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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…

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,…

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…

Air for the masses? Dell launches slim Vostro V130 notebooks

December 3, 2010 2 Nimish

The launch of the MacBook Air notebook in India a few days ago seems to have spurred competing manufacturers to come out with their share of relatively thin computers. Toshiba launched the Android-drive AC100 not too long after the arrival…

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…

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…

Quick Review: Motorola Quench XT3

October 31, 2010 9 Nimish

Motorola has joined the low-cost Android phone battle with its Quench XT3 handset. Priced at around Rs 12,500, it offers Android 2.1, a 3.2 inch capacitive touch screen and a 3.2 mega pixel camera. How does it shape up against…

Nokia sneaks X5 into India – price: Rs 10,000-10,500

October 31, 2010 13 Nimish

Nokia seems to be in launch overdrive these days. Only, without making any official announcements. Just a day after we spotted a Nokia C7 at a Nokia showroom, we clapped eyes on the X5 – Nokia’s social networking QWERTY slider.…

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…

The second Android tablet from Samsung, SMT-i9100

October 18, 2010 0 Annkur

While they wait for Samsung Galaxy Tab (P9000) tablet is still to hit our desk, it seems that we are seeing a second Android tablet from Samsung. This one being a low end version without the Touchwiz UI and currently…

OG Unboxing the Nokia N8

October 8, 2010 0 Mr Spock

Finally, we have the Nokia N8 landing on our desk and here are some quick unboxing shots before we go down and do a complete review:

eReaders & Tablets

WeTab running MeeGo OS spotted, Video demo

September 6, 2010 0 Annkur

We have been hearing about the WePad / WeTab since a while now. The WePad was first introduced as an Android tablet, but it seems that this thing will have a MeeGo flavor now. The video shot by NewGadgets at…

Samsung’s Series 9000 Full-HD 3D TV Launched in India!

August 4, 2010 0 Annkur

3D television is gaining momentum and Samsung has brought its CES award winning 3D TV (LED) with full HD capability to the Indian market. The Series 9000 is the worlds slimmest Full HD + 3D television.

Blackberry Torch 9800 is official! OS 6 and slidedown QWERTY

August 3, 2010 0 Annkur

AT&T has gone live with the Blackberry 9800 Torch on its site, and this one looks exciting. RIM is yet to go official with the device (the event is ongoing), but here are the meaty details that has come in…

OG Review: Samsung Wave S8500 (bada OS)

August 1, 2010 5 Mayur

Samsung Wave (S8500) is according to Samsung is one of the two handsets (the other being GalaxyS) that would mark its serious entry into the smartphone space. Last year alone Samsung sold over 40 million touchscreen phones but its a known fact that a majority of…

Concept / Educative

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,…

3D Capable Point To Shoot Cameras From Sony!

July 9, 2010 0 Annkur

3D TVs and LCDs are buzzing around the world and it seems that the 3D revolution is all set to reach an all new level this year with Sony announcing digital cameras that can capture 3D images. The Cybershot TX9…

Hands on With The Samsung GalaxyS & Wave S8500

July 4, 2010 2 Annkur

Now this was one exciting weekend with an opportunity to go hands on with the Samsung Galaxy S and the BADA OS powered WAVE. Both these handsets are just launching in India and Samsung claims these to be their first…

The Motorola Droid X – Android with the ‘X’ appeal?

June 25, 2010 1 Tushar

Keeping up with the Joneses seems to the prevailing mantra in the smartphone segment. Just as the early lines started forming in front of Apple stores in the US for the iPhone 4, Motorola hit back for Android with their…

Infibeam gets its own hardware again, mobiles it is!

June 21, 2010 1 Annkur

While this isn’t as big as a surprise as the Infibeam Pi was, this certainly is an attempt by Infibeam to cash in on the booming mobile market along with other new entrants like Micromax, Karbonn, Wynncom etc. The entire…

Hands on with Lenovo ThinkCentre M90z all-in-one

June 19, 2010 0 Annkur

Lenovo went official with their latest all-in-one for enterprises, the ThinkCentre M90z last week and we managed to get our hands on a demo unit. The M90Z is a massive 23″ all-in-one that makes the 2009 A70z (19″) look tiny.…

Toshiba Introduces 11.6″ Notebook, Satellite T210

June 8, 2010 1 Mayur

Toshiba has announced a thin and light weight notebook, Satellite T210. Toshiba’s Satellite T210 adds to the many of its kind present in the market. It looks quite similar to its previous releases. It’s got a metallic interior design with…

eReaders & Tablets

14-inch Dual-Screen Kno Tablet Unveiled

June 4, 2010 3 Swapnil

Looking at the number of tablets which are being announced by various companies it is certain that tablets will very soon be a mainstream consumer electronic product. Tablets can be brilliant replacements for pen and paper due to their brilliant…

eReaders & Tablets

Asus reveals two tablets and a ereader at Computex 2010

May 31, 2010 0 Swapnil

Asus has revealed three new tablets at the Computex 2010, the first being the Asus Eee Tablet which is more of a note making device along with an eReader and the other two being the EP101TC and the EP121 which…

OG Review: Micromax Q7 EzPAD

May 26, 2010 207 Mayur

After the success of earlier models viz, the Q3 and the Q5 in the ezpad series; Micromax is out with yet another QWERTY phone, Micro max Q7 ezpad. Micromax has made an attempt to come close to the brilliant smart…

Wynncom, a new entry in the Indian Cell Phone Market

May 24, 2010 1 Tassavur

A new name has been added to the already existing long list of Indian Phone Manufacturers. Wynncom owned by the SAR Group co-founded by Rakesh Malhotra (Chairman), Arvind Vohra (MD) and Navneet Kapoor (Director) launched 7 dual-sim phones (GSM+GSM). These…

Dell brings in the new AMD Dual-core Neo Processor

May 17, 2010 0 Mayur

The Dell Inspiron M301z is the first of its kind to be powered by the low-voltage AMD Dual-core Neo processor (Nile-class) which tackle the previous Neo-processors’ most significant heating problem and provide advanced power management features. The 1.3GHz dual-core Athlon…

Android 2.2 (Froyo) kills the need for hacks / apps, adds WiFi hotspot & USB Tethering

May 14, 2010 0 Annkur

Some of the most sought after apps on the App Store or Cydia are tethering hacks or WiFi hotspots, and it seems that Google doesn’t want Android users to rely on apps for these purposes. It is revealed that the…

Concept / Educative

Kug – The self water boiling Mug (Video)

May 13, 2010 1 Tassavur

Have you ever ended up with a cold cup of tea and then unwillingly drank it that way just ‘coz you didn’t want to go through the time consuming procedure of warming it again. I can certainly tell you that it has happened to me many times…

First non-Latin website goes live, foxes browsers!

May 10, 2010 0 Tassavur

After ICANN approved non-Latin names for URL’s last year, the Egytian Ministry of Communications has come up with its own Arabic website. The url for which reads like this (Ahem! While you are trying to decipher; it reads right to left…

Meizu M9 Android Smartphone for China

May 8, 2010 0 Swapnil

Remember the Meizu M8 which we showed you last month? Well it looks like the company is now getting serious with their upcoming smartphone Meizu M9. This time they are taking it to the next level with the help of…

Hands-on with Datawind’s UbiSurfer

May 1, 2010 13 Swapnil

On the technical front, the UbiSurfer has a 7-inch TFT, Wide Screen Display, 800 x 480 pixels (WVGA), 128 MB RAM, 1 GB Flash Memory, it is supported by an ARM 11 processor and has 50GB of Online Storage which…

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…

Larger versions of Dell Mini spotted, called Streak, runs Android

April 17, 2010 0 Annkur

Well the Dell Mini 5 is no longer Mini with larger (iPad like, shall we say?) versions spotted already. The Dell Streak as the new version is being referred as is said to offer a 7? & 10? model. Dell…

Apple

OMG the Apple mobile advertising network is official: iAd

April 8, 2010 1 Annkur

”Well, we’ve got a lot of free apps we like that, users like that, but these developers have to find a way to make some money, and we’d like to help them.” Steve Jobs says that the need arises since…

Guess what? Now an Android based TV!!!

April 5, 2010 2 Tassavur

Phew!!! With the slew of Apple gadgets taking the market like a storm its okay if you are not very amazed with what you are reading right now. Rest assured, amazed you will be perhaps after the iPad fever has…

Quick hands on with the Nokia 7230

March 24, 2010 0 Tassavur

Though this one is yet to go official in India some stores have already managed to have the Nokia 7230 on sale. 7230 is a sturdy slider phone that runs Symbian series 40 and features a impressive3.2MP camera (going by…