When I penned down “the going ahead for Palm”, I had a feeling that it’s a little incomplete. Still waiting for a hands-on with the WebOS and reminiscing my days with the Treo 650 (heck, I bought 3 of those…
Palm isn’t doing particularly well, even though it has an impressive product with the WebOS. Last quarter they sold just over 400,000 smartphones and lost $22 million. With a refreshed Palm Pre / Pixi and new carriers going live, Palm…
LG is out with a refresh to its successful touchscreen series Cookie. Its amazing to see how companies like Samsung and LG have seen a great market in the low end touchscreen market after the iPhone came and swept the…
Name: Steve Ballmer Designation: CEO, Microsoft What he did in 2007: Laughed at the Apple iPhone. Quoted saying: “the most expensive phone in the world” – “doesn’t appeal to business customers.” and 2010: ‘Apple’s done a very nice job that…
Yes, I know that we are still waiting for the 3G license auctions in India, but here is a cheer from Verizon (US). Testing their LTE / 4G network, Verizon has released promising numbers of data transfer speeds over the…
… Scrolling through contacts or typing the name on the touchscreen qwerty is surely a slow process and one of the frustrations I have with the iPhone (btw which is otherwise a wonderful gadget). Google’s gesture search for the Android…
There were multiple rumors that a strong reason (or perhaps the only) for Google not integrating multi-touch (pinch to zoom that is) in the US release of Android phones (until now) was a lawsuit threat from Apple. Apple holds patents…
Apple isn’t content with just counter-suing Nokia over patents, Cupertino has actually gone ahead and filed a suit against HTC for infringing 20 of its patents. While nothing is very clear as of now and just as the Nokia vs…
If there is one winner that Microsoft has rolled out in the handheld space, it’s the Zune HD. Going live against the iPod touch 3G last year, the Zune HD did do a fair enough job. The design & UI…
When Apple launched iPhone back in 2007, it certainly offered support for Windows based systems. Reason being simple that millions of Windows OS based users existed compared to the Mac OS X users. Now, Microsoft introduced Windows Phone 7 series…
One of the biggest hit of the latest MWC in Barcelona and the Platinum Event Sponsor; the Windows Phone 7 paired with the LG is finally gearing up to be rolled out. As the reports flowing in from Engadget Chinese suggest…
GPS on the phone is now something very common and just one of the things the smartphone boom has brought to us. As much as these mobiles threat the digital camera market, portable GPS navigation devices have now become one…
Microsoft has finally announced and showed off their next mobile operating system with a bit different brand name – Windows Phone 7 Series. Apart from sleek and staid interface, there are several features integrated to the core level. But surprisingly…
This is a guest post by Moksh Juneja, Social Media Catalyst and Founder of Avignyata. Follow him on twitter @mokshjuneja The choice of integration of Google Buzz with Gmail was a good choice rather than creating a whole new application…
I just came across this really sexy and sleek Qisda mobile that would launch sometime soon. On the specs front, this promises 1280×768 resolution on a 4? touchscreen. Thats even higher than the 854×480 we saw on the Motorola Droid. And…
If there is anything that the poor sales of the Google Nexus One proves to me, its the control, the evil control rather – that the US carriers have over the mobile market. Long before Google unveiled the Nexus one,…
Last June Nokia announced its plans to go open source with the Symbian platform. Already handed over to the Symbian Foundation, the smartphone OS that currently powers over 300million handsets has been battling it out with the Apple iPhone, Android…
All that we aren’t taking about at OG, but there is a chatter in the tech town! OS 3.2 reveals details of next iPhone, 720p video recording? Higher res? HD? – read at Intomobile Aspen: The green business phone from…
Nokia has said RIP to Gage for sure, but you never know what’s actually cooking in Finland. Nokia might well be planning some groovy gaming phones that could match up with the challenge thrown by the iPhone / Android…
Samsung is leaving no stone unturned in the battle of the smartphones, leaving Nokia and others a real uphill task in the touchscreen race. Having sold 40 million touch phones in 2009 alone, Samsung has enough wisdom to know what…
After failing to capture the touchscreen market in 2009. Nokia is back with a bang in 2010 with a slew of touchscreen handsets (or smartphones I must say) being released one after the other. With the 5800 doing well initially but failing to maintain…
We just went hands on with the Android and Snapdragon powered Acer Liquid. While most handsets we handled here were prototypes, we were lucky enough to get a few minutes with Mr Richard Tans’ (Country Head, Acer India & Sales Manager Asia…
Steve Jobs started his keynote yesterday with the question if there is a space between the smartphone and notebooks. He then went on to saw that Apple’s answer to the netbook which is low powered and inefficient is the iPad.…
Steve Jobs just unveiled the iPad on stage and much as expected it runs the iPhons OS 4.0 (guessing). The design of the tablet though is to my surprise just a oversized iPhone itself. While I hear people going WOW…
While we count the days to the upcoming Apple event that would shed some official light (hopefully) on the entire tablet case. A lot of speculation about the technical specification and Apple’s game plan has just emerged (warning: take every…
According to a MobileCrunch tipster (who is actually a developer) Microsoft is going pretty Apple-like with the upcoming Windows Mobile 7. Apart from the old rumors of the WM 7 making an official appearance at MWC next month we now…
Feels good to have some confirmation on an Apple rumor that promises something revolutionary. No its not the Apple tablet going official but atleast the Apple event for January 27th which is expected to be the launch platform the iSlate…
With the Apple – Google rivalry heating up by each passing day and the resultant competition will definitely bring in new dimensions to the industry. The news doing the round these days is that Apple (read Steve Jobs) is trying…
Yesterday we read about Google’s superphone Nexusone being sued. Today we woke up to the news of the bunch of best selling smartphones being sued. Kodak whose revenues have been consistently dropping has decided to make some quick bucks by…
Apple has proudly sold 3 billion apps on the iPhone platform. But the pirated apps market is booming, and estimations suggest that it has dented Apple’s revenues considerably. Had the pirated apps been purchased legally by Apple; app developers would…
It has been more than a year since Google’s mobile operating system, Android, was released. And the last few months have finally seen it making its presence felt in the market with a number of terrific handsets, most notably the…
At last it is out in the open – Google finally launched its Nexus One handset a few hours ago. And while most of the tech world has responded with enthusiasm, one can just about hear the traces of disappointment…
All right, the new year is underway and rather than dwell on making lists of which rocked which category in 2009 – there are way too many categories now, forget the products – I would rather stick my neck out…
Lets consider this official that 2010 is the year of tablets. The Crunchpad in its new form ‘Joo’Joo’ has already been announced, and talk about an Apple Tablet never dies. All the chatter and constant rumors of powerful reputed companies…
HTC’s official twitter handle in Russia accidentally tweeted about a Windows Mobile 7 update for the HD2 coming soon. This was indeed fantastic news for HD2 owners who surely deserve better than the current WM 6.5 on such a beautiful…