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  Our bet for the next XpressMusic phone was 5730 but Nokia surprised us today by announcing 5630 XpressMusic. The phone is claimed to be 5800XM’s candybar sibling and runs Symbian S60 v3 with Feature Pack 2. One of the best things this phone features is, a 600MHz ARM11 processor, making it convincingly faster than [...]

  The previously leaked C903 aka Frances is now officially official. The Cyber-shot slider phone packs a lot of features to lure the photography aficionados. The 5 megapixel camera is protected by an active lens cover and boasts features like autofocus, Face Detection, Smile Shutter, BestPic and flash. Apart from photography, the phone has aGPS, [...]

  Sony Ericsson announced their most affordable Walkman phone, the W395 (Yao). The phone aims to give music enthusiasts top quality music in return of a small investment. It has the user friendly Walkman software which comes with the features like TrackID and PlayNow, dedicated music keys, FM Radio, loudspeaker and a bundled 1GB memory [...]

  Amazon unveiled its Kindle 2 at a press conference yesterday. The new Kindle is slimmer, has a longer battery life, more storage and is faster than its predecessor. The Kindle 2′s thickest part measures just 0.36” and weighs just over 10 oz. The feature set includes a 6-inch e-paper display, 2GB of storage to [...]

  Phones have been leaking pretty fast pre-MWC and the latest one to join the line is Sony Ericsson’s Hikaru. The slider phone is from the Walkman series and has a metallic exterior with 2.6-inches of display, 8GB internal memory and 8MP camera. On the music front, the phone will have Walkman player 4.0, 3.5mm [...]

  BGR has managed to score some deets of the Blackberry Curve 8900 successor. It is dubbed as Gemini with the model number 9300. The 9xxx series are for 3G handsets and thus, this one too will offer the goodness of 3G capability as well as some looks and features from Curve 8900. There are [...]

  The product listing at eXpansys’ UK and French site makes it fairly certain that E75 will be launched at MWC next week and will hit the retail shelves on March 13. The phone as we have known from the previous leaks, has a 2.4-inch screen, Wi-Fi, HSDPA, Bluetooth, Quad-band GSM support, microSD slot, 3.5mm [...]

  Microsoft still wants to hit back at Mac with its I’m a PC campaign. This time it’s 4 and a half year old Kylie who explains how easy it is to use a PC, import content and mail them. I am not sure if this attempt will win new customers but the cute girl [...]

  LG’s Incite phone which was first released in the US market in November last year, has now reached LG’s homeland too. Dubbed as SU2000/KU2000 for SK Telecom and KTF respectively, the phone’s feature set is no surprise. It runs on WinMo 6.1 OS and has a 3-inch WQVGA screen, HSDPA, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, 3.5mm audio [...]

Right from day one when Meizu announced the M8 phone, it has gained attention because of its resemblance with the mighty iPhone. And with the announcement of this phone hitting our shores, it made us curious about how well this phone will perform, especially as it piggybacked iPhone’s craze and demand. Luckily, we managed to score an 8GB version for a few days and put it to test to know if it’s worth the hype or is it just another Chinese iPhone clone.

  Toshiba has bested its previous record of non-volatile RAM by developing FeRAM (Ferroelectric Random Access Memory) that boasts the world’s highest bandwidth and density present in non-volatile RAMs. The new chip, though stores only 128Megabits of data, it has a fast read/write speed of 1.6GB per second. The FeRAM makes use of modified chainFeRAM [...]

  UPDATE 3: LG Arena launched in Europe. UPDATE 2: S-Class UI previewed on video. UPDATE: The phone will feature haptic feedback, 5-megapixel camera, 8GB internal memory and provision to expand up to 32GB. It will reach the European markets in March. LG’s product display lineup at the MWC will also showcase its new touchscreen [...]

  Verizon is running a cool buy one get one offer for all Blackberry devices but if you’re one of the many sole souls who do not need another handset, then Amazon will come to your rescue. They are selling Blackberry Storm for just $99 with no rebates, nothing. Just pay the cash, enter into [...]

  The 8MP S8300 which we saw last year has finally got official. The slider phone hails from the UltraTOUCH series and will debut at the MWC next week. It has a 2.8-inch AMOLED anti-scratch touch screen, 8MP shooter with dual LED flash, TouchWiz UI, GPS, geotagging, HSDPA, Bluetooth with A2DP, wide range of video [...]

  If you don’t own an App Store, you’re missing out an extra amount of cash that can be collected by selling mobile software. Apple, Palm, Google and even Samsung has jumped in the fray and now the rumor has it that Nokia is also contemplating to offer a one stop shop for all the [...]