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Indian Government shows a $35 tablet, readying a $10 one!

July 23, 2010 1 Nimish

Yes, you read that heading right. The Indian Government is evidently working on a tablet that will cost about as much as a low-end phone – around Rs 1500 ($35 approx). And that is not all, efforts are on to trim the price further to an unbelieved Rs 500 ($10 approx). According to…

eReaders & Tablets

Android-powered OlivePad is India’s first 3G tablet

July 22, 2010 0 Nimish

So we now know. India’s first 3G tablet is the OlivePad (now, what does that sound like?). Launched in Delhi, it is a tad smaller than Apple’s uber gizmo, but comes packed with some very impressive specs – Android 2.1,…

Gaming

Microsoft Kinect coming on November 4 – for $149.99!

July 21, 2010 0 Nimish

The suspense over the price of Microsoft’s new game controller (without a controller!) system, Kinect, has ended. Microsoft has officially revealed both the price as well as the release date of the device. The controller, which lets users play games…

eReaders & Tablets

Seven queries about India’s first 3G tablet

July 21, 2010 0 Nimish

Yes, we know it has not arrived yet, but even as we wait for the official launch of India’s first 3G tablet by Olive Telecom tomorrow, we must confess that our minds are a mess with all sorts of questions. Here, are seven of the most important. Do let us know…

eReaders & Tablets

India’s first 3G tablet coming on Thursday!

July 20, 2010 0 Nimish

The folks at Olive Telecom do seem to have a habit of being on the front foot as far as 3G enabled gadgets that are not phones go. Not too long ago, they were the first in India with a notebook with…

Apple

Four things that will be seen in Apple’s press con today!

July 16, 2010 0 Nimish

As the time nears for Apple’s eagerly anticipated press conference (to select media) about the iPhone 4, speculation is rife about what exactly will be said and done. Well, we do not have our crystal ball handy to tell you what exactly will transpire,…

Nokia

Nokia comes to Indian social networking slugfest with stunning C5

July 12, 2010 0 Nimish

We should have seen it coming. After letting the likes of Samsung, LG and INQ boss around the mobile social networking segment, the big N has finally shaken itself up and come out with what we think is a really…

Apps

Seven “app”y reasons for the Microsoft Kin’s demise

July 3, 2010 0 Nimish

It came with a lot of fanfare less than two months ago and breathed its last yesterday with nary a sigh of regret to be heard. We are talking of the Kin, Microsoft’s attempt at a social networking phones targeted…

Apple

Eight reasons why the Kindle beats the iPad as an e-book reader in India

June 28, 2010 7 Nimish

It is an utterly unfair comparison but one that has been making the rounds ever since Apple released the iPad a few months ago. We are talking of the Kindle vs iPad battle that is being waged between tech users…

eReaders & Tablets

Priced at Rs 13k, the Kindle finally talks business in India!

June 23, 2010 9 Nimish

Buried beneath all the talk of the new iPhone OS (iOS, if you will) and the delights and disappointments of E3 was a little news item – Amazon had slashed the price of its Kindle e-book reader by a staggering…

Reviews

Buying a “Chinese” phone? Six points to keep in mind

June 21, 2010 0 Nimish

Want to try out one of those low-cost-high-feature offerings from one of the new cellphone manufacturers but terrified of being ripped off by a “Chinese” phone with a brand stamped on to it? And as the phone is relatively low…

Reviews

To buy or not to buy: the Chinese phone issue

June 19, 2010 0 Nimish

The deluge of new phone brands might be pushing phone prices down in the Indian market while adding stacks of features, but it has also brought up a new problem: are many of these new brands simply rubber-stamped versions of…

Apple

New Mac mini unveiled – not mini in power, this

June 15, 2010 0 Nimish

The E3 event might be cornering most of the headlines but that doth not mean that the rest of the tech world has gone to sleep. Apple, for one, certainly is in no mood to let the world’s premier gaming…

Gaming

And now, a slimmer, quieter, Xbox 360

June 15, 2010 0 Nimish

It is raining announcements from Microsoft. We had barely come to terms with the unveiling of Kinect, its no-controller gaming system for the Xbox 360, when the Redmond biggie took the wraps off a new Xbox 360. And it definitely…

Gaming

Project Natal is here, and it’s called Kinect!

June 14, 2010 0 Nimish

It has been a busy year for Microsoft with the company taking the wraps off a number of products including a revamped Hotmail, MS Office 2010 (with a web avatar to boot), Windows Phone 7, among others, but nothing –…

Entertainment

Five Best Football Games in Town!

June 14, 2010 2 Nimish

With the World Cup in full swing, there is no time like the present to take a look at the best football games in video gametown. There are games of just about every sort and on every platform, ranging from…

Apple

Six things to expect from Apple after iPhone 4

June 8, 2010 1 Nimish

Even as the debate on just how good or bad the new iPhone is rages on in different tech circles, we think we noticed enough to make six bold predictions about what to expect from the fruity sounding company from…

Android

Sony Ericsson bats bravely for Android 1.6

June 4, 2010 2 Nimish

It is not every day that a cellphone manufacturer sets out its stall to defend an older operating system. Well, that is exactly what Sony Ericsson did at a press briefing (or discussion, as they preferred to call it) in…

Gaming

Six reasons why Alan Wake is our Game of the Year…so far

May 30, 2010 13 Nimish

It has been in the making for five years, so when it did come out, there was an aura of “we-do-not-quite-know-what-to-expect” about Alan Wake, Remedy Entertainments new game for the Xbox 360. Remedy, in case you have forgotten (five years…

Apple

Google seems confused, alleges Ballmer

May 27, 2010 0 Nimish

He toed the diplomatic line for most of the Q&A session, refusing to be baited by queries as to what he thought about Apple’s increased capitalisation, calling them good competitors, adding that they were good competitors too, and pointing out…

Android

FroYo’s on Android menu, but will manufacturers serve it?

May 22, 2010 4 Nimish

The fact that Google would be revealing the latest version of Android at its I/O Conference at San Francisco was a foregone conclusion. So when the wraps were officially taken off Android 2.2, codenamed FroYo, there was appreciative applause, but…

smartphones

Will “Intel Inside” work on smartphones?

May 6, 2010 0 Nimish

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.…

smartphones

Should Nokia stop living in the future?

May 2, 2010 0 Nimish

It has been a busy week for all those on Nokia’s mailing list. The cellphone behemoth delivered release after release into our mailboxes, with details about its messaging service going totally free in India, changes in production volume, introduction of…

smartphones

HP’s got Palm: Five things that could happen!

April 30, 2010 0 Nimish

HP’s takeover of Palm made the requisite number of headlines yesterday, but now that the news has sunk in, it is time to ponder what exactly the PC and printer giant will do with what was one of the most…

First look

The N8 is now official – the specs rock, now it is upto the UI

April 27, 2010 0 Nimish

Barely a few days after usual suspect Eldar Murtazin bashed a prototype of Nokia’s next flagship device,the N8, the big N has released official details of the handset. And most of it conforms to the various leaks that have been…

Apple

Another iPhone 4G Lost…and Found!

April 27, 2010 2 Nimish

  “Hey, wanna see something?”

Apple

Apple refreshes Macbook Pro range

April 14, 2010 0 Nimish

Even as the world argues over how good or bad the iPad is (we have not heard anyone call it “Ugly” yet), Apple has announced some updates to its MacBook Pro line of notebooks.

Gaming

Rockstar brings Red Dead Redemption to Facebook

April 13, 2010 0 Nimish

Even as we wait for the release of Rockstar Games Wild West action game Red Dead Redemption on consoles, we can now get a sample of just what the game will be like on Facebook. Rockstar have just released a…

Apple

Opera Mini cleared for App Store!

April 13, 2010 0 Nimish

The iPhone is set to witness its own browser war, with Opera Mini just getting clearance to be made available for download in the App Store. With over fifty million users worldwide on a variety of platforms ranging from Java…

Google

Gmail gets a sneak peek mode

April 11, 2010 1 Nimish

The folks at Gmail Labs are busy bees all right. Rarely does a week pass before some little tweak is added to what is increasingly becoming one of the most popular mail services in the world. The latest is one…

Apple

iPhone has redefined the update culture

April 9, 2010 3 Nimish

Barely a couple of years ago, the announcement of a software or firmware update for a product, be it a computer, cellphone or even an operating system (remember those Windows service packs?), used to be greeted by shrugs by most…

Apple

The iPad will not slay netbooks, but consoles and e-book readers!

April 7, 2010 1 Nimish

It has been something like a hundred hours since the iPad was officially in our midst and I wish I had a penny,  for every person who has compared it with a laptop and a netbook and trotted out all…

Nokia

Nokia revamps Ovi Store, now just needs killer apps!

April 4, 2010 2 Nimish

One of the biggest complaints we have had about Nokia’s Ovi Store is the fact that it has been deucedly user-unfriendly, looking more like a random listing than a series of apps that can make one do so much more…

Cameras

Data, apps and GPS: why cameraphones are lickin’ cameras!

April 1, 2010 1 Nimish

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…

Gaming

We have played GOW3, and it rocks!

March 21, 2010 0 Nimish

It has been a few hours since we let the PS3 gamepad slip from our clammy, sweating hands and we must confess that we are still stunned, with blurred vision and buzzing ears. Yep, that is the kind of impact…

Humour

See You Later, Navigator!

March 19, 2010 1 Nimish

It might be becoming a part of our lives slowly and steadily, but that does not stop us from taking a light-hearted poke at GPS and its foibles “Hi! All set for the trip?” “You bet. I am looking forward…

Entertainment

God of War 3: Will Kratos turn it on once more?

March 15, 2010 0 Nimish

The God of War (GOW) series reaches its climax in a few hours with the Spartan warrior Kratos invading Olympus, the abode of the Greek Gods. Just in case you have been on a planet where gaming has been banned,…

Samsung

Is Samsung overplaying its Corby hand?

March 15, 2010 2 Nimish

It started out as a low-cost touchscreen device and is now spiraling into a rather vast family that has everything from total touchscreen to non-touchscreen and touchscreen-QWERTY avatars. Samsung’s Corby might have boosted the company’s handset sales and redefined what…

Android

Show us the Xperia X10, Sony Ericsson!

March 11, 2010 0 Nimish

As this is Oscar week, we will just start this post with an instance from Jerry Maguire in which football star Rod Tidwell tells his agent Jerry Maguireto shut up and “show him the money!” Well, we can understand how…

Android

Will different versions trip up Android?

January 11, 2010 1 Nimish

It has been more than a year since Google’s mobile operating system, Android, was released. And the last few months have finally seen it making its presence felt in the market with a number of terrific handsets, most notably the…