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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…

Tech Industry News

Texas Instruments Comes Back With A Bang!

February 9, 2011 0 Ricky

TI is mainly known for its Chip inside the Droids, the Motorola droid, Droid X and many other devices. After the droid X we have not seen any new processors from TI and it was sad to see that no…

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…

Tech Industry News

Cheap Tech To Fake Fingerprint Shown Against UID In India

January 25, 2011 5 Rahul S

India’s ambitious UID (Unique Identification Card) project has been underway for quite some time now. Announced back in February 2009, the first of the cards were launched in October 2010 in a tribal village in Maharashtra. With more than a…

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…

Future WIP

Tegra 3 Coming At MWC? Quad-Core!

January 21, 2011 0 Annkur

NVIDIA has sure made an impact with its Tegra 2 offering, and the real impact of the same was seen at CES 2011. Bringing dual-core love to handhelds, the Tegra 2 has surely upped the industry expectations for performance from…

Apps

Starbucks Comes Up With iPhone, BlackBerry Mobile Payments

January 21, 2011 0 Rahul S

In what we believe is a first of its kind, it seems Starbucks is all set to implement mobile payments in a way, never before seen at a coffee shop. Starbucks have started its mobile payment system that would allow…

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…

eReaders & Tablets

Renders of Palm-HP webOS Tablet Leaked! On Sale Sept 2011?

January 18, 2011 0 Annkur

Engadget has leaked out the upcoming Palm tablets, and there are two of them as it seems. A 9″ version dubbed ‘Topaz’ and another 7″ (reading focused) version called the Opal. No mystery spec like a PixelQI screen here, but…

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

Steve Jobs on Medical Leave Again, No Return Timeframe Mentioned

January 17, 2011 0 Annkur

When it was Tim Cook (COO, Apple) talking the stage at the Verizon iPhone event, many believed Steve Jobs is missing as it isn’t an Apple event. But this may be wrong. In a release today, it is revealed that…

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…

Future WIP

WiFi Direct, Will It Replace Bluetooh? (Comments from Bluetooth Inventor)

January 9, 2011 1 Annkur

We saw LG demonstrating WiFi direct features on its Android smartphones at CES 2011 (Engadget has a video) and for quite a while we are wondering if this would replace Bluetooh. Most smartphones today feature both Bluetooth and WiFi and…

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

Kinect coming to Windows PC – Ballmer

January 7, 2011 0 Annkur

Now this is a big one. We have asked time and again, and we haven’t got a clear reply, but it seems that BBC has managed to get the confirmation from Steve Ballmer himself. While,there is no confirmation if its…

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

NVIDIA Goes Official With ARM CPU Plans, Project Denver

January 6, 2011 0 Annkur

With Google, Apple and Microsoft all throwing their weight behind ARM architecture, Nvidia has taken the opportunity at CES 2011 to reveal its Project Denver. NVIDIA President Jen-Hsun Huang claimed during his keynote that more ARM processors will ship in…

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!

BlackBerry

RIM Demos HTML5 and Flash Gaming On BlackBerry PlayBook

January 5, 2011 0 Rahul S

RIM’s much awaited Apple iPad killer, the PlayBook is set to be launched in the next few months. RIM has been continuously churning out videos of the PlayBook in action to give us all a hint of what to expect…

Internet

E-Mails Go Missing From Hotmail Accounts

January 2, 2011 0 Rahul S

Hotmail users are reporting of a major issue wherein some of their e-mails have disappeared from their inboxes. People posting on Microsoft forums have been complaining for the past few hours about the fact that their e-mails have been deleted automatically. E-Mails from the inbox and…

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…

Patents War Galore! Its Sony vs LG Now

December 30, 2010 0 Rahul S

The mobile telephony patent war saga took a far eastern turn earlier today when Sony announced that it would be suing LG for infringing on as many as seven of its valuable patents. The suits have been filed at the U.S. International Trade Commission (U.S. ITC).…

Apple

The Logo Antenna – Apple’s New Antenna Design

December 26, 2010 0 Tamojit

The Apple iPhone 4’s antenna problems are now legendary and proved to be one of the major flaws of the iPhone 4. Well, here’s good news for Apple fans. While woeful fans were figuring out how else they could hold…

Tech Industry News

Our top ten sub-dollar iPhone games hit list

December 24, 2010 0 Nimish

Thanks to the Holiday season, it has been raining discounts with just about every major game developer offering games at lower than usual rates. We have been royally spoilt for choice this time around with the likes of EA, Glu and Gameloft offering some terrific games…

Featured

Why we aren’t writing about Notion Ink!

December 21, 2010 36 Annkur

We started hearing about this cool startup from Hyderabad sometime back and started to follow its updates regularly ever since. Contacted them for a chance to interview, offered to visit them in Hyderabad (no luck) and finally met up with…

Apple

Five reason why Apple’s Mac App Store could be revolutionary

December 19, 2010 1 Nimish

Apple has announced that it will be launching an App Store for its Mac computers on January 6, and as usual, debate and discussion have already started about whether it will be a hit or a failure. We have had our share…

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…

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