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Samsung has officially launched I5700 Spica taking the crown from HTC’s Tattoo to become the cheapest Android in the Indian market. I5700 is priced just under Rs. 15,000 and brings a lot of superior features when compared to Tattoo.
Although I5700 runs Android 1.5 OS, it comes with a fast 800MHz processor and 3.2-inch touchscreen [...]

 
Requests from customers led LG to create what they’re calling the Mini Phone or GD880 (for those comfortable with numbers). As the name goes, this offering from LG is the slimmest and the smallest and comes with 3.2-inch screen (and 16:9 aspect ratio) as well as other features to suffice your technological needs.
The GD880 features [...]

 
LG has unveiled GT350 text-messaging phone that will take over from the successful KS360. The new phone goes for a similar design but improves on some fronts where KS360 lacked. The GT350 adopts a full 3-inch touchscreen display (WQVGA) and has a four-row QWERTY keyboard compared to KS360’s three-row.
Social networks these days are an integral [...]

 
In addition to making few point-and-shoot cameras official, Canon also unwrapped their new entry-level DSLR. The EOS Rebel T2i or EOS 550D is targeted at entry-level photographers that is able to shoot images at up to 18 megapixel resolution and features an impressive ISO range of 100-6400 (expandable to 12,800), 3.7fps continuous still shooting, 63-zone [...]

 
UPDATE: So Airtel’s App Store variant will be known as App Central and it will be WAP-based only. Airtel users can point the phone’s browser to http://airtel.cellmania.com using Airtel Live’s WAP profile. The only good thing I found for now is the buying part. The site automatically detects your Airtel number and bills it for [...]

 
MWC is closing in and Samsung is gradually revealing its wares for the biggest telecommunication show. Confirmed today is Monte (S5620) that is a translation of word ‘mountains’ in Italy, Spain and Portugal.
We saw live pictures of the phone couple of weeks back and unlike our speculation of it being a bada device, Monte [...]

Canon today unwrapped four new cameras under its PowerShot range. The new point-and-shoot cameras tend to offer easy to use interface with advanced features at a decent price.

Starting with the SX210 IS, this PowerShot offering shoots images at a resolution of 14.1MP and features a wide-angle 28mm lens with 14x optical zoom and a 3-inch [...]

 
To address today’s electronic products’ increasing quantities of internal data transfer, Sony has devised a very short-range wireless transfer communication that will allow manufacturers to replicate the same functions of wired components but save on the cost such electronic components.
This tech is based on millimeter-wave wireless data technology that transmits electromagnetic waves at [...]

 
It seems Verizon users are in for a treat soon as HTC’s latest incredibly Incredible has been snapped in the wild. Running Android’s latest 2.1 build, the Incredible will be complemented with a fast 1GHz Snapdragon CPU and Sense UI.
To sweeten things further, you’ll also find a 3.5-3.7-inch screen (supposedly AMOLED), 256MB RAM, dual [...]

 
Nokia is undoubtedly the leader in the Indian mobile market and the fact that majority of their sales comes from low-end phones, this reported development is not surprising at all.
As a Nokia Life Tools initiative for the rural India, they’re planning to launch phones priced ranging from Rs. 500 (roughly $10) to Rs. 1000 [...]

 
The legal battle between Sharp and Samsung that began in 2007 has finally come to an end. Sharp and Samsung have announced to bury the hatchet and move on, which in lawful parlance means settle all ongoing lawsuits and patent infringement disputes in U.S., Japan, Korea and Europe.
The intrinsic financial details are still under wraps [...]

 
If you ever wanted to know how a phone goes from the conceptual phase to the manufacturing phase – which in this case is Nexus One – Google has produced few short videos showing us their first Android 2.1 device. The videos walk us through the phone’s different stages, like going from the drawing board [...]

 
UPDATE: Amazon UK has started taking pre-orders. It will be shipped in UK from March 1 at a price of GBP 69.99. Product Page
Samsung will be wooing all Michael Jackson fans by selling a special edition of its portable S2 external hard drive. The special edition drive will come in a golden hue with MJ’s [...]

 
Epson has introduced PictureMate PM310 and PM235 photo printers in the Indian market. Off the two, PM310 is an interesting one as it sports a 7-inch LCD screen that in addition to preview images, also doubles up as a digital photo frame. The PM235 on the other hand, is a portable solution that can be [...]

 
The authorities over at FCC were kind enough to share pictures of LG’s upcoming netbook who had come by to pay a special ‘approving’ visit. The netbook goes by the model number X20 and although it won’t excite you on the specifications front, it does have a refreshing design, not usually found amongst netbooks.
The netbook [...]