Price Watch: New Apple iPod touch 4G, Multitouch nano & shuffle

September 2nd, 2010

If you are one of those many users looking to buy the new iPod touch with camera, the iPod nano multitouch and the new shuffle in India, here we have the India pricing for the latest Apple Gizmos. The good news is that Apple gets all iPods in India alongside its global release and you [...]

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Nokia Ovi Music, India and more with Adam Mirabella (OG Interviews)

September 2nd, 2010

This evening we had the opportunity to sit down with Adam Mirabella (Global Director of Music Services, Nokia) and discuss Nokia’s foray into services and its Ovi Music service with an Indian twist. In his 4th visit to India in a year, Adam was pretty excited about the opportunities here and Nokia is of course [...]

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iPod touch 4G : FaceTime, Retina Display, HD recording and more

September 1st, 2010

Along with iPod nano and iPod shuffle, the iPod touch also matured another generation today. Steve Jobs introduces iPod Touch 4G as an iPhone, without the phone. Retaining its design and all curves, the new iTouch gets thinner and faster. It has a retina display with 960 x 640 resolution on the 3.5″ multi-touch screen. [...]

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New iPod shuffle goes back to basics, buttons it is!

September 1st, 2010

Apple was criticized for letting out an iPod shuffle last year that din’t have any buttons. You were locked into using the Apple earphones that had the controls in it and it seems that the poor sales / feedback has been read well by Apple. So here you have the 2010 iPod shuffle that gets [...]

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Multitouch: A new way to nano

September 1st, 2010

The new iPod nano (6th gen) is here. The click wheel and camera are removed to make way for a smaller multitouch design. The small 1.5″ screen shows four icons at a time, while you slide your finger for more pages, like in any other iOS device. The new iPod nano is 46% smaller and 42% lighter [...]

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Steve announces: iOS / Apple milestones!

September 1st, 2010

So Steve Jobs is on stage at their annual music event and we await the big announcements from Apple. And as we begin, Apple in its trademark style has some good numbers to give us. So here are the numbers we are hearing: 200 apps downloaded every second (over 6.5b downloaded already) 230,000 iOS activations [...]

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Lenovo to introduce its motion sensing gaming console this year

September 1st, 2010

China’s largest computer maker, Lenovo is all set to enter the gaming industry. Lenovo would be competing with Microsoft (Xbox), Nintendo (Wii) and Sony (Playstation). The company announced that it would release its own gaming console by the year end. Lenovo has set up a new company called Beijing eedoo Technology Ltd. which would produce and [...]

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Palm gives sneak peak to webOS 2.0

August 31st, 2010

Palm (Palm HP) has released details on the upcoming update to webOS i.e. v2.0. Palm has now got the much needed resources from HP and should be in a position to rollout updates much much faster. While the release announcement is mainly targeted at developers, we still get a fair idea of whats coming up [...]

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Is Apple fighting Jailbreak?

August 31st, 2010

Now its a funny argument to say that Apple isn’t fighting Jailbreaking. They have tried their best to get it proven illegal and then there are these software updates from time to time that at times made us wait weeks / months to get the iPhone working again. Apple even restricted its developers from supporting [...]

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Want to update your BlackBerry Bold 9000 to OS 5.0 in India? Here’s how!

August 29th, 2010

It may already have a successor, but for many users (us included) the BlackBerry Bold 9000 remains one of the best smartphones to have ever emerged from the RIM stable, blame it on that lovely display, the spacious keypad, and of course, that faux leather back. However, while the original Bold has been updated to [...]

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Apple gearing up to launch iTunes web service?

August 28th, 2010

The big announcement is just a stone throw away and while all the speculations about the iPod refresh, touchscreen shuffle and the iTV gets highlighted, Apple might well be preparing to pull a small rabbit from its hat on wednesday. According to AllthingsD Apple might bring in the web based iTunes service that is rumored [...]

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Five reasons why we will not upgrade to the Kindle 3

August 27th, 2010

The latest edition of the device that made e-books cool has started reaching some parts of the media and we were able to spend a little time messing with a Kindle 3 (3G version) that one of our editors in the US had got for review. Now, we must confess to having felt a trifle [...]

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The New Xbox 360 is here…and costs Rs 21,990

August 26th, 2010

Microsoft has just released the new Black Xbox 360 in India. The “sleeker, smaller, quieter, designed with built in WI-FI” and most importantly, with a dedicate Kinect, console is now finally available in Indian stores at an estimated retail price of Rs 21,990. That might strike some as being a tad on the high side, [...]

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From Russia With Love: Internet Explorer 9 interface screenshot leaked!

August 26th, 2010

Microsoft’s Russia website might have let news about the next edition of the world’s most popular browser out of the bag. The site inadvertently leaked a screenshot of Internet Explorer 9, the next version of Internet Explorer, showing the interface of the browser. While Microsoft has issued a few developer builds of IE9, those have [...]

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Apple Sept 1 event confirmed, time for retina display iPod touch?

August 26th, 2010

It has been finally confirmed that Apple is indeed holding a media event on September 1. Now, that speculation about the date of the event is over, we can all settle down and start wondering about what it is that the Cupertino giant will unveil at the event. All indications are that we are going [...]

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Sony Eclipse: all purpose media player concept

August 25th, 2010

If you appreciate design concepts that could bring a change in future, I’m sure you would love the Sony Eclipse. Eclipse is a solar powered all purpose media player allowing you to access various media files on the amazingly attractive device. Leaked in a few snapshots, Sony Eclipse can attach itself to a window while [...]

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Samsung Galaxy Tab teaser out, launching 2nd Sept

August 25th, 2010

Its no news that Samsung is working on an Android tablet and it seems that Samsung finally decided to let out an official confirmation. The teaser video seen below gives in a good idea of the features we can expect on the Galaxy Tab. As seen this thing would have the Swype technology which I believe [...]

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Dell releases first Android phone – and it runs Android 1.5!

August 24th, 2010

Just when we thought that Dell’s decision to release its Streak tablet running Android 1.6 was one of the strangest decisions we had seen, the company has gone and surprised us still more. We have just heard that Dell has released the Aero, its first smartphone running Android. It has some very neat specs, a [...]

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Nokia announces the 5250, another low-cost smartphone

August 24th, 2010

We had barely finished paying tribute to the Nokia 5233 as the best value for money handset in the Indian market, when along came news that the company had released details of what we think is its spiritual successor, the 5250. Mind you, while it does look a lot better than the 5233, we are [...]

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When will my Android Motorola smartphone get Froyo? Update TImeline

August 23rd, 2010

If you are one of the many MotoAndroid users out there, there is one question you are certainly asking… when would my smartphone get the latest version of Android? Given that there are several Android devices running the version 1.6, here is an official timeline by Motorola for an 2.1 or 2.2 (Froyo) update to [...]

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