The Apple iPad – Take 2
Yes I am the same tiny little blogger who wrote off the tablet concept ending my original review of the Apple iPad with the following words ‘Are you made for the iPad’. A year down the line, I have a…
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New Opera Mini, Mobile Versions Soon: Opera
At the upcoming CTIA Wireless Conference which kicks off on March 22, 2011 Opera is likely to introduce new versions of its popular mobile browsers. According to a press release by the company, both the browser versions – Opera Mobile…
HTC Desire Z Launched In India
HTC’s Android powered, QWERTY keyboard laden handset, the Desire Z has finally made it to India after a good six months post its announcement back in September 2010. The Desire Z, which can be termed as a successor to the…
iOS 4.3 Gets Untethered Jailbreak Solution Days After Announcement!
It might be just days since apple officially unveiled iOS 4.3 for most of its iOS powered devices but the jailbreakers as always seem to have already cracked in to the OS and readied an untethered jailbreak solution for the…
The case in favor of Nokia-Microsoft
While I admit that this is primarily a WP7 secton, we aren’t here to post everything colored by ‘I love Microsoft’ colour’. So to say, we aren’t Nokia or WP7 fanboys, though our experience says we will have a tough…
Apple Skips USB 3.0, Pushes Lightpeak as Intel Thunderbolt
Its 2011 and none of the Apple MacBooks carry a USB 3.0 yet. Thats fishy for sure. Apple is known to move to newer technologies before the masses, be it SSD only notebooks or multitouch displays on a phone. So…
Sony Ericsson Yendo W150i Available In India Finally
Flipkart.com the Indian Online retailer website is now selling the Sony Ericsson Yendo W150i in India with a price tag of Rs. 5299. The Yendo W150i is a 2.6” touch screen phone with a 2 MP Camera. It is a…
Review: X-Mini V 1.1 And X-Mini Happy Portable Speakers
When I first saw these cute little speakers arrive for tests, I dismissed them as just another “Chinese” product that just looks good and delivers nothing when it comes to sheer sound quality. Boy, was I wrong. I first saw…
Motorola Xoom or Samsung’s 10″ Tab, Matching iPad Sales Is Tough
Google is now entering the tablet market with Android 3.0 aka Honeycomb. Top gadget makers like Samsung, Motorola, HTC, Toshiba and LG are making tablets that would run the tablet build of Android. The Motorola Xoom even won the best…
Apple Working On Smaller, Cheaper iPhone Versions?
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…
Nokia X2-01 Lands In India: Oficially
Nokia has officially launched its newest low end, QWERTY laden S40 handset, the X2-01 in India. The phone, first seen back in November 2010 was announced along with another low end handset, the C2-01. The X2-01 features a largish 2.4…
Nokia’s E7 Goes On Sale
Nokia’s upcoming flagship business phone, the E7 would be soon arriving on select markets across the globe – Nokia revealed today. The first shipments will start later this week and the device would be available in more markets in the…
Will Nokia Opt For Android?
It’s been just a few days since Nokia announced its not so inspiring Q4 2010 results and people are already talking about the possibility of the company opting for Android sometime in the near future. The latest reason for this…
Nokia Quarterly Reports Out: Paints a Dismal Picture
Nokia has announced its Q4 2010 results and to say that they do not look good would be an understatement. The last quarter was when Nokia undertook several new initiatives on its senior management front. The erstwhile CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo…
The second Wave cometh – Samsung Wave II released in India for Rs 20,990
We had been seeing it in the market for a few days and now we have official confirmation – Samsung has released the successor of the highly successful Wave handset in the Indian market. The Wave II does not have…
Honeycomb / Android 3.0 SDK Previewed. Release Please?
Google is still teasing Honeycomb and this time its to the developers with a preview of the Android 3.0 platform. Android 3.0 was for the first time teased at CES 2011, and a few announcements have been made already. The…
WP7 Sold 2 Million Last Quarter, Enough?
Windows Phone 7 has not actually rocketed as Microsoft or rather the industry would have expected, after over 3 years of delay in responding to the iPhone with a new OS. The smartphone market has evolved tremendously over the past…
Cheap Tech To Fake Fingerprint Shown Against UID In India
India’s ambitious UID (Unique Identification Card) project has been underway for quite some time now. Announced back in February 2009, the first of the cards were launched in October 2010 in a tribal village in Maharashtra. With more than a…
LG’s Nvidia Tegra 2 Powered Optimus 2X Goes On Sale In Korea
If there is one smartphone that can boast of totally out of this world specs at this moment, I bet there is only one contender around. LG’s Android powered Optimus 2X. This monster of a phone complete with a dual…
India gets a dual-SIM Android: Hello, Moto XT800
India has its first Android dual SIM phone , the Motorola Milestone XT800. The phone, which is capable of handling CDMA and GSM networks, runs Android 2.1 and carries what we think, is a stiff price tag of Rs 31,999.…
[Video] Quick Review: HTC 7 Mozart and HD7 (WP7 in India)
Gizmomeet Delhi saw a lot of Windows Phone 7 action with both HTC releases – the HD7 and the 7 Mozart coming to us. Currently HTC is the only company selling Windows Phone 7 in India and here is a…
Apple Talks iPad Competition, Honeycomb vs iPad
Every since Apple and Google started to comment aggressively about each others business and products, each earnings call or product launch is filled with some punches going around. So here is what Tim Cook (Apple COO) had to say about…
How To Get Honeycomb Music Player On Your Android Device
Google had announced a major change in their music player during Google I/O 2010 and we were very disappointed to see no changes in the latest android version 2.3 Gingerbread, but thanks to XDA member johnnie93 who managed to get…
How To Get Honeycomb Music Player On Your Android Device
Google had announced a major change in their music player during Google I/O 2010 and we were very disappointed to see no changes in the latest android version 2.3 Gingerbread, but thanks to XDA member johnnie93 who managed to get…
HP Hints WebOS Netbook? Wait A Minute…
While HP-Palm missed CES 2011 and we saw nothing about the WebOS coming out there, it was clear that its coming up at MWC. However it wasn’t to be at MWC, but a HP event on 9th Feb that is…
Hands-on with the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc & LiveView [Video]
We are back from CES 2011 and here is a detailed hands-on video of the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc announced last week. The Arc is certainly one of the most visually appealing smartphones announced recently. Running Android 2.3 (gingerbread) and…
Riding The eScooter at IIT Bombay [Video]
We had seen this on display last year @ Techfest aswell, only this year we managed to get a ride on the electric scooter developed at IIT Bombay. Here is a quick video
Nokia C7: Brief Review
The C7 has been seen by many as an attempt by Nokia to offer a watered down and more affordable version of the high-profile N8. Although Nokia officials had claimed that the N8 would be the only Symbian ^3 handset…
Motorola unleashes “the world’s most powerful smartphone,” the Atrix, complete with laptop dock
This might be CES and the air might be thick with hype but still, words like “the world’s most powerful smartphone” should not be used lightly. Well, Motorola has used them to describe its Atrix handset, which not only packs in some seriously impressive specs but has actually grabbed the limelight at the event for…
NVIDIA Goes Official With ARM CPU Plans, Project Denver
With Google, Apple and Microsoft all throwing their weight behind ARM architecture, Nvidia has taken the opportunity at CES 2011 to reveal its Project Denver. NVIDIA President Jen-Hsun Huang claimed during his keynote that more ARM processors will ship in…
HTC fires second Windows Phone 7 salvo, launches Mozart in India
After a period of relative inactivity, HTC seems to have stepped into device release overdrive. Within days of the launch of the HTC HD7 in India, the first Windows Phone 7 device to be seen in the country (notwithstanding no…
Now you can loan books on the Kindle
Well, Amazon has gone ahead and implemented it. Kindle users in the US (and hopefully, soon in other countries) will now be able to lend books on their Kindle to other users. And the best part is that the receivers need not…
Patents War Galore! Its Sony vs LG Now
The mobile telephony patent war saga took a far eastern turn earlier today when Sony announced that it would be suing LG for infringing on as many as seven of its valuable patents. The suits have been filed at the U.S. International Trade Commission (U.S. ITC).…
Skype Version 3.0 Arrives For iOS. Supports Video Calling
Skype has finally released a new version of its App for iOS devices that allow users to make two way video calls to all your Skype contacts. The new version is compatible with the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, and iPod touch 4th generation and devices running…
Google Nexus S In India For Rs.24,000 (Update)
It has become a trend of sorts for officially unannounced handsets to land in India these days. After the Windows Phone 7 powered HD7 arrived two weeks before its “official’ launch, it seems the Google Nexus S is getting the…
HTC HD7 Arrives In India Officially
We all knew that HTC’s flagship Windows Phone 7 handset, the HD7 was already available in India since the past few weeks. However, it is now that HTC has decided to officially launch the handset across the country. The phone has now been launched…
Review: HyperMac Battery for MacBook Pro (60wh)
Its a special feeling to have a gizmo that you can claim is now extinct, well not exactly but the HyperMac won’t sell in this form ever again. After the Apple lawsuit the company has dropped bundling the MagSafe adapters,…
Our six favourite sub-Rs 15,000 Android smartphones
Following our podcast about affordable Android smartphones a few days ago, we have been deluged with queries about which are the best Android smartphones in the Indian market for less than Rs 15,000. While we did voice some of our…
The Logo Antenna – Apple’s New Antenna Design
The Apple iPhone 4’s antenna problems are now legendary and proved to be one of the major flaws of the iPhone 4. Well, here’s good news for Apple fans. While woeful fans were figuring out how else they could hold…
Gizmo Podcast #9: Low Cost Android Smartphones
Merry Christmas! A long pause, but we aren’t gone. The Gizmo Podcast is back with the Android special as promised. Joining me was our Senior Editor, Nimish Dubey and we spent a good enough 20 mins discussing Android phones ranging from the Galaxy 3 & 5…
