tech trends india

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Talking about trends in technology,its more often the case of here today,gone tomorrow.Delving deeper into the countless tech review sites scattered all over the cyberscape,most of us find the tech gibberish on most sites talking about new tech products or technology changes that are very high end and which may take years or sometimes never see the light of the day.

But a few tech trends are pretty low tech and very usable by both the tech junkie as well as the man on the street.A couple of these are the mobile ebooks and wireless music devices.Right now mobibooks are pretty big in japan and the americas and wireless music is one very hot trend becoming huge fast.

First of all,the mobile ebooks are basically full length or sometimes condensed versions of novels,magazines,etc.They come in a number of mobile formats like pdb,rdb,etc and can be read on the ubiquitous java enabled colour mobile handsets.The convenience of carrying these ebooks occupying very less mobile phone memory space is further amplified as most of the urban population can read while commuting(which takes a large chunk of most people's time).

This trend is fast catching up in our very own bharat thanks to the advent of inexpensive colour java enabled mobile phones .There are a number of freely downloadable softwares on the net like the tequilacatreader,mobipocket reader,etc which are available on sites like esnips.com,ipmart-forum.com,etc.

The books themselves as recent as the latest potter book can be downloaded free(encourage piracy,the authors are rich enough)from esnips.com and ipmart-forum.com.

One more emerging trend is that of wireless music.This basically is music played from a stereo bluetooth enabled mobile phone or an ipod or any other mp3 player

to a pair of stereo bluetooth wireless head/earphones.The usp of this trend is the complete absence of wires which eliminates the hassles of irritating wires coming in the way of a pleasurable music experience.Now for all of you wondering about the devices which actually can do the above functions,motorola and nokia have many phones in their line up supporting a2dp which stands for advanced audio distribution profile through bluetooth.Many of you might recall the actor abhishek bachhan swaying to wireless music in the motorokr ad doing the rounds on most tv channels.The most inexpensive nokia phone which supports a2dp is the nokia 3110 which retails for about 6000 indian-rupees.Motorola has the moto rizr selling for about 7000 rupees.Other mobile brands like sony ericsson,samsung,lg,etc have this a2dp technology only in their high end phones.Importantly this feature of all these phones can be made use of only with a stereo bluetooth headset like the motorola s9 bluetooth headphones which retails for around 4500 rupees in the white market.As for the ipods,a bluetooth adapter like the jabra a125 0r the motorola naviplay adapters(available in india,cost around 3k) can be used to make it stereo bt compliant.This along with a bluetooth headphone like the s9 would make working out or jogging with music very neat.Keep watchin this space for more tech to make life better.