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What Is The Verizon iPhone Up Against?

January 11, 2011 0 Annkur

The Verizon iPhone 4 is out, and Apple has finally gone CDMA. Ideally it would have been expected from Apple to lean towards a future technology like LTE, but as Tim said on stage ‘Verizon wanted the iPhone NOW’. So…

events

Gearing up for GizmoMeet Delhi, 14th Jan – Friday

January 11, 2011 0 Annkur

Its been a hectic last week for the Gizmo team doubling up at CES and IIT B Techfest at the same time. While we rush to complete our backlog, the only thing running on our minds is the upcoming Gizmomeet…

TechFest

Riding The eScooter at IIT Bombay [Video]

January 10, 2011 0 Annkur

We had seen this on display last year @ Techfest aswell, only this year we managed to get a ride on the electric scooter developed at IIT Bombay. Here is a quick video

Future WIP

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…

CES

Kinect coming to Windows PC – Ballmer

January 7, 2011 0 Annkur

Now this is a big one. We have asked time and again, and we haven’t got a clear reply, but it seems that BBC has managed to get the confirmation from Steve Ballmer himself. While,there is no confirmation if its…

Apple

The Mac App Store, Early Impressions

January 6, 2011 3 Annkur

We have just got the Mac App Store installed on our Macbook in between the CES and Techfest madness. The hefty 100MB+ OS update brings in the lovely App Store icon to the OS X Dock. And getting started is…

CES

NVIDIA Goes Official With ARM CPU Plans, Project Denver

January 6, 2011 0 Annkur

With Google, Apple and Microsoft all throwing their weight behind ARM architecture, Nvidia has taken the opportunity at CES 2011 to reveal its Project Denver. NVIDIA President Jen-Hsun Huang claimed during his keynote that more ARM processors will ship in…

Android

Honeycomb Android Tablets Require Dual-Core Processors? Probably Not!

January 4, 2011 0 Annkur

Google is all set to reveal Honeycomb along with the Motorola tablet at CES and we guess the SDK / release details would also go out then. While the Honeycomb love is exclusive to Motorola, it is weird to see…

Accessories

Its Back! GizmoMeet Delhi – 14th January!

January 3, 2011 4 Annkur

Yes we are yet to get over the fabulous response to the first ever Gizmo Meet in Mumbai and here comes the second. We are headed to the super cold Delhi this time! Mark your calendars, 14th January would be…

Featured

Gizmo Podcast #10 – The Super Gadgets of 2010

December 31, 2010 3 Annkur

2010 has been an eventful year for us at OnlyGizmos and for the gadget world aswell. With more gadget action then ever before, we continue to strive hard in an attempt to bring honest opinions about the same. And what better than speaking it out to you? So…

Accessories

Review: HyperMac Battery for MacBook Pro (60wh)

December 28, 2010 0 Annkur

Its a special feeling to have a gizmo that you can claim is now extinct, well not exactly but the HyperMac won’t sell in this form ever again. After the Apple lawsuit the company has dropped bundling the MagSafe adapters,…

Android

Gizmo Podcast #9: Low Cost Android Smartphones

December 25, 2010 6 Annkur

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…

Featured

OG Review: Windows Phone 7 OS – (Good, But Work In Progress)

December 24, 2010 5 Annkur

Right from the desktop OS: Windows 7 last year to this years grand re-entry into the smartphone game with Windows Phone 7. Its been a busy launch season for Microsoft! Windows Mobile (as it was known earlier) was one of the first smartphone OSes to exist , and we just can’t forget…

Featured

Unboxing The LG Optimus 7 (E900), Windows Phone 7 (Video)

December 23, 2010 2 Annkur

We have got our hands on one of the first Windows Phone 7 devices out there. The Optimus Seven if LG’s first WP7 device and LG has got a strong design out there. Sporting a 3.7″ touchscreen, this thing is…

Apps

Samsung updates its desktop sync software Kies 2 (Beta)

December 22, 2010 0 Annkur

Samsung has been heavily criticized for the poor performance of its desktop syncing software Kies (pronunciation as ‘Keys’). Kies is the life line for Samsung BADA OS users and the new version, though still in beta promises several upgrades. Kies…

eReaders & Tablets

Motorola Videos Teases Honeycomb Tablet, Throws A Punch At Apple / Samsung

December 21, 2010 0 Annkur

Motorola sure has Google’s blessings for early releases of latest Android builds. Be it the original Droid with Android OS 2.0 or the upcoming tablet build of Android aka Honeycomb. After Andy Rubin showed off a prototype honeycomb tablet by…

Featured

Why we aren’t writing about Notion Ink!

December 21, 2010 36 Annkur

We started hearing about this cool startup from Hyderabad sometime back and started to follow its updates regularly ever since. Contacted them for a chance to interview, offered to visit them in Hyderabad (no luck) and finally met up with…

BlackBerry

RIM Blackberry holds emerging markets, how long?

December 18, 2010 3 Annkur

Over the past few days taking a look at how RIM CEO Mike Lazaridis dogged questions at the D Dive Into Mobile Conference and subsequently the last quarter results which just came out (14.2 million handsets shipped), its clear that Blackberry is holding its ground…

News

Samsung Wave (S8500) Bayern Munchen Limited Edition Launched

December 18, 2010 0 Annkur

What do you do when a product faces shortage in the market due to low supply of super AMOLED displays? Well if its Samsung, throw out a limited edition! Samsung has unveiled a limited edition model of its first BADA…

Apple

Review: The 2010 iPods – nano 6G and touch 4G

December 17, 2010 0 Annkur

We have been sitting over the new Apple iPods for some time now and its just amazing as to how Apple manages to UP the game each passing year. Along side the original iPhone in 2007, Apple launched the iPod touch later that year and since then its pretty clear as to…

Apple

iPad 2, Leaks, Rumors etc

December 13, 2010 1 Annkur

Reporting rumors is a funny game. With people, on both sides of a rumor piece (author and the audience i.e.) are equally excited about what is coming up. As I began putting my thoughts together for this piece, the first idea was to list out a number of Apple rumors that…

Android

Quick Review: Motorola Milestone XT720

December 10, 2010 1 Annkur

Android might be making significant inroads in the smartphone market, but multimedia is supposed to be one of its weak points – after all, how many Android phones have you heard of with great cameras and sound? Sony Ericsson did try to fix matters with the Xperia X10 and…

BlackBerry

QNX Powered Blackberry PlayBook Demoed on Video, Impressive UI

December 9, 2010 0 Annkur

With Motorola tablet running Honeycomb showing up to the world, Blackberry Playbook surely couldn’t wait for 2011. BGR has managed to get a 10 min video demo of the Play Book that is expected to go on sale sometime in 2011. The prototype demoed works well,…

Android

Its Official, Motorola to bring the first official Android Tablet (Honeycomb) – Video

December 9, 2010 1 Annkur

On previous occasions we could only speculate as to who would get the Honeycomb love first, but Google’s Andy Rubin has made it clear by carrying a Motorola prototype running a build of Honeycomb at the D: Dive Into Mobile conf. The date has been put at early 2011 and if thats the time when Honeycomb would actually come…

Entertainment

WD TV Live Hub Media Center with 1TB Storage Launched

December 4, 2010 0 Annkur

Western Digital has outed its Live Hub media center in India. The drive packs in 1 Terabyte of inbuilt capacity and Full-HD 1080p playback capability. And that’s not all, the Live Hub also supports live internet connection, and lets you…

Android

Android Honeycomb Tablets To Ship Only In Q2 2011

December 4, 2010 5 Annkur

The world has been eagerly waiting for a worthy competitor to the iPad, and when you speak of a mobile OS with touch interface, all eyes look at Google’s Android. Android has done well for itself and is perhaps the…

events

Moments from Taqneeq 3.0 (2010)

December 4, 2010 0 Annkur

Visiting technical festivals in colleges around is a sort of vacation for me and if there is any other place that I find home apart from the @roomno368 at TechFest, its MPSTME’s Taqneeq. Being a partner with the event since…

Apple

Its going to be Motorola vs Apple in Q1 2011, Tablets, Verizon iPhone!

December 3, 2010 0 Annkur

Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha is certainly not known to hide roadmaps and plans. As always he has been a little generous is revealing the 2011 Q1 plans to the media. During his recent keynote at Credit Suisse 2010 Technology Conference,…

Android

Android 2.x buzzing, 80%+ share?

December 2, 2010 0 Annkur

New figures from Android Developers suggest that in 2 weeks (preceding 1st Dec) 43.4% of Android Market activity was by devices running Froyo (Android 2.2) and 39.6% from Android 2.1. This takes the total Android 2.x activity to a respectable…

Opinion

Acer, Sony Ericsson – Windows Phone 7 can’t help you!

December 1, 2010 1 Annkur

Editorial: The mobile market is buzzing and its attractive enough to pull PC makers to jump into the smartphone race. Some like Apple have lead the way for revolution and others like Google have laid down a strong platform that…

First look

Ducati partners with Videocon, V6200 mobile is born (BUT!)

December 1, 2010 3 Annkur

Videocon isn’t the mobile phone maker that we know for cutting edge next-gen technology or a Apple like super design push. At best Chinese ODM products re-branded, repacked and sold for masses in India. But here is something that raises…

News

Hands-on with Samsung Wave 533 / 525 & 723

November 30, 2010 3 Annkur

Samsung has its new Wave lineup out in the market and we have got our hands on it for good. The original Wave S8500 was the first Bada OS powered handset out in the market and we have a few…

Apple

Gizmo Podcast #8 – Microsoft Kinect and the new Apple MacBook Airs (2010)

November 29, 2010 1 Annkur

We had the opportunity to spend some more time with the Microsoft Kinect for Xbox and the new ultra sleek Macbooks from Apple. Both the new Apple MacBook Airs (late 2010) and the Microsoft Kinect have just gone on sale…

Featured

GizmoMeet Mumbai In Pictures (and Videos!)

November 18, 2010 0 Annkur

There is little I need to say about the GizmoMeet #1. As much as hard work went into putting things together … those skipped lunches, last minute running, negotiating, arranging the gadgets, failing some, wining some – each and every…

Site Announcements

Gizmo Meet Mumbai Today, Who Is Attending?

November 17, 2010 2 Annkur

Folks, Gizmo Meet begins in a few hours and we are overwhelmed by the response you have given us. We have close to 100 confirmations for today evening on Facebook / Twtvite / Comments and Twitter. We have had some…

Site Announcements

Reminder, Gizmo Meet This Wednesday! (Mumbai)

November 14, 2010 0 Annkur

Super exciting gadget days lie ahead for us folks. Its just 3 days to go for the Gizmo Meet Mumbai and we are as eager as you to get on with the gadget talk! Here are some more meaty details…

Apps

Intel pushing MeeGo app development with Nokia

November 11, 2010 0 Annkur

Intel is pushing their apps market for Atom based devices (called the AppUp) which targets netbooks and now developers have been approached to push development on the new SDK for MeeGo app development for mobiles that Intel has outed. The Intel SDK…

Apple

Kinect: Apple’s loss is Microsoft’s gain

November 7, 2010 0 Annkur

Now this is an interesting piece of news that has just hit the public domain. It seems that the Kinect technology was offered to Apple much before Microsoft and to be honest we are used to see such cool things…

Featured

Announcing the Gizmo Meet #1 @ Mumbai!

November 6, 2010 11 Annkur

Folks, After tons of blogcamps, tweetups, barcamps and other meetups, if there is one that I miss– that’s a meetup for gadget lovers. Introducing the Gizmo Meet How about a meetup for gizmo lovers? The iPhone fans, Android lovers, Nokia Loyalists and…

Site Announcements

Shubh Deepawali

November 5, 2010 0 Annkur

To all the gizmo junta across the globe (and yes the ones on Vulcan as-well), a very Happy Diwali from the Gizmo Team.

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