More Nokia X7-00 Details Leak
It was just days ago that we first heard of Nokia’s soon to arrive X-Series device, the X7-00. It was accompanied with a video that showcased the phone running Need For Speed Shift. A week or so down the line, we have…
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Opera Mobile To Get HTML 5 and Flash Support
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…
Google Nexus S unveiled with Android 2.3 Gingerbread on it
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…
Brief Review: LG Optimus One Unboxing
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…
Acer, Sony Ericsson – Windows Phone 7 can’t help you!
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…
Motorola oozes QWERTY and touchscreen goodness in Rs 13,900 Charm
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…
Windows Mobile Laden Toshiba TG01 Hacked To Run Android
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…
Micromax joins the Android race with Rs 8,000 Andro A60, also talks of 7-inch tablet
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…
Nokia Brings The X5 To India For Rs. 10,499
Nokia has bought its latest X Series handset, the rather weird looking X5 to India. This has happened a good five months after the phone was first seen in July. The X5 is a series 60 music oriented handset that…
iOS 4.2 coming today, makes iPad a “completely new product,” says Jobs
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…
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 To Get “Limited” MultiTouch Soon
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,…
One Million LG Optimus One Sold in 40 Days
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…
Sony Ericsson Anzu Previewed
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…
T-Mobile G2 Overclocked To 1.9 Ghz
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…
MeeGo Gets Support From AMD
Now, this is an interesting development and more importantly, great news for folks who are looking forward to the arrival of the MeeGo platform sometime next year. The platform, which was mainly backed by Nokia and Intel, has now seen…
Sony Ericsson Xperia X12 Anzu Images Leaked
Sony Ericsson’s Xperia X10 line up has been much maligned for its slowness to update to new Android versions with the X10 line up just receiving an update to Android 2.1. This, when the rest of the Android fraternity is…
Dell enters Indian smartphone market with two Android handsets!
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…
Dell launching “India-specific” handsets on Wednesday!
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…
iOS 4.2 on 7th Nov? Android Gingerbread SDK on 11th?
The war of the mobile OS is getting intense. With newer platforms coming up every few months, the existing ones are updating faster than every before. It is rumored that Apple’s much awaited iOS update v4.2 would be out on…
Sony E starts rolling out Android 2.1 for X10 series, Mini Pro first to get it in India
All right, after much speculation, it is finally here. Sony Ericsson India has just confirmed on its official Facebook page that the Android 2.1 update for its Xperia X10 series of phones is being rolled out. As for when it…
Google’s Nexus Two Arriving November 8. Runs Android 2.3
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…
Nokia sneaks X5 into India – price: Rs 10,000-10,500
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.…
More details on Palm Pre 2 specs, HP.com to sell unlocked version
The Palm Pre 2 is the latest webOS powered smart phone and currently the talk of the town for Palm fans. The first Palm device coming out after the HP takeover isn’t the most attractive one in terms of the…
Nokia C7 available for Rs 20,500: initial impressions
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…
Xperia X10 Android 2.1 Update Delayed Further [Update, False Alarm]
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…
OlivePad finally coming to stores this week, with Froyo!
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…
Review: Nokia C6 – good phone, bad timing?
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…
Nokia officially puts 2011 label on MeeGo, Weds Symbian via Qt
Nokia is sure banking influential on MeeGo to save it in the super smart phone category and after looking at the N8 we are sure that Symbian isn’t going to server them extensively. After rumors from Intel commenting about MeeGo’s…
Garmin-Asus launches A10 Android phone with Advanced Navigation for Rs 18,990
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.
Six Reasons why we think the Nokia E5 rocks!
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.…
Palm Pre 2, webOS 2 Officially Announced
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…
[Editorial] The market responds: Nokia N8 already selling at Rs 22,000
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…
Symbian ^3 gets JoikuSpot, converts your phone into a Wi-Fi hotspot
One of the most handy apps for the Symbian platform, JoikuSpot, has been released for the latest version of Symbian, Symbian ^3.
Samsung’s Omnia HD Becomes First Symbian Phone To Be Overclocked
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…
Samsung releases Android 2.2 upgrade for Galaxy S
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…
Nokia Announces the C5-03
Continuing its phone launching spree, Nokia has announced the addition of yet another model to its C-Series family. The latest release is the C5-03 which happens to be a mid range handset boasting of a touch screen display.
Videocon Launches New Android Handset in India
Homegrown phone maker Videocon mobiles has just launched it’s Android handset in India. Called the Zeus, the phone, at least going by the specs looks interesting. Let’s now see what the phone has on offer for you. The Zeus comes…
Windows Phone 7 Arrives. 10 New Handsets Made Official
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 Starts Shipping The C7
Nokia has announced that it has started shipping its second Symbian^3 based handset, the C7 to costumers across the world. The C7, was unveiled at the Nokia World Conference held a few weeks ago which was mainly in the news…
Nokia N8 Review Part 2: Features and Performance
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…
