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  LG did tell us about the Viewty II during the last month’s Mobile World Congress but apparently it was absent from the show floor. At the LG Dealers show, the Korean showed GC900 which in layman’s parlance is dubbed as the Viewty II. The phone excels in almost every department from its predecessor. Viewty [...]

  After the apprehensions about Mac Mini being faked, Apple has finally unveiled the 2009 Mac Mini, and it’s the same. Mac Mini is touted as the most affordable Mac and comes in two price options of $599 or $799. Both the Minis come with integrated 9400M GeForce GPU with the difference in the RAM [...]

  Apple also updated its 20 and 24-inch iMacs. The iMacs are now a bit pocket friendly with 20-inch iMac starting from $1,199 and 24-inch from $1,499. The base specs for both the models include 2.66GHz Core 2 Duo processor, 2GB (20-inch) or 4GB (24-inch) RAM, integrated Nvidia GeForce 9400M GPU, 320GB (20-inch) / 640GB [...]

  Apple announced the new Mac Pro today that will be powered by Nehalem based Intel Xeon processors. Mac Pro’s price has been lowered by $300 while the performance has been doubled over its predecessor. Starting from $2,499, the base specs include a single 2.66GHz Quad-core Xeon processor, 3GB RAM, 640GB HDD, Nvidia GeForce GT120 [...]

  Motorola has got ZN300 slider phone on its website hinting about the official announcement soon. The rumored specs were spot on with QVGA screen, microSD slot 3.5mm audio jack and 3MP camera. However, the sign up page lists countries from the APAC region (why is India excluded?), which could mean that the phone may [...]

  Sony is proud to announce its first digital camera, HX1 to feature sweep panorama technology. With HX1, a user can shoot panoramic photos up to 224-degree horizontally and 154-degree vertically. It continuously shoots pictures at full 9.1MP resolution and then the imaging processor stitches the photos automatically to give the best output. It also [...]

  Asus revealed its fleet of products that will be showcased at the CeBIT today. First is the Asus-Lamborghini offspring VX5. Apart from the classy Lamborghini styling, the VX5 has a 16-inch screen and features an Intel Core 2 Quad processor, 4GB RAM, GeForce GT 130M GPU, Blu-ray drive and 1TB SSD making it the [...]

  Nvidia just announced four new GPUs for notebooks hailing from the GTX 200M and GTS 100M series. The GTX 280M and 260M are apt for enthusiast notebooks while GTS 160M and 150M aim for high performance sleek laptops. All the cards boast to be 50 percent faster from the previous generation cards without increasing [...]

  Meizu seems to delve in future projects already. After releasing the GSM variant of M8, Meizu’s head confirmed that they are working on M9 – M9c and M9t. The M9 does not look to be totally different from M8 apart from the cellular radios. M9c will support CDMA2000 and M9t will run on China’s [...]

  UPDATE: Apple launched new consumer line of Macs. The iMac and the Mini refresh wait might be over on March 24. According to couple of websites, an Apple event is planned on the destined date. While one refrains to tell what exactly is planned for the event, the other one gives more precise details [...]

  It looks like Asus is trying to slow down the pace of Asus branded phones in the market with the new alliance with Garmin. It is being reported that France was destined to get the P565 handset last month but now, the phone will not be released. However, it is unclear if P565 will [...]

  This is not Nokia would have expected but after a mild launch of 5800 XpressMusic, the phone has been pulled off from Nokia flagship store because of the issues reported earlier, specifically the US pertinent problem of 3G. Currently, Nokia is taking the contact details of all the interested 5800 customers. [Via Gizmodo]

  It’s not the first time we have seen UK’s Ministry of Defense looking for new offense and defensive tools to fight on the warfront. This time, they have contracted a UK based company to produce gel-filled helmets that can increases the chances to save a soldier’s life when a bullet is aimed at the [...]

  Glaxy7 (or Galaxy) has been officially announced by Asus as P835. It has a lovely 3.5-inch touchscreen display supporting WVGA resolution, Asus’ Glide UI, HSPA, 5MP camera, GPS and Wi-Fi which can be configured to function as an access point by sharing its HSPA connection. The phone comes with Windows Mobile 6.1 and it [...]