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…
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Google Buying Motorola, Worry For Samsung, HTC? Android Ecosystem?
In midst of the information overload with Google pulling a MotoRabbit out of their hat today, there is a big question on the Android ecosystem. How open does Android remain with Google owning a hardware company? As suggested by Sanjay…
Motorola Launches Dual SIM Handsets EX109, EX119, EX212 In India
Motorola Mobility has officially launched three dual SIM handsets in India today viz, the EX109, EX119, EX212. All the three dual SIM handsets are priced in the sub Rs 10,000 range starting from Rs. 3,590 going up to Rs. 6,190.…
Why Nokia Wont Launch Anymore Symbian Phones In US
To it comes as no surprise that Nokia won’t sell any more Symbian devices in US. Nokia’s US head Chris Weber in an interview with AllthingsD confirmed that they would not ship any S40 or Symbian devices in US after…
Developer Gets Chrome OS Working On Tablet [Video]
Google has been pushing Android on mobile devices and Chrome OS on netbooks. At best we have seen some screenshots of Chrome OS for tablet, but that’s an old story and Google has announced no plans for having Chrome OS…
India Aims to Improve Vaccination Rate With The Help Of Mobiles
Ghulam Nabi Azad, the health minister of India, addressed a meeting of World Health Organization in New Delhi this Tuesday stating that they would be collecting mobile numbers of all pregnant mothers and thus keeping a track of the immunization…
Google Strengthens IP Bank With Patents Purchase
Google is a busy company, at one end it is fighting the social war with its Google+ offering going against Facebook, the mobile market is exploding and has seen significant investment from Google over the past few years. With lawsuits…
UK Smartphones Market; Android Registers 634% Growth In One Year!
In the latest report regarding the state of the smartphones market in the UK by research firm ComScore, a staggering thing that has come to light is the phenomenal growth Of the Android operating system in that country. While it…
Samsung Launches N100 Netbook
Samsung today launched the N100 netbook, a successor of the Samsung N150 launched last year. Samsung is banking on the success of the N150 and have designed the N100 on similar lines. The N100 has a dual core Intel Atom…
42 Mbps 4G HSPA+ Smartphones On The Cards With T-Mobile
T-Mobile had already demoed its 42 Mbps capabilities at the CES early January this year. Well as per the latest reports, Android smartphone manufacturers like the HTC, Samsung and LG are preparing to launch devices in the later part of…
P2P NFC Transactions Demoed By PayPal, Mobile Payments FTW
You have probably seen the Bump app on iPhone that lets you just bump your phones and transfer data / songs. Well, how about transferring money in a similar fashion? This summer you would be able to get such capabilities…
Apple Macbook Airs No Longer Available At Best Buy & Amazon Ahead Of The Sandy Bridge Update
Some recent reports have suggested that the Apple Macbook Air is no longer available at BestBuy. The status to order these Macbook Airs has been changed to ‘Not available’. Only the top-of-the-line model is currently being sold by them. This…
Now Turn Sand Into Glass With 3D Printer, Solar Sinter (Video)
We have seen how solar energy helps generate electricity to power houses or corporations or even charge your cell phone batteries on the street. But this one is surely more creative than the other ones mentioned above. Aptly named Solar…
OG Review: HTC Salsa C510e Facebook Phone
Back in February, at the grand stage of Mobile World Congress, HTC announced its two Facebook phones, the Salsa and Chacha. We decided to pick up the HTC Salsa C510e for review and gave the Facebook phone a quick test…
OG Review: HTC Wildfire S
HTC has recently put the WildfireS on sale in India and the little Android phone is one of the many smartphones that HTC is rolling out this month. The original Wildfire was one of the bestsellers, more for its price…
Apple’s Lion / iCloud / iOS 5: Our Top Picks
Apple announced plenty yesterday with the upcoming iOS 5, Mac OS X Lion and iCloud yesterday. Given the fact that it was a pure software event, no new hardware was announced, but a major release of Mac OS, iOS and…
Milestones From WWDC 2011, Apple Lists Achievements
In regular fashion, presenters listed Apples achievements over the past few months and the year that passes since WWDC 2010. Given the charisma of the Apple CEO and the iPhone following, WWDC keynote is one of the most highly anticipated…
Race For The 3rd Spot, HP’s WebOS vs Windows Phone
If you watched Stephen Elop (Nokia) and Apotheker (HP) at the D9 conference, you can clearly see that these are the two companies who are fighting for the no 3 spot in mobile platforms. iOS / Android are fighting for the number…
Why Am I Not Getting The iPad 2, And You Should Buy One
After close to a year with the original iPad, I have been playing to the tunes of iPad 2 since a couple of weeks. The iPad 2 brings in a faster dual-core processor, a thinner body and is somewhat lighter.…
Japan Gets Android Clamshell By Sharp
In whats said to be a world first, Sharp has unveiled a Clamshell phone powered by Android. The Sharp Aquos Hybrid 007SH caters to a very small niche and the specs or design isn’t really something that would make us…
Nokia’s Windows Phones To Have ST-Ericsson CPU
Qualcomm is currently the chip supplier for windows phones but according to the sources ST-Ericsson is also going to supply chips in at least some of the upcoming windows phones. Microsoft has gone lengths to ensure that all WP7 handsets have a…
Why Microsoft Buying Nokia Makes Sense, And Why It Doens’t!
Now before I even begin, we know that this is a rumor and it sure sounds like a wild one. Just months after announcing a deal where Nokia would use Windows Phone as its primary smartphone OS, it looks odd…
Why Microsoft Buying Nokia Makes Sense, And Why It Doesn’t!
Now before I even begin, we know that this is a rumor and it sure sounds like a wild one. Just months after announcing a deal where Nokia would use Windows Phone as its primary smartphone OS, it looks odd…
Android Honeycomb based ‘Tablet Toshiba’ Delayed
Toshiba’s second android tablet which was said to arriving in the UK sometime during Q2 is to be delayed. According to Ken Chan, Product Market Manager of Toshiba, Android Honeycomb tablet would be delayed and it might launch during Q3.…
Palm Pre, Pre Plus Updated To WebOS Version 1.4.5.1
If you happen to own a Palm Pre or the newer Palm Pre Plus, let us remind you all that an update for these devices have been issued by HP. The update graduates the version number of WebOS to 1.4.5.1…
Nokia Shelves Tablet Plans; Smartphones Primary Focus
Nokia has been undergoing lots of changes in terms of its organizational structure, future plans and products of late. The last one to occur was just days ago when it revealed its plans to shelve off the entire Symbian team…
Nokia “Gives Away” Symbian To Accenture, Cuts Jobs
In a rather important development pertaining to Symbian, Nokia has announced that it has decided to “transfer” its entire Symbian operations along with the 3000 odd employees in that division to Accenture. Once the deal goes through, Accenture will provide…
LG Optimus ME (P350) – OG Review
Today we have another Android Phone with us for review it is the LG Optimus ME (P350 / Pecan), it’s the smaller version of the Optimus One with a 2.8” display, running Android 2.2.2 (Froyo), it’s a mid-range phone. The…
Motorola Cooking Tegra 3 Powered Smartphones For Q1 2012?
2012 is far off but that doesn’t stop rumors of potential smartphones coming out at CES. Motorola is said to be working on a couple of Nvidia Tegra 3 smartphones for Q1 2012. Given the Q1 timeframe, we might well…
Froyo loaded Acer Liquid Mini quietly arrives for Rs. 11,990 in India
Acer has quietly introduced new Liquid Mini smartphone that runs Android 2.2 Froyo. Like a little brother to the Acer Liquid Metal, the all new Liquid Mini has 3.2-inch capacitive touchscreen display with HVGA 320×480 pixel resolution. It’s never to…
Images Of Sony NEX-C3 Camera Leaked
A surprising chill ran through our spine on hearing the sudden discontinuity of NEX-3 by Sony only 8 months after its release. But the recent images circulating the internet make us feel that a worthy successor might be on its…
Apple Shoots A Lawsuit, Samsung Promises Response
Just when you thought you had seen and heard of most of the major litigations, patent infringement suits and legal tussles in the tech arena, here comes yet another one. The latest one features Apple and Samsung. The latest lawsuit…
Will Android hit half-a-million activations a day soon?
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…
Google Videos To Shut Down On April 29
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…
LG To Make MeeGo Smartphones?
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…
SGS2 Launch: UK To Get Samsung Galaxy S II on May 1st! No Pricing
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…
Samsung To Release bada 2.0 In July. India Top Priority
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…
HP WebOS Laden Keyboardless Phone Spotted
Folks over at PreCentral have managed to lay their hands on the image of what is said to be that of a WebOS device minus a physical keyboard. The source of the image is the same tipster that had informed…
[How To] Get Gingerbread On Your Galaxy Tab
We can say that the Galaxy tab is the most sold Android tablet right now, but we are not proud of this tablet as it still runs on Android 2.2 Froyo. Well all the people who are rooted and waiting…
Samsung Launches The Nexus S In India
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…
