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iOS Version 4.3.3 Out To Fix Location Privacy Issues

May 4, 2011 1 Annkur

Apple has rolled out a quick update for iOS. After being under fire for privacy concerns with location tracking on the iPhone and other iOS handhelds, Apple had last week given out comments to explain the situation. And to make…

Android

Acer Iconia S300 Smartphone / Tablet – First Impressions (Video)

May 4, 2011 0 Annkur

We spent a good amount of time checking out the Iconia range at the Acer launch today. One of the early birds here was the A300 smartphone / tablet hybrid. Acer likes to count this as a tablet and we…

eReaders & Tablets

Acer’s Iconia Range In India, Price & Availability

May 4, 2011 0 Annkur

Acer just gave India its first Honeycomb tablet. The Iconia tab A500 that is powered by NVIDIA Tegra 2 and sports a 10.1″ screen (1280×800). With 16GB of internal memory, microSD expansion and HDMI out, this is pretty much a…

India

Test Drive: Cisco Linksys E3000, E2000 & E1000 WiFi Routers

May 3, 2011 0 Annkur

We did a quick round of testing with Linksys range of WiFi routers E1000, E2000 and the E3000. The Cisco E-series connects everything from your Notebook to Xbox and also serves as a network player. All the three routers are…

Apple

New Apple iMacs With Thunderbolt, Intel Core 2nd Gen, Indian Price

May 3, 2011 0 Annkur

Apple has updated its iMacs lineup with the all new Thunderbolt I/O and Intel’s Core Processors (2nd generation / Sandy Bridge). The upgrade was rumored ever since the MacBook Pro’s got refreshed back in March. Just as the MacBook Pros,…

News

T-Mobile G-Slate In UK As LG Optimus Pad (3D), Costs £799

May 3, 2011 0 Annkur

LG has its first tablet in the US, selling under the T-Mobile brand name ‘G Slate’. And now the same has arrived in UK as the LG Optimus Pad. Optimus Pad is a premium tablet with the pricing at £799…

News

Samsung Unveils Galaxy S Players With 4″ and 5″ Screen Sizes

May 2, 2011 0 Annkur

Samsung is going fast with the Galaxy series and this time its not smartphones but media players that is launching in new flavors. Just announced for Russia and Switzerland is the Galaxy S 4.0 WiFi and Galaxy S 5.0. The…

Android

Motorola Sold Only 250k Tablets In Q1 2011

April 30, 2011 0 Annkur

To be fair, Motorola’s Honeycomb offering Xoom wasn’t on sale from the start of the year and its little surprise to me that they have sold only 250,000 pieces in the Jan-March 2011 quarter (figures not official). The tablet went…

Featured

Editorial: The India Launch Confusion, Setting The Record Straight

April 29, 2011 8 Annkur

Last week when we told you about the iPad 2 India launch and today Apple officially started selling the same in India. While most of our friends in Indian media picked up the story and trusted our report, it seems…

LG To Show MeeGo Love In SFO, May

April 29, 2011 0 Annkur

We heard of LG’s MeeGo love before and some more official news pours in. LG would be at the MeeGo conference at SFO next month and it would show some of its products running a MeeGo build. While LG isn’t…

India

HTC Wildfire S coming To India In 7 Days, Priced Around Rs 15000

April 29, 2011 2 Annkur

HTC is on a roll. India can expect as many as 7 HTC devices rolling out over the next on month and that includes the HTC Flyer (Evo View as it may be branded in India). The Incredible S went…

India

Apple To Sell Factory Unlocked iPhone 4 In India?

April 28, 2011 0 Annkur

We have already heard from two telecom operators in India that they would be bringing the iPhone 4 to India in ‘coming months’. Almost 10 months after its US release, iPhone fans in India would get their hands on official iPhone 4…

Apple

Android Powered HTC Incredible S Reviewed

April 28, 2011 1 Annkur

The only market ready smartphone OS (apart from the iOS) to make good use of full touchscreens in Google’s Android. And one of the latest high-end Android powered devices to land on our desk is the HTC Incredible-S. Successor to…

Apple

Did Vijay Sales Jump The Gun On iPad 2 Announcement? (Yes)

April 27, 2011 1 Annkur

It seems that Vijay Sales (a leading retail chain in India) has affirmed our reports of iPad 2 India launch. We saw VijaySales tweeting yesterday about the iPad 2 availability. It began with a small teaser and went on to…

Featured

Samsung Champ Duos GT-E2652 – OG Review

April 26, 2011 2 Annkur

Samsung has taken the touchscreen phones below Rs 5000 levels and Champ Duos is another attempt to lure the low end market with a touchscreen. The Micromax and Lavas of the mobile world have been milking this segment since sometime…

Android

Acer Iconia: Cheapest Honeycomb Tablet Goes On Sale For $450, Does It Matter?

April 25, 2011 0 Annkur

Google has rolled out Honeycomb as an answer to iOSes dominance (with the iPad) in the tablet space. 9 months and 15 million iPads alter we saw the first Honeycomb device, the Motorola Xoom at CES 2011 and it sure looked promising.…

Google

Shifting My Google Videos To YouTube

April 23, 2011 0 Annkur

Recently Google announced that it is shutting down its video site (video.google.com) completely. This had to happen someday with YouTube leading the video work for Google (uploads to Google Video was disabled in 2009) and most of you would have…

News

Motorola Cooking Tegra 3 Powered Smartphones For Q1 2012?

April 23, 2011 0 Annkur

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…

Apple

Exclusive: Apple iPad 2 Coming To India Next Week, Starts at Rs 27,900

April 22, 2011 13 Annkur

Tired of being quoted Rs 60k for the iPad 2 in India? Well not for long! We suspected! and a trusted source just confirms that the Apple iPad 2 is coming to India next week! It is expected to launch…

Leaked / Spyshots

Leaked: Panasonic and Huawei To Push MeeGo Handsets

April 21, 2011 0 Annkur

Not the A list that Intel would have liked, but after the rumors of LG doing MeeGo handsets, our friends at MeegoExperts have concrete news on two new handset makers going the MeeGo way. They would be joining a small…

Apple

The iPad 2 is coming to 13 new countries next week, India?

April 21, 2011 1 Annkur

Apple’s earnings call isn’t exactly a place to expect product launches, but it seems that has changed. While speaking to media and analysts on the Q2 earnings call, Apple COO, Tim Cook revealed that the iPad 2 is coming to…

Apple

iPod Touch Used For Joint Replacement Surgery, Arrives In India

April 21, 2011 0 Annkur

We have been hearing about iOS handhelds being used in education / healthcare for sometime now and here is a pro usage of the same. The last time I looked up a professional app on the App Store, it was…

Android

UK Getting Samsung Galaxy S II In A Week

April 21, 2011 0 Annkur

After all the false alarms of delays and rumors (coupled with wishes) about the launch date, it seems that we have some concrete details on the Samsung Galaxy S2. The device seems to be ready to hit UK in a…

events

[India] NAVTEQ Developer Day Scheduled For Bangalore & Delhi!

April 19, 2011 0 Annkur

NAVTEQ isn’t a new name in navigation technologies and this is one domain that is growing with increasing momentum. NAVTEQ is a key player in loction based info and advertising. Interestingly 1000 people from the 5000+ global team at NAVTEQ…

News

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1v Going On Sale From May 1 (Vodafone Australia)

April 19, 2011 0 Annkur

While Samsung is working on its iPad 2 competitor with a slimmer design, they are releasing the Galaxy Tab 10.1v as originally shown at MWC. The Galaxy Tab 10.1v would go on sale with Vodafone Australia shortly and is currently…

Apple

HP Rolls Out iOS App For Wireless Printing, Countdown For WebOS on Printers?

April 18, 2011 0 Annkur

HP has a good range of printers that are capable of wireless magic. Be it bluetooth in the old age or WiFi for today, they have good offerings for you. It seems that they are working in full swing to…

Android

Verizon Pushing Gingerbread 2.3 Update For Motorola Droid X?

April 12, 2011 0 Annkur

It seems that Verizon customers using the Motorola Droid X are seeing an OTA update to Gingerbread! Currently running (at least officially) Android Froyo, Gingerbread (2.3) is the most sought after hack. A Gingerbread build for DroidX had leaked sometime back, but…

News

Launch: HTC Sensation Android Phone, 1.2Ghz Snapdragon, Sense 3.0

April 12, 2011 0 Annkur

HTC has gone official with its Sensation, Android phone. The device features a 4.3″ touchscreen that packs in qHD resolution (960×540) and some heavy horsepower. Sensation is powered by a dual-core 1.2GHz snapdragon CPU (this looks to be the same…

Android

SGS2 Launch: UK To Get Samsung Galaxy S II on May 1st! No Pricing

April 11, 2011 0 Annkur

Seems like Samsung has made the final push to prove that the Galaxy S2 isn’t delayed and would launch in the timeline provided. The UK launch date for Samsung Galaxy S II has been confirmed as 1st May. Samsung recently…

Apple

Apple iPhone 4 Supply In Hong Kong Normalizes, India Launch Promised

April 11, 2011 0 Annkur

Yes you read it right. Its iPhone 4 we are still talking about. In between the iPad 2 launch updates and iPhone 4 rumors, it seems that iPhone 4 has its own little updates to amuse us. Apparently after hiccups…

Android

Motorola Xoom Tablet Gets Priced In UK, Starts £480

April 9, 2011 0 Annkur

The frist Honeycomb tablet to be touched by mankind has finally made its way through UK. Motorola has been going slow with the Xoom rollout and the device has had its own little ups and downs in the rat race…

Apple

Apple iPad 2 In UK, Videos From Launch Day

March 25, 2011 0 Annkur

The Apple iPad 2 went on sale in UK today and being in London this was surely on my list. I visited the Apple Store at Regent Street (London) and was surprised to see the lines for the iPad 2.…

Apple

iPad 2 Online Ordering Pulls Apple Store Down (UK)

March 24, 2011 1 Annkur

The Apple iPad 2 just went on sale in the United Kingdom and it seems that despite keeping a 2-3 weeks shipping time to begin with, Apple is finding it hard to satisfy the demand for iPad 2 on its…

Apps

Kinect Inspired Motion Gaming / Interaction On Smartphones?

March 24, 2011 0 Annkur

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…

eReaders & Tablets

Hands-on With MeeGo Tablets, WeTab, ExoPC and more

March 21, 2011 0 Annkur

A trip to Birmingham couldn’t have been more exciting. Last week I happened to attend the MeeGo meet organized by MeeGoExperts and apart from the wonderful techies we met there, there were a whole bunch of MeeGo devices around to play with.…

Humour

Chaiwala – Get In The Line #iPad2 #GizmoToon

March 20, 2011 0 Annkur

RRC is back with yet another GizmoToon and our Chaiwala has the hottest from the tech world being discussed around him.

Apple

The Apple iPad – Take 2

March 20, 2011 6 Annkur

Yes I am the same tiny little blogger who wrote off the tablet concept ending my original review of the Apple iPad with the following words ‘Are you made for the iPad’. A year down the line, I have a…

Entertainment

Testing the TataSky+ HD, A Lifestyle Choice

March 10, 2011 1 Annkur

Last week I had a chance to test run the Tata Sky+ HD DTH service and what better time than the World Cup to have such a service. While DTH has been around for a fairly long time, it seems…

Featured

Why The Next Google / Facebook Isn’t From India

March 4, 2011 4 Annkur

This ain’t new talk and I got deflected back to this topic when discussing Indian cos making cellphones in a Facebook group. For long entrepreneurs in India have been motivated with talks of making the next Google, Facebook or Microsoft.…

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