Daily App: Firefox for Android Honeycomb
All right, we admit that we got a bit late with the Daily App today. Our excuse? Heck, we were messing with a just-released build of Firefox for Honeycomb.
Audi’s Electric Urban Concept Beats Nano for Size
Tata Nano developed one of the smallest but affordable production car. But who would have thought that Audi, one of the best luxury car makers in the automobile industry will ever make a car this small. Well as you can…
HTC Pimps the Sensation; Calls it Sensation XE
Barely five months after it was officially announced, HTC has come up with a new, pimped up version of its flagship Android smartphone – the HTC Sensation. The device, packs in quite a bunch of new additions to the stock…
Quick Review: Motorola EX109, Dual SIM QWERTY Phone
The EX109 is one of the four Dual SIM QWERTYs on the market by Motorola. At Rs 3500 it’s one of the cheapest Dual SIM phone out there. The phone features a standard QWERTY design with a 5 way D-pad,…
New Jelly Battery: Cheaper, Safer and Long Lasting
There have been innumerable instances of manufacturers struggling with their batteries. Smartphones running out of battery are a common phenomena or laptops batteries being recalled due to safety issues is also not rare. Well all this could soon be a…
Seven Things You Want To Know About Windows 8
Microsoft has shipped over 450 million copies of Windows 7 till date and finally, it has managed to beat Windows XP in consumer usage. Internet explorer 9 is the fastest growing browser for Redmond and as many as 500 million users use…
Daily App: Facebook for Android
A new version of Facebook is always reason to celebrate for its members. And this time, Zuckerberg’s company has finally gone and added some muscle to its Android avatar. The latest version of Facebook for Android, version 1.7, is…
Micromax Launching Sub 20k Dual Core Android Phone?
Now this one’s really interesting. Micromax Mobiles, which over the past few years had managed to turn quite a few heads with their range of low cost Android handsets like the A60 and the A70 , are at it again. The company…
Daily App: Dolphin HD for the iPad
We had seen it weave its magic combo of webzines and gesture-based browsing on Android, and the iPhone and now Dolphin HD is available for the iPad, as well. Needless to say, we are cheering. Simply because, the numbers of…
Motorola EX119 – Quick Review
Motorola recently launched the EX119 and EX109 Dual SIM QWERTY phones in India recently, and we got our hands on the EX119. The EX119 is a slim and light weight phone that packs in a Touch Screen and QWERTY keyboard along…
Daily App: Evernote for PlayBook
It is for many people, the ultimate note taking application in the world. And it is ironical that it comes to the tablet meant for enterprises long after being available for both iOS and Android devices. We are talking of…
Budget Tablets: Where are the big brands?
As we got an exclusive hands-on on yet another low-cost tablet (the iBall Slide), there were two rather contrary sentiments running through my ever so ‘humble mind. The first, rather obviously, was one of happiness that the market had yet…
Exclusive First Look: iBall Slide Android Tablet, Price Rs 13995
iBall is the latest Indian player to jump on the tablet bandwagon. Reliance and Beetel both have their offerings out in the market and even as we figure out if a tablet is a utility or hype, here comes the…
OG Review: Maxx Khamoshhh MX401
Maxx Khamoshhh series was released last month, and we played around with the MX401 for sometime. The MX401 is Dual-SIM with a 2.4″ screen and features SAM noise suppression technology. At under Rs 3000, Maxx has brought noise suppression technology to a…
Shareholders Rock RIM’s Already Sinking Ship
After, the political unrest in the Gulf countries and surrounding regions. It seems that the instability has gripped the tech world as well. The Silicon valley is observing one of its most turbulent times starting from the sudden demise of…
Facebook Partners with Vodafone; Launches “Vodafone Blue” Facebook Phone in India
Vodafone and Facebook have jointly announced the release of a new Facebook phone called the Vodafone Blue here in India. The device, designed to offer a complete, all-encompassing Facebook experience also gets a decent array of features making it a…
Acer’s Ultrabook Aspire S3 Debuts, Is Thinner Than MacBook Air!
Acer, the world’s largest Notebook PC maker has taken covers off its first Ultrabook notebook, the S3 at the ongoing IFA Conference at Berlin. The device, aiming to be a portable, powerful notebook (like most other ultrabooks out there) has…
iPhone 5 to Sport Larger 4 inch Display, Curvy iPad – like Rear?
There have been many iPhone 5 related rumors going around since the past few days. Some have said about the phone getting slimmer while others have hinted about the device getting a larger 4 inch display in lieu of the…
Samsung Pulls the Galaxy Tab 7.7 from IFA Booth
It’s a terrible time for you to be Samsung if you are in Germany/Europe these days. After facing injunctions against the already released Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet, the recently released Galaxy Tab 7.7 too has been banned from being sold…
Resignation of a CEO, Death of a Salesman
It has been a while since Steve Jobs handed in his papers as Apple CEO. And it is a tribute to his work in that capacity that many people believes that his resignation will not have any significant adverse effect…
Samsung’s New Products, Galaxy Tab 7.7 and Galaxy Note: Our Thoughts
It was yesterday that Samsung took covers off two fascinating products at the IFA conference underway at Berlin, Germany. Well, for starters, it looked like just another launch but I think this is part of a concerted move by Samsung…
Caught In The Act: Microsoft Sued For Collecting Location Data Without Consent
The head honchos at Apple might be surely jeering at this one. Microsoft, which had, not long ago claimed the moral high ground claiming to not collect any location data without explicit user consent has been ironically sued by one…
Test Driving HP ePrint enabled 6500A Plus All In One Printer
We have seen HP launch mobile apps for printing and the same also packs in access to public printers when you are travelling. But this time around we had the opportunity to test an HP MFP Printer with ePrint activated.…
Toughest Phone In The World: Sonim XP3300 Force, Survives 25m Drop
Sonim has secured the title of World toughest phone (Guinness record) for its model ‘XP3300 Force.’ Made for people with the most testing jobs, Sonim applies its learnings from over half million workers from varied industries. The GSM enabled XP3300…
MTS Brings Sub 5K Android Handsets to India
Just to add to the flurry of Android launches happing of late, telecom operator MTS, a subsidiary of Sistema Shyam Teleservices (SSTL) has announced the launch of two new Android powered smartphones in India today. The devices, made by MTS’ partners…
Motorola Announces Gingerbread Powered Pro+
Motorola has announced the Pro+ for Asian and European markets. Similar to the Droid Pro and Fire in looks, the Pro+ packs in a GHz processor with Android 2.3. 2011 seems to be the year when the touchscreen + QWERTY…
HTC Evo 3D Comes To India At Rs: 35,990
HTC India has launched its latest Android smartphone, the Evo 3D here in India. The Evo 3D is the first 3D capable handset from the HTC stables and boasts of quite a few unique features. The most noticeable amongst those…
Samsung To Invest $9. billion In R&D, Buy WebOS?
Samsung has announced that their R&D expenditure for 2011 is expected to total $9.3 billion, (10 trillion won, ) and as much as 50% of that has already been spent. The Korean company spent a similar amount last year. The…
Samsung Launches Three New bada OS Smartphones
It was just last week that Samsung’s plans to unveil the Wave 3, the company’s latest smartphone based on its homegrown bada platform was leaked – thanks to a rather revealing Android app for IFA. A week later, Samsung has made…
A Look At Android Phones In India
The Android platform has grown three fold since the last year. And its presence and acceptance in the Indian market as well has grown by leaps and bounds. The mindshare enjoyed by Android phones in India is much higher than…
Fujitsu Launches First Windows Phone 7.5 Mobile in Japan
Windows Mango phone has officially made its entry in Japan with Fujitsu Toshiba Mobile Communications launching the Windows Phone IS12T which was announced last month. Fujitsu is the first company to launch Windows Phone 7.5 in Japan which would be…
Nokia Goes Low End; Intros Nokia 100, 101
After announcing a slew of midrange, Symbian handsets yesterday, Nokia has now announced the addition of two new low end handsets to its portfolio. The two new handsets are the Nokia 100 and the Nokia 101. Both the handsets are…
Nokia Announces Three New Symbian Belle Handsets
Nokia may have thrown in the towel when it comes to Symbian, but the company doesn’t seem to have any plans to stop producing Symbian based handsets any time soon. While the company is expected to come out with its…
Microsoft Smartly Poaching webOS Devs Over To Windows Platform
It was only last Friday that Mr. Brandon Watson of Windows Phone had reached out to webOS developers via a tweet, stating that Microsoft will be more than happy to have them on board and work with them.
HP TouchPad Already Selling At 2x Cost On eBay / Amazon
We have previously talked about HP killing WebOS devices (and effectively WebOS itself.) After the news of HP discontinuing TouchPad and other WebOS offerings, the company announced a fire-sale on the recently launched TouchPad thus giving them away for $99…
OG Review: Samsung N100 MeeGo Netbook
Although it is the first netbook in the country to be running MeeGo, Samsung has not exactly been going to town talking about the N100 (NP-N100-MA011N). In fact, even review units of this extremely affordable netbook (it costs around Rs 12,500) have been…
Microsoft is the Real Winner of the Google Motorola Deal!
Google is about to complete its $12.50 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility, the handset manufacturing arm of Motorola. For now the acquisition is being projected as a move to fend off the patent wars and interestingly being appreciated by manufacturers…
Dear HP, Palm Wasn’t A Magic Wand
If you landed here via the homepage, you would have heard it by now: HP Is done with its stint with WebOS / Palm. Last year when HP picked up Palm for $1.2 billion, it raised a hope and as…
OG Review: Nokia E6
Authors Note: It’s been long since I have handled a new Nokia device and yet as I hold the touch and type E6-00 in my hand, it feels very familiar to begin with. Until last year, the Nokia E63 was…
Intel Refuses To Reduce Ultrabook CPU Prices
According to Digitimes, leading CPU maker Intel has refused the demand from leading notebook makers to reduce the price of Intel’s Ultrabook CPU’s by as much as 50% in order to increase the latter’s profitability and sales. While Intel negated…
