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Wouldn’t be nice on sharing the experience of your favorite hangout place with your friends and get rewarded? also getting recommendation on new hangout places you may like all through SMS. Good news is Revu.in has arrived.

Revu.in is a customer engagement plus reward platform on mobile. Revu.in is an innovative way to publish reviews about anything you like in real time by just sending a SMS. The platform enables businesses to build and engage with their community.

Revu.in is a Bangalore based startup founded by Mayank Sharma, Ishwar Sundararaman, Jaishankar Jayaramakrishnan. Revu was started in June 2010 with an idea of using mobile phone as a platform where consumers can talk about places they have been to and immediately promote it within their social media.

Revu bridges the gap between businesses and consumers using an existing device that consumers anyway use today – Their Mobile phone. Businesses run their mobile loyalty, engagement and informational programs and consumers subscribe to them with just their mobile number.

For users Revu.in provides a platform for them to share their experience in a restaurant/pub/concert plays etc with their friends on twitter/facebook and also let them socialize with other people in platform with similar interests.

Revu.in monetizes from the business for deploying its customer reward platform. For businesses Revu provides platform to offer rewards and discounts to their customers.

-Hitesh, vcBytes.com

Wyncomm telcom has launched India’s first Hindi QWERTY keypad Y-45 mobile phone targetting youths at Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities in India and thus enabling texting in Hindi.

Y-45 also allows a consumer to send free SMSes across India, the UAE, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines instantly with an in-built soft key for 160by2 — free mobile phone application that allows users to send free SMSes via the Internet.

Other features are It has a dual SIM (GSM+GSM) capacity with a 2.2-inch 262 TFT colour screen. It supports social networking sites like Opera Mini, Snaptu, Nimbuzz, Facebook, Twitter, MSN etc and also has a geographic location finder – Saarthi, 1.3 MP camera,  Bluetooth with A2DP, e-mail facility, PC Sync, video recording and Playback.

Its clearly a smart move by Wyncomm to target youths In smaller cities where English language is a big hurdle for communicating over SMS, Y-45 will definitely overcome this problem and can make texting hasslefree.

-Hitesh, vcBytes.com