Android

Why The Samsung Galaxy S II GPS Performance Doesn’t Look Impressive To Me

April 29, 2011 0 Rahul S

Samsung’s original Galaxy S was notorious for its rather jittery GPS performance. The successor to that phone seems to have fixed that issue by implementing a better GPS chip inside. Folks over at Engadget who had got hold of a…

Featured

Editorial: The India Launch Confusion, Setting The Record Straight

April 29, 2011 8 Annkur

Last week when we told you about the iPad 2 India launch and today Apple officially started selling the same in India. While most of our friends in Indian media picked up the story and trusted our report, it seems…

Android

Nexus S gets Android 2.3.4 OTA, You Can Get It OTW!

April 29, 2011 5 Aaplap

Google and Samsung  finally launched the Nexus S in India a couple days ago. Those of you who jumped on it get an instant treat: The latest and the greatest Android 2.3.4! This seems to be a minor update over…

LG

LG To Show MeeGo Love In SFO, May

April 29, 2011 0 Annkur

We heard of LG’s MeeGo love before and some more official news pours in. LG would be at the MeeGo conference at SFO next month and it would show some of its products running a MeeGo build. While LG isn’t…

India

HTC Wildfire S coming To India In 7 Days, Priced Around Rs 15000

April 29, 2011 2 Annkur

HTC is on a roll. India can expect as many as 7 HTC devices rolling out over the next on month and that includes the HTC Flyer (Evo View as it may be branded in India). The Incredible S went…

eReaders & Tablets

Motorola Xoom / Honeycomb To Get A Software Update Soon

April 28, 2011 0 Rahul S

All you Xoom owners out there; brace yourselves up for an update that’s coming your devices’ way. Verizon has announced that it is all set to release an update for the Honeycomb 3.0 version running on the tablet. The update…

News

Motorola Xoom To Get A Software Update Soon

April 28, 2011 0 Rahul S

All you Xoom owners out there; brace yourselves up for an update that’s coming your devices’ way. Verizon has announced that it is all set to release an update for the Honeycomb 3.0 version running on the tablet. The update…

India

Apple To Sell Factory Unlocked iPhone 4 In India?

April 28, 2011 0 Annkur

We have already heard from two telecom operators in India that they would be bringing the iPhone 4 to India in ‘coming months’. Almost 10 months after its US release, iPhone fans in India would get their hands on official iPhone 4…

Apple

Android Powered HTC Incredible S Reviewed

April 28, 2011 1 Annkur

The only market ready smartphone OS (apart from the iOS) to make good use of full touchscreens in Google’s Android. And one of the latest high-end Android powered devices to land on our desk is the HTC Incredible-S. Successor to…

India

Cisco Launches Dual-Band Wireless-N Router Linksys E4200

April 28, 2011 0 Krishnan

The need for high speed entertainment is reaching its all time peak. High speed internet & wi-fi are common & basic requirements in the modern world and with that in mind Cisco announced the Linksys E4200, the latest & most…

Nokia

Nokia Shelves Tablet Plans; Smartphones Primary Focus

April 28, 2011 0 Rahul S

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…

India

BlackBerry Style 9670 Lands In India. Shows Some CDMA Love

April 28, 2011 0 Rahul S

All you BlackBerry fanbois on the CDMA side of the telecom divide rejoice! RIM has launched its much talked about (but not sought after) flip phone, the BlackBerry Style 9670 here in India. Designed to run on the CDMA platform,…

Apple

White iPhone 4 To Hit The US Stores Tomorrow, India is Not On the List

April 27, 2011 0 Monis

It’s now official. Apple has announced that the hurdles in manufacturing the white iPhone 4 have been resolved. The white iPhone 4 will be available in Apple Stores starting from tomorrow. In addition to US, the white iPhone 4 would…

Notebook / Laptops

OG Review: Acer E-Machines eM350

April 27, 2011 0 Rahul S

Thanks to my recent experience with the MacBook Air I was sorta becoming a fan of these small, netbook sized laptops. Having been used to travelling with my 15 inch Dell Studio, these miniature laptops felt much easier to carry…

India

Apple Confirms iPad 2 India Launch. Lands 29 April

April 27, 2011 4 Rahul S

A week ago, we had broken the news regarding the imminent launch of the iPad 2 in India. Apple has a finally made the launch official effectively confirming our report. Like we had mentioned, India features in the list of…

Nokia

Nokia “Gives Away” Symbian To Accenture, Cuts Jobs

April 27, 2011 0 Rahul S

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…

Android

LG Optimus ME (P350) – OG Review

April 27, 2011 0 Ricky

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…

Android

HTC Incredible S gets Gingerbread Update in Italy

April 27, 2011 0 Krishnan

HTC in February announced that that the Desire HD, Desire Z, Desire and Incredible S will receive the Gingerbread update by end of Q2 of 2011. All I can say is, they’ve broken their promise but a good one at…

Apple

Did Vijay Sales Jump The Gun On iPad 2 Announcement? (Yes)

April 27, 2011 1 Annkur

It seems that Vijay Sales (a leading retail chain in India) has affirmed our reports of iPad 2 India launch. We saw VijaySales tweeting yesterday about the iPad 2 availability. It began with a small teaser and went on to…

Cameras

Samsung W200 Camcorder To Release In May

April 26, 2011 0 Krishnan

Earlier in the week Cisco announced that they’ll be killing of the Flip, the unique line of Video Cameras. There can only be one proper explanation for this move is that the Flip was selling poorly and couldn’t sustain their…

Featured

Samsung Champ Duos GT-E2652 – OG Review

April 26, 2011 2 Annkur

Samsung has taken the touchscreen phones below Rs 5000 levels and Champ Duos is another attempt to lure the low end market with a touchscreen. The Micromax and Lavas of the mobile world have been milking this segment since sometime…

Gaming

PlayStation Network Goes Down For A Long, Long Time…

April 26, 2011 9 Aaplap

This is a big one. After several days of outage, Sony has finally announced that the online system for the console – the PlayStation Network – is going down for a long time. The outage was caused by ‘external intrusion’,…

Android

Acer Iconia: Cheapest Honeycomb Tablet Goes On Sale For $450, Does It Matter?

April 25, 2011 0 Annkur

Google has rolled out Honeycomb as an answer to iOSes dominance (with the iPad) in the tablet space. 9 months and 15 million iPads alter we saw the first Honeycomb device, the Motorola Xoom at CES 2011 and it sure looked promising.…

Gaming

New Wii Coming This June!

April 25, 2011 0 Aaplap

No matter how much you talk about Kinect for Xbox 360 and PlayStation Move, you’ll always know that they weren’t the ones to start it all – the Nintendo Wii did it five years ago! And that legacy is now…

Android

[How To] Root the LG G2X

April 25, 2011 0 Ricky

The LG G2X is the first phone which will be shipped with Tegra zone and, not only that t-mobile is supporting developers to Mod the G2X as they have given Cyanogen a G2X for free it’s a device with great…

Android

LG Optimus Big Appears In Korea, No Sign Of An International Launch

April 23, 2011 0 Rahul S

LG’s Optimus Big, also known as the LG LU6800 was first seen back in March in a leaked photograph pictured alongside an iPhone4. Back then, it was speculated that the phone would be seeing a Q2 launch. Well the Q2…

Google

Shifting My Google Videos To YouTube

April 23, 2011 0 Annkur

Recently Google announced that it is shutting down its video site (video.google.com) completely. This had to happen someday with YouTube leading the video work for Google (uploads to Google Video was disabled in 2009) and most of you would have…

News

Motorola Cooking Tegra 3 Powered Smartphones For Q1 2012?

April 23, 2011 0 Annkur

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…

Android

[How To] Root Xperia Play

April 23, 2011 0 Ricky

Xperia Play was released just a few days back and just this week Sony Ericsson unlocked the bootloader of all the latest Sony Ericsson devices, and the result of that is Xperia Play getting rooted thanks to the guy at…

Android

[How To] Unlock The Bootloader Of New Sony Ericsson Devices (Xperia Play, Arc and Neo)

April 23, 2011 0 Ricky

Sony Ericsson had promised to unlock its bootloaders and finally they have answered the prayers of developers and also the rooting and custom ROM community. This procedure is very simple, we have to just fill out a form in the…

smartphones

Froyo loaded Acer Liquid Mini quietly arrives for Rs. 11,990 in India

April 23, 2011 0 c0rex

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…

Cameras

Images Of Sony NEX-C3 Camera Leaked

April 23, 2011 0 Krishnan

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…

News

Droid X2 Press Shots Leaked, Slight Change In The Name!

April 23, 2011 0 Rahul S

It’s been quite some time since we have been hearing about Motorola’s successor to the Droid X. Until now, the phone was unofficially christened the “Droid X2” and we knew that visually, it was not much different compared to the…

Android

Google Android Again Pops Up On The Radar For Security Issues

April 22, 2011 0 Ricky

Recently Android is showing up a lot for its security issues, just a few weeks back Android was attacked by a serious malware, but this time its not a third party which is involved, it’s Google themselves. Google and Apple…

Android

Amazon Going Green With Android Tablet?

April 22, 2011 0 Ricky

Amazon has already set its foot on the Androidsphere by introducing their own Amazon App store for Android. Later they also introduced a cloud based music player. Amazon is also the home of kindle, which was a huge hit. Just…

News

Sony Ericsson W8; Walkman Branded Android Phone In India Soon?

April 22, 2011 1 Rahul S

Sony Ericsson has announced its first Walkman branded Android laden phone – the W8 in Indonesia. The W8 seems to be analogous to the old Xperia X8 that was launched last year. The W8 is powered by a rather slowish…

Android

Samsung Countersues Apple In Tit for Tat Move, Avoids US

April 22, 2011 0 Rahul S

Days after Apple sued Samsung for copying design and UI elements from their products in Samsung’s Galaxy line up of products, Samsung has filed new counter law suits in South Korea, Japan and Germany alleging as many as five patent…

Apple

Exclusive: Apple iPad 2 Coming To India Next Week, Starts at Rs 27,900

April 22, 2011 13 Annkur

Tired of being quoted Rs 60k for the iPad 2 in India? Well not for long! We suspected! and a trusted source just confirms that the Apple iPad 2 is coming to India next week! It is expected to launch…

Featured

G’Five G5 Projector Phone – OG Review

April 21, 2011 0 Rahul S

Phones laden with pico projectors are not new phenomenon. We have been hearing about them for quite some time now. However, for some reason, they haven’t been able to hit the popularity charts worldwide. Most mainstream mobile phone manufacturers seem…

Leaked / Spyshots

Leaked: Panasonic and Huawei To Push MeeGo Handsets

April 21, 2011 0 Annkur

Not the A list that Intel would have liked, but after the rumors of LG doing MeeGo handsets, our friends at MeegoExperts have concrete news on two new handset makers going the MeeGo way. They would be joining a small…