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  Palm has announced its highly anticipated phone Pre running on Nova (now officially known as the WebOS). This was supposedly the last chance for Palm to prove themselves and it looks like they have delivered it. The phone as previously rumored has a full touchscreen display on the front with the sliding QWERTY keyboard [...]

  Oh heck! This camera has Wi-Fi. It even has a browser built-in. Sony DSC-G3 is the world’s first digital camera to pull such a feat – integrate Wi-Fi for easy uploading and sharing of pictures and videos. To promote the feature, Sony is also giving complimentary AT&T Wi-Fi access to Sony’s Easy Upload Home [...]

  Sony Ericsson announced triads of phones, two belonging to the Walkman while the remaining one from the Cyber-shot category. The lone Cyber-shot revealed today is C510, which Sony Ericsson claims to be the cheapest Cyber-shot phone from them. The phone will feature a 3.2-megapixel camera sensor along with the different Cyber-shot features like face [...]

  As promised, Creative has announced Zii. To fully promote its Zii platform, Creative has floated a new firm by the name of ZiiLABS that will develop chips for Zii. The first initiative from them is the ZMS-05 SoC (System-On-Chip) which is nothing but a media-rich processor with dual ARM cores and integrated I/Os as [...]

  Samsung’s latest entrant in the world of PMPs is P3. It features a 3-inch WQVGA display with an aspect ratio of 16:9, which somehow wants to compete with Apple’s iPod Touch. Comparisons aside, the 0.39-inch svelte player will come in storage sizes varying from 4GB to 32GB and plays all the popular video, audio [...]

  Steve Ballmer in his keynote at the CES announced the availability of the beta version of Windows 7. While MSDN, TechBeta and TechNet subscribers are eligible to get their hands on Vista successor from today, users like you and me will be able to download the beta from January 9 i.e. Friday. Having used [...]

  Logitech showing up its goods at the CES, revealed its Harmony 1100 universal remote control from the lineup. Winner of the CES 2009 Design and Engineering Award, the palm-sized remote control sports a 3.5-inch touchscreen QVGA display which can be customized with the help of bundled Harmony software. Harmony 1100 can be hooked up [...]

  After creating a prototype of their watch phone in 2008, LG Electronics showed their market ready watch phone at the CES. The GD910 will be the first watch phone to sport 3G video calling as well as quadband network capabilities. It has a 1.43-inch touchscreen display tackling the core phone functions like calling and [...]

  After almost 15 days of aggressive marketing and some leaks, Sony has officially revealed the Vaio P-Series. Sony touts this subnotebook as slightly larger than an office envelope and light enough (638g) to carry it anywhere. There are no changes in the specifications as it has a 1.33GHz Intel Atom processor, 2GB RAM, 3G, [...]

  Kensington has announced SlimBlade Trackball which is nothing but an expanded version of trackballs present in most of today’s mobile devices. The idea is pretty simple – You move the trackball to use the mouse pointer, click through menus and do all sorts of stuff which you could do with the mouse. To make [...]

  T-Mobile USA has announced that they will sell RIM’s thinnest and lightest Blackberry device, Curve 8900 from next month. This member from the Curve family packs a punch with its titanium-colored finish look and features like crisp display supporting a resolution of 480X360 pixels, 512MHz processor, 3.5mm audio jack, Wi-Fi, memory expansion support up [...]

  Asus’ Eee branded products doesn’t seem to stop. The image you’re looking above is a prototype of Eee PC Keyboard. The chicklet style keyboard in fact is a fully functional PC with a small 5-inch touchscreen. An upped version of nettops? The spec sheet includes an Intel N270/N330 Atom processor, 1GB RAM, 16 or [...]

  SanDisk doesn’t seem to have learnt a lesson from its slotMusic initiative. Now that slotMusic has taken a backseat (assuming weak sales), the new bold move comes in the form of slotRadio. The slotRatio line consists of a music player and a microSD card. If a user is willing to shell out $100, he’ll [...]

  This is what we have been waiting for! HTC has finally announced the beast from the Touch family to please the Indians. It has all the qualities for your mobile entertainment needs like a huge 3.8-inch touchscreen with WVGA resolution (480X800 pixels), music player, 3.5mm audio jack and a 5-megapixel camera with autofocus. However, [...]

  Here is another attempt from Motorola to woo mobile phone users. This time its offerings include an environmental friendly W233 Renew and socially active Motosurf A3100 touchscreen phone. W233 Renew is an entry level phone with its housing made completely out of recycled water bottles. It also earns a CarbonFree Product Certification from CarbonFund.org [...]