February 26th, 2010
One of the biggest hit of the latest MWC in Barcelona and the Platinum Event Sponsor; the Windows Phone 7 paired with the LG is finally gearing up to be rolled out. As the reports flowing in from Engadget Chinese suggest that they are readying the phone to be shipped as early as September. This was apparently confirmed by officials at LG Mobile HongKong during the Chinese New Year event. Though LG has kept the suspense going by just stating that the phone will be dished out somewhere between September and November.
Given the current market scenario with Android, iPhone, Palm and others making rapid updates, Microsoft will sure hope that the new OS doesn’t get any more delayed. For LG they would hope to be the first one to roll out a Windows Phone 7 series device.
Via AkihabaraNews
Categories: Announcements, Tech Industry News, smartphones, windows mobile |
Tags: LG to ship Windows Phone 7, LG Windows Phone 7 in september, Windows Phone 7, Windows Phone 7 in September | No Comments
February 17th, 2010
HTC Hero, one of the most popular handsets from HTC, now has a successor. HTC Legend comes as no surprise. We have already seen a few snapshots and a complete specification list, leaked back in December. (more…)
Categories: Android, Announcements, HTC |
Tags: Friend Stream, HTC, htc hero, htc legend, legend, mwc 10, mwc 2010, new Sense UI | No Comments
February 16th, 2010
We have already seen the Motorola Backflip and the Motorola CLIQ/DEXT, the two Android powered phones from Motorola featuring its custom MOTOBLUR user interface. Joining the league is the latest Motorola QUENCH which would be known as Motorola CLIQ XT in the US. The handset would be available in US exclusively through T-Mobile. (more…)
Categories: Android, Announcements, Launch Pad, Tech Industry News, motorola |
Tags: cliq xt, motoblur, motorola, motorola cliq xt, motorola quench, mwc 10, mwc 2010, quench, swype | No Comments
February 16th, 2010
Microsoft has finally announced and showed off their next mobile operating system with a bit different brand name – Windows Phone 7 Series. Apart from sleek and staid interface, there are several features integrated to the core level. But surprisingly two significant features at the core level – Flash, multi-tasking are missing. To be honest, these were the two features that every mobile enthusiast was looking forward to in Windows Phone 7 Series OS. Nevertheless, this mobile operating system would be made available to consumers only by this year end – Holiday Season.
If you haven’t followed till now, read again – Windows Phone 7 series doesn’t support Flash as of now i.e. in first version of the operating system. Again, in the Question & Answer session, Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft said, “No objection to Flash”. That leaves us wondering if Microsoft is doing a Apple gig here by not supporting Flash on it.
Charlie Kindel, Windows Home Server General Manager, wrote about the stuff that was expected to be detailed but wasn’t at the Windows Phone 7 Series launch. There’s a whole bunch of stuff we did not announce today. Specifically we did not announce anything about building applications & games for the new Windows Phone 7 Series operating system. We did this because (more…)
Categories: Announcements, Launch Pad, Reviews, Tech Industry News, microsoft |
Tags: Charlie Kindel, microsoft windows, No Flash, No Multitasking, Silverlight, Steve Ballmer, Windows Phone 7 Series | 2 Comments
February 16th, 2010
Toshiba has unveiled two new phones in Barcelona during the Mobile World Congress 2010. One of the handsets is the successor of the popular Toshiba TG01, called the Toshiba TG02. Other is a slider with a physical QWERTY hidden underneath, called the Toshiba KG01. (more…)
Categories: Announcements, Market Watch, Tech Industry News, windows mobile |
Tags: mwc 10, mwc 2010, Toshiba, toshiba capacitative touchscreen, toshiba kg01, Toshiba qwerty, toshiba tg02, toshiba touchscreen qwerty | No Comments
February 16th, 2010
With the slew of smart phones being launched at the Mobile World Congress 2010. Vodafone has managed to pull the rabbit right out of the hat and surprise everyone by launching two ultra simple phones which is being billed as the ‘Worlds Cheapest Mobile’. Called the Voda 150 & 250 and priced at $15 and $20 respectively. These economical handsets are specifically aimed at the underdeveloped and the developing countries like India, Turkey and Africa.
The Voda 150 is easily the cheapest mobile phone ever launched in the Indian market @ Rs. 750 approx. Sticking to the basic features of voice calls and sms. It comes with a monochrome screen and retro looking keypad.The Voda 250 priced @ Rs. 1000 approx is slightly different with a marginally larger color screen and FM radio. (more…)
Categories: Announcements, Tech Industry News, Videos |
Tags: mwc 2010, Voda 150, voda 250, vodafone, worlds cheapest phones | 4 Comments
February 12th, 2010
Pharos has announced its latest PDA called the Pharos 565. The company claims that 565 is the first rugged PDA to run Windows Mobile 6.5. The 25mm thick PDA does not look great. But it isn’t made to look good, is it? Looks sturdy though. (more…)
Categories: Announcements |
Tags: pharos 565, rugged pda, rugged phone, windows mobile 6.5 | No Comments
February 11th, 2010
By the first looks of it,I thought this was some new nail polish bottle. After taking a closer look at it I realised that this ones got a wired tail and it is a digital music player. Now Samsung has introduced the new TicToc player that does all the functions of an MP3 player with just a single button and an accelerometer. The player has no display and is as sleek as its closest compeditor – the iPod Shuffle.
The device has a smart accelerometer sensor that changes track. A slow shake would line-up a slow song while a vigorous shake would play a fast one. The only key on the player acts as both the power button and the volume control key. Holding the player upside down with the key pressed reduces the volume and vice versa. (more…)
Categories: Announcements, First look, PMP - Portable Media, Weird or not?, Wow Gadgets, samsung |
Tags: accelerometer player, ipod shuffle with accelerometer, motion sensor player, mp3 player, samsung, samsung mp3 player, tictoc | No Comments
February 10th, 2010
LG today unveiled its super-slim touchscreen phone which is apparently the slimmest from the South Korean cellphone maker. Although the dimensions have not been released officially, the pictures sure give it out. Dubbed the ‘LG Mini’, the phone manages to pack a 3.2″ touchscreen and 5MP camera despite being that sleek.
The phone supports 7.2 Mbps HSDPA and the connectivity options include (more…)
Categories: Announcements, LG, Tech Industry News |
Tags: GD880, lg mini, lg mini pics, lg mini specs, LG slimmest touchscreen, slimmest smartphone | No Comments
January 16th, 2010
The much awaited Samsung C3510 has been officially released by Samsung Russia today also referred to as Samsung Genoa in Europe. This is a cheaper and toned down version of Samsung Corby S3650 in features.
Bundled with a 1.3 mp camera and only 30 MB of internal memory (expandable upto 8GB with a MicroSD card) they are calling it the ‘finger friendly one touch mobile‘. It also has features like Multi Instant Messenger, 3.5 mm jack with DNSe sound technology, 2.8 inch QVGA resistive multitouch screen and so on.
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Categories: Announcements, Launch Pad, samsung, smartphones |
Tags: corby, corby pop, pop, samsung, samsung c3510, samsung corby pop, samsung genoa | No Comments
November 11th, 2009
We are giving away 8 Google Wave invites to random commenter’s on this post. So if you are one of those who has been sitting on the fence waiting for a Wave invite, you just need to drop us a word below and your invite would be flying your way.
Google Wave is an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. A wave can be both a conversation and a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. – Read more about Wave
Update: (more…)
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Tags: get google wave, Google, google wave, wave, wave invite | 81 Comments
October 17th, 2009
To all our readers across India and abroad, a very Happy Diwali.
Thank you for all your support and wishes, may the festival of lights bring joy and prosperity to you.
Team OnlyGizmos
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Tags: diwali, Happy Diwali, team onlygizmos | No Comments
September 10th, 2009
OnlyGizmos would giveaway the amazing Wi-Fire USB WiFi worth $59 in a charity auction at the Mumbai Twestival tomorrow. Mumbai Twestival is supporting the the NGO ‘Help a Child’ and we are proud to be associated with this initiative. Hope to see you at the event tomorrow 
Register here for Mumbai Twestival
Thx hField Technologies for making the amazing gizmo available to us.
Categories: Announcements |
Tags: auction, charity, contest, giveaway, twestival | No Comments
September 2nd, 2009
Japan is all set to implement an idea that has been tossed around for almost the past four decades – space-based solar power. The proposed power plant in space is said to cost a whooping US$21 billion, and will develop power using solar energy to generate one gigawatt of energy (enough to power 294,000 homes). The energy developed will then be transmitted wirelessly to Earth.
Mitsubishi Electric Corp. and industrial design company IHI Corp. have teamed up to develop a technology that will transmit the power generated without the use of wires. Mitsubishi and IHI will be a part of a research group, along with 14 other global companies, to create the four square kilometer space power station in the next three decades. Japan also plans to test a small prototype of the ‘power plant’ by 2015.
The project though, will have to go through many hurdles. These include the high transportation costs of (more…)
Categories: Announcements |
Tags: IHI Corp, Japan power station, Mitsubishi Electric, PG&E, solar energy, solar power, solar-powered, Solaren, space-based, wireless energy | 2 Comments
August 3rd, 2009
Thank you all for participating in the OG Contest.
The winner for the OnlyGizmos Sony Ericsson HBH-IS800 giveaway has been chosen. Head on to the contest page for details.
Categories: Announcements |
Tags: contest, giveaway, win | No Comments
July 29th, 2009
The contest is closed, winner name below!
We are giving away a super cool Sony Ericsson HBH-IS800 bluetooth headphone (worth $199!!). All you need to do is answer a simple question.
Q: Which is the only Sony Ericsson Cellphone powered by Windows Mobile?
You can either follow us and tweet your answer to @onlygizmos or leave a comment below with your answer, Thats all!!
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Categories: Announcements, sony ericsson |
Tags: contest, giveaway, HBH-IS800, sony ericsson, win | 85 Comments
May 14th, 2009
OGz … We just turned 2
It began with a small dream and big ambitions, fueled by your motivations and encouragement – We have complete another year. We still wake up every morning to see new gadgets and sleep dreaming about those we hope to see tomorrow.
Our journey over the past two years has been phantastic. With a promise to bring you the latest from the world of Gadgets and Gizmos for years to come … Thank you all for making us what we are today.
Love, The OG Team
OnlyGizmos / iPhoneHelp
Ps: OG anniversary was yesterday on 13th May, my short term memory loss to be blamed for the delay in celebrations 
Categories: Announcements |
Tags: anniversary, happy birthday, onlygizmos | 9 Comments
April 6th, 2009
Note: Contest is closed. Head to the homepage and enjoy the latest in technology – while we work to announce the winners YAY!
Fast approaching our 2nd anniversary we are giving away a Digital Camera and some more goodies to our readers. Here is your chance to win a 6 Megapixel Kodak Digital Camera, spy remotes or the worlds smallest card reader.
All you need to do is pickup your favorite article from OnlyGizmos and blog about it (and drop us the link below). Also Twitter users with more than 500 followers can twit about the post. Rules downstairs
Rules:
- 1 Person can participate only once in this particular giveaway
- Just leave a comment below with the link of your blog post / or the Tweet status about your favorite article. (Example of tweet status link)
- Only 25 randomly selected tweets would enter the contest, though all blog posts qualify
- Blogs participating in the contest should be more than 3 months old with at least 10 posts live as on 6/5/2009
- You can pickup any article from the site
- The contest is open from 6th April to 6th May 2009 (Comments shall be closed on the post to indicate that the contest if over)
- Winners shall be chosen randomly via random.org
- We can ship prizes worldwide. So contestants from all countries can participate
- Be sure you enter your correct email id while entering the comment below for us to contact you in case you are the winner
- @netra – one of the most trusted names around the web would run the random query to chose the winners
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Categories: Announcements |
Tags: contest, digital camera, giveaway, win | 77 Comments
January 25th, 2009
Janta,
We have our first victim of brutal coverage and thats me! Guess the tough routine of the job we do (covering each and every inch of TechFest totaling to over 16 hours a day) has hit me harder than expected this time. Without complaining much of my ill-health let me give you the good news that OGz Editor Tassavur Shaikh is still out there covering the fest to the fullest, while I sink in some more painkillers and prepare for the Finalle (Day 3).
Though a little delayed, our coverage shall continue..
Categories: Announcements |
Tags: annkur, human | 1 Comment
December 31st, 2008
2008 has been a fantastic year for OnlyGizmos and personally for our team members. With all the time we spent together running around for coverage and at the same time managing our slim finances; we seem to have grown several years older
Here are some of our best moments of 2008, thank you for all the love and support:
- The year started on a high with excellent coverage of the IIT TechFest. Jimmy Wales interview and more.
- The OG 1st Anniv in May was memorable and we had 1/3 of a million hits till then
- Our Editor Annkur P Agarwal was invited to write the Cover Story on Gadgets for One India One People, something that makes us feel really special
- Around the same time we also Partnered IIIT Hyderabad RoboCamp
- After hitting several technical issues and a dull phase we managed to shift to WordPress towards the end of the year. Thanks to Asif (Cubex Systems, Pakistan) and OGz Mohit for all the technical support.
- The year had began with another small venture iPhone Help; that was the brain child of our own Piyansh Mantry and Tassavur Shaikh. While OG hit a rough patch IPHelp worked and we are proud that it has made a name for itself. From being a part of OG to being the strongest link of the OG Network
- Another cheer towards the year end was the MPSTME Taqneeq 08, where we were again the official Online Media Partners. We had a wonderful outing, reminded us of the IIT TechFest
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Tags: 2009, happy new year, og team, ogz | 3 Comments
