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Image Credit: Getty Images It seems all mobile phone manufactures are heading the way of offering cheap phones. We covered Apple' s plan to launch a whole new cheaper iPhone 4 in emerging markets and now Nokia is taking the competition to a whole new level. Inspired by the local markets in Africa and Asia where the need of the hour is not high end Apps but the ability to use dual-sim phones. The reason for this is because alot of people in these countries prefer using prepaid sin cards rather that the postpaid which is costlier and can run into heavy bills. On the other hand a prepaid SIM can be used for as long as you need it and when you find another phone company offering lower tariff plans the old SIM can be ditched for a new one and with number portability you still retain your old number.   Nokia will be launching the 101 and the 100 in Q3 and Q4 of 2012 respectively. The Nokia 101 will cost approx $35 and the 100 will cost approx $29.  Check out the features of the phones be...

Google Sync is a cloud based service that works with BlackBerry, iPhone, Nokia, Windows Mobile and Symbian Platforms and most other phones that are SyncML capable. Google Sync keeps your phone's address book in sync with your Google Gmail contacts. You can Sync two phones together and thereby both phones will have the same contacts automatically. Which also helps you to transfer contacts from one phone to the other without any difficulty. If you wondering how to transfer contacts from one phone to the other especially if you've got a new phones and would like to update the device with all your contacts. You can also sync you phone with your PC. Since it is a cloud based service once you change, add, delete contacts in one device, both the devices will get updated automatically. Android based phones can sync with Google contacts out of the box.  Google Sync will help your synchronize your phone's built in address book and calender with your Google accounts. Once you setup Sy...

Swyping is now available on Touchscreen phones. Available on the Motorola Droid X, Samsung Omnia II, Motorola i1, myTouch 3G, Motorola CliqXT, and HTC HD2 to name a few. More and more phones will eventually incorporate this technology. So what is Swype and how does it work. This works on Touchscreen phones. When you are typing a word you no longer need to type each letter of the word. This goes for sentences too. All you need to do is to point you finger on the first alphabet and then swype your finger to the following alphabets and then release your finger from the screen and there you have it. You word appears on the screen and start by typing your next word in the sentence without hitting the space bar. The technology recognizes that once you finish a word a space is entered automatically. Texting will never be the same again, also it becomes much faster. All you need to do is to keep swyping your fingers across the screen to  text your and reply to your friends.  Swype reinvents ty...