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Rahul S

Apple Working On Smaller, Cheaper iPhone Versions?

February 11, 2011 0 Rahul S

If we are to believe a Bloomberg report that surfaced a few hours ago, Apple is working on new versions of the iPhone. Of course you knew that all along, right? But no, the iPhone in question here is not…

eReaders & Tablets

Quick Look: Motorola Xoom Vs HP Touchpad Vs Apple iPad vs BlackBerry Playbook

February 9, 2011 3 Rahul S

Ladies and gentlemen, Its 2011 and to say that this is the year of the tablets would not be an understatement. The frenzy that kicked off with the launch of the iPad last year is at its peak right now…

Nokia

Nokia’s E7 Goes On Sale

February 7, 2011 0 Rahul S

Nokia’s upcoming flagship business phone, the E7 would be soon arriving on select markets across the globe – Nokia revealed today. The first shipments will start later this week and the device would be available in more markets in the…

events

Technovanza VJTI – Day 1

February 4, 2011 0 Rahul S

Fresh on the heels of the memorable IIT Techfest, we’re at the VJTI Mumbai covering day one of the Technovanza. The event still seems to be in the “cold start” mode with the crowd yet to pour in. But then,…

Android

Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) To Be Previewed Today!

February 1, 2011 0 Rahul S

So, the day is finally here. In a few hours from now, Google would finally preview the much awaited Android 3.0 (Honeycomb). This latest version of Android OS, designed specifically for tablets would obviously be Google’s main tool to compete…

Android

Android 2.3 Has Serious Security Vulnerability: Researcher

January 31, 2011 0 Rahul S

A computer security researcher from the North Carolina State University (NCSU) has revealed that he has come across serious security vulnerability in Android 2.3 – the latest version of Android OS for smartphones. Xuxian Jiang, the researcher figured out that…

Android

Will Nokia Opt For Android?

January 31, 2011 2 Rahul S

It’s been just a few days since Nokia announced its not so inspiring Q4 2010 results and people are already talking about the possibility of the company opting for Android sometime in the near future. The latest reason for this…

Tech Industry News

PayPal India Goes Back To The Dark Ages

January 28, 2011 4 Rahul S

In what is largely seen as a regressive change to PayPal India’s terms and conditions, the company, starting March 1, 2011 would NOT allow its Indian users to make purchases for goods and services directly from their PayPal accounts. If…

Nokia

Nokia Quarterly Reports Out: Paints a Dismal Picture

January 27, 2011 0 Rahul S

Nokia has announced its Q4 2010 results and to say that they do not look good would be an understatement. The last quarter was when Nokia undertook several new initiatives on its senior management front. The erstwhile CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo…

Apple

Will The CDMA iPhone Come To India?

January 11, 2011 1 Rahul S

Now that the much speculated, discussed and deliberated upon CDMA iPhone has landed on Verizon we were wondering about the possibility of the device arriving in India sometime soon. In the not too distant past there were reports about the…

events

IIT B Techfest 2011 Begins Tomorrow! Sneak Peek

January 6, 2011 0 Rahul S

Its a double treat for us this year, CES 2011 collides with Asia’s Biggest Science and Technology Festival at IIT B – The Techfest. We are the official online media partners for the IIT Techfest again and our team is…

Android

Samsung Sold 9.3 Million Galaxy S In 2010

December 23, 2010 2 Rahul S

When Samsung launched the Galaxy S, we knew it was a remarkable phone. Apple fanboys did call the device a “poor lookalike” and that it might never be able to match the dynamics or the awesomeness of the retina display on the iPhone 4.…

eReaders & Tablets

HP’s iPad Competitor PalmPad To Be Showcased At CES

December 23, 2010 0 Rahul S

If 2010 was the year of the tablets, 2011 might turn out to be the year, the entire tablets market evolved from its early nascent stage that we saw in 2010. At last year’s CES, Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer and HP were particularly bullish about the tablets space. In fact Ballmer’s keynote was particularly focused…

Notebook / Laptops

Asus Intros New G53 And G73 Gaming Laptops In India

December 21, 2010 0 Rahul S

ASUS India has announced the launch of two new high end gaming notebooks in the country with the debut of the G53 and G73 gaming notebooks. Belonging to ASUS’ famed Republic of Gamers (ROG) series these new notebooks pack in powerful features including support…

Concept / Educative

Google’s Body Browser Debuts. Offers 3D Views Of Your Insides

December 20, 2010 4 Rahul S

Google has introduced a new interesting browser based tool called Body Browser, an app analogous to Google Earth – but limited to viewing the details of the human body – in full 3D. The app is a complete “in browser” affair and uses HTML 5 and Web GL, a…

Android

Motorola Quench XT5 Comes To India; Priced At 13,990

December 16, 2010 0 Rahul S

Motorola has been in the Android game for quite some time now. Along with high end handsets from the Milestone series, it has also concentrated on the low cost, mid range Android segment of phones priced below the Rs.15k mark. Back in…

Tech Industry News

Intex Launches Phone With Built In Projector; Costs Rs.12,000

November 25, 2010 0 Rahul S

Looks like Indian manufacturers are on an overdrive these days to bring phones with outrageous features, which are simply ahead of their times. The trend seems to have been started off by Spice mobiles with their 12 megapixel cameraphone with optical zoom. It was…

Android

Sony Ericsson Anzu Previewed

November 17, 2010 0 Rahul S

Eldar Murtazin of Mobile-Review is at it again. The serial phone leaker had just days ago announced that Sony Ericsson is planning to come up with a new high end Android device codenamed the Anzu. That handset, which the company…

Tech Industry News

Nvidia Unveils New Quadro Range of Professional Graphics Cards

November 16, 2010 1 Rahul S

Nvidia’s Quadro range of professional GPU’s have always been the toast of graphics professionals, designers and digital content creators who are a different breed of customers when compared to your average gamer. When the graphics card industry sort of began…

Launch Pad

Sharp Brings Four New Handsets To India

November 12, 2010 1 Rahul S

Sharp has announced the launch of as many as four new handsets in India. The new phones are priced between Rs 6,499 and Rs 17,999 with all of them being touted to be multimedia friendly devices. Almost all of these…

First look

LG’s L-03C 12 Megapixel Cameraphone Has 3x Optical Zoom, Xenon Flash

November 8, 2010 1 Rahul S

With camera sensors in phones reaching double digit numbers, there is not much room left to up the megapixel ante’. I for once do not see anyone amongst us using a 24 megapixel cameraphone – say in about 5 years…

Android

Google’s Nexus Two Arriving November 8. Runs Android 2.3

October 31, 2010 5 Rahul S

Even as the Nexus One was being launched (back in January 2010) there were speculations whether Google would follow it up with a second version of the handset – obviously called Nexus Two. Those speculations seem to be taking the…

Opinion

Opera Mini 5.1 Beta For Symbian: First Look

October 29, 2010 0 Rahul S

Opera has announced the release of Opera Mini 5.1 Beta for Symbian phones. This makes the browser the third Opera browser compatible with devices running Symbian OS. The platform already supports Opera Mobile 10 (The full- fledged browser), Opera Mini…

Android

Xperia X10 Android 2.1 Update Delayed Further [Update, False Alarm]

October 27, 2010 11 Rahul S

Update: The link which we have referred to is actually a month old as realized by us quite a bit later. Actually, the story was first reported by Phonescoop (who have since then pulled the post). We came to know of…

Launch Pad

Forget 3D TV’s -The 3D Phone Is Here! [Spice M-67 3D]

October 25, 2010 0 Rahul S

Spice mobiles seem to have this weird knack of launching phones with outrageous specs. They had a 12 mega pixel camera on sale long before the Satio or the Nokia N8 was even on the horizon. That was the S1200…

Sony

Sony Kills The Cassette Playing Walkman

October 23, 2010 3 Rahul S

We knew this was coming. It was only a matter of when. While it might come as a surprise to many, Sony was still making the “Original” Walkman – the one that plays audio cassettes – even now in 2010.…

Apple

Apple Announces OS X Lion

October 20, 2010 1 Rahul S

Apart from the MacBook Air, Apple has also taken covers of its latest OS X version, the OS X Lion, the eight iteration of the same. It seems, with this update, OS X has gotten even closer to its cousin…

Apple

Apple Shrinks The MacBook Air. 11.6 Screen $999 Price Tag

October 20, 2010 0 Rahul S

At the Back to The Mac event, Apple has taken covers of the new MacBook Air. They have managed to shrink the already tiny 13.3 inch MacBook Air to a version that has an even smaller 11.6 screen pushing it…

Micromax

Micromax Qube X550: Review

October 20, 2010 11 Rahul S

Micromax Mobiles might have started off as a small time player in India, but they are now amongst the top five mobile phone makers in the country – by no means, a small feat. Micromax has had quite a few…

First look

Palm Pre 2, webOS 2 Officially Announced

October 19, 2010 2 Rahul S

After being acquired by HP, it was expected that Palm would come up with a successor to the Original Palm Pre in rather quick time. However, it seems HP had a lot of work to do at Palm before they…

Launch Pad

Sony Ericsson Brings 16 Megapixel Cameraphone To Japan

October 19, 2010 0 Rahul S

Operators in Japan are known for releasing weird looking phones that usually don’t work anywhere else on the planet. Other things Japanese phones are famous for being their specs. While we in the rest of the planet do have some…

Apple

Steve Jobs Hits Back At Google, RIM

October 19, 2010 0 Rahul S

Choosing to remain silent for over the course of the entire year, Apple CEO Steve Jobs chose the occasion of its Q4 2010 Financial results to get back at competition. In a very untypical manner, Steve Jobs made a surprise…

Samsung

Samsung’s Omnia HD Becomes First Symbian Phone To Be Overclocked

October 18, 2010 1 Rahul S

When it was launched back in 2009, it was the most feature packed handset money could buy. We are talking about the Samsung i8910 Omnia HD which back in 2009 boasted of mind boggling specs. It had an 8 megapixel…

HTC

Windows Phone 7 Arrives. 10 New Handsets Made Official

October 11, 2010 1 Rahul S

Microsoft has officially launched its next generation smart phone operating system, Windows Phone 7. As many as 10 new handsets made by a horde of manufacturers are in the fray vying your attention. The new handsets include ones from Samsung,…

Android

Sony Ericsson Xperia X8 Launched in India

October 11, 2010 1 Rahul S

Sony Ericsson has just days ago announced that it has started shipping its Xperia X8, Android smartphone. What we did not expect back then was an India launch so soon! Thats right ladies and gentlemen, the Xperia X8 has been…

Launch Pad

Dual SIM Phones Galore! Wynncom Intros New Handsets

October 6, 2010 0 Rahul S

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…

Android

Motorola Announces New Android Handsets: Spice and Droid PRO

October 6, 2010 1 Rahul S

Motorola seems to be very upbeat about its Android prospects. Of late it has been launching new devices based on Android with regular frequency. The latest devices to be added to Motorola’s Android portfolio happens to be the Spice and…

Android

Dell Launches its Streak Android Tablet in India

October 5, 2010 1 Rahul S

Dell’s much awaited Android Tablet, the Streak has been launched in India today. The Streak boasts of a not so large 5 – inch display which makes it dimensionally smaller than some of the full fledged tablets out there. That…

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