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  Samsung announced four new prosumer cameras for North America. It includes two entry level SL202 and SL30 and a bit more advanced SL820 and SL620. SL202 and SL30 offers quite a number of features for its price tag. Both has a 10MP lens from Samsung, 3X optical zoom, video recording, image stabilizer, face detection [...]

  Asus added one more Eee feather to its confusing Eee PC lineup. The Eee PC 1000H-X with Office is well, the same 1000H Eee PC but this time it comes pre-installed with Microsoft Office Personal 2007. The netbook will start retailing from Feb 21 for 57,800 Yen (US$625). Technical Specs: OS: Microsoft Windows XP [...]

  Meizu gave a confirmation on their bulletin board that they’ll start selling their Windows based iPhone brother, M8 in China from tomorrow. Two variants will be up for sale – 8GB and 16GB. The 8GB version will go for 2380 Yuan ($348) and 16GB will sell for 2880 Yuan ($421). Check our 8GB Meizu [...]

  Nokia E55 is not alone mimicking the SureType keyboard. This time it’s LG with their HQ phone. HQ is a Windows smartphone (non touchscreen) device running WinMo 6.1 with an intuitive 3D home screen interface and features a 528MHz processor with RAM/ROM of 128MB/256MB, supports quad-band GSM, 3G, Wi-Fi, 2MP camera, Bluetooth and microSD [...]

  LG is not concerned to give away the technical specs right now because GD900 is not about megapixels or multimedia or the internet. It is about the new design, new gimmick that LG reckons could sell a decent number of units. The keypad is made from glass-like material making it transparent and illuminating it [...]

  It was sort of official but needed a confirmation, which we have got now. Nokia unveiled its first 8MP phone N86 that claims to take the place of a stand-alone digital camera. It has got a wide angle Carl Zeiss optics with dual LED lens. The phone has GPS, N-gage support, kickstand, TV-Out and [...]

  It was just yesterday when G2 slipped into Vodafone’s hat to become Magic and today they have officially acknowledged it. Vodafone will bring the device in the European region with exclusive interests in UK, Spain, Germany, France and on a non-exclusive basis in Italy. HTC Magic as we all know is an Android based [...]

  Now ZiiLABS is talking business. The hyped launch at the CES didn’t help much Creative to pitch its Zii SoC. But the above video explains it all, why are they competent. The video, as promised shows ZMS-05 running Android and video content at 720p. We anticipated some 1080p hotness but maybe their press release [...]

  LG is in a mood of alliances. After signing the dotted line with Intel to develop MIDs based on Intel’s Moorestown platform, LG and Microsoft have entered into a new alliance that emphasizes LG to make Windows Mobile as the primary OS for its future phones. This according to their estimation, LG can bring [...]

  With so many phones and services announced at the MWC, Microsoft too had three important announcements to make, that according to them will shape the future of Windows phones. First was the official acknowledgement of Windows Mobile 6.5. No surprises here as Microsoft has got a completely new UI that is more finger friendly, [...]

  Nokia teased us with an image couple of days back hinting about the possible 8MP phone. Well, the leaked PDF confirms it but the phone, now known as N86 just didn’t show up with other phones announced yesterday. The phone was showcased in Singapore that was pictured by a fellow blogger along with other [...]

  HTC’s presser did not say anything about the new Android phone. But fret not because our leak messiah has scooped once again to bring the deets of HTC G2. G2 is called the HTC Magic (or maybe Pioneer) and will be released exclusively for the European Vodafone customers. The phone will do away with [...]

  LG Electronics announced its association today with Intel for the development of a Mobile Internet Device (MID) that will be powered by Intel’s MID hardware platform, Moorestown. LG’s MID will be the very first to integrate Moorestown platform along with Intel’s Moblin 2.0 OS. Moorestown is the codename of second gen MID platform that [...]

  HTC announced two sexy upgrades, Touch Pro 2 and Touch Diamond 2 to their successful Touch Pro and Touch Diamond. Touch Pro 2 looks like a massive overhaul over its predecessor that features a vivid 3.6-inch WVGA screen, tilt-able screen and a touch sensitive zoom bar on the front. It also has Straight Talk [...]

  Nokia’s 5800 XpressMusic has been doing well in most of the markets and India is no exception. Launched on Jan 4, according to Nokia channel partners, 58,000 units of 5800XM (58k for 5800, coincidence?!) have been sold within three weeks of its launch. But does the phone’s success got to do with the features [...]