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  Analysts are back again and this time they go for Dell. Shaw Wu from Kaufman Bros. says that Dell will announce a new phone at the 3GSM or Mobile World Congress next month. “The exact timing of Dell’s launch is not clear but our sources indicate it is closer to reality than before,” said [...]

  If we go by the leaked info, HTC is going to have an eventful 2009. With so many phones lined up to show its faces in the year, there wouldn’t be a single month where we won’t see a phone from the Taiwanese phone maker. Few notable ones from the lot are Hero which [...]

  A manual found on Samsung UK’s website has confirmed the existence of its NC20 netbook. Though this thing looks totally different from what it was rumored, the specifications mentioned before are spot on. The NC20 takes a bigger avatar having a 12.1” WXGA screen (1280X800 pixels) and will be powered by a 1.3GHz VIA [...]

  You don’t need to be a geek to figure out what is so special in the AIRO laptop. It looks like any other laptop in town but open the lid, and the uniqueness reveals. The keyboard begins to slide behind giving more than sufficient area for resting your palm and also a tilted keyboard [...]

  Looks like Apple is turning less authoritative. Macrumors is reporting that over the last 24 hours few 3rd party web browsers have made an entry into the App Store. Though there is no official announcement from the big guy, these applications were included along with their original submission dates. Previously Apple rejected browser applications [...]

  Will we see the ultimate iPhone killer this year? It seems so. Australian telecom operator, Telstra was at CES this year to have a peek at Palm’s latest offering. Though they liked the phone they weren’t amazed when compared to HTC’s unseen, unheard touch phone. Yes, a new phone from HTC which in Telstra [...]

  Brian Marshal of American Technology Research is claiming that Apple will launch the Nano version of iPhone this year. His statement about the launch which could be ‘early this year’ hints that it might be released in the first half of this year. But here’s the shocker. He says that his sources reveal that [...]

  There have been many solutions to purify impure water but the Skywater machines from Island Sky is a bit different. Its patented technology actually helps to create safe drinking water from thin air. The thin air is nothing but the water vapor that is grasped by Skywater to create hygienic water, which in optimum [...]

  New webOS powered devices were in the offing considering it is the next flagship OS for Palm. But we never expected that it would be soon after Pre’s launch. If the latest rumor is to be believed, Palm is readying the Centro successor to run on webOS. Reportedly, the Centro 2, will come on [...]

  Another product revealed at the CES was Seagate’s FreeAgent Theater HD Media player that allows to play files directly from the external USB drive. The idea is pretty simple – just pop in a Seagate FreeAgent drive or any other USB external drive into the unit and play multimedia files on TV. It also [...]

  Apart from bombarding the CES expo with Eee line of products Asus also showed a computing concept. We name this shared computing concept as ‘Eee Share’ which allows two users to share one notebook computer with the included two thin displays as well as two keyboards. Very futuristic but don’t pin your hopes on [...]

  A new phone seems to pop up from HTC’s stable. Dubbed as Iolite, the phone will sit in between Touch 3G and Touch Diamond. It will pack quad-band GSM radio along with UMTS, GPS, Wi-Fi, 512MB RAM/288MB ROM and a memory expansion slot. This will have Windows Mobile 6.1 running with the slick 3D [...]

  Vodafone seems to be in a hurry. India got Pearl Flip 8220 just a week ago and now they have announced RIM’s first touchscreen phone, Blackberry Storm which will be sold exclusively by them. Suddenly, the outrageous above Rs. 30,000 price tag of high end phones seem to disappear and Vodafone has pegged Storm [...]

  Palm revealed almost everything in its announcement except the price of the device. This gave our Russian mobile expert, Eldar Murtazin (of Mobile-Review fame) to chime in and tell the price. According to him, Palm’s debating over two different price points. First is the $499 or $399 while the second is $199 or $149. [...]

So it looked like our main page was facing some issues today. Despite publishing the stories, they weren’t showing up on the front page. It was the WP Super Cache plugin that was playing a bad boy and thankfully, it has been sorted now. In case you missed it, these are the stories for today. [...]