First look

The N8 is now official – the specs rock, now it is upto the UI

April 27, 2010 0 Nimish

Barely a few days after usual suspect Eldar Murtazin bashed a prototype of Nokia’s next flagship device,the N8, the big N has released official details of the handset. And most of it conforms to the various leaks that have been…

Samsung

Yahoo scores, official tied to Samsung phones

April 27, 2010 0 Annkur

Yahoo services including ‘search’ would be tied to all Samsung mobile from May 2010. Yahoo Inc has inked a deal with Samsung to make this possible, and this is certainly a bold move by Yahoo towards the mobile market.

Apple

Another iPhone 4G Lost…and Found!

April 27, 2010 2 Nimish

  “Hey, wanna see something?”

Apple

OG Review: The Apple iPad

April 26, 2010 8 Annkur

It’s been just a couple of days since we got our mitts on the holy iPad, and I am yet to decide if I would keep this device or sell it off at whatever premium eBay offers.

Accessories

How to use the micro SIM on a normal phone?

April 24, 2010 3 Annkur

Ever since Apple surprised us with a micro-sim slot on the iPad, people have been wondering how to get their normal Sim’s do the trick. As soon as the 3G version of the iPad ships, fans across the world would…

Tech Industry News

Students mod a tractor to be used from a mobile, useful?

April 19, 2010 0 Annkur

Think modding a car is fun? Well see this! Students of Moga Polytechnic College, Punjab (India) have invented a hack that lets local farmers control their tractors using a cellphone.

Android

Larger versions of Dell Mini spotted, called Streak, runs Android

April 17, 2010 0 Annkur

Well the Dell Mini 5 is no longer Mini with larger (iPad like, shall we say?) versions spotted already. The Dell Streak as the new version is being referred as is said to offer a 7? & 10? model. Dell…

Apple

Leaked iPhone case looks like a unibody model, real or fake?

April 16, 2010 0 Annkur

iPad is official, iPhone OS 4.0 announced & now all eyes are slowly moving towards the iPhone 4th generation. We expect regular rumors on the iPhone 4G to show up at an accelerated pace until the June announcement and to…

Apple

Apple refreshes Macbook Pro range

April 14, 2010 0 Nimish

Even as the world argues over how good or bad the iPad is (we have not heard anyone call it “Ugly” yet), Apple has announced some updates to its MacBook Pro line of notebooks.

picture

Google before you Tweet – OG Picture of the month!

April 14, 2010 0 Annkur

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Gaming

Rockstar brings Red Dead Redemption to Facebook

April 13, 2010 0 Nimish

Even as we wait for the release of Rockstar Games Wild West action game Red Dead Redemption on consoles, we can now get a sample of just what the game will be like on Facebook. Rockstar have just released a…

Apple

Opera Mini cleared for App Store!

April 13, 2010 0 Nimish

The iPhone is set to witness its own browser war, with Opera Mini just getting clearance to be made available for download in the App Store. With over fifty million users worldwide on a variety of platforms ranging from Java…

Android

Google pulls back Android Games from South Korea

April 12, 2010 5 Ravi

Following the foot steps of Apple, Goolge has taken a bold to shut down the Andriod Game category in South Korea as the laws in the country require all the Andriod Games to be reviewed and approved by South Korea…

Apple

Google branding from iPhone OS 4.0 missing

April 11, 2010 2 Annkur

No surprise. Why won’t they want to offer you options to go with Yahoo or Bing? Btw did you notice the references to Yahoo during Steve Jobs iPhone OS 4.0 presentation?

Google

Gmail gets a sneak peek mode

April 11, 2010 1 Nimish

The folks at Gmail Labs are busy bees all right. Rarely does a week pass before some little tweak is added to what is increasingly becoming one of the most popular mail services in the world. The latest is one…

Apple

iPhone has redefined the update culture

April 9, 2010 3 Nimish

Barely a couple of years ago, the announcement of a software or firmware update for a product, be it a computer, cellphone or even an operating system (remember those Windows service packs?), used to be greeted by shrugs by most…

Market Watch

Cut crime by cutting 30 million mobile connections: Mexico

April 9, 2010 3 Tassavur

In an unprecedented and also deperate (I must say) bid to control crime; Mexico will be implementing this extreme step by the end of this week. As per a new law pressed into legislation recently, all the mobile users have…

Concept / Educative

Now an LED lightbulb that lasts 17 years; courtesy GE

April 9, 2010 1 Tassavur

An ongoing struggle has been waging since time immemorial to make light bulbs energy saving and durable at the same time, even more so with the raging effects and the consequent wrath dawned upon us by global warming. With the…

Apple

OMG the Apple mobile advertising network is official: iAd

April 8, 2010 1 Annkur

”Well, we’ve got a lot of free apps we like that, users like that, but these developers have to find a way to make some money, and we’d like to help them.” Steve Jobs says that the need arises since…

Apple

Multitasking officially comes to iPhone OS 4.0

April 8, 2010 0 Annkur

Amongst other things, Multitasking is one of the things that Steve Jobs just unveiled for the iPhone OS 4.0. The pain point that Steve pointed out is that multitasking drains battery life, reduces performance and makes the experience sluggish. Quite…

eReaders & Tablets

Next Nokia booklet to be a Windows 7 tablet?

April 7, 2010 1 Annkur

Nokia stepped out of the mobile race and went on to deliver a netbook last year. The booklet 3G was Nokia’s first netbook and there were promises of more computing devices from Nokia. The rumors of Nokia working with design…

Android

Yet another Android app to give Google a bit of our lives

April 7, 2010 0 Jerry

A wonderful new way to track all your calls and make a permanent log of them. Called CallTrack; this is an app for all you really nerdy/geeky/psychedelics out there who want to create a log of all your work for…

Android

Will the Motorola Milestone aka DROID sell in India?

April 7, 2010 1 Jerry

Earlier we covered the news about Motorola Milestone (widely know as the DROID, its CDMA version in US) which hit the Android cell phone space in India. And this is just a follow-up on the same news with Motorola India’s…

Apple

The iPad will not slay netbooks, but consoles and e-book readers!

April 7, 2010 1 Nimish

It has been something like a hundred hours since the iPad was officially in our midst and I wish I had a penny,  for every person who has compared it with a laptop and a netbook and trotted out all…

Android

Guess what? Now an Android based TV!!!

April 5, 2010 2 Tassavur

Phew!!! With the slew of Apple gadgets taking the market like a storm its okay if you are not very amazed with what you are reading right now. Rest assured, amazed you will be perhaps after the iPad fever has…

Apple

iPad launch round-up

April 4, 2010 0 Annkur

The iPad mania is here and my RSS feeds are flooded with iPad mentions. While the 7 ways and 15 things about iPad kinda posts will flow in dozens now, here are some quick bits from the iPad launch I…

Nokia

Nokia revamps Ovi Store, now just needs killer apps!

April 4, 2010 2 Nimish

One of the biggest complaints we have had about Nokia’s Ovi Store is the fact that it has been deucedly user-unfriendly, looking more like a random listing than a series of apps that can make one do so much more…

Reviews

OG Review: Samsung Monte S5620 (Capacitive love!)

April 3, 2010 219 Annkur

The all new Samsung Monte S5620 just arrived at our office and I would admit that I wasn’t expecting too much from this as its just another Corby / Star like phone from Samsung. We have already seen the Corby,…

Android

Review: Opera Mini 5 Beta for Android

April 3, 2010 2 Jerry

The first reaction that you get when you open the Opera Mini 5 Beta is that its slick and super smooth when it comes to the interface. Every menu action combined with web browsing is such a seamless experience that you never know the difference between browsing and…

Apple

Apple picks up another chip co – Intrinsity?

April 3, 2010 0 Annkur

With Apple officially jumping into the chip game with the A4 powering the iPad, it seems that they have acquired another chip design co Intrinsity lately. In 2008 Apple acquired PA Semi which is said to be the engineering talent behind Apple’s own processors. Intrinsity is also…

Launch Pad

JetFlash 500 USB drives introduced by Transcend

April 2, 2010 0 Annkur

The Transcend V series is pretty familiar for anyone using a Flash drive, but here is a all new trendy JetFlash 500 announced today. While the drives aren’t very micro sized, but the whole thing looks somewhat rugged (shockproof) and…

Cameras

Data, apps and GPS: why cameraphones are lickin’ cameras!

April 1, 2010 1 Nimish

A few days ago, we had commented on how cameraphones were posing an increasingly formidable threat to conventional digital cameras, while writing about the Spice S-1200, the handset with an optical zoom. Though camera pundits might throw up their hands…

Launch Pad

Spice S-1200 brings 3X optical zoom to cellphone!

March 26, 2010 0 Annkur

Now thats a surprise ! While most smartphones are playing the megapixel game, unexpected! but its Spice that is bringing a 3x optical zoom to a cellphone. The Spice S-1200 that is said to be priced around Rs 14,500 ($315).…

Apple

30,000 free books for iPad already, keeping the App Store clean

March 26, 2010 1 Annkur

Apple is keen on keeping the App Store clean for the iPad to make maximum impact. A crucial part of iPad’s success would be its ability to serve as a good ebook reader and digital newspaper / magazine and to…

Launch Pad

Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 & Vivaz launched in India (Pricing)

March 26, 2010 0 Annkur

Sony Ericsson has announced the entire lineup of its latest Xperia and Vivaz series smartphones in India. The Xperia X10 & Vivaz would be available immediately whereas the X10 Mini, X10 Mini Pro and Vivaz Pro will follow later. The…

Apple

3GS India launch – Twitter reactions

March 26, 2010 0 Annkur

Though there wasn’t too much excitement about the much delayed 3GS launch in India today, the pricing sure is a big disappointment. You would pay as much as Rs 47,500 (over $1000) to get the 32GB iPhone 3GS in Mumbai.…

Accessories

OG Review: Sony Ericsson MW600, bluetooth headset with FM

March 25, 2010 11 Annkur

Well we happen to be one of the lucky souls to get a hands-on with the Sony Ericsson MW600 bluetooth headset. The MW600 is loaded with features with a OLED display, stereo (3.5mm jack), music controls, volume controls, multipoint bluetooth,…

First look

Quick hands on with the Nokia 7230

March 24, 2010 0 Tassavur

Though this one is yet to go official in India some stores have already managed to have the Nokia 7230 on sale. 7230 is a sturdy slider phone that runs Symbian series 40 and features a impressive3.2MP camera (going by…

Accessories

Now Expand upto 32 GB; Thanks SanDisk

March 24, 2010 0 Tassavur

There are a million smartphones in the market which says; “Expandable upto 32GB”. I would always wonder they are expandable upto 32 GB but how am I going to utilise that capacity when there are no 32GB SDHC cards for…

First look

Hands on with the Razer DeathAdder Left Handers edition

March 23, 2010 0 Annkur

Just last week we heard about the first gaming mouse for left handers from Razer and we managed to get hands-on with the same today. The lightweight and extremely responsive Death Adder is the best selling Razer product and the…