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Nokia

Will The Lumia Lift Nokia?

November 17, 2011 0 Annkur

Over the past few years, we have seen a major disruption in the mobile market. 5 billion mobiles, 1 billion smartphones, the usage has shot up many folds. Many dominant players (hey RIM, Nokia) have taken a beating, while others…

Android

Samsung Announces ICS Update For Galaxy SII, Checks Competition?

November 17, 2011 0 Annkur

Google went official with yet another major release of Android and speculations (read hopes) of manufacturers updating their devices to the latest version is in full swing. While Samsung is blessed with the Galaxy Nexus which happens to be the…

eReaders & Tablets

Sony UK Managed To Sell Only 500 Android Tablets In Over A Month

November 1, 2011 0 Annkur

Sony released its Android Honeycomb tablet for the UK market sometime in early September and while we know that Android tablets after all the hype have failed to gain much market traction across the globe, we were stunned when a…

Samsung

After Nokia’s Showcase, Samsung Hurrying Up Flexible Display Fitted Smartphone?

October 29, 2011 0 Annkur

Nokia showed a prototype phone with a flexible display at Nokia World. While that wasn’t ready for prime-time and we have no date for a commercial launch, it seems Samsung has started to hurry up their plans of getting on…

HP (Hewlett Packard)

HP Is Keeping PC Business, No Word On WebOS

October 28, 2011 0 Annkur

The HP drama is gets more interesting. Its last CEO killed webOS hardware development, sold the touchpad in a fire sale (hey we got one), decided to spin-off the PC business and visioned to become a enterprise player. But hey,…

Android

BrailleType Gets Updated, No More Multitouch

October 23, 2011 0 Annkur

Last week we looked at BrailleType a unique solution to help the visually challenged to type on touchscreen devices. And within seven days developer Ankit Daftery has an update for us. After interacting with folks at the Industrial school for…

Apps

Mobile 4 Mumbai’s Auto Fare App For Android

October 22, 2011 0 Annkur

Raxit and team have been working hard to keep up with auto and taxi fares for cities across India and release apps for the same. The most popular for them is by far the Mumbai app for checking BEST routes…

Apps

App Downloads In India, Learnings From Zomato

October 22, 2011 0 Annkur

Mobile Internet is surging in India and while I ain’t sure if 3G is fueling it or not, we know for sure that making apps for your business offering is a must for startups and biggies alike. For a couple…

Android

Acer Launches Iconia Smart S300 In India, 4.8″ Screen, Android 2.3

October 20, 2011 0 Annkur

A while back we had seen the Acer Iconia Smart A300 smartphone + tablet. This was alongside the release of the A500 honeycomb tablet in India. It seems that the much delayed A300 smartphone (for convenience purpose lets call it…

Videos

Kinect Powered Motion Tracking Based Animation Solution (Video)

October 19, 2011 0 Annkur

A few months back we met an innovative technologist Ramaprasanna. Hailing from Bangalore the IT city, Rama has created a number of geeky hobby projects and today we take a look at his latest hack. This time Rama has ventured into the…

Android

Samsung Galaxy Nexus vs Motorola Droid RAZR vs Galaxy SII, What Are you Buying?

October 19, 2011 0 Annkur

Android is buzzing with two mega announcements happening in less than 12 hours. The first being the Motorola announcement revealing the MOTOACTV and the Droid RAZR followed by the Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) event in Hong Kong that also lifted…

Android

Type Braille On Android With BrailleType (Exclusive / Video)

October 18, 2011 0 Annkur

A young developer walked into our office last morning and demoed an app that has left us pretty impressed. Ankit Daftery is working on a solution that enables smartphone touch-screens to take input in Braille. Most solution out in the…

Android

Quick Review: Samsung Galaxy Y S5360 In India

October 17, 2011 0 Annkur

Samsung has a low cost Android phone out in the Indian market and this one sure is a big challenge for players like Micromax who have their low cost Android offerings attracting a lot of buyers. The Samsung Galaxy Y…

Opinion

When Rumors Kill Real & For One To Win, The Other Needs To Lose

October 16, 2011 0 Annkur

A lot of my feelings here are similar to a recent editorial sharing my lessons from the retail days and the industry around me continues to surprise. The smartphone market is split wide open and we can’t agree more with the…

Apple

iPhone 4S Coming To India Before Year End Is Logical

October 12, 2011 0 Annkur

Now that the iPhone 4S is going on sale in US and a few more cities, it is natural to start asking when would it make it to India? the 3GS and the iPhone 4 had their delays before launching…

Apple

Samsung Giving Galaxy SII For $2 To Get People Lining Outside Stores

October 12, 2011 0 Annkur

Last year as the Samsung Galaxy S was being pitched against the Apple iPhone 4, we had highlighted how Samsung (and other smartphone makers) are trying hard to catch up with the iPhone. Their attempts to prove themselves better than…

Apple

Apple Flaunts Momentum With iPhone 4S, Analysts Pitch In With Predictions

October 11, 2011 0 Annkur

Yesterday we heard from Apple that the pre-order numbers for iPhone 4S crossed 1 million in the first 24 hours of opening the booking. The 4S goes on sale this week in US, UK and 5 other countries and would…

Opinion

Premium Smartphones, Value For Money & Annoying Perceptions

October 10, 2011 0 Annkur

It’s odd that we are talking of ‘value’ and ‘premium’ in the same breath. But honestly, the premium segment doesn’t mean just a big brand or ‘expensive’ title. Often when discussing the smartphones market, we end up talking about prices…

Apple

Gizmo Podcast #13: Discussing the iPhone 4S

October 6, 2011 0 Annkur

Last night myself and Nimish took out time and finally recorded a podcast together. This was our first podcast since February and it feels good to be back. We intend to make this a regular feature and do look forward…

Apple

iPhone 4S – Whats New?

October 4, 2011 0 Annkur

After months of speculations, rumors and delay from its usual refresh cycle, Apple has went official with the 5th generation iPhone. The iPhone 4S is reality, and that is the only new iPhone Apple released. With the 4S, Apple has…

Tech Industry News

Microsoft Kills Zune Hardware, 301s To Windows Phone

October 4, 2011 0 Annkur

Microsoft has had a rocky road leading up to the launch of Windows Phone 7 last year. The original Windows Mobile that we loved proved to be irrelevant in the post iOS / Android era that saw an entire new…

HP (Hewlett Packard)

Dear Amazon, Are You Buying webOS?

October 1, 2011 0 Annkur

Precap: HP has messed up the Palm acquisition for which it spent over USD 1 billion last year. Rumors about the future of WebOS are plenty. Today marks another chapter in the Palm story, a rumor that raises some hope. Amazon…

Rumors

Amazon Losing Money On Kindle Hardware Is No Surprise!

September 28, 2011 0 Annkur

Just as a hectic day in technology reporting ends with Samsung signing a patent licensing deal with Microsoft followed by the huge Kindle announcements from Amazon, we hear this little bit on our twitter “Amazon Losing $50 Per Kindle Fire?”…

Android

Patent Settlement: Samsung To Pay Microsoft For Every Android Sold!

September 28, 2011 0 Annkur

One of the largest makers of Android phones and tablets, Samsung has entered into a patent licensing agreement with Microsoft, thus paying up a royalty for every Android device it sells. The cross licensing allows Samsung to continue doing business…

Opinion

As MeeGo Goes For A Talespin, Tizen Is Born

September 28, 2011 0 Annkur

Today we are witnessing the death of another operating system that raised hopes of bringing a refreshing change to the handheld industry. After the sad handling of webOS at HP, we not have MeeGo undergone another transition. Industry insiders and…

Nokia

NFC: The Ecosystem Challenge

September 25, 2011 0 Annkur

Cellphones over the years have grown beyond wireless telephone devices. Back in the early days, it was conceived as a communications device, but did we truly expect to pack in so much power? Today a mobile phone has rendered your…

Android

Review: Motorola (XT530) Fire XT

September 23, 2011 1 Annkur

The race for affordable Android devices is on and most players including Samsung, LG and Motorola are in a bitter fight for conquering this segment. Be it an Android phone with physical QWERTY or simply an affordable full touch-screen, there…

BlackBerry

Hands-on Blackberry 9860 Torch

September 21, 2011 0 Annkur

Blackberry is going on sale with the Torch 9860 in India today, and we had a quick hands-on a couple of days back. The 9860 is a full touch screen with no physical keyboard. The screen is 3.7″ with four…

Site Announcements

We Are Restricting RSS

September 20, 2011 0 Annkur

OnlyGizmos.com would stop offering full RSS feeds effective immediately. RSS feed provided henceforth would be restricted to a short summary. We have largely kept silent on our official channels about the Google Panda update, but if you have been around…

Apple

Wait, Hold Those iPhone Rumors!

September 16, 2011 0 Annkur

Apple hasn’t launched a new iPhone  at WWDC 2011 as it did for the past four years. History expected them to do so, but all that came out at WWDC was the iOS 5, OS X Lion and iCloud. iOS…

Motorola

Quick Review: Motorola EX109, Dual SIM QWERTY Phone

September 14, 2011 0 Annkur

The EX109 is one of the four Dual SIM QWERTYs on the market by Motorola. At Rs 3500 it’s one of the cheapest Dual SIM phone out there. The phone features a standard QWERTY design with a 5 way D-pad,…

Market Watch

Seven Things You Want To Know About Windows 8

September 14, 2011 0 Annkur

Microsoft has shipped over 450 million copies of Windows 7 till date and finally, it has managed to beat Windows XP in consumer usage. Internet explorer 9 is the fastest growing browser for Redmond and as many as 500 million users use…

Android

LG Outs Optimus Hub (E510F) In Italy, Runs Android 2.3

September 13, 2011 0 Annkur

LG has announced an October release for its new mid-segment Android smartphone, the Optimus Hub. The Hub is powered by a 800MHz processor and was previously referred as the Univa. The Hub has a decent spec sheet for the price…

Motorola

Motorola EX119 – Quick Review

September 12, 2011 0 Annkur

Motorola recently launched the EX119 and EX109 Dual SIM QWERTY phones in India recently, and we got our hands on the EX119. The EX119 is a slim and light weight phone that packs in a Touch Screen and  QWERTY keyboard along…

Maxx

OG Review: Maxx Khamoshhh MX401

September 8, 2011 0 Annkur

Maxx Khamoshhh series was released last month, and we played around with the MX401 for sometime. The MX401 is Dual-SIM with a 2.4″ screen and features SAM noise suppression technology. At under Rs 3000, Maxx has brought noise suppression technology to a…

Android

Next Google Phone: Samsung Nexus Prime GT-I9250

September 7, 2011 0 Annkur

Ever since Google started to ship its own devices under the ‘Nexus’ branding, rumors speculating features, manufacturer and launch of these devices have been frequent. The next Android release ‘Ice Cream Sandwich‘ is due soon, and we can totally expect…

HP (Hewlett Packard)

HP-Palm: WebOS Software Unit Gets A New Home

September 5, 2011 0 Annkur

HP is exiting the hardware business, and the PSG group that also houses webOS would be spun off shortly. A lot of rumors and speculations have been flying around wrt to the future of WebOS. During the sell-out news HP…

HP (Hewlett Packard)

Test Driving HP ePrint enabled 6500A Plus All In One Printer

September 2, 2011 0 Annkur

We have seen HP launch mobile apps for printing and the same also packs in access to public printers when you are travelling. But this time around we had the opportunity to test an HP MFP Printer with ePrint activated.…

First look

Toughest Phone In The World: Sonim XP3300 Force, Survives 25m Drop

September 1, 2011 0 Annkur

Sonim has secured the title of World toughest phone (Guinness record) for its model ‘XP3300 Force.’ Made for people with the most testing jobs, Sonim applies its learnings from over half million workers from varied industries. The GSM enabled XP3300…

News

Tata DoCoMo Passes TRAI Quality Of Service Report (Ad Video)

September 1, 2011 0 Annkur

TRAI, the Telecom Regulatory Authority Of India has put out a quality of service report for all telecom operators. TRAI checked telecom operators on different network quality parameters. Tata DoCoMo recently announced that it has passed all parameters set by…