T-Mobile had already demoed its 42 Mbps capabilities at the CES early January this year. Well as per the latest reports, Android smartphone manufacturers like the HTC, Samsung and LG are preparing to launch devices in the later part of…
India: MAXX Mobile has outed a couple of low cost phones powered by SAM noise suppression technology. While the MAXX MX401 is a bar phone, the MXQ601 is QWERTY. Branded as Khamoshhh, these phones aim to make it easy for…
Qualcomm is currently the chip supplier for windows phones but according to the sources ST-Ericsson is also going to supply chips in at least some of the upcoming windows phones. Microsoft has gone lengths to ensure that all WP7 handsets have a…
According to a recent by researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Mobile Phones could be playing some part in the decline of the worldwide bee population observed over the course of the past few decades. The study, which…
Now this is an interesting directive issued by the Punjab State Commission for Women. The commission, looking at the number of divorce cases piling up before them has come to the conclusion mobile phones are gradually becoming the root cause…
How cool would it be if your smartphone was paper thin? And if you could fold it and keep it in your pocket? Well, researchers from Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada have just done that. The smartphone prototype, called…
Look what we have here! Samsung is all set to launch its twin tablets, the Galaxy Tab 8.9 and the larger 10.1 inch version in India by June if we are to believe a recent Business Standard report. The news…
Nokia has been undergoing lots of changes in terms of its organizational structure, future plans and products of late. The last one to occur was just days ago when it revealed its plans to shelve off the entire Symbian team…
2012 is far off but that doesn’t stop rumors of potential smartphones coming out at CES. Motorola is said to be working on a couple of Nvidia Tegra 3 smartphones for Q1 2012. Given the Q1 timeframe, we might well…
The mobile phone manufacturer that never sleeps, Samsung, is busy pushing the limits of mobile CPUs; their new smartphones are likely to sport dual-core 2.0GHz CPUs by the end of the year. These new CPUs will almost certainly power the…
Ever since Nokia decided on Windows Phone to be the OS of choice for its next generation smartphones, it not only struck the death knell for old warrior Symbian, but also derailed Nokia’s MeeGo project that it had conjured up…
Motion gaming is catching up in the gaming world and Microsoft took the technology to a new level with the Kinect for Xbox 360 last year. While speculations of motion sensing coming to Windows PCs are rife, we have a…
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…
Just a few days back we had reported that the Blackberry is trying to get Android applications to run on its Blackberry Playbook but just yesterday BGR reported that the Android application of a Mobile app developer called as ShopSavvy…
Myriad is one of the members of the Open Handset Alliance and have been working on Android since the start and have recorded about 3.7 billion applications on various different phones. Myriad Group today announced the launch of its Alien…
Getting a perfect pair of earphones is bit easy compared to finding a good headset that promises good quality audio feedback. Even if you manage to find one, it would be difficult for you to stretch your budgets. Here we…
Following our podcast about affordable Android smartphones a few days ago, we have been deluged with queries about which are the best Android smartphones in the Indian market for less than Rs 15,000. While we did voice some of our…
Merry Christmas! A long pause, but we aren’t gone. The Gizmo Podcast is back with the Android special as promised. Joining me was our Senior Editor, Nimish Dubey and we spent a good enough 20 mins discussing Android phones ranging from the Galaxy 3 & 5…
Sony Ericsson seems to be quite buoyant about its Android prospects of the future. Even though we have almost two months left for the MWC to kick off at Barcelona, Spain the company is looking forward to its event there. Sony Ericsson has traditionally held an event usually a day before the…
HTC is aiming to sell as many as 60 million handsets in the year according to a report in Digitimes. The company as you might be aware has had a very good run selling Windows Phone and Android based smartphones in the past year and is looking forward to a…
Imagine being able to share a song with a friend by just touching your handset with that of your friend! Well, the new version of Bump, the software that made headlines with its ability to transfer pictures and contacts by…
Folks over at Engadget managed to scoop up on images that they say are of Samsung’s upcoming Android based smartphone. The Nexus S as it is called, would be the successor to the original Nexus One. The rumor had been…
Samsung has announced three new Wave phones - Wave 525, Wave 533 and Wave 575. All three Wave phones will run Samsung Bada OS and are practically same devices with few changes in specifications.
If you thought we were almost at the end of the megapixel war when it comes to cellphones, Sony has thrown up a surprise in the form of its latest sensor that can capture images at 16.41 megapixels. As of…
The rate at which Indian companies are announcing new dual SIM phones is mind-boggling. While mainstream manufacturers are yet to fully take the plunge when it comes to introducing low cost, dual SIM handsets, smaller companies like Micromax, G’Five and…
When HTC entered into a deal with Microsoft earlier this year, it was clear that Android has hit the a road that connects to Microsofts patent portfolio. Back then Microsoft had mentioned that they are talking to other manufacturers and…
Earlier this year, Motorola returned to the high-end smartphone territory in India with the Milestone, after a prolonged absence in which many had written off the company altogether. Now, the company seems to be consolidating its presence with the launch…
If you had any doubt on how the Apple iPhone has shaped the smartphone industry in the last 3 years and smartphone makers across the globe are watching Apple so closely that even a sneeze in Cupertino can have them…
The tech world has been abuzz with the news that Intel finally intends to get into the cellphone business in a big way, taking on ARM, with its new Moorestown-based processors (Atom Z6), which will run on Android and Meego cellphones and tablets.…
Local Chinese brands who made a killer selling a ton of those devices in India are having a tough time. After the security concerns last year that saw all phones without proper IMEI banned the Indian government has again comedown…
Yahoo services including ‘search’ would be tied to all Samsung mobile from May 2010. Yahoo Inc has inked a deal with Samsung to make this possible, and this is certainly a bold move by Yahoo towards the mobile market.
A few days ago, we had commented on how cameraphones were posing an increasingly formidable threat to conventional digital cameras, while writing about the Spice S-1200, the handset with an optical zoom. Though camera pundits might throw up their hands…
Yes weird as it sounds and geeky for sure! The idea of combining several cellphone displays by just placing them next to each other is certainly impressive and Motoorla is on it (the only problem is I don’t see a…
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…
Yesterday we read about Google’s superphone Nexusone being sued. Today we woke up to the news of the bunch of best selling smartphones being sued. Kodak whose revenues have been consistently dropping has decided to make some quick bucks by…
Its 3 years since we saw the first glimpse of the Apple smartphone and over the past 2.5 years it has changed the face of the mobile industry. The iPhone in no time has managed to top the charts and…
Last night Apple announced an upgraded M3 Macbook Air lineup with the both 13" and 15" variants getting the processor upgrade. While 60 percent faster than the M1 Air, the M3 Macbook Air comes with the same 8GB RAM and…
Earlier this month at the Galaxy Unpacked event, Samsung took the wraps off of its third-generation Galaxy Z Fold and Galaxy Z Flip smartphones. The latest offerings debut as the successor to last year’s Galaxy Z Fold 2 and Galaxy…
Televisions are becoming increasingly thinner. Much like smartphones, they boast edge-to-edge bezel-less displays for immersive viewing experience. Manufacturers are trying to trim down the bezels surrounding the screens. Most TVs today offer more than 90 percent screen-to-body ratio. Since bezel-less…
Xiaomi debuted the Mi 11 Ultra smartphone globally in March. Dubbed as ‘The SuperPhone’ it arrived in India last month. It is Xiaomi’s flagship offering with top-of-the-line specifications. The Mi 11 Ultra competes against the likes of the OnePlus 9…
