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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.…

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It’s Official: Nexus One Getting Android 2.3 Update Soon

December 21, 2010 0 Rahul S

We all knew this was coming soon. But it is always good when the arrival of the obvious is officially announced. We are talking about the good ol’ Nexus One getting the all important update to Android 2.3 “Gingerbread”. Yes…

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Sony announces PlayStation app for Android, iOS

December 17, 2010 0 Nimish

Just days after we talked about the prospects of a PSP phone, Sony has announced on its PlayStation Blog that it will soon be releasing an official PlayStation app for the Android and iOS platforms. Now, before you get your hopes up too…

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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…

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Latest Android Market Update Hits India, Adds Security & More

December 15, 2010 4 Gaurav N

The latest Android Market update we tested yesterday, hit India today. This update brings new enhancements and a nice looking user interface to the Android Market application. So what’s in the package? Just find the details below!

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Upcoming Android Market Update: Exclusive Screenshots

December 14, 2010 0 Gaurav N

As seen on Android Developers Blog, Google is all set to roll out one more Android market update in coming weeks before Christmas. Last time we kept you updated for the previous Android Market, but this time we took a…

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LG Optimus 2X SU660 Showcased On Video

December 14, 2010 0 Rahul S

LG’s seems very bullish with its Android handset it seems. Its upcoming high end Android smartphone the Optimus 2X has appeared in a Korean comparison video. The video shows the LG device being showcased alongside arch-rivals iPhone 4 and the…

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SkyFire For Android Updated. Now Installable On Memory Cards

December 14, 2010 0 Rahul S

Skyfire has just announced that they have updated the version of the browser available for Android handsets. The new version number is 3.01 and apart from the new number, there are a couple of new feature additions and a bucketful on bug…

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Gigabyte Prepping Dual SIM Android Handset

December 13, 2010 0 Rahul S

Dual SIM Android handsets are as rare as hair on chickens teeth – but looking at the way things are developing, we would be seeing quite a few dual SIM Android laden phones in the near future. Gigabyte, the Taiwanese major is planning to launch its first Dual SIM Android…

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Huawei Ideos Android 2.2 Laden Handset In India This Month

December 13, 2010 0 Rahul S

Friends over at AndroidOS.in seems to have caught wind of some good news for all you folks out there who are looking for more options in the low cost Android OS based segment. There have been a slew of Android phone launches in the Rs. 8000…

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Six reasons why we are not crazy about the PSP phone

December 12, 2010 9 Nimish

Its existence might not have been confirmed officially, but the tech world has been abuzz with rumours about its impending arrival and whether it could prove to be a game-changer. Pun intended. Yep, we are talking about the PlayStation phone…

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HTC Legend Gets Froyo Update, Wildfire To Follow Suit

December 11, 2010 0 Rahul S

With a slew of high end Android launches of late, I am sure you might have forgotten about the HTC Legend – HTC’s mid range Android smartphone released earlier this year. Well here’s some fantastic news for all you Legend users out there. The…

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Brief Review/Unboxing: Motorola Flipout

December 11, 2010 0 Anupama

At a time when most smartphone manufacturers are sticking to standard candybars, Motorola’s Flipout brings the swivel design and square shape to handsets (we do not remember too many having it, apart from the Micromax Bling). Android 2.1, a 2.8…

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Acer beTouch E140 Officially Announced In the UK

December 11, 2010 0 Rahul S

Acer has officially announced the launch of its entry level Android based handset – the beTouch E140 in the UK. Earlier launched in Italy, the phone runs Android Froyo and is expected to make its landing in India as well in the…

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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…

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Gmail Priority Inbox for Android Tested!

December 10, 2010 0 Mehul

The Gmail app on Android has a pleasant update and yet another feature that would tease the iPhone and BB boys. Gmail’s Priority Inbox has made it to Android (along with some more features, check Google’s post on the same). We tested out the same on a Samsung Galaxy S running Froyo.

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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…

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Opera Mobile To Get HTML 5 and Flash Support

December 8, 2010 0 Rahul S

Opera Mobile, the full fledged mobile browser from Opera Software is available for most popular smartphone platforms. It also has an Android version which has been around for the past few months. However, while the default browser for Android is a fully fledged…

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Google Nexus S unveiled with Android 2.3 Gingerbread on it

December 6, 2010 2 c0rex

Finally, the smartphone and Google Android update everybody has been waiting for is here. Google and Samsung have unveiled much awaited Nexus S smartphone running Android 2.3 Gingerbread update. Housing 1GHz Samsung Hummingbird microprocessor, the Nexus S offers pretty much same features that the…

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Fring For Android and iPhone Updated With Dynamic Video Quality Feature

December 6, 2010 0 Rahul S

Fring, the popular VoIP and IM Service provider has announced the launch of a new technology for the iPhone and Android versions of its app. Called Dynamic Video Quality (DVQ), this technology would help the app “adjust” itself according to the quality of data connectivity that both the users at either end…

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Sony Ericsson’s Zeus 1 PlayStation Phone Appears On Video

December 5, 2010 2 Rahul S

So far seen only in leaked, blurry images and a extremely poor quality video, the Zeus 1, Sony’s PlayStation phone always had a big question mark hovering over its existence. To rest all the doubts and speculations as to whether a PlayStation phone is certainly coming soon, here…

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ViewSonic tablets coming to India on 8 December?

December 4, 2010 1 Nimish

We cannot say that we have ironclad information in this regard, but there are some Very strong rumours that ViewSonic will be launching at least two tablets in India on 8 December. We are hearing market murmurs that the company will be launching a 7 inch and…

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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…

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Brief Review: LG Optimus One Unboxing

December 3, 2010 4 Anupama

The LG Optimus One or the LG-P500 is one of the few handsets in the country to have come in flaunting not just the Google tag on its back but also the latest version of the Android operating system, 2.2…

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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…

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Motorola oozes QWERTY and touchscreen goodness in Rs 13,900 Charm

November 29, 2010 4 Nimish

Motorola seems to be in Android phone overdrive. After launching the Quench and the FlipOut in the past few weeks, it today released the Charm in the Indian market. In terms of features, this has got to be one of…

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Windows Mobile Laden Toshiba TG01 Hacked To Run Android

November 29, 2010 2 Rahul S

Toshiba’s TG01, when released back in 2009 was one of the most advanced phones in terms of hardware. It boasted of a huge 4.1 inch display and came with a 1Ghz Snapdragon processor. In fact, this was the first handheld…

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Toshiba AC100 Android notebook comes to Indian shores at Rs 18,721

November 28, 2010 1 Nimish

When announced earlier this year, it was seen by many as an Android competitor to the MacBook Air, with its sleek form factor, flash memory, featherweight weight and extremely gorgeous looks, but the Toshiba AC100 had a rough ride with…

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Micromax joins the Android race with Rs 8,000 Andro A60, also talks of 7-inch tablet

November 27, 2010 5 Nimish

We were not there (well, there are only so many places we can be at the same time), but the news is trickling out that Micromax has unveiled its first Android phone at a bloggers’ meet in Delhi some hours…

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Sony Ericsson to unveil PlayStation Phone on Dec 9

November 25, 2010 0 c0rex

Surprises come in all shapes and sizes. But sometimes some people get so excited that they can’t keep surprises as secret agenda. Sony Ericsson has sent out an Invite about Sony Ericsson France CEO Pierre Peron to make ‘most anticipated presentation…

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LG Optimus One Lands In India For Rs.13,500

November 19, 2010 1 Rahul S

Just days after it announced that over 1 million LG Optimus One handsets have been sold, LG has announced the launch of the device in India. The Optimus One is a mid range Android handset that will compete with the…

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Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 To Get “Limited” MultiTouch Soon

November 18, 2010 0 Rahul S

Another reason to smile for all those disgruntled Xperia X10 users to smile. These people, who were first left with a phone that couldn’t multi touch and were then stuck with an ancient version of Android with no signs of an update arriving for months,…

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One Million LG Optimus One Sold in 40 Days

November 17, 2010 2 Rahul S

Now, this is really surreal. LG is claiming that they have manged to sell a total of just over 1 Million Optimus One Android smartphones – in just 40 days since its launch. The low end Android handset which has…

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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…

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T-Mobile G2 Overclocked To 1.9 Ghz

November 16, 2010 1 Rahul S

The recently launched T-Mobile G2, the successor to the original G1 comes with one major gripe. It packed in a very underpowered (when compared to the current crop of mobile processors) CPU that runs at “just” 800Mhz. At that speed, it didn’t certainly set…

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Google Hotpot: Rate your favorite places and recommend them to friends

November 16, 2010 0 c0rex

Google recently launched Places search for faster and more relevant local search results. Now taking that a step ahead, Google introduces Hotpot (not Hotspot), a local recommendation engine that will bring review about the hottest places that you and your…

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OG Hands-on with the OlivePad, Quick Review

November 14, 2010 1 Nimish

Although it was first announced in August, the OlivePad has finally made it to leading electronic stores and much to the surprise of many people, is actually slugging it out with the much-hyped Samsung Galaxy Tab. Yes, it might not…

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Android 2.2 Update For Dell Streak On The Way

November 14, 2010 1 Rahul S

The recently launched Dell Streak was quite contemporary on every front except for the software bit. A phone launched in late 2010 laden with Android 1.6 !? Only Dell and Sony Ericsson can do such a thing! After Sony Ericsson did make…

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Android 2.2 Update Leaks For Samsung Epic 4G

November 13, 2010 0 Rahul S

If you were unaware, Samsung Epic 4G, the Americanized version of the Samsung Galaxy S hasn’t yet been updated to Froyo. While the official update is yet to arrive, a leaked version of the Android 2.2 has appeared over at XDA Developers…

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Two New Samsung Android Phones On The Anvil: Nexus S & An Unnamed Flagship

November 12, 2010 0 Rahul S

Folks over at Engadget managed to scoop up on images that they say are of Samsung’s upcoming Android based smartphone. The Nexus S as it is called, would be the successor to the original Nexus One. The rumor had been…

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