Samsung adds three Bada phones in Wave family
Samsung has announced three new Wave phones - Wave 525, Wave 533 and Wave 575. All three Wave phones will run Samsung Bada OS and are practically same devices with few changes in specifications.
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Nokia N8 review part 1: Look and feel
A few years ago, people would have laughed if you had said you were going to write about how a Nokia phone looked. After all, Nokia phones were supposed to be performers rather than lookers. Times, alas (we think) have…
Sony Ericsson Starts Shipping the Xperia X8 and Cedar
Sony Ericsson has in its Product Blog revealed that it has begun shipping its Xperia X8 Android smartphone to stores around the world. It has also started shipping the Cedar, a Green Heart branded, Eco-friendly phone from the company. Coming…
Windows Phone7 Unlikely to Help Microsoft Regain Lost Glory: Gartner
Market research firm Gartner has in a latest research predicted that Microsofts upcoming Windows Phone 7 OS would only marginally increase the market share of Microsoft in the smartphones segment. The OS, which has to be Microsoft’s most anticipated launch…
Firefox 4 beta for mobile released…but only for Android, Maemo
Mozilla has finally released a public beta of Firefox 4 for mobile for download and test. But we would advise the cheering to be a bit restrained – the browser is available only for Android (version 2 and above) and…
Motorola Announces New Android Handsets: Spice and Droid PRO
Motorola seems to be very upbeat about its Android prospects. Of late it has been launching new devices based on Android with regular frequency. The latest devices to be added to Motorola’s Android portfolio happens to be the Spice and…
Whatever happened to Samsung AMOLED
Yesterday we started to hear about the new Bada OS handset Wave II from Samsung and guess what? This one has almost the same specs as the original Wave (S8500) but no AMOLED display. It was hard to digest a…
It is official! Windows Phone 7 coming on October 11
The cat is finally out of the bag. After all the speculation, it has been confirmed that the next version of Windows Mobile – Windows Phone 7 – will be released on October 11. The Microsoft website talks of a…
It’s coming! Nokia starts shipping the N8
Even as some were speculating that it would be another few weeks before Nokia would ship its flagship N8 device to the market, Nokia has now declared on its official blog that the N8 has started shipping. “The first Nokia…
Android is here, but Windows Phone 7 from Sony Ericsson coming soon
It seems that Sony Ericsson is not looking to do a Motorola by going all out on Android. Reports are tickling in that the catchup game in the smartphone market for Sony Ericsson would involve some Windows Phone 7 push…
Forget Froyo, Sony E Xperia X10 users to get Android 2.1 in October end!
The update saga of the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 range of phones continues unabated. There had been a lot of surprise when Sony Ericsson had launched the X10 phones (the X10, the X10 mini and the X10 mini pro) running…
Is the E7 Nokia’s best bet for a winner? We think so!
It has been a week in which Nokia has been in the news more for changes at the top than for its devices, but as the dust settles on Nokia World, there is an increasing number of people who believe…
Acer Ferrari Android phone arrives in India, with expected stiff price tag!
The Acer Liquid E Ferrari edition has been officially released in India today. The device, which carries the Acer-Ferrari collaboration into the smartphone arena (they have been seen on notebooks earlier), runs on Android, and apart from having the legendary…
Competing Horsepower? The weird smartphone race
The world is in a weird race today. Steve Jobs comes and sells millions of a device that has no Adobe Flash support, has no camera flash for 3 years, just got multitasking and has a closed platform. Heck you…
First Windows Phone 7 commercial screened!
It might not be making as many headlines as iOS or Android, but Windows Phone 7 remains one of the most anticipated operating systems of the year. And Microsoft has now taken the wraps off the first commercial for the…
Spice Mi-300: Android 2.1, 3.5G, capacitive touch, 5MP camera for Rs 9,990!
Just when we had thought that LG and Samsung had pulled the price of Android devices closer to (or even below) the Rs 10,000 barrier, the folks at Spice have come out with perhaps the most staggering value for money…
Nokia: Ovi Files to be laid to rest, come October
Nokia has announced that it will be retiring its cloud file storage service, Ovi Files from October 1 onwards. An e-mail from the company to Ovi File users informed them that the service would be terminated on October 1 and…
Palm gives sneak peak to webOS 2.0
Palm (Palm HP) has released details on the upcoming update to webOS i.e. v2.0. Palm has now got the much needed resources from HP and should be in a position to rollout updates much much faster. While the release announcement…
Samsung Wave-723 runs Bada OS, official specs & pictures!
Here is another full touchscreen from Samsung and it runs Bada. The Wave 723 (GT-S7320E) reminds us of the original Samsung Star with the leather flap on the front, however the body otherwise is mettalic and Samsung maintains its attractive…
Want to update your BlackBerry Bold 9000 to OS 5.0 in India? Here’s how!
It may already have a successor, but for many users (us included) the BlackBerry Bold 9000 remains one of the best smartphones to have ever emerged from the RIM stable, blame it on that lovely display, the spacious keypad, and…
Dell releases first Android phone – and it runs Android 1.5!
Just when we thought that Dell’s decision to release its Streak tablet running Android 1.6 was one of the strangest decisions we had seen, the company has gone and surprised us still more. We have just heard that Dell has…
Nokia announces the 5250, another low-cost smartphone
We had barely finished paying tribute to the Nokia 5233 as the best value for money handset in the Indian market, when along came news that the company had released details of what we think is its spiritual successor, the…
Nokia 5233: the best value for money smartphone in town?
The launch of relatively inexpensive handsets from Samsung and LG might be making news, but as many of our readers have been prompt to point out, it is not as if the Indian market lacks smartphones that do not cost…
When will my Android Motorola smartphone get Froyo? Update TImeline
If you are one of the many MotoAndroid users out there, there is one question you are certainly asking… when would my smartphone get the latest version of Android? Given that there are several Android devices running the version 1.6,…
Samsung Galaxy 3 and 5, LG Optimus GT 540: Android gets affordable in India
A year ago, getting an Android phone in India meant shelling out something in the vicinity of Rs 30,000. The price barrier was brought down a bit late last year with the introduction of the Samsung Galaxy Spica which retailed…
OG Review: Samsung Champ C3300 / C3303
The samsung champ is another touchscreen mobile that goes on the lines of the samsung star and corby series. The Champ can be termed a mini touchscreen (wonder why it isn’t called mini) that features a 2.4″ touchscreen and a…
Nokia N8 coming in end-September, to cost $549
Nokia has unveiled the price of its forthcoming flagship device, the N8. According to an entry on the Nokia Store, the device will be available at the end of September 2010, and will come with a price tag of $549.…
Indian Government sets August 31 deadline for BlackBerry
The tangle between the Indian government and RIM over the latter’s e-mail and messaging service continues. The Indian government has now evidently given the cellphone company until August 31 to comply with its decision to allow law enforcement agencies access…
More Hello, Moto: Two more Android phones in Indian market (XT720 / BACKFLIP)
Earlier this year, Motorola returned to the high-end smartphone territory in India with the Milestone, after a prolonged absence in which many had written off the company altogether. Now, the company seems to be consolidating its presence with the launch…
Four things we like (and do not like) about the BlackBerry Torch
So, the BlackBerry Torch 9800 is finally out. And as with all tech products that are unveiled, the critics and supporters are out in force, the former calling it a dud and the latter the coolest thing since sliced bread.…
Blackberry Torch 9800 is official! OS 6 and slidedown QWERTY
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)
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…
Proof: iPhone is the measuring scale for smartphones!
If you had any doubt on how the Apple iPhone has shaped the smartphone industry in the last 3 years and smartphone makers across the globe are watching Apple so closely that even a sneeze in Cupertino can have them…
Nokia comes to Indian social networking slugfest with stunning C5
We should have seen it coming. After letting the likes of Samsung, LG and INQ boss around the mobile social networking segment, the big N has finally shaken itself up and come out with what we think is a really…
Hands on With The Samsung GalaxyS & Wave S8500
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…
A non-touch Smart Phone? Why not?
What an odd topic to chose for writing something … a Non-touch smart phone? Who the hell in this modern world wants that? Are you really sane talking about this in age of Nokia N8, iPhone4 and BlackBerry Storm? Stats..…
The Motorola Droid X – Android with the ‘X’ appeal?
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…
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…
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…
