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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…

HTC

HTC HD7 Lands In India For 29,999

December 16, 2010 0 Rahul S

Looks like the official launch of the HTC HD7 in India isn’t much far apart. Folks over at Flipkart are already selling the HTC HD7 in India for Rs.29,999. The HD7 is HTC’s flagship Windows Phone 7 handset that boasts of a 4.3…

sony ericsson

Sony Ericsson Yendo Launched Delayed Further

December 15, 2010 0 Rahul S

Remember the Sony Ericsson Yendo Walkman phone? The phone was first seen back in June 2010, and Sony Ericsson had previewed it in India in August promising a September launch. After that Sony Ericsson seems to have hit a roadblock with it still showing no sign…

Android

Latest Android Market Update Hits India, Adds Security & More

December 15, 2010 4 Gaurav N

The latest Android Market update we tested yesterday, hit India today.  This update brings new enhancements and a nice looking user interface to the Android Market application. So what’s in the package? Just find the details below!

Tech Industry News

HTC Magic Gets Some Android 2.2 Love

December 14, 2010 0 Rahul S

Remember the HTC Magic? The device was one of the first Android devices to officially arrive in India. Well for all you people still using the HTC Magic, here’s some fantastic news coming your way. The phone will soon be getting a very welcome update to Android 2.1 Froyo soon.…

Android

SkyFire For Android Updated. Now Installable On Memory Cards

December 14, 2010 0 Rahul S

Skyfire has just announced that they have updated the version of the browser available for Android handsets. The new version number is 3.01 and apart from the new number, there are a couple of new feature additions and a bucketful on bug…

HTC

HTC Aiming To Sell 60 Million Phones In 2011

December 11, 2010 0 Rahul S

HTC is aiming to sell as many as 60 million handsets in the year according to a report in Digitimes. The company as you might be aware has had a very good run selling Windows Phone and Android based smartphones in the past year and is looking forward to a…

Android

Opera Mobile To Get HTML 5 and Flash Support

December 8, 2010 0 Rahul S

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…

Android

Android Honeycomb Tablets To Ship Only In Q2 2011

December 4, 2010 5 Annkur

The world has been eagerly waiting for a worthy competitor to the iPad, and when you speak of a mobile OS with touch interface, all eyes look at Google’s Android. Android has done well for itself and is perhaps the…

Apple

Its going to be Motorola vs Apple in Q1 2011, Tablets, Verizon iPhone!

December 3, 2010 0 Annkur

Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha is certainly not known to hide roadmaps and plans. As always he has been a little generous is revealing the 2011 Q1 plans to the media. During his recent keynote at Credit Suisse 2010 Technology Conference,…

Android

Android 2.x buzzing, 80%+ share?

December 2, 2010 0 Annkur

New figures from Android Developers suggest that in 2 weeks (preceding 1st Dec) 43.4% of Android Market activity was by devices running Froyo (Android 2.2) and 39.6% from Android 2.1. This takes the total Android 2.x activity to a respectable…

Samsung

Samsung Launches New Budget Clamshell Phone In Russia; E2530

November 26, 2010 1 Rahul S

Samsung has announced the launch of it is latest no frills clamshell phone in Russia. Known as the E2530, the device is a low end handset targeted at people looking for a simple handset that can do just about making…

Tech Industry News

Intex Launches Phone With Built In Projector; Costs Rs.12,000

November 25, 2010 0 Rahul S

Looks like Indian manufacturers are on an overdrive these days to bring phones with outrageous features, which are simply ahead of their times. The trend seems to have been started off by Spice mobiles with their 12 megapixel cameraphone with optical zoom. It was…

Android

Sony Ericsson to unveil PlayStation Phone on Dec 9

November 25, 2010 0 c0rex

Surprises come in all shapes and sizes. But sometimes some people get so excited that they can’t keep surprises as secret agenda. Sony Ericsson has sent out an Invite about Sony Ericsson France CEO Pierre Peron to make ‘most anticipated presentation…

smartphones

Opera Mobile 10.1 Launched For Symbian

November 25, 2010 0 Rahul S

Symbian might have lost most of its sheen but there are some developers who are not ready to give up on it and Opera seems to be one such persistent developer. They have been continuously developing for the platform and…

Nokia

Nokia Brings The X5 To India For Rs. 10,499

November 24, 2010 0 Rahul S

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…

Featured

GizmoMeet Mumbai In Pictures (and Videos!)

November 18, 2010 0 Annkur

There is little I need to say about the GizmoMeet #1. As much as hard work went into putting things together … those skipped lunches, last minute running, negotiating, arranging the gadgets, failing some, wining some – each and every…

Tech Industry News

Spice Launches 2G + 3G Dual SIM Handset

November 18, 2010 0 Rahul S

Spice Mobiles seems to be in a lone race to bring many firsts to the mobile phone market. After bringing the first 14 megapixel camera with optical zoom and then the first 3D mobile phone, its time for another first.…

Tech Industry News

Airtel Unveils New Logo, Crosses 200 Million Subscriber Mark

November 18, 2010 3 Rahul S

The Airtel brand is undoubtedly one of the most recognized ones in India now. Well, that brand has underwent a major revamp with the company announcing a brand new logo and a lot of other changes to the decade old Airtel brand most of us have been…

eReaders & Tablets

Dell Laptop Cum Tablet Duo Arrives Next Week?

November 16, 2010 0 Rahul S

It’s been just a year since the Internet tablet revolution began, and a bunch of companies has already jumped in to the tablet bandwagon. Dell too is no exception, and it has had its Streak Tablet on sale now for…

Android

T-Mobile G2 Overclocked To 1.9 Ghz

November 16, 2010 1 Rahul S

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…

eReaders & Tablets

Sorry Editor Saheb, Chrome OS Optimized for Keyboard – Schimdt

November 16, 2010 0 Ricky

I told ya! Never mind those UI demos and expert requests to get a Chrome OS running on a tablet (though its a different story that we are yet to see it on any device out there). At the Web…

Tech Industry News

Nvidia Unveils New Quadro Range of Professional Graphics Cards

November 16, 2010 1 Rahul S

Nvidia’s Quadro range of professional GPU’s have always been the toast of graphics professionals, designers and digital content creators who are a different breed of customers when compared to your average gamer. When the graphics card industry sort of began…

Android

Google Hotpot: Rate your favorite places and recommend them to friends

November 16, 2010 0 c0rex

Google recently launched Places search for faster and more relevant local search results. Now taking that a step ahead, Google introduces Hotpot (not Hotspot), a local recommendation engine that will bring review about the hottest places that you and your…

smartphones

MeeGo Gets Support From AMD

November 15, 2010 0 Rahul S

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…

Rumors

Facebook To Launch Gmail Killer Next Week?

November 12, 2010 1 Rahul S

According to a recent Financial Times report, Facebook is working on a new e-mail service that would target Gmail users to “switch over”. While there has been no conclusive way to corroborate the news, Facebook sure has given away invites…

Launch Pad

Sharp Brings Four New Handsets To India

November 12, 2010 1 Rahul S

Sharp has announced the launch of as many as four new handsets in India. The new phones are priced between Rs 6,499 and Rs 17,999 with all of them being touted to be multimedia friendly devices. Almost all of these…

Apps

Intel pushing MeeGo app development with Nokia

November 11, 2010 0 Annkur

Intel is pushing their apps market for Atom based devices (called the AppUp) which targets netbooks and now developers have been approached to push development on the new SDK for MeeGo app development for mobiles that Intel has outed. The Intel SDK…

Nokia

Nokia Takes Over Symbian Development

November 8, 2010 1 Rahul S

In a major announcement made prior to the start of the Symbian Exposition, Nokia and Symbian have announced a “strategic change” in the way the Symbian foundation operates. Contrary to rumors that Symbian might be folding its wings, Nokia has…

Apple

Kinect: Apple’s loss is Microsoft’s gain

November 7, 2010 0 Annkur

 Now this is an interesting piece of news that has just hit the public domain. It seems that the Kinect technology was offered to Apple much before Microsoft and to be honest we are used to see such cool things…

Rumors

iOS 4.2 on 7th Nov? Android Gingerbread SDK on 11th?

November 5, 2010 2 Annkur

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…

Android

Samsung Galaxy Tab Closeup, Videos & Quick Review

November 4, 2010 0 Annkur

We finally managed to spend some time playing around with a Galaxy Tab and it quite fits the case we put up in favor of a 7″ tablet sometime back. We have done an impressive lengthy discussion on the Galaxy…

Android

Apple iPad Garners 95% Of Global Tablet Shipments

November 3, 2010 0 Rahul S

The Apple iPad might not be available in most markets, but wherever it is available, it seems to be doing quite well. Ever since, the product started shipping in April, the iPad has gone on to capture a whopping 95%…

Featured

[Interview] Jimmy Wales on the Wikireader & more!

November 2, 2010 0 Annkur

We caught up with Jimmy Wales in Mumbai a couple of days back. While the entire video interview would be up soon, we have a little interesting conversation towards the end of the interview about the Wikireader. In case you…

Android

Chinese 7-Inch Tablet Knocks FCC Doors

November 2, 2010 0 Rahul S

Just as the Samsung Galaxy Tab is about to be released in select markets worldwide , another 7 inch tablet is looking to make its presence felt in the US market. A Chinese Android based tablet  known as the M-150…

Android

Android for tablets, the missing block is ‘Honeycomb’

November 2, 2010 0 Annkur

We have seen endless speculations on what would be the Android version that google would push out for tablets. While Google commented on Froyo not being optimum for tablets all eyes were on Gingerbread to be the Android 3.0 that…

BlackBerry

BlackBerry 9570 Storm 3 specifications details surface

November 1, 2010 0 c0rex

Specifications of BlackBerry Storm 3 have surfaced the web at several places. However, the details about the processor and graphics chipset used still remain a mystery. This time RIM has played safe with AMOLED screen.

Google

YouTube Founder Resigns

November 1, 2010 1 Rahul S

Google’s YouTube, as you might be aware wasn’t originally a Google service until they bought it for $1.65 billion from Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim – the original founders. Amongst them, Chad Hurley was until now, involved with…

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…

Palm

More details on Palm Pre 2 specs, HP.com to sell unlocked version

October 31, 2010 0 Annkur

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…