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  While NEC is not the first phone to jump in the 12-megapixel sensor production fray, their new CE143 LSI chip is definitely the first one to capture still images at 12-megapixel and output videos at full HD resolution. The CE143 chip is a combination of a CMOS image sensor and image processing capabilities and [...]

  Coming from the Vietnamese land, E75 has been caught in the wild for the third time. The specs are not surprising – 2.4-inch screen, Wi-Fi, HSDPA, 3.2MP snapper, GPS and a 3.5mm audio jack. Expect it to be announced at the MWC in the coming days. [sohoa via Crave]

  Taiwanese companies seem to engage in a new battle of AIOs. Joining the ranks of Asus and Acer, MSI has also launched their new 18.5-inch NetOn AP1900. While Asus is yet to show its bigger and wider screen AIOs, this offering directly competes with Gateway’s ZX2300. The specs are pretty much the same but [...]

  Alright, this is not official but German website, Windows Secrets claims to have got their hands on prices of Windows 7 variants. The pricing starts from $199.95 for the Starter Edition and goes up to $319.95 for Ultimate. The Starter Edition which is aimed at netbook users will be available worldwide via OEM partners [...]

  Skybox related news is coming thick and fast over the past few days. First it was the leak of the probable roadmap and now the website. Microsoft calls it My Phone but the website address still says Skybox which makes me wonder if My Phone is just one facet of the Skybox service. Speculations [...]

  Companies do interesting stuff to sell their wares and when RIM & Verizon does it, you gotta notice. Starting from today, when a customer buys a Blackberry device from Verizon he’ll get another one (same or lesser value) for free. Yes, the Storm is also included which is kind of surprising considering it is [...]

  The other day Inquirer got a lengthy piece of an exclusive report citing unnamed reps from Sony that Intel has struck a deal with Sony to develop GPUs for PS4. Well, it looks like Sony is not ready to take any shit about its console rumors and squashed it immediately. SCE Europe rep terms [...]

  iPhone Dev team released Redsn0w Lite for iPod Touch 2G but the only beneficiaries were Mac iPod owners depriving Windows iPod owner. However, some kind gentleman took up the task and written a very detailed tutorial to jailbreak the player from Windows too. All it takes is 12 steps to make it enter the [...]

  Sure, Motorola Aura is an outstanding phone with the high class materials and its unique form factor but the $2000 price tag made most of them to stay away from this eye candy. But fret not coz ever good lads from China have fulfilled your wishes at 5 percent of Aura’s price. Presenting RicT-007 [...]

  The rumormongers are chirping March 3 as the destined date for Tata Nano to hit the Indian roads. The Tata spokesperson gladly turned it down but government officials claim Tata decided Mar 3 as the launch date because it coincides with the birthday of Jamsetji Tata, the founder of Tata Group. Related Nano news [...]

  UPDATE: Sony has replied to the rumor. Inquirer got lucky enough at the CES last month to score some juicy tidbits about the successor of PS3. Their source who happens to be from the Sony engineering team says that Intel will play a crucial part in designing PS4 because the GPUs will be developed [...]

  If 2009 is believed to be the year of Android, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon SoC may sweep to become handset manufacturers’ all in one choice this year. According to DigiTimes, HTC will follow Toshiba to launch its Snapdragon equipped device in the second quarter of this year. Other companies that have joined hands with Qualcomm to [...]

  Quirky shaped music players are not new in the DAP market. One of the latest addition is Aigo’s DAP which resembles a piece from a jigsaw puzzle. The technical specs are next to none but as with most of the DAPs, this one too looks like a no fuss player with controls nicely placed [...]

  UPDATE:Couple of videos have been added below. [via Wired] Researchers at MIT have invented a great piece of gadget that can perform actions by simply using hand gestures. The Sixth Sense was shown at the TED 2009 which has been created out of commercially available products. The components used were a web camera, battery [...]

  UPDATE: SingTel to sell HTC Dream from Feb 21. Android powered HTC Dream will finally hit the Asia Pacific region with Australia and Singapore being the first recipients. SingTel and its wholly-owned Optus will bring the phone to Singapore and Australia respectively. HTC Dream better known as G1 has the same sliding QWERTY keyboard, [...]