group, is all set to roll out its Mobile Service in 8 telecom circle in few days.

The eight circles are Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Karnataka, Kerala, Orissa, Tamilnadu (including Chennai) UP East and UP West.

The Uninor mobile network is live in test mode in some parts of 8 telecom circles and it is expected that the company will launch the most awaited GSM mobile service in few days.

We also spoke with the official spokeperson regarding the launch date but no official date was reveled “we were told Uninor will launch within this year and everybody is on track to do that”.

During its initial launch Uninor will offer unique Campus and Combo tariff plans. It will  offer a New Prepaid connection at Rs.49 with life time validity and talk time of Rs.5 as main balance with Free 250 minutes free every Uninor Prepaid Card as speciallaunch offer.

The call charges is not available with us as of now but  we believe that Uninor will be offering One Paisa One Second tariff for all Local and STD calls to anywhere in India The Uninor customer can opt the some flexible plans, great offers.

The Customer Care Numbers are as Follows-

Telecom Circle                       Customer care No.

Uttar Pradesh (West)        121 from Uninor or 9058090580
Andhra Pradesh                 121 from Uninor or 9059090590
Karnataka                         121 from Uninor  or9060090600
Kerala                               121 from Uninor or 9061090610
Uttar Pradesh (East)          121 from Uninor or 9125091250
Tamilnadu and Chennai      121 from Uninor or 9171091710
Orissa                               121 from Uninor or 9124091240
Bihar                                 121 from Uninor  or 9122091220

Uninor is also geared up for marketing the brand with social networking sites like  faceBook, twitter,Orkut, Flickr and youtube who knows this might be inspired by Tata Docomo we will have to wait and watch how successful uninor is going to be in its initiallaunch.