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  Digitimes is reporting that Dell’s ultra thin Adamo laptop will face a delay in the launch as its Chinese manufacturer Foxconn is yet to start mass production. According to their sources, the device is already in sample production with plans to go in volume only after the second half of this year. This rumor [...]

  Sanyo yesterday announced six dual camera Xactis as a part of the 2009 lineup. All new cameras are equipped with HD recording and sport dual cameras so that the user does not need to change between photo and video modes. The videos are recorded in MPEG-4/H.264 formats which make TV/PC viewing, editing and sharing [...]

  Kingston has announced their entry in the SSD market by revealing the SSDNow E and SSDNow M series SSDs. The drives are a rebadged version of Intel SSDs and Kingston reckons its 24X7 support and a 3 year warranty will set the drives apart from its competitors. The 32GB E is aimed at the [...]

  I must say Microsoft has pretty loose hands. Just like the leaks of Windows 7, its highly anticipated Windows Mobile 6.5 has also been leaked and is now available for downloading. The ROM is available right now at the XDA-developers forum and works only with HTC Blue Angel devices. The Beta build currently stands [...]

  Back in July, Nokia gave a major shock to Nokia users using Blackberry service when they announced to drop the development and support of Blackberry Connect software. It was not the best app but it was the only one for Nokia users to communicate with the BES servers. Now, Tom Furlong, head of Nokia [...]

  iPod and gun combo is not new but this time it serves a different, real purpose. Check out this M110 Sniper Rifle mounted with an iPod Touch. The Touch mounted Rifle runs KAC Bullet Flight app that will help the Sniper to achieve more precision. He can add details like weather conditions, target distance, [...]

  Sometimes these type of statements make us chuckle especially when a bigwig comments ignoring the facts. Sony’s boss Kazuo Hirai recently commented on PS3’s competitors. Well, according to him, PS3 is the leader in the current generation console war. This is what he said about Nintendo. “It’s difficult to talk about Nintendo because we [...]

  New evidence shows that HP is going to expand the Mini family. Support documents found on the HP website proves that HP will sooner or later launch the Mini 1100 series which includes Mini 1130NR, Mini 1133CL, Mini 1135NR and Mini 1141NR models. The exact changes are unknown but it is expected that the [...]

  Anything for geekiness! A guy named Chris took his small Eee PC to a Brooklyn store and etched complete maps of Super Mario Land (Game Boy) on the screen lid. Needless to say, it looks awesome. From his Flickr page: Last night I laser-etched the top of my Eee PC with the complete level [...]

  Gizmodo has received a picture that claims to be the successor of the first Android phone, G1. Of course, this is still unconfirmed but going by the tipster’s word, the phone is scheduled to launch in mid-May. It looks like the G2 will lose the QWERTY and feature a 3.2 megapixel cam with glossy [...]

  LG is all geared up to launch its first dual SIM phone, KS660 in the CIS and the Chinese market. The phone has some nifty features like the notes, calendars are displayed on the standby screen and widgets for easy management. The touchscreen interface benefits from a feature called as Image Memo which helps [...]

Hot on the heels of PSP getting updated to v5.03, Sony also announced PS3 getting a software upgrade too. The v2.60 concentrates on the media capabilities of the console. It adds the support for DivX 3.11 files and guest access to the PlayStation Store. However, the major change in this firmware is the Photo Gallery [...]

  Eldar from Mobile-Review spilled the beans on what is called as Nokia’s 5730 XpressMusic phone. It looks like another XpressMusic candybar phone from top with a 2-inch QVGA screen and an alphanumeric keypad. But the USP lies under it – a horizontal sliding QWERTY keyboard. The phone will run on Symbian Series 60 FP2 [...]

  This one’s strictly for our Japanese friends. NTT is selling an earthquake warning device, Urgent Earthquake News Flash FLET’S Type that will send quake alerts to the subscribers. When an alert will be issued by the Japan Meteorological Agency, NTT’s Urgent Earthquake Bulletin service will relay the message on the subscriber’s computer screen. The [...]

  If the latest rumor is to be believed then Microsoft is likely to launch cloud services like SkyBox, SkyLine and SkyMarket at the MWC 2009. According to Neowin, the services will mostly fall under the Live brand. “SkyBox” is a service for users to sync a phones information with the web. Microsoft will be [...]