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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…

Android

Custom Kernel Now Allows SD Card Support On The Motorola Xoom

April 12, 2011 0 Ricky

Motorola Xoom has been out there for quite some time now but the development for Android 3.0 honeycomb device is going on very slow as Google has not provided the source code for the tablet version yet. Despite Google turning…

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

CyanogenMod 7 Goes Stable, We Go Hands-on

April 12, 2011 0 Ricky

Yesterday morning I woke up to my friend Chirag Khushalani’s gtalk message that the CyanogenMod 7 stable is out; and provided me the download link. That was all which was needed for me to get up and run to my…

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…

Nokia

New Symbian UI Appears In Leaked Video

April 11, 2011 1 Rahul S

We all know that Nokia is planning to update its beleaguered Symbian OS with a fresh new update in the weeks to come. The new update was thought to mostly concentrate on the UI part of the OS which has…

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

AMD To Join The Android Party

April 10, 2011 0 Ricky

We all know that many manufacturers and developers have been showing a lot of interest towards Android lately. We have seen an increasing number of iOS developers shift to Android, graphics card manufacturing giant nVIDIA bringing the Tegra 2 mobile…

HP (Hewlett Packard)

HP WebOS Laden Keyboardless Phone Spotted

April 9, 2011 0 Rahul S

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…

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…

India

HTC Desire S Arrives In India Officially

April 9, 2011 1 Rahul S

A few days ago, we had reported that HTC’s Incredible S is on the verge of being launched here in India. Now we have news regarding HTC’s Desire S, another smartphone that was announced along with the Incredible S at the MWC…

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…

Tech Industry News

Windows 7 Edges Past Windows XP Market Share

April 9, 2011 1 Rahul S

According to folks over at Statcounter, Microsoft’s Windows 7 has finally edged past its old cousin Windows XP to become the most widely used desktop OS in the US. According to Statcounter, Windows 7 now has 31.71% of the market…

Android

[How To] Get Gingerbread On Your Galaxy Tab

April 8, 2011 0 Ricky

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…

Android

Leaked: Droid X 2 Specs And Pictures

April 8, 2011 1 Ricky

We all remember the Droid X a huge devious and at one time considered the iPhone killer and one of the best devices out there with a great processor, huge RAM and a big display. Well there has been a…

India

TechCom Launches Entry Level, 2.1 Channel Speaker System SSD-3300 In India

April 8, 2011 0 Rahul S

Indian PC accessories maker TechCom has launched its newest 2.1 channel speaker system in India. Techcom’s latest offering in the consumer electronics market is the SSD 3300 FM, an entry level, value for money 2.1 channel speaker system. The SSD…

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.

India

Logitech Launches The Z506 5.1 Channel Speaker System In India

April 8, 2011 0 Rahul S

Logitech has announced the launch of its new 5.1 channel speaker system – the Z506 in India. The Z506 is an entry level 5.1 channel system for the PC and offers 75 watts (RMS) of power through its four satellite…

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).…

Tech Industry News

Asus Launches The GTX 590 In India

April 7, 2011 0 Rahul S

It was just days ago that Nvidia announced the launch of its GeForce GTX 590 graphics cards. Just days after that, Asus has brought the cards based on this dual core GPU here in India. Asus packs in its new…

Android

Updates For Apps On Android Market Causing Problems For Android Developers

April 7, 2011 0 Ricky

Android market is growing at a very fast rate right now and many developers have come in to develop for android and many people have shifted from operating systems like Apple and  Windows have shifted to Android but many of…

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

Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Bootloader Finally Unlocked

April 4, 2011 0 Ricky

Once More the developers have done something very great and have managed to unlock the bootloader of the Xperia X10. For those who did not know, Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 came with an unlockable bootloader and though ROMs and recoveries…

Android

[How To] Flash Custom xrecovery On Sony Ericsson Xperia X10

April 4, 2011 1 Ricky

Well the Xperia X10 guide for rooting has been done if you have not checked it out then have a look at it because flashing a custom recovery needs a phone to be rooted. The procedures below will install a…

Android

Leaked: Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro

April 4, 2011 0 Rahul S

First things first. Don’t you think the name “Xperia X10 Mini Pro” is a tad longish for a mere phone – that too for one that is compact at that? Just saying. Anyway, we are not discussing lengths of the…

Android

[How To] Root Sony Ericsson Xperia X10

April 4, 2011 1 Ricky

Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 is the first device from Sony Ericsson to come out with the Android operating system and this fare has been the most popular phone on Sony’s list do far. The only bad thing about this is…

Android

[How To] Mod HTC Browser To Use 16 Windows Instead Of 4

April 3, 2011 0 Ricky

Well everyone likes tabbed browsing, there are times when you have to do lots of work and if you do not have access to you laptop then you probably browse from your handheld device and if that device happens to…

Android

[How To] Root Huawei IDEOS U8150

April 3, 2011 0 Ricky

The Huawei IDEOS U8150 is a low budget device and has been on the market for long time now, many people on twitter had told us that they did not have a rooting guide for the IDEOS so we thought…

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…

Android

T-Mobile Sidekick Makes A Comeback With The Sidekick 4G

April 2, 2011 0 Ricky

We had heard about the Sidekick 4G coming soon from December itself. This revolutionary slide phones which changed everyone’s perspective about the Slide Phones. The only change is that this Sidekick is by Samsung .

Android

A Drastic Change By 28 Percent In quadrant Benchmark After Motorola Xoom Gets Updated

April 2, 2011 0 Ricky

Motorola Xoom update started rolling out last week, all xoom users anticipated this update which would get the device ready for the flash compatibility, but this update seems like a major one as after the HRI66 update we can see…

Android

Android Developer’s Tablet ODROID-A Sporting Dual Core Samsung Processor

April 2, 2011 0 Ricky

Finally the developer tablet is here and the only thing disappointing about it is that, this device will not be running the tablet optimized version of Android, Honeycomb. As we know that the Android developers are very skilled it will…