How to open HTC 7 Mozart Battery/SIM?
HTC might well be promoting the HTC 7 Mozart with its design aspect… single piece of aluminum and all, but you know whats the most difficult part there? Figuring out how to open the battery cover! So here is a…
India gets a dual-SIM Android: Hello, Moto XT800
India has its first Android dual SIM phone , the Motorola Milestone XT800. The phone, which is capable of handling CDMA and GSM networks, runs Android 2.1 and carries what we think, is a stiff price tag of Rs 31,999.…
Sony follows Kindle path, launches Sony Reader app on Android
The e-book revolution has taken another step away from e-readers (of the hardware type). Just as Amazon has made its Kindle software available for reading books on platforms other than its e-book reader of the same name and Barnes and…
[Video] Quick Review: HTC 7 Mozart and HD7 (WP7 in India)
Gizmomeet Delhi saw a lot of Windows Phone 7 action with both HTC releases – the HD7 and the 7 Mozart coming to us. Currently HTC is the only company selling Windows Phone 7 in India and here is a…
It’s official – Samsung Galaxy Tab now for Rs 29,299!
When Samsung had launched the Galaxy Tab in India a few months ago, we had loved the device but, had felt that at Rs 38,000, it was way overpriced. However, that price had been coming down, and some retailers like…
Toshiba pokes fun at iPad on its tablet site!
The tablet wars are well and truly on and the latest verbal salvo in these (after the mauling handed out to Android by Tim Cook) has been fired by the folks at Toshiba. Just head over to the new…
Review: Bubble Ball (iOS)
The past couple of days have seen the media buzzing about Bubble Ball, the game made by fourteen-year-old Robert Nay that has knocked Angry Birds Seasons off the top of the free apps charts of the App Store. We decided…
Nintendo 3DS coming on March 27 – 3D gaming without glasses for $249
So, after a relative no-show at CES 2011, Nintendo has finally told the world when its next portable gaming console will be hitting the shelves (in the US, at least). According to a release that we have just received, the…
A 1.4 kg Vaio for Rs 26,990? Sony releases the YB series
They may be among the most stylish notebooks, but one thing that most people tend to associate with Sony’s Vaio series of notebooks are relatively stiff price tags. Well, that might be set to change with Sony taking the wrappers…
Apple Talks iPad Competition, Honeycomb vs iPad
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…
Twitter Discussion: What’s Wrong With Nokia?
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…
OneNote arrives in App Store, will MS Office follow?
Microsoft has released a version of its note-making application, OneNote, for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. The app which is part of the MS Office suite on computers and is being used by over 80 million people in the…
Final Fantasy XIII gets silly name sequel – Final Fantasy XIII-2!
At long last the folks at Square Enix have announced the sequel to the six million copy selling Final Fantasy XIII RPG. And in terms of lame gaming nomenclature, this has got to take first prize. No, it is not…
OG Interview: Ajay Sharma, Country Head, HTC India
After being in the news for coming out with some amazing smartphones over the past few years, HTC had a relatively quiet holiday season in India, with no major releases. However, the company seems to be back in the swing…
We have got a Facebook Mail ID! Are we switching to it? Umm…No!
Facebook is one of the most popular social networking services around – it has even inspired a film. So when it was announced late last year that Facebook would be launching a mail service too (called Facebook Messaging), we applied…
Connector Kinetic Robots (Modular Robot) – Techfest
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…
Has Nokia pulled the plug on Ovi Music Unlimited?
Nokia might have been having a relatively rough time in the smartphone market (it remains the leader, though), but one thing that really worked in its favour was the Ovi Music Unlimited service. It lets users download an unlimited number…
ECCERobot – The Humanoid At Techfest 2011
Coverage by our in-house scientist – Aditya Sengupta. You can must follow him on twitter: @sengupta! One of the striking observations about most “humanoid” robots today is how unhuman they actually are- particularly on the inside. They are filled with motors,…
Apple’s iPad 2 With Quadrupled Pixels? Retina? (2048×1536)
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…
Unboxing the HTC Mozart 7 (WP7)
We did a super unboxing of the HTC Mozart 7 at the Delhi GizmoMeet yesterday. The Mozart 7 is one of the first Windows Phone 7 phones to be launched in India and what better than a live audience of…
Dining with the HTC HD7 (WP7) [Pictures]
A dinner with geeks after the GizmoMeet Delhi has its own geeky taste. Amongst others, we were served the HD7, another Windows Phone 7 device from HTC. To begin with, it has a 4.3″ screen, enough to; even encourage this…
Devil May Cry coming to iPhone, iPod touch
The Sony PSP brigade and Nintendo DS fan club might disagree, but the iPhone and iPod touch are rapidly turning into full-fledged mobile gaming platforms, thanks to the rash of games available on the iTunes App Store. And the latest…
Video: RIM Blackberry Playbook with QNX OS
We went hands-on with the RIM tablet i.e. the Blackberry Playbook at CES 2011, and here is a fairly detailed demo of the same (running the QNX OS). The Playbook is due to come out in Q1 of 2011 and…
Hands-on with the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc & LiveView [Video]
We are back from CES 2011 and here is a detailed hands-on video of the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc announced last week. The Arc is certainly one of the most visually appealing smartphones announced recently. Running Android 2.3 (gingerbread) and…
What Is The Verizon iPhone Up Against?
The Verizon iPhone 4 is out, and Apple has finally gone CDMA. Ideally it would have been expected from Apple to lean towards a future technology like LTE, but as Tim said on stage ‘Verizon wanted the iPhone NOW’. So…
Will The CDMA iPhone Come To India?
Now that the much speculated, discussed and deliberated upon CDMA iPhone has landed on Verizon we were wondering about the possibility of the device arriving in India sometime soon. In the not too distant past there were reports about the…
Touch The Invisibles, Tactile Feedback Screens at Techfest 2011 [Video]
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…
Hands-on: LG Optimus Black, Brightest Display, Global Release! [Video]
The LG Optimus Black is on display at CES 2011, and we had our few moments with it. The Optimus Black is a 4.0? touchscreen with an advanced gyroscope accelerometer that makes navigation beyond what we are used to (see…
Quick Preview: LG Revolution – Verizon LTE [Video]
We went hands-on with the LG Revolution at CES 2011. The Revolution is amongst the Android handsets LG has announced this week. The Revolution is a LTE enabled phone with a 4.3? full touchscreen & DLNA smartshare. There is a…
Nokia C7: Brief Review
The C7 has been seen by many as an attempt by Nokia to offer a watered down and more affordable version of the high-profile N8. Although Nokia officials had claimed that the N8 would be the only Symbian ^3 handset…
Video Preview of the LG Optimus 2X (Tegra 2 Superphone)
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…
[Video] Samsung Sliding PC – Tx100 (PC7 Series)
Microsoft showed the Samsung Sliding PC at its keynote yesterday and Samsung showed off the Slicing PC (Model TX100). We have here an exclusive video of the Samsung Sliding PC running Windows 7 professional. This one would cost anywhere between…
New Microsoft Windows 7 PCs / Tablet & Surface Demoed At CES
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…
The Mac App Store, Early Impressions
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…
Fable 3: Limited Collector’s Edition, A Brief Review
All right, we know what you are going to say – “Why would anyone go all the way and unbox a videogame when all the thrill is actually in slipping it into a console and playing it?” Well, our rationale…
IIT B Techfest 2011 Begins Tomorrow! Sneak Peek
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…
The Mac App Store is live! More than a thousand apps to start off
It was not launched at Vegas during CES, but could prove to be a much bigger game changer than all the products launched with a lot of razmatazz out there. We are talking of Apple’s Mac App Store, which has…
Die, graphics cards? Intel releases graphics-stacked second generation of Core processors
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…
Sony Ericsson shows the Xperia Arc, with Bravia Engine display, Android 2.3
CES has seen some remarkable products so far, and Sony Ericsson has joined the party with one of the most spectacular smartphones we have seen so far. The Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc was revealed as the “first of a new generation of Xperia smartphones…
Motorola adds two more to Android smartphone stable – Droid Bionic & Cliq 2
The XOOM tablet and the Atrix (with its laptop dock) might have grabbed all the headlines, but Motorola has not ignored its Android range of smartphones at CES. The company which has been riding high on Android since the high-profile launch of…
