smartphones

Hands-on with the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc & LiveView [Video]

January 12, 2011 0 Luke Abell

We are back from CES 2011 and here is a detailed hands-on video of the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc announced last week. The Arc is certainly one of the most visually appealing smartphones announced recently. Running Android 2.3 (gingerbread) and…

Apple

Will The CDMA iPhone Come To India?

January 11, 2011 1 Rahul S

Now that the much speculated, discussed and deliberated upon CDMA iPhone has landed on Verizon we were wondering about the possibility of the device arriving in India sometime soon. In the not too distant past there were reports about the…

Android

Hands-on: LG Optimus Black, Brightest Display, Global Release! [Video]

January 9, 2011 0 Luke Abell

The LG Optimus Black is on display at CES 2011, and we had our few moments with it. The Optimus Black is a 4.0? touchscreen with an advanced gyroscope accelerometer that makes navigation beyond what we are used to (see…

CES

Quick Preview: LG Revolution – Verizon LTE [Video]

January 9, 2011 0 Luke Abell

We went hands-on with the LG Revolution at CES 2011. The Revolution is amongst the Android handsets LG has announced this week. The Revolution is a LTE enabled phone with a 4.3? full touchscreen & DLNA smartshare. There is a…

Featured

Nokia C7: Brief Review

January 8, 2011 0 Anupama

The C7 has been seen by many as an attempt by Nokia to offer a watered down and more affordable version of the high-profile N8. Although Nokia officials had claimed that the N8 would be the only Symbian ^3 handset…

Android

Sony Ericsson shows the Xperia Arc, with Bravia Engine display, Android 2.3

January 6, 2011 0 Nimish

CES has seen some remarkable products so far, and Sony Ericsson has joined the party with one of the most spectacular smartphones we have seen so far. The Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc was revealed as the “first of a new generation of Xperia smartphones…

Android

Motorola unleashes “the world’s most powerful smartphone,” the Atrix, complete with laptop dock

January 6, 2011 1 Nimish

This might be CES and the air might be thick with hype but still, words like “the world’s most powerful smartphone” should not be used lightly. Well, Motorola has used them to describe its Atrix handset, which not only packs in some seriously impressive specs but has actually grabbed the limelight at the event for…

HTC

HTC fires second Windows Phone 7 salvo, launches Mozart in India

January 3, 2011 0 Nimish

After a period of relative inactivity, HTC seems to have stepped into device release overdrive. Within days of the launch of the HTC HD7 in India, the first Windows Phone 7 device to be seen in the country (notwithstanding no…

Android

Our six favourite sub-Rs 15,000 Android smartphones

December 26, 2010 12 Nimish

Following our podcast about affordable Android smartphones a few days ago, we have been deluged with queries about which are the best Android smartphones in the Indian market for less than Rs 15,000. While we did voice some of our…

Android

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.…

BlackBerry

RIM Blackberry holds emerging markets, how long?

December 18, 2010 3 Annkur

Over the past few days taking a look at how RIM CEO Mike Lazaridis dogged questions at the D Dive Into Mobile Conference and subsequently the last quarter results which just came out (14.2 million handsets shipped), its clear that Blackberry is holding its ground…

Android

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…

Android

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…

Android

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…

Android

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…

Android

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…

Android

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…

Opinion

Acer, Sony Ericsson – Windows Phone 7 can’t help you!

December 1, 2010 1 Annkur

Editorial: The mobile market is buzzing and its attractive enough to pull PC makers to jump into the smartphone race. Some like Apple have lead the way for revolution and others like Google have laid down a strong platform that…

Android

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…

Android

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…

Apple

iOS 4.2 coming today, makes iPad a “completely new product,” says Jobs

November 22, 2010 0 Nimish

After all the rumours, we have formal confirmation that iOS 4.2, the latest update of the operating system that runs on the iPhone, iPod touch and the iPad, will be released later today (plug your device into a computer, start…

Android

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…

Android

Dell enters Indian smartphone market with two Android handsets!

November 10, 2010 0 Nimish

The jury might still be out as to whether the Streak is a tablet or a smartphone, but today Dell officially entered the Indian smartphone market with two Android handsets. In what is a change from the general trend, these…

smartphones

Dell launching “India-specific” handsets on Wednesday!

November 8, 2010 1 Nimish

We have been waiting for Dell to make its move in the cellphone market in India, (no, we do not count the Streak as a phone, more as a tablet) and it seems that our wait is over. As per…

Android

Google’s Nexus Two Arriving November 8. Runs Android 2.3

October 31, 2010 5 Rahul S

Even as the Nexus One was being launched (back in January 2010) there were speculations whether Google would follow it up with a second version of the handset – obviously called Nexus Two. Those speculations seem to be taking the…

First look

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.…

Nokia

Nokia C7 available for Rs 20,500: initial impressions

October 30, 2010 7 Nimish

We were told emphatically by Nokia during the N8 launch a few weeks ago that the N8 would be the only Symbian ^3 device launched in India this year. Our correspondent Mr. Spock had however reported that thanks to dealer…

Android

Xperia X10 Android 2.1 Update Delayed Further [Update, False Alarm]

October 27, 2010 11 Rahul S

Update: The link which we have referred to is actually a month old as realized by us quite a bit later. Actually, the story was first reported by Phonescoop (who have since then pulled the post). We came to know of…

Android

OlivePad finally coming to stores this week, with Froyo!

October 25, 2010 0 Nimish

It was first announced in August, but is going to finally hit the stores this week, becoming only the second device in India. We are talking of India’s first 3.5G tablet, the OlivePad VT-100 from Olive Telecom, which grabbed a…

Nokia

Review: Nokia C6 – good phone, bad timing?

October 25, 2010 10 Nimish

There are times in your life when you come across devices that seem undone by just being at the wrong place at the wrong time. And this is exactly the feeling we got about the recently launched Nokia C6, or…

Android

Garmin-Asus launches A10 Android phone with Advanced Navigation for Rs 18,990

October 21, 2010 0 Nimish

Garmin-Asus might not have exactly set the markets on fire with their offerings so far, but we have a feeling that things could change with the A10 which it launched today.

Nokia

Six Reasons why we think the Nokia E5 rocks!

October 20, 2010 1 Nimish

The Nokia N8 might have grabbed all the headlines with its dazzling specs and camera, but we feel that the Nokia E5 is going to be every bit as much of a winner in the market for the Big N.…

First look

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…

Nokia

[Editorial] The market responds: Nokia N8 already selling at Rs 22,000

October 19, 2010 22 Annkur

We know that prices of most products tend to dip in the long run, but by any standards, the fall in the price of the Nokia N8 has been nothing short of spectacular. The N8 had been launched with a…

Apps

Symbian ^3 gets JoikuSpot, converts your phone into a Wi-Fi hotspot

October 18, 2010 0 Nimish

One of the most handy apps for the Symbian platform, JoikuSpot, has been released for the latest version of Symbian, Symbian ^3.

Samsung

Samsung’s Omnia HD Becomes First Symbian Phone To Be Overclocked

October 18, 2010 1 Rahul S

When it was launched back in 2009, it was the most feature packed handset money could buy. We are talking about the Samsung i8910 Omnia HD which back in 2009 boasted of mind boggling specs. It had an 8 megapixel…

Android

Samsung releases Android 2.2 upgrade for Galaxy S

October 15, 2010 1 Nimish

After a lot of talk and speculation, it is finally here. Samsung has officially released the Android 2.2 upgrade package for its bestselling Samsung Galaxy S smart phone. The device, which has been one of the hottest selling smart phones…

HTC

Windows Phone 7 Arrives. 10 New Handsets Made Official

October 11, 2010 1 Rahul S

Microsoft has officially launched its next generation smart phone operating system, Windows Phone 7. As many as 10 new handsets made by a horde of manufacturers are in the fray vying your attention. The new handsets include ones from Samsung,…

Nokia

Nokia N8 Review Part 2: Features and Performance

October 10, 2010 5 Mr Spock

We are back with the second part of our review of the Nokia N8. After discussing its look and feel (and getting loads of feedback, for which we cannot thank you enough), it is time now to seriously look at…

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