Friday, December 31, 2010

HTC Desire Z Coming Soon To India

Flipkart, the Online Bookstore website is getting pre-order for HTC Desire Z handset. HTC Desire Z has a 3.7-inch WVGA touchscreen at a picture resolution of 480×800 pixels. It is powered by 800 MHz Qualcomm MSM7230 processor and 512 MB RAM and runs on Android 2.2 Froyo OS.This handset is designed for heavier textures and regular emailers and syncs with multiple email accounts including Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo as well asMicrosoft Exchange...

Thursday, December 30, 2010

Sony Ericsson to launch Its New Handsets in Feb 2011

Sony Ericsson seems to be working very hard to announce some new handsets in the upcoming Mobile World Congress (MWC) that is going to be held in Barcelona in February 2011. As from the various online reports that have come into picture, we can expect that Sony Ericsson will be going to expand its Xperia handsets category by adding some new models to it.The models, which are going to be expected to line-up Xperia handsets portfolio, are Xperia Arc,...

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Apple iPad 2 Coming With WiFi, UMTS & CDMA

 According to industry sources at chip component makers, Apple is going to work on 3 versions of iPad 2 that will consist of Wi-Fi, UMTS and CDMA models as reported by Taiwanese news daily DigiTimes. The mass production of these iPads is expected to start in late January. Once again the "industry sources" offers some secretive update but there's no way to confirm them to be true. Apple iPad truly has been the most discussed and searched...

Android based HTC Thunderbolt 4G Due On Jan 6

Few days left when HTC will going to introduce its yet another 4G handset on January 6 at the Consumer Electronic Show 2011 in Las Vegas. After running an ad campaign, HTC has finally made live the sign-up page for the upcoming 4G smartphone live for the US audience. The page URL carries Thunderbolt 4G, which obviously might be the brand name of the phone destined to launch as pointed out by AndroidCentral. Thunderbolt 4G looks...

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Apple Gadgets Antennas to Hide Behind Logo

Antenna's technology was a big problem area when Apple introduced its iPhone for 6 months ago. Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple did clarify the issue pertaining to the new Antennae technology used in iPhone 4. We also got a glimpse of Apple's Antenna Design and Test Labs - Apple. At these Labs, Apple Engineers are now working on a new Antenna design to place it behind the Apple Logo of portable devices. Patently Apple spotted a patent...

HTC Mozart are now at HTC India Website

Availability of the first Windows Phone 7 device HTC HD7 in India. Now another Windows Phone 7 mobile OS running HTC Mozart handset has been listed at the HTC India website. One of the initially announced WP7 phones, even leaked couple of times, Mozart is the first HTC phone to get the Xenon flash for better imaging. There are no details on the price of this phone as yet.  HTC Mozart has 3.7-inch capacitive touchscreen display...

Saturday, December 25, 2010

Acer Android 7-inch and 10.1-inch Tablets Preview Videos Spotted

Acer announced its new 7-inch and 10.1-inch Tablets in an New York based event last month on Nov 23. Out of both, videos of the 10.1-inch Acer Tablet running Android was spotted on YouTube. Two different videos showed preview of the same thing - usage of gyroscope to flip through pages of magazine or a book. The tablet seems to have Acer UI 4.5 layered over the Android interface and also showed some innovative zooming gestures. At the Acer's...

Friday, December 24, 2010

Free 320Gb Hard Disk With Acer Aspire Laptop

Hey If you're planning to buy an Acer Laptop , then you are in for a Christmas bonus. The company just announced an offer where their certain line of laptops will be bundled with a free 320GB portable hard disk. The conditions are - it's got to be a notebook pre-loaded with Windows 7 Home Basic and Home Premium and between the price range of Rs. 31,000 to Rs. 43,000. Acer notebooks falling under this range include the Aspire series...

Dell Streak 7 (Android) is Wi-Fi Certified

Google Android 2.1 running Streak tablet had been introdused by Dell in India for Rs. 34,990 two months ago. And now we hear ramblings about the Dell Streak 7 tablet in works. Apparently, a Dell M02M mobile internet device got the Wi-Fi certification from the Wi-Fi Alliance recently. Also, accessories maker Vaja listed Dell's 7-inch tablet for its leather cases. Back in September, Dell Greater China President, Mr. Amit...

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Google is giving $1000 to 500 YouTube Partners

You must have heard of Google's YouTube Partner program, where you can become a partner and can earn revenue for your videos (provided they are good). Apparently it is doing very well as they have over 15,000 partners worldwide. Since these people generate a lot of revenue for Google by driving people to YouTube, Google is now giving back to them by giving 500 of these partners $1000 each.  It will be in the form of store credit...

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Zen Pad based on Android is Now Available for Rs.13,999

Now Finally, you would be able to get your hands on a 7-inch Android tablet without having to break into a bank. H.T. IMPEX has launched one such tablet under their brand name ZEN The Master, also known as Zen Pad. The Zen Pad is a tablet running Android OS 2.1, with a high resolution 7-inch touch screen and comes in a very slim form factor. Zen Pad can be used to access wireless Internet to stay abreast with the latest happenings around the world,...

New Firefox 4 Beta 8 is now Available for Download

Firefox 4 Beta 8 launched by Mozilla on Wednesday, December 22. Is the latest version that brings two major improvements, which include improved Firefox Sync experience and further refined add-on manager. Other changes include compatibility improvements to WebGL and the usual bug fixes, speed and stability improvements. For the full release notes and to download the new Firefox 4 Beta 8, click here To see the complete list of Bugs fixed by...

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Android Honeycomb Tablet Of Motorola due at CES 2011

Before this month, Motorola's Google Android 3.0 HoneyComb OS running tablet - was rumored as MOTOPAD - and was reportedly spotted online. Earlier, on December 6, Google VP of Engineering Andy Rubin had shown Google's next major Android Update - Honeycomb at the D: Dive Into Mobile Conference. While we eagerly waited for the details of this MOTOPAD, Motorola' s official Twitter account shared a link to the tablet's teaser video....

Saturday, December 18, 2010

Facebook Exposed Its New Features

"Mistakes do happen but some of them are good" . About 14 hours ago, Facebook faced a downtime and by mistake,  number of internal prototype features were made live for about 45 minutes. Later, features like Lightbox UI for photos, new Pages, Memories option, experimental Outside World features, and the Submit button were removed from the facebook . Amongst many lucky ones who got the access, Mashable got hold of a few screenshots of...

Exclusive Lara Croft for iPad and iPhone Arrives

Square Enix has announced that the release of Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light game for Apple iPad, iPhone and also for iPod touch. When we reviewed the PC version of Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light , we found it quite enjoyable as well as addictive. The 9th game in the Tomb Raider series, Lara Croft is available in two versions for the iOS platform - iPad HD edition and other for iPhone as well as for iPod...

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

India is the World's 3rd Largest Internet User

Hindustan Times  says that India is now the 3rd largest Internet user-base in the world, as claimed by the Google India's Head of Products Vinay Goel. The 1st 1 in the list is China with 300 million users, then U.S. at 207 million. India comes in 3rd at with 100 million people entangled in the digital web.  What is more important to note is that 40 percent of those 100 million are accessing the net through their cell phones. Vinay's...

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Google Latitude Now Available on the iPhone, iPad

Google Maps was a built-in applicaiton in the iPhone since the 1st version back in the year 2007. All these years, while other phones running OSes like Android or Symbian enjoyed Google Latitude - a friend locator-tracking feature as part of Google Maps, Apple had rejected the iPhone version of the app previously. Now, you can download the newest version of the Latitude app on all recent iOS devices like the iPhone 3GS (sorry iPhone 3G users), iPhone...

Sunday, December 12, 2010

World's Tiniest Battery To Better Gadget Up-times

In the future, when a day arrives that your touchscreen smartphone battery will last you for longer than a single day, one of the people who we would like to thank could be Jianyu Huang. The Hindustan Times offered a cryptic write-up about the U.S based Sandia National Labs researcher who has invented a battery thinner than human hair - or in today's record, the world's thinnest battery.   This lithium-based battery is so tiny...

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Samsung out with a Dual-Core Netbook and Laptop

Samsung out with two new portable computers for India. The Samsung NF210 is a 10.1-inch screened Netbook housing a dual-core Atom processor; the N550 with each core running at 1.5 GHz. That coupled with the 2GB RAM should keep the pre-installed Windows 7 (not mentioned which one, but we assume it to be the 'Starter Edition') running without an annoying lag. For people wanting to know more about the processor, it supports 1MB L2 cache memory, hyper-threading...

Saturday, December 4, 2010

Clear video of PlayStation Phone surfaces online

Last weekend the grainy images of Sony Ericsson's PlayStation Phone surfaced on the web. Then two days ago, we reported about Sony Ericsson's much buzzed about PlayStation Phone was captured in a spy video. And now Engadget's Paul Miller spotted a video showing clear image of the PlayStation phone running Google Android 2.3 Gingerbread update. Apparently, Engadget is lucky in getting early scoops on the PlayStation Phone. A...