Quick Review: Spice Mobile S-1200
Spice S-1200 wow’d us with its specs. It would be unfair to refer to this as nothing other than a digital camera with a mobile phone! Spice S1200 comes in to answer an age old question that I have been…
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Did you succeed in pre ordering an iPhone 4?
While we are holding a little longer to pre-oder our iPhone 4 from US (the unlocked UK version is attracting us), it seems that the millions (ok exaggerated) of us looking to pre-order a iPhone 4th Gen using the ATT/Apple Store…
OG Review: Nokia N900
For Nokia, it really is a case of it being the best of times, and the worst of times. Think about it – one the one hand, it has the sheer installed base of its phones, more so in a…
Nokia C7 Images Leaked
A member of the Daily Mobile Forum has published some images of what seems to be the Nokia C7. Although there is no officially confirmation from Nokia, here are the specifications of the phone according to the forum member. Symbian^3…
Motorola launching a 2GHz Android Phone this year
It is well known that Motorola has plans to unveil some brilliant Android smartphones by the end of this year and just lately there has been news that they are working on some really powerful Android devices. Motorola CEO Sanjay…
Sony Ericsson Shakira is like a X10 Music Edition
A photo of a new Sony Ericsson device showed up somewhere in China, and it looks like it has been named after the popular singer Shakira. The Sony Ericsson Shakira is a bit smaller than the Sony Ericsson X10 and…
Sony Ericsson bats bravely for Android 1.6
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…
HP not looking to use Palm for smartphone market
And thats exactly where they broke my heart. I sat on the fence with my fingers crossed, hoping to have some cool webOS handset in India (specially with HP putting its weight behind Palm), but that seems to be a…
Meizu takes the veil off the M9
Meizu CEO Huang Zhang has posted several images for the upcoming Meizu M9which looks like an exceptionally brilliant phone. This company first came into the picture when we heard about the M8, but it did not do very well so…
LG Panther (GW910) Windows Phone 7 Specifications Revealed
LG will be the one releasing the first ever Windows 7 phone later this year. It is the LG GW910 more famously known as the LG Panther and according to rumors it looks like the phone has some extremely nice…
LG Imprint arrives on MetroPCS, looks more like the Kin One
With the launch of Kin One and the revelation of Motorola Flipout a new trend for Social Networking phones with a bit squared-up form factor seems to be a gigantic hit. LG has now announced a similar form factor phone…
Google Android 2.2 Froyo Officially Announced
Just a few days back we told you that there is a very strong chance that Google may announce the Android 2.2 Froyo this week, and guess what! It is finally out! After months of rumors and leaks the Froyo…
Is the Froyo coming this week?
There are high speculations that Google will officially announce and also release the Android 2.2 Froyo this week after the Google I/O. It is expected to be available for the DROID, HTC Evo 4G and obviously the Nexus One while,…
Android Twist: Motorola buys mobile OS maker Azingo
While Palm Inc went to HP and its certain that HP would roll out WebOS powered handsets soon, another hot topic of discussion is rapidly spreading through the web over Motorola’s acquisition of ‘Azingo‘ a company which makes its own Linux based mobile operating system, Azingo Mobile 2.0.
Meizu M9 Android Smartphone for China
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…
Will “Intel Inside” work on smartphones?
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.…
Should Nokia stop living in the future?
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…
Motorola Shadow spotted, gets WiFi certification (Nexus Two?)
Its a known fact that Motorola would be making the next Google phone and the model code MB810 from Motorola that features a full QWERTY keyboard is long rumored to be THE Nexus two. Also referred as Shadow the Motorola…
HP’s got Palm: Five things that could happen!
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…
The N8 is now official – the specs rock, now it is upto the UI
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…
Yahoo scores, official tied to Samsung phones
Yahoo services including ‘search’ would be tied to all Samsung mobile from May 2010. Yahoo Inc has inked a deal with Samsung to make this possible, and this is certainly a bold move by Yahoo towards the mobile market.
Multitasking officially comes to iPhone OS 4.0
Amongst other things, Multitasking is one of the things that Steve Jobs just unveiled for the iPhone OS 4.0. The pain point that Steve pointed out is that multitasking drains battery life, reduces performance and makes the experience sluggish. Quite…
Will the Motorola Milestone aka DROID sell in India?
Earlier we covered the news about Motorola Milestone (widely know as the DROID, its CDMA version in US) which hit the Android cell phone space in India. And this is just a follow-up on the same news with Motorola India’s…
Nokia revamps Ovi Store, now just needs killer apps!
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…
OG Review: Samsung Monte S5620 (Capacitive love!)
The all new Samsung Monte S5620 just arrived at our office and I would admit that I wasn’t expecting too much from this as its just another Corby / Star like phone from Samsung. We have already seen the Corby,…
Data, apps and GPS: why cameraphones are lickin’ cameras!
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…
Spice S-1200 brings 3X optical zoom to cellphone!
Now thats a surprise ! While most smartphones are playing the megapixel game, unexpected! but its Spice that is bringing a 3x optical zoom to a cellphone. The Spice S-1200 that is said to be priced around Rs 14,500 ($315).…
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 & Vivaz launched in India (Pricing)
Sony Ericsson has announced the entire lineup of its latest Xperia and Vivaz series smartphones in India. The Xperia X10 & Vivaz would be available immediately whereas the X10 Mini, X10 Mini Pro and Vivaz Pro will follow later. The…
Palm: new ad and survival guide
When I penned down “the going ahead for Palm”, I had a feeling that it’s a little incomplete. Still waiting for a hands-on with the WebOS and reminiscing my days with the Treo 650 (heck, I bought 3 of those…
The going ahead for Palm
Palm isn’t doing particularly well, even though it has an impressive product with the WebOS. Last quarter they sold just over 400,000 smartphones and lost $22 million. With a refreshed Palm Pre / Pixi and new carriers going live, Palm…
Is Samsung overplaying its Corby hand?
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…
OG Review: LG Cookie Pop / Pep GD510
LG is out with a refresh to its successful touchscreen series Cookie. Its amazing to see how companies like Samsung and LG have seen a great market in the low end touchscreen market after the iPhone came and swept the…
Show us the Xperia X10, Sony Ericsson!
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…
iPhone all set to overtake Blackberry in 2011
Blackberry remains the highest selling smartphone in the US, thanks to the plethora of business handsets it has to offer. One company that is fast catching up (and currently in no 2 position) is the Apple iPhone. Analyst prediction…
Align several mobile phones to make one large screen (patent)
Yes weird as it sounds and geeky for sure! The idea of combining several cellphone displays by just placing them next to each other is certainly impressive and Motoorla is on it (the only problem is I don’t see a…
Smartphone wars: Apple sues HTC over patents
Apple isn’t content with just counter-suing Nokia over patents, Cupertino has actually gone ahead and filed a suit against HTC for infringing 20 of its patents. While nothing is very clear as of now and just as the Nokia vs…
C series goes official with Nokia C5
Nokia C series has finally gone official with Nokia showing the C5 officially. Leaked earlier, we already had a fair idea of what the C5 can offer and here is what Nokia says: We are introducing the new Nokia C5, an affordable smartphone…
LG to ship Windows Phone 7 in September
One of the biggest hit of the latest MWC in Barcelona and the Platinum Event Sponsor; the Windows Phone 7 paired with the LG is finally gearing up to be rolled out. As the reports flowing in from Engadget Chinese suggest…
Sony Ericsson Dot: Crowdsourcing Mobile Ideas
Sony Ericsson has gone live with a new initiative called ‘SE-dot’. SE dot is aimed at crowdsourcing and developing new ideas. As the company informs us, the idea behind SE-dot is to jump the focus from technology and come down…
Nokia looking to end platform confusion? Maemo + Moblin = MeeGo
Nokia has finally done something that makes us feel that they aren’t really heading towards the platform confusion mode as we have constantly been thinking. After juggling 3 different OS (Symbian, Maemo and oFono with Intel), Nokia has announced MeeGO…
