Someday you may trap in a situation where you mobile phone battery is low or null and you need to make an urgent call. That time you must have think that you should have separate charger or battery or mobile phone. Now, no such need to think like this. On last Wednesday, Samsung has launched low-cost mobile phone which will be charged through solar energy. Yes you heard it right, you can charge your mobile phone in sunlight.
Samsung has launched its new solar powered handset under “Guru” line of product range and priced at Rs.2,799, it has a solar panel on the backside, which can be used to charge the battery anywhere in the sunlight. By charging “Guru E1107″ for one hour in solar energy, you can have around 5-10 minutes of talk-time to make some urgent calls when there is no electricity or you are not close to a plug point. Battery can be fully charged with about 40 hours of solar charging. Initial batches of solar mobile phone will be imported from South Korea. They are also planning to introduce solar-powered touchscreen mobile handset, Blue Earth in India.
As per J.S. Shin, president & Chief Executive of Samsung, Southwest Asia, they have developed such kind of phone by considering the requirements of the consumers, especially for people where major power cut happens. Samsung is planning the launch 40 new models this year, around 20 models are already launched.
According the Mr. Dutt, Samsung will also include solar charging feature in its high-end mobile phone. They have invested around $44 million in developing its mobile manufacturing unit in Noida.
As per one of the company official said that Samsung market share is in the early double digits currently. They are planning to increase it by about 5-6 percent this year.
Solar powered mobile phone is truly a new and innovative concept.
Thursday, 18 June 2009
Sunday, 14 June 2009
Payin2 Made Cash Collection Easy
Even after internet revolution and many mediums of payment collection, still many businesses are run on cash in India. Most SMEs and small companies run their business on cash but their major pain is cash collection from client which eatup their lots of time and energy.
Recently one company has understood their pain and launched a new payment services system named Payin2 to collect cash from your clients who don't have online access. This service will provide SMEs and companies a ready to use electronic distribution and cash collection service system. Payin2 has been developed by Paytronic Network – India's one of the leading electronic distributors of prepaid mobile vouchers. They already have more than 30000 merchants and covered 90 major cities and towns in India.
How to avail Payin2 Services
For more details, click here
User can find merchant logos or banner at "Payin2 Recharge Point" and client companies can also update the merchants list on their website which will help their customers in finding out the nearest Recharge point.
How much it cost?
They are charging 10% per transactions for the first month i.e., till 1st Sep 09. Out of which 5% will be given to shopkeeper and rest 5% will be shared between company and its distributors.
The company is asking from users about commission structure for their services. After analyzing the user feedback, they will define the commission chart till 1st Aug 09.
Concept of outsourcing payment collection sounds promising. But i have some doubt - Will SMEs/Companies prefer this above direct bank deposit or online transfer which is much safe and easier. 10% charges is bit higher, infact its more wicked than service tax levied by government of India. One more thing, they have also not made it clear that from whom they charge 10% merchant or customer or both.
Recently one company has understood their pain and launched a new payment services system named Payin2 to collect cash from your clients who don't have online access. This service will provide SMEs and companies a ready to use electronic distribution and cash collection service system. Payin2 has been developed by Paytronic Network – India's one of the leading electronic distributors of prepaid mobile vouchers. They already have more than 30000 merchants and covered 90 major cities and towns in India.
How to avail Payin2 Services
- To avail their services, firstly you need to register online and enter the few unique keywords which will be used for payment at any of the merchant on their network.
- Then customer can make make cash payment to nearest Recharge Point outlets to merchant.
- Once payment made, the merchant has been informed about the syntax and keyword for the SMS.
- Merchant then sends SMS to the local paytronic number (which is known to the merchant) in the specified format.
- The request then reaches to Payin2 Server which in turn communicates to the client server with the customer details.
For more details, click here
User can find merchant logos or banner at "Payin2 Recharge Point" and client companies can also update the merchants list on their website which will help their customers in finding out the nearest Recharge point.
How much it cost?
They are charging 10% per transactions for the first month i.e., till 1st Sep 09. Out of which 5% will be given to shopkeeper and rest 5% will be shared between company and its distributors.
The company is asking from users about commission structure for their services. After analyzing the user feedback, they will define the commission chart till 1st Aug 09.
Concept of outsourcing payment collection sounds promising. But i have some doubt - Will SMEs/Companies prefer this above direct bank deposit or online transfer which is much safe and easier. 10% charges is bit higher, infact its more wicked than service tax levied by government of India. One more thing, they have also not made it clear that from whom they charge 10% merchant or customer or both.
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