smartphones

Android

UK Smartphones Market; Android Registers 634% Growth In One Year!

July 24, 2011 0 Rahul S

In the latest report regarding the state of the smartphones market in the UK by research firm ComScore, a staggering thing that has come to light is the phenomenal growth Of the Android operating system in that country. While it…

Android

Samsung Renames Galaxy S LCD to Galaxy Plus In India, Creates Confusion

July 23, 2011 0 Prasad Naik

When Samsung launched the I9003 Galaxy SL in India, they chose to rename it to Galaxy S LCD, to emphasize the fact that this phone has a Super LCD unlike the Super AMOLED display on the more expensive I9000 Galaxy S. However,…

Android

Exclusive: HTC Launching ChaCha In India (Updated)

July 19, 2011 0 Annkur

HTC is holding an event in Mumbai tomorrow, and while the invite reads a new product (in association with Tata DoCoMo), we have learnt that HTC would actual unveil the ChaCha tomorrow. HTC already has the Salsa retailing in India,…

Microsoft

First Impression: Windows Phone 7.5 Mango Update (Beta)

July 9, 2011 3 Annkur

With some help, I managed to get a beta build of Windows Phone 7 Mango update running on my LG Optimus 7. Mango is said to be a significant update and the next wave of Windows Phones are expected to…

Android

LG Optimus Black P970 Review

July 7, 2011 0 Prasad Naik

The under-20,000 segment is suddenly starting to heat up. Smartphones that you’d normally get for a much higher price can now be found under this price bracket, which is a good thing as it is still viewed by many as…

Android

3 Million Samsung Galaxy S II’s sold in 55 Days

July 4, 2011 0 Rahul S

We knew this was coming, sort of. 55 days after Samsung released its newest and most powerful Android powered handset, the Galaxy S II, the company has announced that the phone has become the fastest selling handset ever made by…

Apple

WordPress Launches New Full Fledged Blogging App; Only For WebOS

July 2, 2011 0 Rahul S

In a world where you have been used to seeing apps being released first either for Android or iOS, folks over at WordPress has surprised us all by releasing a full-fledged WYSIWYG app for the WebOS platform. If you happen to…

HTC

OG Review: HTC Salsa C510e Facebook Phone

June 25, 2011 0 Annkur

Back in February, at the grand stage of Mobile World Congress, HTC announced its two Facebook phones, the Salsa and Chacha. We decided to pick up the HTC Salsa C510e for review and gave the Facebook phone a quick test…

Apple

iPhone 3GS 8GB Launched In India; Priced Under Rs. 20,000

June 24, 2011 0 Rahul S

Back in May, we had reported that Apple would be launching the iPhone 3GS here in India at a super low price. Today, friends over at BGR India have just confirmed the news. The product has been launched in India for…

Leaked / Spyshots

Nokia’s Early Android Prototype Revealed

June 24, 2011 0 Rahul S

It was just yesterday that the first images (and video) of Nokia’s first Windows Phone handset were revealed. The design of this handset was based on that of the recently announced MeeGo powered N9. Now, if we are to believe…

Android

Sony Ericsson Outs Xperia Ray and Xperia Active

June 22, 2011 0 Rahul S

Sony Ericsson seems to be on a roll these days. After a plethora of launches of late, the company is in action yet again and has today launched three new Android powered handsets. The new kids on the block are…

Nokia

Nokia Announces the MeeGo Laden N9

June 21, 2011 3 Rahul S

At the Nokia Connection event underway at Singapore, Nokia has finally taken covers off its newest N-Series handset, the Nokia N9. Unlike most of its predecessors (barring the Maemo laden N900 of course) this one runs MeeGo, an OS that…

Leaked / Spyshots

LG Device With Dual Screen And Slide Out Keyboard Coming Soon!

June 17, 2011 0 Ricky

Are you one of those who craves for features and functionality in a device? Ever imagined of a dual screen handset, better still a device with dual screen and even a QWERTY keyboard to go with it? Well then that…

Nokia

Nokia Launches Symbian Anna Laden X7 Smartphone in Taiwan

June 15, 2011 4 Rahul S

It’s a busy day for folks over at Nokia it seems. After bringing out the Symbian Anna based E6 business handset to India on preorder, the company has announced the launch of its latest multimedia smartphone, the X7 in Taiwan.…

Android

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…

Android

Samsung Galaxy S II India Launch On June 3 For Vodafone Users, In Stores Starting June 9

May 25, 2011 1 Rahul S

The wait is finally over! Samsung has finally bought its flagship, dual core Android superphone, the mighty Galaxy S II to India. The phone was officially unveiled in India earlier today at Delhi and would be made available for you…

Future WIP

Toshiba Catches Up With Retina, Demos 367ppi Display (4″)

May 18, 2011 0 Annkur

Apple leads the pack when its comes to display ppi (pixel per inch) on smartphones. The iPhone 4’s Retina display with 326 ppi stole the show last year and though a lot of manufacturers have phones with good displays out…

Apps

LinkedIn Comes To The Burning Platform: Symbian Version Launched!

May 12, 2011 0 Rahul S

Just when you thought nobody has any interest left in developing apps for the Symbian platform, here comes LinkedIn with an official app for devices running on the OS! The official app is now available for download from the Ovi…

Gaming

Sony Ericsson Xperia Play Reviewed

May 9, 2011 2 Ricky

Portable gaming devices have been a great hit in the market, devices like the Sony PSP, Nintendo Gameboy Advance, the Nintendo DS have all fared very well in the portable gaming device sector. There were also gaming phones like the…

Android

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…

BlackBerry

BlackBerry Bold 9900, 9930 Announced; Will Let You Touch and Type

May 2, 2011 0 Rahul S

RIM has finally decided its time they officially take covers of much rumored and leaked BlackBerry Bold successor. The latest version of the Bold is christened the 9900/9930 and for the first time, will offer BlackBerry users a touch as…

HP (Hewlett Packard)

HP Veer Appears In White

April 30, 2011 0 Rahul S

HP’s WebOS based Veer has been around in the form of a soon to be launched product for months now. Back in February, on the eve of the MWC HP had announced the Pre3 and the HP Touchpad along with…

Android

Why The Samsung Galaxy S II GPS Performance Doesn’t Look Impressive To Me

April 29, 2011 0 Rahul S

Samsung’s original Galaxy S was notorious for its rather jittery GPS performance. The successor to that phone seems to have fixed that issue by implementing a better GPS chip inside. Folks over at Engadget who had got hold of a…

Android

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…

LG

LG To Show MeeGo Love In SFO, May

April 29, 2011 0 Annkur

We heard of LG’s MeeGo love before and some more official news pours in. LG would be at the MeeGo conference at SFO next month and it would show some of its products running a MeeGo build. While LG isn’t…

smartphones

Froyo loaded Acer Liquid Mini quietly arrives for Rs. 11,990 in India

April 23, 2011 0 c0rex

Acer has quietly introduced new Liquid Mini smartphone that runs Android 2.2 Froyo. Like a little brother to the Acer Liquid Metal, the all new Liquid Mini has 3.2-inch capacitive touchscreen display with HVGA 320×480 pixel resolution. It’s never to…

Leaked / Spyshots

Leaked: Panasonic and Huawei To Push MeeGo Handsets

April 21, 2011 0 Annkur

Not the A list that Intel would have liked, but after the rumors of LG doing MeeGo handsets, our friends at MeegoExperts have concrete news on two new handset makers going the MeeGo way. They would be joining a small…

Apps

BlackBerry Protect 1.0 Now Available for Asia-Pacific Users

April 19, 2011 0 Aaplap

BlackBerry Protect, RIM’s free add-on app for backing up your BlackBerry data online, has finally been made available to users in the Asia-Pacific region, which includes all us Indians. BlackBerry Protect offers features very necessary in this day and age…

Featured

Samsung’s New Phones Could Be Faster Than Your Laptop

April 18, 2011 4 Aaplap

The mobile phone manufacturer that never sleeps, Samsung, is busy pushing the limits of mobile CPUs; their new smartphones are likely to sport dual-core 2.0GHz CPUs by the end of the year. These new CPUs will almost certainly power the…

smartphones

LG To Make MeeGo Smartphones?

April 15, 2011 0 Rahul S

Ever since Nokia decided on Windows Phone to be the OS of choice for its next generation smartphones, it not only struck the death knell for old warrior Symbian, but also derailed Nokia’s MeeGo project that it had conjured up…

Nokia

Nokia’s Ovi Store Boasts Five Million Downloads A Day

April 13, 2011 0 Rahul S

There was a flurry of activity yesterday at Nokia with them announcing their brand new phones – the X7 and the E6. It was also a big day for Symbian with Nokia coming up with the latest version of the…

Nokia

Nokia E6 Arrives, Aims To Replace Your Ageing E71, E72

April 12, 2011 0 Rahul S

Along with the X7, Nokia also took covers off its latest E-Series handset, the E6 earlier today. The E6 can be considered an update to the highly popular E7x series of handsets and is a direct upgrade to the Nokia…

Nokia

Nokia Launches The X7 With Symbian “Anna”, Clear Black Display And New Ovi Maps

April 12, 2011 0 Rahul S

Just a day after a leaked video of the phone appeared, Nokia decided to finally make its much rumored handset, the X7’s existence public. The X7 runs the tried and tested Symbian OS – but a new version of it…

Nokia

New Symbian UI Appears In Leaked Video

April 11, 2011 1 Rahul S

We all know that Nokia is planning to update its beleaguered Symbian OS with a fresh new update in the weeks to come. The new update was thought to mostly concentrate on the UI part of the OS which has…

HP (Hewlett Packard)

HP WebOS Laden Keyboardless Phone Spotted

April 9, 2011 0 Rahul S

Folks over at PreCentral have managed to lay their hands on the image of what is said to be that of a WebOS device minus a physical keyboard. The source of the image is the same tipster that had informed…

Opinion

An Ode To The Samsung Omnia HD

April 4, 2011 4 Rahul S

Back in 2009 while I was at Techtree handling my “mobile beats” space and busy covering the MWC, I came across this phone from Samsung. It belonged to the Omnia family which had until then only boasted of devices running…

Apple

Apple Releases iOS 4.3.1

March 25, 2011 0 Monis

Apple has finally released iOS 4.3.1 for download in iTunes. This update fixes many bugs that were earlier reported including the graphic glitch in iPod Touch 4th generation, Apple TV image flickering when using Apple Digital AV adapter with some…

Microsoft

Strategy Analytics Paints Rosy Future For Nokia, Samsung

March 18, 2011 0 Rahul S

Research firm Strategy Analytics in their latest report has said that the next few years would turn out to be good ones for phone makers Samsung and Nokia. The report states that Samsung would cement its position as the worlds second largest…

Android

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…

Nokia

Nokia Brings The E7 To India

March 15, 2011 1 Rahul S

After going on pre order sale last week, the Nokia E7 has landed in India officially. The price of the handset is down from 35k to 29,999. The E7 is the latest E-Series device from Nokia and is touted to…