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Apple

iOS 4.3 Reveals Details About iPhone 5

March 10, 2011 0 Rahul S

Now that iOS 4.3 is here the usual suspects are scourging the deep insides of the OS code to look for clues that may reveal features arriving on future Apple products – especially the iPhone 5. The latest find is…

Nokia

Nokia Issues Ovi Store Update For Symbian Phones

March 10, 2011 0 Rahul S

Nokia has issued a minor update to the Ovi Store client for Nokia’s Symbian smartphones. The update is aimed at fixing compatibility issues with Nokia’s back end services. Of course, there are also some improvements in terms of the speed…

Nokia

Nokia E7 Pre-Booking Starts In India. Costs Rs. 29,999 [Updated]

March 8, 2011 2 Rahul S

Nokia has announced that it has started pre booking of its latest Symbian smartphone – the E7 in India. To pre book your E7, all you need to do is to log on to http://www.nokia.co.in/E7 and fill up an online…

LG Optimus 2X In Europe This Month

March 1, 2011 0 Rahul S

LG’s flagship Android powered handset, the Tegra 2 powered Optimus 2X would finally arrive in the hands of consumers across Europe later this month. The company has made the news official about the device’s immediate arrival in these key markets.

ChaCha Sues HTC for ChaCha

February 27, 2011 1 Annkur

Well this had to happen. While its not Diamond Comics suing HTC for its Facebook phone called ‘ChaCha’, its the search engines guys ChaCha that have finally made an attempt to shoot down HTC. Chacha.com is a search engine that…

BlackBerry Dakota/Montana Pictures Leaked

February 21, 2011 0 Rahul S

Blackberry seems to be having a hard time keeping track of its prototype devices. It was not long ago that we had first heard of the BlackBerry Dakota. Now, we have even more photos of this new BlackBerry Bold Touch…

Nokia E7: First Hands On, Early Impressions, Pictures

February 18, 2011 1 Team OG

Even though Nokia might have made it clear that Windows Phone Would be their smartphone OS of choice going forward, the fact is that Symbian still happens to be one of the most used smartphone platforms out there. In fact, Nokia will continue to…

iPhone 4 Bags Award For The Best Mobile Phone At MWC

February 18, 2011 0 Rahul S

The just concluded Mobile World Congress was dominated by Android without doubt. A plethora of Android based smartphones were displayed at the expo since day one. The grand finale of the event was the Global Mobile Awards announcement. This function…

Motorola Atrix 4G Coming ON 22 February

February 18, 2011 0 Rahul S

Motorola’s upcoming Tegra 2 powered 4G capable smartphone, the Atrix 4G is all set to arrive in stores across the US on February 22, 2011. AT&T has confirmed that the device would arrive on its stores across the country for…

Nexus S Suffers From Data Signal Loss. Google Promises Fix

February 16, 2011 0 Rahul S

The Nexus S, ever since its launch seems to have been jinxed and plagued with issues. Things started off with the random reboot bug that caused the phone to reboot multiple times in the course of a day. This issue…

HTC Wildfire S: New Low End Android Handset Arrives

February 15, 2011 6 Rahul S

HTC has along with the HTC Desire S and the Incredible S also announced the launch of its new low end offering in the form of the HTC Wildfire S. A successor to the existing Wildfire, the device features an…

MWC 2011: HTC Desire S Announced

February 15, 2011 0 Rahul S

HTC has taken covers of the successor to the HTC Desire by announcing the Desire S along with two other handsets at the ongoing MWC at Barcelona, Spain. The Desire S features a 3.7 inch display – the same size…

LG Announces Android Powered Optimus 3D, Optimus Pad Prior To MWC

February 13, 2011 0 Rahul S

While the MWC is to start officially on 14 Feb, manufacturers like LG and Samsung seem to be too impatient and have already announced their line up for the show there. LG’s line up is pretty interesting thanks to its…

eReaders & Tablets

Samsung Galaxy Tab II and Galaxy S2 Pictured Ahead Of MWC

February 13, 2011 1 Annkur

Samsung is all set to unveil its Galaxy S and GalaxyTab successor at MWC 2011 and it seems that they have eagerly let out some pictures already. A lot is also being speculated about the specifications as well. The new…

Nokia

Will Nokia’s Microsoft Alliance Pay Off?

February 11, 2011 1 Rahul S

We all knew this was coming. In the wake of rising competition from newer, younger and nimbler adversaries like iOS and Android Nokia has announced a “strategic alliance” with Microsoft that would see the transition of Nokia’s high end devices…

Evernote for Android updated to 2.6

February 10, 2011 0 Anupama

Evernote, one of our favourite note making apps has just released an update for its Android version. The updated app, Evernote 2.6, comes with three major additions, the snippet view, notebook stacks and edit styled notes. The snippet view very…

India gets its first Gingerbread phone, the OliveSmart, for less than Rs 20,000

February 9, 2011 0 Nimish

Even as our resident Android specialist Ricky Droid highlighted rumours that some manufacturers are sidestepping the Android 2.3 update and heading straight to version 2.4, Olive Telecom has released India’s first phone running Android 2.3, or Gingerbread as it is…

Nokia

Nokia’s E7 Goes On Sale

February 7, 2011 0 Rahul S

Nokia’s upcoming flagship business phone, the E7 would be soon arriving on select markets across the globe – Nokia revealed today. The first shipments will start later this week and the device would be available in more markets in the…

The PS phone is official – Sony E shows off Xperia Play in Super Bowl ad!

February 7, 2011 0 Nimish

We have been hearing rumours about its existence for weeks and even expressed our cynicism about it, but we – and the world – got official confirmation of the existence of a PlayStation phone. And it could not have come…

Olive to launch first Indian HSPA+ smartphone – do we smell Gingerbread?

February 4, 2011 2 Nimish

We have received an invite from the folks at Olive Telecom, asking us to “witness the launch of the first Indian HSPA+ smartphone” in Delhi on February 9. First, let us get the jargon out of the way and clarify…

Dell Brings Venue (Android) & Venue Pro (WP7) to India

February 3, 2011 1 Annkur

Another Windows Phone 7 comes to India in the form of the Dell Venue Pro, and tagging along is the Android powered Venue! Both these phones have a similar built with a 4.1″ AMOLED screen, however the Venue Pro adds…

Firefox For Android Arrives: Touted To Be The Fastest Yet

February 1, 2011 0 Rahul S

Mozilla has announced the release of its current beta version of Firefox 4 browser for devices running Android and Maemo. The browser is claimed to be the fastest mobile version of the browser yet and gets much faster start up…

Now anyone can create an Android app – just use AppsGeyser

January 31, 2011 0 Nimish

Creating apps for Android just got a whole lot easier, thanks to an online service called AppsGeyser. You do not need to do any coding whatsoever, just enter some information in an online form, and you can have an Android…

Android 2.3 Has Serious Security Vulnerability: Researcher

January 31, 2011 0 Rahul S

A computer security researcher from the North Carolina State University (NCSU) has revealed that he has come across serious security vulnerability in Android 2.3 – the latest version of Android OS for smartphones. Xuxian Jiang, the researcher figured out that…

Will Nokia Opt For Android?

January 31, 2011 2 Rahul S

It’s been just a few days since Nokia announced its not so inspiring Q4 2010 results and people are already talking about the possibility of the company opting for Android sometime in the near future. The latest reason for this…

Waterproof, scratch-proof, dust-proof Motorola Defy comes to India for Rs 18,500

January 29, 2011 0 Anupama

Whatever their pros and cons, no one can deny that Motorola’s phones generally have excellent build quality. And the latest phone from the Moto stable, the Moto Defy takes that one step forward. It is built to be resistant to…

Skyfire, Facebook for Android updated

January 29, 2011 0 Nimish

The last couple of days have been busy for Android users with two of the most popular applications on the Android market, the Skyfire browser and the official Facebook app for Android getting updates. While both seem minor rather than…

HTC To Out Facebook Phone at MWC? Maybe!

January 27, 2011 0 Annkur

The Facebook phone has long been rumored and, we have discussed everything from a Facebook OS to Facebook guided hardware before. This time around its HTC that is being rumored to be cooking up a couple of Facebook phones for…

The second Wave cometh – Samsung Wave II released in India for Rs 20,990

January 27, 2011 0 Nimish

We had been seeing it in the market for a few days and now we have official confirmation – Samsung has released the successor of the highly successful Wave handset in the Indian market. The Wave II does not have…

Apps

Now there’s an app for making your trip – MakeMyTrip comes to BlackBerry

January 24, 2011 0 Anupama

Indian online travel agency MakeMyTrip (MMT) has launched its travel booking app on the BlackBerry App World in India. Called MakeMyTrip Mobile, the app will help users search and compare air fares and booking through authorized transaction channels with Visa…

Sony Ericsson Vivaz 2 Appears: Ported To Android

January 21, 2011 0 Rahul S

Mobile-Review has posted a detailed overview of a phone that looks to be a successor to the Symbian powered Vivaz. The Vivaz 2, which is also known by the code names MT15i or Halon looks to be a decent handset…

Apple

OneNote arrives in App Store, will MS Office follow?

January 18, 2011 0 Anupama

Microsoft has released a version of its note-making application, OneNote, for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. The app which is part of the MS Office suite on computers and is being used by over 80 million people in the…

OG Interview: Ajay Sharma, Country Head, HTC India

January 18, 2011 1 Nimish

After being in the news for coming out with some amazing smartphones over the past few years, HTC had a relatively quiet holiday season in India, with no major releases. However, the company seems to be back in the swing…

Hands-on with the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc & LiveView [Video]

January 12, 2011 0 Luke Abell

We are back from CES 2011 and here is a detailed hands-on video of the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc announced last week. The Arc is certainly one of the most visually appealing smartphones announced recently. Running Android 2.3 (gingerbread) and…

Apple

Will The CDMA iPhone Come To India?

January 11, 2011 1 Rahul S

Now that the much speculated, discussed and deliberated upon CDMA iPhone has landed on Verizon we were wondering about the possibility of the device arriving in India sometime soon. In the not too distant past there were reports about the…

Nexus S Suffers From Rebooting Bug; Google Admits

January 11, 2011 0 Rahul S

Nexus S users around the globe are reporting of an annoying bug with the phone’s latest software version (Android/ Gingerbread 2.3.1/GRH78). Apparently, after the update the phone reboots – in the midst of a call. The average number of reboots…

WiFi Direct, Will It Replace Bluetooh? (Comments from Bluetooth Inventor)

January 9, 2011 1 Annkur

We saw LG demonstrating WiFi direct features on its Android smartphones at CES 2011 (Engadget has a video) and for quite a while we are wondering if this would replace Bluetooh. Most smartphones today feature both Bluetooth and WiFi and…

Hands-on: LG Optimus Black, Brightest Display, Global Release! [Video]

January 9, 2011 0 Luke Abell

The LG Optimus Black is on display at CES 2011, and we had our few moments with it. The Optimus Black is a 4.0? touchscreen with an advanced gyroscope accelerometer that makes navigation beyond what we are used to (see…

CES

Quick Preview: LG Revolution – Verizon LTE [Video]

January 9, 2011 0 Luke Abell

We went hands-on with the LG Revolution at CES 2011. The Revolution is amongst the Android handsets LG has announced this week. The Revolution is a LTE enabled phone with a 4.3? full touchscreen & DLNA smartshare. There is a…

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