Internet

Yahoo Buzz To Die On April 21

April 18, 2011 2 Rahul S

I am sure you might have come across the “Buzz” button on blogs and websites from across the globe. No, we are not talking about Google’s social networking experiment – the Google Buzz. This is about arch rival Yahoo’s product,…

Apple

FriendCaster: The Best FaceBook App For iPad? Free!

April 18, 2011 1 Annkur

While we all await Facebook to release an official app for Apple iPad, we have to rely on 3rd party developers doing some work on this front. One of the top apps (1st when we checked) on the App Store…

Apple

HP Rolls Out iOS App For Wireless Printing, Countdown For WebOS on Printers?

April 18, 2011 0 Annkur

HP has a good range of printers that are capable of wireless magic. Be it bluetooth in the old age or WiFi for today, they have good offerings for you. It seems that they are working in full swing to…

Featured

Samsung’s New Phones Could Be Faster Than Your Laptop

April 18, 2011 4 Aaplap

The mobile phone manufacturer that never sleeps, Samsung, is busy pushing the limits of mobile CPUs; their new smartphones are likely to sport dual-core 2.0GHz CPUs by the end of the year. These new CPUs will almost certainly power the…

Android

Will Android hit half-a-million activations a day soon?

April 18, 2011 0 Krishnan

Android, nicknamed the ‘Droid’ is the latest buzz everywhere. Jeff Huber, Senior Vice President of Google’s Commerce and Local, stated at recent discussion of Google’s Q1 of 2011 about the massive growth of Android devices and revealed 350,000 Android devices…

Android

HTC Sensation In India By May/June 2011

April 18, 2011 0 Rahul S

If you were one of the many Indians looking forward to getting yourself a nice, powerful, dual core Android handset, your options will soon expand to one more handset in the form of the recently announced HTC Sensation. Also, if…

Internet

Google Videos To Shut Down On April 29

April 18, 2011 0 Rahul S

Back in 2005, three former PayPal mates huddled together and ended up making a small startup project. The idea was a service that let users upload their own videos to the web and share them to others. It was an…

Android

Skype For Android Has Serious Security Flaw; Exposes Confidential Information

April 18, 2011 0 Rahul S

Folks over at Android Police have managed to unearth a serious flaw with the Android version for Skype wherein it could end up displaying confidential information regarding you to a malicious app – should you happen to install one on…

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…

HTC

HTC Teases 16 Megapixel Phone, Runs Windows Phone 7?

April 17, 2011 0 Annkur A

The megapixel wars hasn’t had any buzz in a while. The apps and platform has been the major fighting point for smartphone makers. However it seems HTC is gearing up to up the 8MP bar that it has for cameras.…

smartphones

LG To Make MeeGo Smartphones?

April 15, 2011 0 Rahul S

Ever since Nokia decided on Windows Phone to be the OS of choice for its next generation smartphones, it not only struck the death knell for old warrior Symbian, but also derailed Nokia’s MeeGo project that it had conjured up…

India

Sling Media Launches The Slingbox In India

April 15, 2011 1 Rahul S

Until yesterday, the term Slingbox was one of those irrelevant tech terms for us Indians who knew about its existence – but were not sure as to what exactly it does. Yours truly for example had heard of it, but…

News

Windows Phone Chief Explains Reason For Software Update Delay

April 13, 2011 0 Rahul S

The head of Microsoft’s Windows Phone program, Joe Belfiore has revealed why the promised update for Windows Phone 7 devices has been delayed. The major update that was supposed to be implemented by now would have enabled the much sought…

Featured

Samsung Galaxy PRO (GT-B7510) – OG Review

April 13, 2011 20 Rahul S

It is not often that you come across a QWERTY keyboard (the non-sliding type) laden Android phone. There have been a few examples in the past like the Motorola Charm and the now ancient Kogan Agora Pro. Most Android handsets…

Nokia

Nokia’s Ovi Store Boasts Five Million Downloads A Day

April 13, 2011 0 Rahul S

There was a flurry of activity yesterday at Nokia with them announcing their brand new phones – the X7 and the E6. It was also a big day for Symbian with Nokia coming up with the latest version of the…

Nokia

Nokia E6 Arrives, Aims To Replace Your Ageing E71, E72

April 12, 2011 0 Rahul S

Along with the X7, Nokia also took covers off its latest E-Series handset, the E6 earlier today. The E6 can be considered an update to the highly popular E7x series of handsets and is a direct upgrade to the Nokia…

Android

Verizon Pushing Gingerbread 2.3 Update For Motorola Droid X?

April 12, 2011 0 Annkur

It seems that Verizon customers using the Motorola Droid X are seeing an OTA update to Gingerbread! Currently running (at least officially) Android Froyo, Gingerbread (2.3) is the most sought after hack. A Gingerbread build for DroidX had leaked sometime back, but…

Nokia

Nokia Launches The X7 With Symbian “Anna”, Clear Black Display And New Ovi Maps

April 12, 2011 0 Rahul S

Just a day after a leaked video of the phone appeared, Nokia decided to finally make its much rumored handset, the X7’s existence public. The X7 runs the tried and tested Symbian OS – but a new version of it…

News

Launch: HTC Sensation Android Phone, 1.2Ghz Snapdragon, Sense 3.0

April 12, 2011 0 Annkur

HTC has gone official with its Sensation, Android phone. The device features a 4.3″ touchscreen that packs in qHD resolution (960×540) and some heavy horsepower. Sensation is powered by a dual-core 1.2GHz snapdragon CPU (this looks to be the same…

Android

SGS2 Launch: UK To Get Samsung Galaxy S II on May 1st! No Pricing

April 11, 2011 0 Annkur

Seems like Samsung has made the final push to prove that the Galaxy S2 isn’t delayed and would launch in the timeline provided. The UK launch date for Samsung Galaxy S II has been confirmed as 1st May. Samsung recently…

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…

Tech Industry News

China To Get Own GPS Like Navigation System, Launches Beidou Satellite

April 11, 2011 0 Rahul S

There are standards that the world follows and then there are the Chinese who create their own standards. The examples are many. While the rest of the world clings on to Google, they have their own homegrown search engine, the…

India

Samsung To Release bada 2.0 In July. India Top Priority

April 11, 2011 0 Rahul S

Samsung’s homegrown smartphone OS, the bada would be getting an update to version 2.0 in the next few months (July, to be precise). Bada, OS had made its debut 10 months ago with the Samsung Wave S8500 and has been…

Android

Motorola Xoom Tablet Gets Priced In UK, Starts £480

April 9, 2011 0 Annkur

The frist Honeycomb tablet to be touched by mankind has finally made its way through UK. Motorola has been going slow with the Xoom rollout and the device has had its own little ups and downs in the rat race…

Security

Facebook “Shutdown” Scam Hits Millions Of Users

April 9, 2011 0 Rahul S

I am sure you have come across at least one of those forwarded messages that ask you to take care of your Facebook profile because the service is shutting down on some date in the future. In the latest iteration…

Android

Why the HTC Flyer could be an iPad competitor!

April 8, 2011 5 Mr Spock

The second iPad has been launched and we are still searching for the tablet that will provide competition to the iPad. The Motorola Xoom, for all that it had been promising, has not exactly delivered on everything that was talked…

eReaders & Tablets

Infibeam PI2 Hands On Review

April 8, 2011 0 Mehul

Pi2 is the latest portable reading device from Infibeam. It comes loaded with Top 100 E-books from Project Gutenberg. Though not portable enough to carry in your pocket, Pi2 is portable enough to be carried with you for reading while commuting.

Android

Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc, Xperia Play Launched In India

April 7, 2011 0 Rahul S

Days after landing in the UK, Sony Ericsson’s brand new flashship Android devices, the Xperia Arc and the gaming centric Xperia Play have made it to India. Both the phones run the latest version of Android for smartphones – Android 2.3 (Gingerbread).…

Android

LG Optimus 2X, Optimus Black Launched In India

April 5, 2011 0 Rahul S

The wait has finally ended! LG has announced the launch of the Optimus 2X here in India. The Optimus 2X is powered by a dual core Tegra 2 chipset and holds the claim for being the world’s first phone with…

Opinion

An Ode To The Samsung Omnia HD

April 4, 2011 4 Rahul S

Back in 2009 while I was at Techtree handling my “mobile beats” space and busy covering the MWC, I came across this phone from Samsung. It belonged to the Omnia family which had until then only boasted of devices running…

Android

Samsung Launches The Nexus S In India

April 2, 2011 1 Rahul S

Google’s Nexus S, the developer phone originally manufactured by Samsung has finally made it to India officially. The phone has been officially priced at Rs. 30,400. That said there are a couple of retailers that are selling the phone for…

Tech Industry News

Android, Windows Phone 7 To Top Smartphone Sales In Future: IDC

March 31, 2011 0 Rahul S

In what sounds to be great news for Nokia, research firm IDC has said that Android and Windows Phone would lead the smartphone OS pack in the not too distant future. The number of smartphone expected to ship in 2011 would…

News

HCL Launches New Android Powered Tablets In India

March 30, 2011 0 Rahul S

HCL has announced the launch of its new range of ME branded tablets in India. The range consists of three models the ME AE7, The ME AM 7 and the ME AP10. These new tablets are claimed to be the…

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…

Internet

Social Activist Files FIR Against Facebook

March 27, 2011 1 Rahul S

A social activist from Meerut, UP has registered an FIR (First Information Report) against social networking giant Facebook and its members for hurting religious sentiments and “instigating communal passions”. The FIR also accuses Facebook of abusing Indian Gods and the…

Apple

Apple Releases iOS 4.3.1

March 25, 2011 0 Monis

Apple has finally released iOS 4.3.1 for download in iTunes. This update fixes many bugs that were earlier reported including the graphic glitch in iPod Touch 4th generation, Apple TV image flickering when using Apple Digital AV adapter with some…

Apple

Apple iPad 2 In UK, Videos From Launch Day

March 25, 2011 0 Annkur

The Apple iPad 2 went on sale in UK today and being in London this was surely on my list. I visited the Apple Store at Regent Street (London) and was surprised to see the lines for the iPad 2.…

Apps

BlackBerry PlayBook Will Run Android Apps

March 25, 2011 0 Rahul S

RIM has announced that its upcoming Tablet, the BlackBerry Playbook will support apps designed for Android 2.3 handsets and older BlackBerry OS and Java Apps. This would be made possible using two optional application environments that RIM would release. Although…

Apple

iPad 2 Online Ordering Pulls Apple Store Down (UK)

March 24, 2011 1 Annkur

The Apple iPad 2 just went on sale in the United Kingdom and it seems that despite keeping a 2-3 weeks shipping time to begin with, Apple is finding it hard to satisfy the demand for iPad 2 on its…

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…