Tech Industry News

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…

Apple

The iPad 2 is coming to 13 new countries next week, India?

April 21, 2011 1 Annkur

Apple’s earnings call isn’t exactly a place to expect product launches, but it seems that has changed. While speaking to media and analysts on the Q2 earnings call, Apple COO, Tim Cook revealed that the iPad 2 is coming to…

Gaming

The PSP Go is Gone!

April 20, 2011 0 Aaplap

Sony’s most recent PlayStation Portable gaming console model, the PSP Go, will soon be discontinued worldwide. The PSP Go was launched in India a few months ago, but the response hasn’t exactly been admirable. One of the biggest drawbacks of…

Apple

Apple Shoots A Lawsuit, Samsung Promises Response

April 19, 2011 2 Rahul S

Just when you thought you had seen and heard of most of the major litigations, patent infringement suits and legal tussles in the tech arena, here comes yet another one. The latest one features Apple and Samsung. The latest lawsuit…

Microsoft

Windows Phone 7 to get notifications via an App

April 17, 2011 0 c0rex

Facebook has updated its official Windows Phone 7 with no visible features. Apparently, the only visible change was that the Refresh setting has been replaced with Cache Expiration which is set at 10 minutes. The Facebook App for WP7 has…

Apple

Apple iPhone 4 Supply In Hong Kong Normalizes, India Launch Promised

April 11, 2011 0 Annkur

Yes you read it right. Its iPhone 4 we are still talking about. In between the iPad 2 launch updates and iPhone 4 rumors, it seems that iPhone 4 has its own little updates to amuse us. Apparently after hiccups…

Android

Google Not Yet Ready To Make Honeycomb Open Source, Our Team Comments

March 29, 2011 0 Ricky

The news broke out recently that Google isn’t taking Honeycomb open at the moment and that means developers have little room to play with the tablet build of Android OS and most of the 7″ Android tablets that we say…

Apps

Kinect Inspired Motion Gaming / Interaction On Smartphones?

March 24, 2011 0 Annkur

Motion gaming is catching up in the gaming world and Microsoft took the technology to a new level with the Kinect for Xbox 360 last year. While speculations of motion sensing coming to Windows PCs are rife, we have a…

eReaders & Tablets

Hands-on With MeeGo Tablets, WeTab, ExoPC and more

March 21, 2011 0 Annkur

A trip to Birmingham couldn’t have been more exciting. Last week I happened to attend the MeeGo meet organized by MeeGoExperts and apart from the wonderful techies we met there, there were a whole bunch of MeeGo devices around to play with.…

Nokia

Inexpensive Nokia X1-00 announced

March 8, 2011 0 c0rex

Finnish handset maker Nokia has announced new low-end handset aimed at the music enthusiasts – Nokia X1-00. Appearing to be younger brother of X2, the new Nokia X1-00 runs Symbian 30 mobile operating system (yes, it exists). Rated with 106phon…

Featured

Why The Next Google / Facebook Isn’t From India

March 4, 2011 4 Annkur

This ain’t new talk and I got deflected back to this topic when discussing Indian cos making cellphones in a Facebook group. For long entrepreneurs in India have been motivated with talks of making the next Google, Facebook or Microsoft.…

Apple

Apple Unveils The iPad 2

March 2, 2011 0 Rahul S

Apple has finally announced the launch of the second generation iPad at an event held at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco earlier today. The second iPad comes in just about a year after the debut if the iPad…

Apple

Apple Skips USB 3.0, Pushes Lightpeak as Intel Thunderbolt

February 24, 2011 0 Annkur

Its 2011 and none of the Apple MacBooks carry a USB 3.0 yet. Thats fishy for sure. Apple is known to move to newer technologies before the masses, be it SSD only notebooks or multitouch displays on a phone. So…

Apple

Apple Launches 2011 Macbook Pro Models, Intel Thunderbolt Debuts [Updated With India Prices]

February 24, 2011 0 Rahul S

Apple has refreshed its lineup of 13, 15 and 17 inch Macbook Pros with a host of new updates. The line up gets Intel’s new Sandy Bridge based Core i5 and i7 processors. Apple also seems to have at least…

Apple

Intel’s Light Peak Technology Renamed Thunderbolt

February 23, 2011 0 Monis

Intel and Apple have jointly released a new I/O technology called Thunderbolt on the eve of the launch of Apple’s brand new MacBook Pro models. The technology was until know known by the Light Peak Moniker. While we have already talked abbout Light Peak in…

Featured

Nokia E7: First Hands On, Early Impressions, Pictures

February 18, 2011 1 Team OG

Even though Nokia might have made it clear that Windows Phone Would be their smartphone OS of choice going forward, the fact is that Symbian still happens to be one of the most used smartphone platforms out there. In fact, Nokia will continue to…

Android

iPhone 4 Bags Award For The Best Mobile Phone At MWC

February 18, 2011 0 Rahul S

The just concluded Mobile World Congress was dominated by Android without doubt. A plethora of Android based smartphones were displayed at the expo since day one. The grand finale of the event was the Global Mobile Awards announcement. This function…

Android

LG Announces Android Powered Optimus 3D, Optimus Pad Prior To MWC

February 13, 2011 0 Rahul S

While the MWC is to start officially on 14 Feb, manufacturers like LG and Samsung seem to be too impatient and have already announced their line up for the show there. LG’s line up is pretty interesting thanks to its…

Nokia

Will Nokia’s Microsoft Alliance Pay Off?

February 11, 2011 1 Rahul S

We all knew this was coming. In the wake of rising competition from newer, younger and nimbler adversaries like iOS and Android Nokia has announced a “strategic alliance” with Microsoft that would see the transition of Nokia’s high end devices…

Featured

Nokia adds to platform confusion, adopts Microsofts Windows Phone 7

February 11, 2011 3 Annkur

Nokia is all set to go the Windows Phone 7 route with rumors of a partnership with Microsoft turning out to be true. Not much details are available at the moment but the trend is clear. Last year at MWC…

Android

Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) To Be Previewed Today!

February 1, 2011 0 Rahul S

So, the day is finally here. In a few hours from now, Google would finally preview the much awaited Android 3.0 (Honeycomb). This latest version of Android OS, designed specifically for tablets would obviously be Google’s main tool to compete…

Android

Android 2.3 Has Serious Security Vulnerability: Researcher

January 31, 2011 0 Rahul S

A computer security researcher from the North Carolina State University (NCSU) has revealed that he has come across serious security vulnerability in Android 2.3 – the latest version of Android OS for smartphones. Xuxian Jiang, the researcher figured out that…

Tech Industry News

PayPal India Goes Back To The Dark Ages

January 28, 2011 4 Rahul S

In what is largely seen as a regressive change to PayPal India’s terms and conditions, the company, starting March 1, 2011 would NOT allow its Indian users to make purchases for goods and services directly from their PayPal accounts. If…

Opinion

Editorial: Dear Manufacturer, Can I Have My Refund Please?

January 28, 2011 1 Annkur

While the twitter chatter is making me eat my words about the piece on iPad not coming to India (I wasn’t entirely off target either), the market situation makes me ponder of a particularly crucial aspect of gadget sales (especially…

Apps

Now there’s an app for making your trip – MakeMyTrip comes to BlackBerry

January 24, 2011 0 Anupama

Indian online travel agency MakeMyTrip (MMT) has launched its travel booking app on the BlackBerry App World in India. Called MakeMyTrip Mobile, the app will help users search and compare air fares and booking through authorized transaction channels with Visa…

Apple

Apple Talks iPad Competition, Honeycomb vs iPad

January 18, 2011 0 Annkur

Every since Apple and Google started to comment aggressively about each others business and products, each earnings call or product launch is filled with some punches going around. So here is what Tim Cook (Apple COO) had to say about…

Featured

Twitter Discussion: What’s Wrong With Nokia?

January 18, 2011 3 Annkur

Twitter is know for open debates and extreme opinions. And we ran into a conversation yesterday, with over 100 tweets flying around from the tech community (includes our team). And where did all this start from? Well as we trace…

events

Connector Kinetic Robots (Modular Robot) – Techfest

January 17, 2011 0 Guest Author

Coverage by our in-house scientist – Aditya Sengupta. You can must follow him on twitter: @sengupta! One of the tough things about sophisticated robots these days is they are considerably difficult to modify and adapt. At this point, it takes considerable time…

Apple

Apple’s iPad 2 With Quadrupled Pixels? Retina? (2048×1536)

January 16, 2011 0 Annkur

With the iPhone 4, Apple started an all new race for display resolutions. More than half a year after it was introduced, the Retina display still has little competition. But its not about the iPhone now, it’s the time of…

Future WIP

Touch The Invisibles, Tactile Feedback Screens at Techfest 2011 [Video]

January 11, 2011 0 Guest Author

Another guest post by our in-house scientist – Aditya Sengupta. You can must follow him on twitter @sengupta! The tactile interface device demoed in this video does an impressive comparison between conventional haptic feedback devices that rely on the whole…

Android

Video Preview of the LG Optimus 2X (Tegra 2 Superphone)

January 8, 2011 0 Luke Abell

The Optimus 2x is one of the Tegra 2 phones from LG out on display at CES 2011. We have an exclusive video of the phone being demoed for us. So far we have been using all sorts of accessories/hacks…

CES

New Microsoft Windows 7 PCs / Tablet & Surface Demoed At CES

January 6, 2011 0 Luke Abell

Microsoft showed of some incredible hardware at its CES 2011 keynote. While,the announcement of the next release of Windows running on SoC (ARM and X86) would prompt the industry pundits to take out a magnifying glass (well that already happened…

Apple

The Mac App Store, Early Impressions

January 6, 2011 3 Annkur

We have just got the Mac App Store installed on our Macbook in between the CES and Techfest madness. The hefty 100MB+ OS update brings in the lovely App Store icon to the OS X Dock. And getting started is…

events

IIT B Techfest 2011 Begins Tomorrow! Sneak Peek

January 6, 2011 0 Rahul S

Its a double treat for us this year, CES 2011 collides with Asia’s Biggest Science and Technology Festival at IIT B – The Techfest. We are the official online media partners for the IIT Techfest again and our team is…

CES

Die, graphics cards? Intel releases graphics-stacked second generation of Core processors

January 6, 2011 0 Nimish

Even as the crowds flock to Vegas to check out CES, Intel has delivered a whammy of sorts at Mumbai by taking the veil off the second generation of its Core processor family. While there has been the usual talk of better performance, battery life and efficiency, the most spectacular change has…

CES

Live From Microsoft / Steve Ballmer’s Keynote at CES 2011

January 5, 2011 0 Luke Abell

We are in line to get started with the Microsoft Keynote at CES 2011. Steve Ballmer is expected to be on stage and apart from some rumors, we have no official confirmation on what we might hear. Our bet would…

CES

Samsung Announcements at CES 2011, Live Blog

January 5, 2011 0 Luke Abell

We are all ready to live blog the Samsung Press Event at CES 2011. Stay tuned, live blog starts 2:00PM PST (3.30PM IST) .. and yes we have the front rows again 🙂

CES

Live From Nvidia Press Event at CES 2011

January 5, 2011 0 Luke Abell

We are in line for the Nvidia Press Event at CES 2010. We are expecting some updates on 3dvisionlive.com, BMW partnership and lots of 3D gear. We begin at 12:00PM PST (1.30AM IST) from The Venetian. Stay Tuned!

Future WIP

Happy New Year! And here is what we think will happen in it…

January 1, 2011 3 Mr Spock

Even as the world celebrates the arrival of a New Year, we decided to get into prediction mode and work out the things that are likely to happen. We know that we are going out on a limb with some…

Featured

Gizmo Podcast #10 – The Super Gadgets of 2010

December 31, 2010 3 Annkur

2010 has been an eventful year for us at OnlyGizmos and for the gadget world aswell. With more gadget action then ever before, we continue to strive hard in an attempt to bring honest opinions about the same. And what better than speaking it out to you? So…

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