Android

HTC Wildfire S: New Low End Android Handset Arrives

February 15, 2011 6 Rahul S

HTC has along with the HTC Desire S and the Incredible S also announced the launch of its new low end offering in the form of the HTC Wildfire S. A successor to the existing Wildfire, the device features an…

Android

MWC 2011: HTC Desire S Announced

February 15, 2011 0 Rahul S

HTC has taken covers of the successor to the HTC Desire by announcing the Desire S along with two other handsets at the ongoing MWC at Barcelona, Spain. The Desire S features a 3.7 inch display – the same size…

Android

HTC Refreshes Phone Line Up: Launches Incredible S

February 15, 2011 0 Rahul S

HTC seems to be in the mood to announce a bunch of new launches at the ongoing MWC it seems. To start off the proceedings, it has announced its first Android Tablet in the form of the HTC Flyer –…

News

HTC Announces New Android Tablet – HTC Flyer

February 15, 2011 0 Rahul S

In yet another addition to the growing number of Android powered tablets that has been announced of late, HTC has launched its first tablet at the on going MWC at Barcelona. Called the “Flyer”, this is one gets a 7…

News

Acer Launches Iconia Smart, Android Smartphone

February 14, 2011 1 Rahul S

We kinda knew that it would be literally raining Android phones at this year’s MWC. We also knew that we would come across quite a few interesting handsets at the event. Perhaps, the most interesting Android handset to be unveiled…

News

Sony Ericsson Launches The Android Powered Xperia Pro, Neo

February 14, 2011 1 Rahul S

Sony Ericsson has officially added two new devices to its Xperia Line Up of devices with the announcement of the Xperia Neo and the QWERTY keyboard laden Xperia Pro. Both the phones run Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) and features a 1Ghz…

Wow Gadgets

Samsung’s Tango Stealth Robot Vacuum Cleaner Promises Squeaky Clean Homes

February 14, 2011 0 Rahul S

Since all you geeks know that it’s the eve of the Mobile World Congress, what better time than now to talk about Samsung’s latest gadget that is truly mobile. We are talking about Samsung’s new Tango Stealth “Robot” Vacuum cleaner…

Android

YouTube Ties Up With LG For User Generated 3D Content

February 14, 2011 0 Rahul S

LG has announced that it has tied up with YouTube so that users of its upcoming 3D enabled smartphone, the Optimus 3D would be able to upload 3D content from their phones, directly on to YouTube.  Until now, 3D videos…

eReaders & Tablets

MeeGo Smartphone & Tablet All Set To be Demoed At MWC

February 14, 2011 0 Annkur

While Nokia made it clear that they have no hardware to demo at this years MWC (apart from a WP7 mockup), it became clear that no MeeGo handset would be seen, however it seems that Intel, who is promoting MeeGo…

Android

LG Announces Android Powered Optimus 3D, Optimus Pad Prior To MWC

February 13, 2011 0 Rahul S

While the MWC is to start officially on 14 Feb, manufacturers like LG and Samsung seem to be too impatient and have already announced their line up for the show there. LG’s line up is pretty interesting thanks to its…

App (Marketplace)

How To Get Windows Phone 7 Market Place On Your PC

February 13, 2011 0 Ricky

We had tried looking for a windows 7 market application on my PC, and we came accros this method by XDA member eried who managed to make a xap installer, which will enable you to use it on a Windows…

eReaders & Tablets

Samsung Galaxy Tab II and Galaxy S2 Pictured Ahead Of MWC

February 13, 2011 1 Annkur

Samsung is all set to unveil its Galaxy S and GalaxyTab successor at MWC 2011 and it seems that they have eagerly let out some pictures already. A lot is also being speculated about the specifications as well. The new…

Accessories

Hitachi Launches New IPS Display, Has Apple’s Retina Display Running For Cover

February 12, 2011 3 Rahul S

Apple’s retina display has been for the past year been the undisputed leader when it came to sheer resolution on a mobile screen. While there is still a debate whether Super AMOLED screens offer better viewing experience it is a…

Android

Viewsonic Launches Dual SIM Android Smartphone, 10 inch Tablet

February 12, 2011 0 Rahul S

On the eve of this year’s MWC, Viewsonic has announced the launch of two its most anticipated devices in the European market. The devices in question are the new Dual-SIM Android Smartphone, the V350 and the latest entry to the…

Leaked / Spyshots

Is This The First Microsoft – Nokia Device?

February 12, 2011 0 Rahul S

Hardly a day after the announcement of the partnership between Nokia and Microsoft where it was revealed that Nokia would make Windows Phone 7 devices, we have what according to Engadget are the first concept images of an upcoming Windows…

Android

[Rumor] Blackberry Playbook Maybe Able To Run Android Apps

February 11, 2011 0 Ricky

We have heard that Research In Motion has been trying to run  Android applications on its tablet, the Blackberry Playbook. RIM earlier tried to use third-party software that would allow the tablet to run Android applications, but failed to do…

First look

Intex Announces ‘V. DO Touch’, Full Touchscreen Phone

February 11, 2011 0 Annkur A

Intex has announced a full touchscreen phone in for the Indian market. The device looks inspired by the Nokia N8 in looks and sports a 3.5″ touchscreen. The V. DO Touch from Intex would cost just below Rs 5000 and…

Fixes / Troubleshooting

HD2 Now Has Full Resolution And Auto-Focus Camera On Windows Phone 7

February 11, 2011 0 Ricky

If you are running windows phone 7 on your HD2 and the camera output makes you feel like going back to windows 6.5, then thanks to XDA member Sergey_H you don’t have to go back, as he brings the SHCamerApp…

Android

Sentio UI For Android

February 11, 2011 0 Ricky

Android allows customization to the core and that includes customizing even your home screens and you have many options of home screens to choose from, there is Launcher Pro, Open Home, ADW and many others and now Sentio is trying…

Nokia

Will Nokia’s Microsoft Alliance Pay Off?

February 11, 2011 1 Rahul S

We all knew this was coming. In the wake of rising competition from newer, younger and nimbler adversaries like iOS and Android Nokia has announced a “strategic alliance” with Microsoft that would see the transition of Nokia’s high end devices…

Android

Did Stephen Elop Force Nokia-WP7 Deal?

February 11, 2011 2 Annkur

Nokia is marrying Microsoft and the world isn’t happy. A huge backlash is expected over the blogosphere, editorials over editorials telling whats wrong with Nokia would be the flavor for days to come and we are still to digest what…

Featured

Nokia adds to platform confusion, adopts Microsofts Windows Phone 7

February 11, 2011 3 Annkur

Nokia is all set to go the Windows Phone 7 route with rumors of a partnership with Microsoft turning out to be true. Not much details are available at the moment but the trend is clear. Last year at MWC…

Apple

Apple Working On Smaller, Cheaper iPhone Versions?

February 11, 2011 0 Rahul S

If we are to believe a Bloomberg report that surfaced a few hours ago, Apple is working on new versions of the iPhone. Of course you knew that all along, right? But no, the iPhone in question here is not…

Android

Twitter 2.0 For Android Arrives

February 11, 2011 0 Rahul S

Twitter has just released new version of the official Android Twitter client with a host of feature updates and bugfixes. The application, available for most Android devices running OS 2.1 and above is claimed to be much faster than the…

social media

We Are Trying The New Facebook Page!

February 10, 2011 0 Annkur

Facebook has just rolled out an upgrade for Facebook pages and it IMO fills a big gap. Finally Admins can post on a Facebook page by their name and at thats not all. You can interact with other pages and…

Android

Evernote for Android updated to 2.6

February 10, 2011 0 Anupama

Evernote, one of our favourite note making apps has just released an update for its Android version. The updated app, Evernote 2.6, comes with three major additions, the snippet view, notebook stacks and edit styled notes. The snippet view very…

Apps

Idea gets an application store, with some help from Ericsson

February 10, 2011 0 Anupama

Idea Telecom is all set to release its online application store with the help of Ericsson’s eStore concept, a web store for various mobile applications. According to Idea, any handset with Web browsing ability will be able to access the…

Apps

Opera’s Mobile Browsers Now Has Hundred Million Users

February 10, 2011 0 Rahul S

Opera has released its latest State of The Mobile Web Report which has some really interesting statistics that point towards the explosive growth of Opera’s Mobile browsers over the past few months. While Opera might have not been able to…

Android

Check Root Access, There Is An Application For That Too!

February 10, 2011 0 Ricky

There are many methods of checking whether you have root access or not. Sometimes, after following some rooting procedure we always check whether we did it properly and whether we have root access. What I normally do is to download…

Android

Android 2.3.3 SDK Now Out, NFC APIs Renewed

February 10, 2011 0 Ricky

Android 2.3.3 SDK with API Level 10 was released yesterday and is now available for download for all the developers out there. It is just a small feature release which introduces a few new APIS and renew some old APIs…

Android

Now Non-Android Phones Can Run Android Apps Using Myriad’s Alien Dalvik

February 10, 2011 0 Ricky

Myriad is one of the members of the Open Handset Alliance and have been working on Android since the start and have recorded about 3.7 billion applications on various different phones. Myriad Group today announced the launch of its Alien…

Android

GeeksPhone Zero Video out!

February 10, 2011 0 Ricky

GeeksPhone a Spanish manufacturer that most of the people have not heard about. It’s a manufacturer which makes fully open, out of the box rooted Android phones. No specs of their new device GeeksPhone zero has been released but we…

eReaders & Tablets

Quick Look: Motorola Xoom Vs HP Touchpad Vs Apple iPad vs BlackBerry Playbook

February 9, 2011 3 Rahul S

Ladies and gentlemen, Its 2011 and to say that this is the year of the tablets would not be an understatement. The frenzy that kicked off with the launch of the iPad last year is at its peak right now…

Android

[How to] Force Desktop Version Of Any Website On Stock Android Browser

February 9, 2011 1 Ricky

Many people including us are very uncomfortable with the Mobile view of any website, we always prefer a full desktop view and the stock android browser does not allow that for some websites, but we figured out a way to…

HP (Hewlett Packard)

HP Announces The Veer

February 9, 2011 1 Rahul S

Apart from the Pre 3 and the HP Touchpad that saw the light of the day today, we have one tiny entrant to the WebOS family in the form of the HP Veer. The Veer is a WebOS powered smartphone…

Android

SwiftKey gears up for Honeycomb

February 9, 2011 0 Ricky

Touchtype has officially announced that it will be launching the tablet version of its SwiftKey keyboard. The new keyboard has been optimized specially for Honeycomb with the help from Google and Motorola and it also matches the holographic design of…

eReaders & Tablets

HP TouchPad Launches This Summer, 4G Version Promised

February 9, 2011 0 Annkur

HP has just gone live with its webOS tablet (along with a couple of smartphones), named ‘TouchPad’. The TouchPad sports a iPad sized i.e. 9.7″ display with 1024×768 resolution. However the magic seems to be on the software end and…

events

Palm Pre 3 Announced

February 9, 2011 0 Rahul S

HP has just taken the covers off its latest update to the Palm Pre family in the form of the Pre 3.  The Pre 3 brings in all the virtues of the erstwhile Pre devices but adds in a larger,…

News

Texas Instruments Comes Back With A Bang!

February 9, 2011 0 Ricky

TI is mainly known for its Chip inside the Droids, the Motorola droid, Droid X and many other devices. After the droid X we have not seen any new processors from TI and it was sad to see that no…

Android

India gets its first Gingerbread phone, the OliveSmart, for less than Rs 20,000

February 9, 2011 0 Nimish

Even as our resident Android specialist Ricky Droid highlighted rumours that some manufacturers are sidestepping the Android 2.3 update and heading straight to version 2.4, Olive Telecom has released India’s first phone running Android 2.3, or Gingerbread as it is…