Android

Skyfire, Facebook for Android updated

January 29, 2011 0 Nimish

The last couple of days have been busy for Android users with two of the most popular applications on the Android market, the Skyfire browser and the official Facebook app for Android getting updates.  While both seem minor rather than…

Apple

MSI launches WindPad 100w, a Windows 7 tablet for Rs 34,500

January 29, 2011 0 Nimish

The iPad might have grabbed the headlines in most of the Indian tech media, but it is by no means the only tablet to hit Indian stores over the weekend. Also, released in the Indian market today is the MSI…

Tech Industry News

PayPal India Goes Back To The Dark Ages

January 28, 2011 4 Rahul S

In what is largely seen as a regressive change to PayPal India’s terms and conditions, the company, starting March 1, 2011 would NOT allow its Indian users to make purchases for goods and services directly from their PayPal accounts. If…

Opinion

Editorial: Dear Manufacturer, Can I Have My Refund Please?

January 28, 2011 1 Annkur

While the twitter chatter is making me eat my words about the piece on iPad not coming to India (I wasn’t entirely off target either), the market situation makes me ponder of a particularly crucial aspect of gadget sales (especially…

Android

Samsung To Reveal The Galaxy S 2, Galaxy Tab 2 At MWC

January 28, 2011 0 Rahul S

We already knew this was happening but here’s some (leaked) official confirmation regarding the fact that Samsung is planning to showcase two much sought after devices at the MWC in February. A slip that apparently displays the schedule for Samsung’s…

Android

HTC To Out Facebook Phone at MWC? Maybe!

January 27, 2011 0 Annkur

The Facebook phone has long been rumored and, we have discussed everything from a Facebook OS to Facebook guided hardware before. This time around its HTC that is being rumored to be cooking up a couple of Facebook phones for…

Gaming

Sony unveils PSP successor, the NGP, with OLED touchscreen, dual cameras, back trackpad, 3G!

January 27, 2011 3 Nimish

Even, as India works itself into an iPad frenzy, there’s more stunning news coming in from overseas – Sony has announced the successor of the PSP. No, it is not called the PSP2, but a rather dull Next Generation Portable…

Accessories

Razer Ferox Twin Speaker Set Arrives In India

January 27, 2011 0 Rahul S

Gamers rejoice! Razer, the makers of all those droolworthy gaming components are at it again. They have just launched their latest pint sized powerhouse in India. The Ferox Twin Speaker set has arrived and brings with it 360 degrees of…

Nokia

Nokia Quarterly Reports Out: Paints a Dismal Picture

January 27, 2011 0 Rahul S

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…

Apple

iPad arrives in India – prices, BSNL 3G data plans revealed

January 27, 2011 7 Nimish

All right, so we were wrong in our claim that there was no way that the iPad could arrive in India by January 28. Although we have received no official notification, Apple’s India site and the BSNL site have gone…

Samsung

The second Wave cometh – Samsung Wave II released in India for Rs 20,990

January 27, 2011 0 Nimish

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…

Android

Honeycomb / Android 3.0 SDK Previewed. Release Please?

January 26, 2011 1 Annkur

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…

windows mobile

WP7 Sold 2 Million Last Quarter, Enough?

January 26, 2011 0 Annkur

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…

Android

Review: Zomato (Android)

January 26, 2011 0 Anupama

Food-lovers using Android phones were delighted when Google released HotPot, for Android late last year, allowing to share their ratings and comments about restaurants, cafes, bars, hotels and just about any place, providing competition to the likes of Yelp. However,…

Android

The weather looks just fine…on Google on Android, iPhone

January 26, 2011 0 Anupama

It might be sunny, cloudy, pitch dark at midnight, but the weather will always be just brilliant as long as you are checking it on Google on an Android device or an iPhone. Now, when you want to know the…

Tech Industry News

Cheap Tech To Fake Fingerprint Shown Against UID In India

January 25, 2011 5 Rahul S

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…

Android

Maxx MA440 Android Phone, Hands-on [Exclusive]

January 25, 2011 2 Annkur

Maxx Mobile teased us with a promo video of their Android phone earlier today (at their employee awards function, which we must say was organized in true Filmfare style), but then we just can’t content our appetite for info with…

Android

LG’s Optimus 3D Leaked Just Prior To MWC

January 25, 2011 0 Rahul S

It’s that time of the year when almost all leading phone manufacturers and mobile telephony enthusiasts have their eyes set on the biggest mobile event of the year – the Mobile World Congress. This year too, the event is scheduled…

Apple

The iPad isn’t launching in India on 28th Jan, At least not for Rs 26000!

January 25, 2011 8 Annkur

Apple has sold 7.3 million iPad’s last quarter alone, and there is a healthy list of people around me who own an iPad already. I resisted for months after my initial review of the iPad WiFi, but even I ended…

Apps

Now there’s an app for making your trip – MakeMyTrip comes to BlackBerry

January 24, 2011 0 Anupama

Indian online travel agency MakeMyTrip (MMT) has launched its travel booking app on the BlackBerry App World in India. Called MakeMyTrip Mobile, the app will help users search and compare air fares and booking through authorized transaction channels with Visa…

Android

LG’s Nvidia Tegra 2 Powered Optimus 2X Goes On Sale In Korea

January 24, 2011 0 Rahul S

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…

Fixes / Troubleshooting

How to open HTC 7 Mozart Battery/SIM?

January 24, 2011 0 Team OG

HTC might well be promoting the HTC 7 Mozart with its design aspect… single piece of aluminum and all, but you know whats the most difficult part there? Figuring out how to open the battery cover! So here is a…

Android

India gets a dual-SIM Android: Hello, Moto XT800

January 24, 2011 0 Anupama

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.…

Android

Sony follows Kindle path, launches Sony Reader app on Android

January 24, 2011 0 Anupama

The e-book revolution has taken another step away from e-readers (of the hardware type). Just as Amazon has made its Kindle software available for reading books on platforms other than its e-book reader of the same name and Barnes and…

HTC

[Video] Quick Review: HTC 7 Mozart and HD7 (WP7 in India)

January 24, 2011 0 Team OG

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…

eReaders & Tablets

It’s official – Samsung Galaxy Tab now for Rs 29,299!

January 23, 2011 2 Nimish

When Samsung had launched the Galaxy Tab in India a few months ago, we had loved the device but, had felt that at Rs 38,000, it was way overpriced. However, that price had been coming down, and some retailers like…

Apple

Toshiba pokes fun at iPad on its tablet site!

January 23, 2011 0 Nimish

  The tablet wars are well and truly on and the latest verbal salvo in these (after the mauling handed out to Android by Tim Cook) has been fired by the folks at Toshiba. Just head over to the new…

Apple

Review: Bubble Ball (iOS)

January 22, 2011 0 Nimish

The past couple of days have seen the media buzzing about Bubble Ball, the game made by fourteen-year-old Robert Nay that has knocked Angry Birds Seasons off the top of the free apps charts of the App Store. We decided…

Cameras

Samsung Announces The ST30 Ultra Compact Camera

January 22, 2011 0 Rahul S

Samsung has taken covers of its latest ultracompact camera – the ST 30. The device boasts of a 10 megapixel sensor coupled with 3X optical zoom lens. With dimensions of just 82.0 x 51.9 x 16.9 mm, this one is…

Future WIP

Tegra 3 Coming At MWC? Quad-Core!

January 21, 2011 0 Annkur

NVIDIA has sure made an impact with its Tegra 2 offering, and the real impact of the same was seen at CES 2011. Bringing dual-core love to handhelds, the Tegra 2 has surely upped the industry expectations for performance from…

Android

Samsung Gem i100 Spotted, Entry Level Android

January 21, 2011 1 Annkur

We would have expected Samsung to throw in Bada OS for an entry level phone like this, but it seems that the Gem (SCH-i100) would have some Android love. The design is reminiscent of the good old Samsung Monte, though…

Apps

Starbucks Comes Up With iPhone, BlackBerry Mobile Payments

January 21, 2011 0 Rahul S

In what we believe is a first of its kind, it seems Starbucks is all set to implement mobile payments in a way, never before seen at a coffee shop. Starbucks have started its mobile payment system that would allow…

Android

Sony Ericsson Vivaz 2 Appears: Ported To Android

January 21, 2011 0 Rahul S

Mobile-Review has posted a detailed overview of a phone that looks to be a successor to the Symbian powered Vivaz. The Vivaz 2, which is also known by the code names MT15i or Halon looks to be a decent handset…

Gaming

Nintendo 3DS coming on March 27 – 3D gaming without glasses for $249

January 19, 2011 0 Nimish

So, after a relative no-show at CES 2011, Nintendo has finally told the world when its next portable gaming console will be hitting the shelves (in the US, at least). According to a release that we have just received, the…

netbook

A 1.4 kg Vaio for Rs 26,990? Sony releases the YB series

January 19, 2011 0 Nimish

They may be among the most stylish notebooks, but one thing that most people tend to associate with Sony’s Vaio series of notebooks are relatively stiff price tags. Well, that might be set to change with Sony taking the wrappers…

Apple

Apple Talks iPad Competition, Honeycomb vs iPad

January 18, 2011 0 Annkur

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…

Featured

Twitter Discussion: What’s Wrong With Nokia?

January 18, 2011 3 Annkur

Twitter is know for open debates and extreme opinions. And we ran into a conversation yesterday, with over 100 tweets flying around from the tech community (includes our team). And where did all this start from? Well as we trace…

eReaders & Tablets

Renders of Palm-HP webOS Tablet Leaked! On Sale Sept 2011?

January 18, 2011 0 Annkur

Engadget has leaked out the upcoming Palm tablets, and there are two of them as it seems. A 9″ version dubbed ‘Topaz’ and another 7″ (reading focused) version called the Opal. No mystery spec like a PixelQI screen here, but…

Apple

OneNote arrives in App Store, will MS Office follow?

January 18, 2011 0 Anupama

Microsoft has released a version of its note-making application, OneNote, for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. The app which is part of the MS Office suite on computers and is being used by over 80 million people in the…

Gaming

Final Fantasy XIII gets silly name sequel – Final Fantasy XIII-2!

January 18, 2011 0 Nimish

At long last the folks at Square Enix have announced the sequel to the six million copy selling Final Fantasy XIII RPG. And in terms of lame gaming nomenclature, this has got to take first prize. No, it is not…