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Got A Samsung Galaxy S II? Facing Any Of These Symptoms? And The Typo?

June 11, 2011 9 Annkur

There is no denying that Samsung Galaxy S2 is the only high end smartphone that I have seen so many people on my twitter timeline tweeting about. And it’s not just tweets talking about it, its tweets full of excitement,…

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Samsung Surveys The US: Calls Americans Tablet Crazy

June 7, 2011 0 Rahul S

With the Samsung Galaxy Tab readying to be launched in the US tomorrow, Samsung sure is out to create some buzz about the tablets scenario in the country. As a part of it, the company has posted results of an…

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HTC Sensation Does An iPhone: Has the Death Grip Issue?

June 7, 2011 1 Rahul S

Now, this is really interesting. HTC’s recently launched flagship handset the Sensation seems to be facing an issue that is similar to what the iPhone 4 faced last year just after it was launched. When you hold the Sensation in…

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And They Continue, Motorola Xoom Over-clocked @ 1.7GHz

June 6, 2011 0 Annkur

A couple of weeks back we had seen the rooted Motorola Xoom being over-clocked to 1.6GHz and as the news flows in today, its 1.7GHz now. While I try to figure why you would want to give so much emphasis…

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Motorola Xoom – Quick Review

May 26, 2011 0 Tassavur

Well the tablet market is heating up around the globe with a plethora of manufacturers throwing their hat in the ring. But the one that we are going to talk about today is quite a different story than the rest…

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Motorola Xoom Overclocked to 1.6 GHz, Do You Need It?

May 19, 2011 0 Krishnan

The Motorola Xoom did create a lot of buzz since its launch, equipped with  1GHz NVIDIA’s Dual Core Tegra 2 Processor. Just few weeks ago we heard about the Xoom being over clocked up to 1.5 GHz and now; it…

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Samsung Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab to get Android 2.3 Gingerbread Officially

May 16, 2011 1 c0rex

We all know that number of smartphone and tablet users are already enjoying official/leaked Android 2.3 Gingerbread firmware. Now Samsung has officially announced to release Android 2.3 Gingerbread for the Galaxy S, Galaxy Ace/Gio/Fit and Galaxy Tab in couple of…

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Android Honeycomb based ‘Tablet Toshiba’ Delayed

May 12, 2011 0 Jassi

Toshiba’s second android tablet which was said to arriving in the UK sometime during Q2 is to be delayed. According to Ken Chan, Product Market Manager of Toshiba, Android Honeycomb tablet would be delayed and it might launch during Q3.…

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Google Launches Music Beta; Lets You Store and Listen To Your Music From The Cloud

May 10, 2011 0 Rahul S

Like we had reported a few hours ago, Google has officially taken covers off its latest service, the long rumored cloud music service. Called Music Beta By Google, the new service can be considered as an extended hard disk in…

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Android Leaps Out Of Your Phone and Gets Into Your Home

May 10, 2011 0 Aaplap

Google’s I/O isn’t all about mobile devices and Android @ Home is the finest example of this. After being done powering your mobile phones and tablets, Google is now inviting Android into our homes for a cuppa tea with this…

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HTC ChaCha and Salsa Available for Pre-Order on Amazon, India

May 10, 2011 0 Krishnan

The long wait for a Facebook Phone could finally come to an end. As announced earlier by HTC as early as February; HTC Salsa and ChaCha were amongst the Android attractions at MWC. The dedicated facebook integration is a big…

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Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 WiFi Set for Mid-June Launch

May 10, 2011 0 Krishnan

With the Motorola Xoom in my hand I just cannot get enough of he tablet craze running through me especially with news of Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 integrated with TouchWiz UX about to hit the market in June as a…

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3 Million Pre-Orders for Samsung Galaxy S2 Already

May 10, 2011 0 Krishnan

We’ve heard about the craze for Apple’s iPhones with pre-orders and 1.7m sales over the 1st weekend on sale. This comes as a shocker to me when Korean Giant Samsung announced about the 3 million pre-orders for Galaxy S II…

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Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini and Xperia Pro Announced; Runs Android 2.3

May 6, 2011 0 Rahul S

One complaint almost everyone using a Sony Ericsson Android handset was the fact that they usually ran a primitive version of the OS. To make matters worse, their phones were not updated frequently either. Until recently, its flagship device ran…

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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…

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Maxis Ties up with Motorola to Launch Xoom WiFi in Malaysia

April 30, 2011 1 Krishnan

Tablet fans in Malaysia have a lot to be happy about with Maxis along with Motorola Mobility announcing the launch of the new Motorola Xoom Wi-Fi in Malaysia in May. The Motorola Xoom Wi-Fi runs the Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) designed…

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Images of HTC Kingdom and HTC Rider Leaked

April 29, 2011 0 Krishnan

HTC seems to be on a roll with its Android phones after a sulky start with windows phones. Recent leaks suggest a device purported to be the ‘HTC Kingdom’ could be the next big thing from HTC. Although no real…

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Nexus S gets Android 2.3.4 OTA, You Can Get It OTW!

April 29, 2011 5 Aaplap

Google and Samsung  finally launched the Nexus S in India a couple days ago. Those of you who jumped on it get an instant treat: The latest and the greatest Android 2.3.4! This seems to be a minor update over…

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LG Optimus ME (P350) – OG Review

April 27, 2011 0 Ricky

Today we have another Android Phone with us for review it is the LG Optimus ME (P350 / Pecan), it’s the smaller version of the Optimus One with a 2.8” display, running Android 2.2.2 (Froyo), it’s a mid-range phone. The…

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HTC Incredible S gets Gingerbread Update in Italy

April 27, 2011 0 Krishnan

HTC in February announced that that the Desire HD, Desire Z, Desire and Incredible S will receive the Gingerbread update by end of Q2 of 2011. All I can say is, they’ve broken their promise but a good one at…

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Will Android hit half-a-million activations a day soon?

April 18, 2011 0 Krishnan

Android, nicknamed the ‘Droid’ is the latest buzz everywhere. Jeff Huber, Senior Vice President of Google’s Commerce and Local, stated at recent discussion of Google’s Q1 of 2011 about the massive growth of Android devices and revealed 350,000 Android devices…

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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…

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Why the HTC Flyer could be an iPad competitor!

April 8, 2011 5 Mr Spock

The second iPad has been launched and we are still searching for the tablet that will provide competition to the iPad. The Motorola Xoom, for all that it had been promising, has not exactly delivered on everything that was talked…

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Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc, Xperia Play Launched In India

April 7, 2011 0 Rahul S

Days after landing in the UK, Sony Ericsson’s brand new flashship Android devices, the Xperia Arc and the gaming centric Xperia Play have made it to India. Both the phones run the latest version of Android for smartphones – Android 2.3 (Gingerbread).…

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Samsung Launches The Nexus S In India

April 2, 2011 1 Rahul S

Google’s Nexus S, the developer phone originally manufactured by Samsung has finally made it to India officially. The phone has been officially priced at Rs. 30,400. That said there are a couple of retailers that are selling the phone for…

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Google Not Yet Ready To Make Honeycomb Open Source, Our Team Comments

March 29, 2011 0 Ricky

The news broke out recently that Google isn’t taking Honeycomb open at the moment and that means developers have little room to play with the tablet build of Android OS and most of the 7″ Android tablets that we say…

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Amazon Android App Store is live, US only

March 22, 2011 0 Anupama

Even as Cupertino giant Apple has sued Amazon over the name ‘Appstore,’ Amazon’s Appstore for Android has gone live in the US.  Amazon’s application store for Android powered devices has been long awaited and is being considered one of the…

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Opera Mobile 11, Opera Mini 6: First Look

March 22, 2011 1 Rahul S

Opera’s next generation browsers for smartphones and feature phones, Opera Mobile 11 and Opera Mini 6 has arrived and is now downloadable from Opera’s website. We took the Android and the Symbian versions of the browsers for a quick spin…

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Motorola Milestone gets Froyo…finally!

March 17, 2011 1 Anupama

After months of waiting, Motorola Milestone users in India can now update their handsets to Android 2.2, also known as Froyo update. The update has been put on Motorola’s website and users can update their handsets by connecting them to…

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Google Maps 5.2 out: now tweet Hotpot ratings, ping friends

March 4, 2011 0 Anupama

Google Maps has been updated to version 5.2 for Android.The update will allow the user to post their Google Hotpot rating of a place directly to Twitter from within the maps broadening the sharing element. Also along with the check-in…

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Why I am fed up of Angry Birds!

March 1, 2011 0 Anupama

As news comes of yet another update to Angry Birds (we hear that one is coming on March 17, St. Patrick’s Day), I am reminded of the deep disappointment I felt when I missed the first ever Angry Birds day…

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Mozilla Releases Firefox beta 4 for Mobile, Android Plugin for Mac OS X

February 26, 2011 0 Monis

Mozilla has released the Firefox beta 4 for Mobile which can run smoothly on Android, Maemo, PC/Mac OS X and Linux. You must have already heard of the on-the go version, if not then you can grab this newly build…

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iPhone 4 Bags Award For The Best Mobile Phone At MWC

February 18, 2011 0 Rahul S

The just concluded Mobile World Congress was dominated by Android without doubt. A plethora of Android based smartphones were displayed at the expo since day one. The grand finale of the event was the Global Mobile Awards announcement. This function…

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Motorola Xoom or Samsung’s 10″ Tab, Matching iPad Sales Is Tough

February 15, 2011 5 Annkur

Google is now entering the tablet market with Android 3.0 aka Honeycomb. Top gadget makers like Samsung, Motorola, HTC, Toshiba and LG are making tablets that would run the tablet build of Android. The Motorola Xoom even won the best…

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LG Announces Android Powered Optimus 3D, Optimus Pad Prior To MWC

February 13, 2011 0 Rahul S

While the MWC is to start officially on 14 Feb, manufacturers like LG and Samsung seem to be too impatient and have already announced their line up for the show there. LG’s line up is pretty interesting thanks to its…

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Did Stephen Elop Force Nokia-WP7 Deal?

February 11, 2011 2 Annkur

Nokia is marrying Microsoft and the world isn’t happy. A huge backlash is expected over the blogosphere, editorials over editorials telling whats wrong with Nokia would be the flavor for days to come and we are still to digest what…

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Evernote for Android updated to 2.6

February 10, 2011 0 Anupama

Evernote, one of our favourite note making apps has just released an update for its Android version. The updated app, Evernote 2.6, comes with three major additions, the snippet view, notebook stacks and edit styled notes. The snippet view very…

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India gets its first Gingerbread phone, the OliveSmart, for less than Rs 20,000

February 9, 2011 0 Nimish

Even as our resident Android specialist Ricky Droid highlighted rumours that some manufacturers are sidestepping the Android 2.3 update and heading straight to version 2.4, Olive Telecom has released India’s first phone running Android 2.3, or Gingerbread as it is…

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Nokia, RIM lose ground as Samsung, HTC advance: IDC Q4 2010 report

February 7, 2011 0 Nimish

In what seems to be yet another sign of the old order changing and giving way to new players in the mobile phone market,  IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker’s round-up of the fourth quarter of 2010, has shown Nokia…

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The PS phone is official – Sony E shows off Xperia Play in Super Bowl ad!

February 7, 2011 0 Nimish

We have been hearing rumours about its existence for weeks and even expressed our cynicism about it, but we – and the world – got official confirmation of the existence of a PlayStation phone. And it could not have come…