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  Looks like the first official picture of ZTE’s VF1231 has emerged. The image clearly shows the phone running on Windows Mobile (mostly 6.1) and has the GSM and EDGE housed on the same chip. I don’t think there will be a customized UI considering its cheap price tag. The phone will be officially unveiled [...]

  SanDisk and Toshiba have been collaborating for quite some time to develop flash technologies. The latest breakthrough by them are the 43nm X4 and 32nm X3 flash chips, currently showcased at the International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC). The 32nm 32Gb X3 flash chip is the smallest NAND flash in the industry and is [...]

  Taking its expertise of server-side optimization (which Opera Mini currently uses), the Norwegian browser company has announced of a new server-side solution dubbed as Opera Turbo. Turbo enabled browsers work the same way as Opera Mini but a major difference is that it offers full support for web technologies like Javascript, Ajax and Flash. [...]

  Intel recently unveiled the Westmere family of processors at an event in San Francisco. The Westmere family chips are based on Nehalem’s architecture fabricated on 32nm technology and will cater to the desktop with Clarkdale as well as laptop market with Arrandale line of processors. In addition to the 32nm fabrication, these chips also [...]

  BMW Korea and Samsung have joined hands again to co-market their 7-Series cars with Samsung phones. In addition to the previous features like Bluetooth hands-free and iDrive controller, the premium 7-Series will offer wireless charging for Samsung’s premium phone, T*Omnia (SCH-M490 in Korea). The phone needs to be kept on the designated place and [...]

  Mozilla has let loose its Fennec browser for the Touch Pro users to try it out. If you’re not a big fan of IE Mobile and want to rest Opera for a while, you can give it a shot. A word of caution though; it’s a pre-alpha build so expect bugs to hinder your [...]

  Fujitsu is testing an e-reader device, FLEPia which has all the features to take down the mighty Kindle. Currently limited to certain areas in Japan, the reader delivers train timetables, weather reports in addition to the usual books and newspapers. It is not clear if FLEPia possesses something like Kindle’s Whispernet but it surely [...]

  Dell has got a new teaser up and running on Adamo’s website. The teaser as you would expect, is a teaser which reveals nothing but asking users to signup for the Adamo ‘love story’. Dell unveiled Adamo last month at the CES and it was sort of a cold launch with just the prototype [...]

  Nokia has announced the arrival of E63 to the stateside. The phone will be sold at Nokia flagship stores, retailers and e-tailers at just $279. E63 is akin to E71 but gives away the metallic body and some features to justify its price tag. Users can enjoy its QWERTY keypad and other features like [...]

  Chinese handset maker, ZTE is excited to display its entire range of smartphones at the next week’s MWC expo. There will be 10 different phones to grace its booth and ZTE is banking on VF 1231 to be the show stealer that they have developed specially for Vodafone. VF 1231 will be a Windows [...]

  Asus added a new laptop to their expanding portfolio – N81Vg. The laptop is the first one to feature Nvidia’s GeForce GT120M GPU that comes with CUDA technology, 32 cores of processing power and full HD playback. Other components filling the specs sheet are options of Core 2 Duo processors, up to 4gigs of [...]

  Samsung has successfully developed a high-speed Ultra Wide-Band (UWB) chip that touts have the fastest data transfer rate. The chip combines ARM9 core-based baseband processor and flash controller to attain high rate of data speeds. The USB chip now reaches a speed of 120Mbps, which is 70MB faster than the current lot of UWB [...]

  Dell has unwrapped Latitude XT2 that touts to be the industry’s first multi-touch enabled tablet PC. The 12.1-inch capacitive touchscreen takes multi-touch commands from fingers as well as included EM Digitizer pen. The base configuration starts from $2,399 and makes the tablet look underpowered because of Windows Vista being run on a 1.2GHz Intel [...]

  Archos churns out decent PMPs and caught by the latest fad to produce an Android device, they’ll also join the league by launching a 5-inch Internet Media Tablet (IMT). The tablet will combine Android’s telephonic capabilities and – Archos’ multimedia framework. Some of the features of the IMT are: – PC-like Internet experience enhanced [...]

  Google and HTC gathered a lot of flak because of their decision to leave out multi-touch functionality in G1 (HTC Dream) where proof-of-concepts have shown G1 to handle multi-touch gestures at ease. However, according to a member from the Android team, it was a conscious decision by Google. He says that Apple asked (ordered?!) [...]