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  Samsung has officially acknowledged the TL320 digital camera that was prematurely leaked by Amazon a few days ago. The preliminary specs on Amazon for TL320 were spot on – 12MP Schneider wide angle lens, 5X optical zoom, 3-inch hVGA AMOLED screen, dual image stabilization and dual analog gauges for memory and battery life. New [...]

  Despite the massive avalanche of mobile devices last week at the MWC, one more thing that caught attention was the pick pocketing of an HTC phone (either Touch Pro 2 or Touch Diamond 2) given to Telstra’s CEO Sol Trujillo. Even though the theft’s motive is unclear, the thief had an access to three [...]

  AT&T customers will be able to get their hands on Pantech’s dual slider phone, Matrix Pro from tomorrow. The Matrix Pro is a Windows smartphone running WinMo 6.1 and has an alphanumeric keypad (vertical sliding) and a QWERTY keyboard (horizontal sliding). Other features include Bluetooth, microSD card slot, aGPS, music player, 2 megapixel camera, [...]

  Apart from iPod, Hyundai has also got a penchant towards the human friendly marine mammal. Another phone that was exhibited at the MWC was MB-490i, which when looked from the side, has a silhouette of a dolphin. Features-wise, the phone has a WQVGA touchscreen with touch sensitive navigation, 2 megapixel camera, Yamaha speakers, Bluetooth, [...]

  Epson has announced four new printers and two high end scanners for the 13.2M Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) floating in India. The printers – T30, T40W, TX300F, TX600FW are powered by Epson’s Micro Piezo technology that claims to give laser printer like performance at less costs. The printers also boast Wi-Fi connectivity and [...]

  It?s all happening with the Mac Mini. First an image appeared on the web, then declared as a fake and now the original leaker, infuriated by the fake tag has got something more to claim his truthfulness ? the video. The USB ports, Display ports are for real. Hit the play button quickly because [...]

  Nvidia’s relationship with Intel relationship is on the verge of a breakup, but before the GPU maker starts searching for love, they have found it already – in VIA. Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO of Nvidia has confirmed that Nvidia is on the way to produce ION 2 platform that will support Via Technologies’ Nano processor. [...]

  Multi-touch overlayers are not new but having that on a mammoth 103-inch Panasonic plasma is something worth mentioning. At the ISE 2009 expo in Amsterdam, UIcentric showed its multi-touch overlay and one of the possibilities that can be done on a humongous screen. Multi-touch Air Hockey definitely looks funner than the real one. What [...]

  According to a report by ThinkEquity Partners, Apple is gobbling down quantities of NAND flash memory which could jack up the flash memory prices. Apple’s craze to get their hands on the memory has apparently resulted buying all the Samsung’s memory inventory up to April 2009. Though it could be a boon to the [...]

  SingTel’s subsidiary is already selling HTC Dream in Australia but Singapore, where SingTel mainly operates will get the phone from Feb 21, that is tomorrow. SingTel will be providing few more features to its Dream customers like the barcode scanning app called SG SavvyShopper and video on demand with free mobisodes of Sorority Forever. [...]

  Mobile review has leaked some images of Motorola’s upcoming phone, ZN300. The brick style slider phone looks good but with the set of features, it won’t be hurting its competitors. From the specs that were out last month, it will have a 3MP camera, QVGA screen, 3.5mm audio jack and a microSD slot. Although, [...]

  With 10-inch netbooks becoming the predominant size in the netbook market, Asus is planning to completely phase out the 8.9-inch Eee PC variant. Benson Lin, President, Asustek Asia-Pacific has confirmed to Digitimes that this will be the last year for consumers to get their hands on 8.9-inch Eee PCs. Asus’ 2009 shipments suggest that [...]

  So yesterday an image appeared on the Macrumors forum that purportedly claimed to be the next version of Mac Mini. The specs of the Mini were in line of previous Mini rumors like the 2GHz Intel C2D processor, 2GB DDR3 RAM, SATA Super Drive, 5 USB ports, FireWire 800, audio ports, Ethernet and two [...]

  Vertu has added one more phone to its super expensive portfolio. It hails from the Constellation range called as Constellation Pure. The name is derived because of the purity in the uniform coloring process that took two years of research to perfect it. The phone will come in two colors – Pure White and [...]

  Nintendo is getting ready to launch its DSi console in many countries. Come April 2, Australia and New Zealand will be the early birds to get it in Black or White for AU$299.95 / NZ$375.00. Next will be the European countries on April 3, at an unknown price in Black and White and last [...]