Yamaha FZ-16: Urban cool, no-nonsense style

Yamaha Motor India Limited is ready to launch Yamaha FZ-16 on Indian roads by mid September 2008! The bike has all the latest technology features that the customer craves for. The stylish yet innovative FZ-16 has macho and muscular looks redefining the 150cc bikes segment. The Yamaha FZ-16 is an urban-cool motorcycle built for great performance and easy-living functionality, because that’s the whole idea of a bike like this. It keeps it simple, with street-tough naked styling and super-civilized power delivery and a specially designed riding position that gives riders extra confidence at lower speeds.

Yamaha FZ-16: Serious attitude, Serious power !

The FZ-16 was born for life on the street – taut, muscular and ready for anything. Whatever’s going down on the street, you’re always in charge. The FZ-16 has got heart-pumping knockout performance and it’s got serious attitude on top of that, a lean and mean look that’s all about raw power. Read more…

Relaince recently launched its BIG TV DTH service in India. Consumers will certainly benefit from a company like Reliance coming in to this market as Reliance is known to rewrite the rules of business everywhere it goes.

It is certainly expected to kick in tough competition to the currently number one DTH service provider, TataSky.  Though there are other services like DishTV in India which provide similar services, failed to compete with TataSky at some level.

We just reviewed Reliance’s BIG TV offers and found them much more attractive than what TataSky or DishTV are currently offering. Big TV’s packages are smartly designed to attract customers when compared to packages from TataSkya and DishTV.

One of the major highlights of BIG TV’s is that they are the first DTH service providers to offer MPEG-4 in the country. This certainly puts more pressure on its competitors to offer similar services, signal quality and a lot more.

Don’t mistake, MPEG-4 to be HDTV but MPEG-4 certainly offers better signal quality than the existing DTH service providers, HDTV compresses at MPEG-2. MPEG-2 video quality is much better as it runs the video on 30 frames per second when compared to MPEG-4 which runs much less frames per second, thus compromising the picture quality when compared to MPEG-2.

MPEG-4 is the latest compression mechanism which is very popular with satellite providers as its takes half as bandwidth when compared to MPEG-2 which saves reduces the bandwidth and infrastructure cost of these companies, however, MPEG-4 comes with its own set of incompatibility issues with existing HDTV equipment which manufactures are trying to address as MPEG-4 is becoming more popular.

Alright, that’s that about MPEG-2 and MPEG-4…

With the launch of Reliance BIG TV, we should expect to lot of new technologies and offerings coming to Indian satellite market such as Personal Video Recorders (PVR), access to international channels from countries like US and Australia, etc…

Comparison Chart (Click on the image to enlarge it.):

Competition is good!

Resource Links:

• Reliance BIG TV
• TataSKY
• DishTV

The wait finally seems to be over. According to reports, the pricing of the most-awaited gadget Apple iPhone, set to be launched in India on August 22, is out.

Reports indicate that the 8 GB version of the 3G iPhone will cost Rs 31,000, while the 16 GB version will cost between Rs 36,000–37,000.

The above pricing is exclusive of the rental plan the phone will come bundled with.

Last week Bharti Airtel and Vodafone announced that they will launch iPhone on August 22.

In a statement, Bharti said that millions of Airtel subscribers will be able to purchase the iPhone at Airtel’s Relationship Centres from August 22.

“iPhone has been an iconic technological revelation of this year and Airtel has been at the forefront of innovation and customer delight in the Indian telecom sector,” Sanjay Kapoor, President, Bharti Airtel mobile services, said.

iPhone is embedded with all 3G features and is twice as fast as the existing mobile phones. The phone also has in-built GPS system, which facilitates as navigation and positioning tool.