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UPDATE: Engadget has managed to score a non blurry picture along with the full specs [below]. They are calling it Palm Eos.
Hot on the heels of another webOS enabled phone rumor, the blogs rooted with deep connections are doing the dirty work to extract more details. Thankfully, BGR and Techcrunch have got [...]

 
iSuppli, popular for giving down the estimates of gadgets has now set its eye on the yet to be released Palm Pre. By comparing to the Q2 component and assembly pricing, they have concluded that Pre takes around $170 to make, which includes $138 of hardware cost, under $10 of manufacturing and basic test costs [...]

 
Samsung’s 2009 roadmap is pretty clear – bring in as much as touchscreen phones in the market. And following the same, they have brought yet another touchscreen device dubbed as Tocco Lite (S5230) in UK. With an aim to take on LG’s KP500 Cookie, the phone packs in a 3-inch touchscreen display with TouchWIZ UI, [...]

 
Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple is building up a secret army that will help them develop chips for future Apple products. Apple’s recent appointment of Raja Koduri from AMD, more than 100 Apple employees on Linkedin having past experience in the semiconductor industry and job postings with descriptions like “testing the functional correctness [...]

 
Oh yea, this was on the cards but I didn’t expect to see the miniaturized version of Pre to come out this year, not even rumored. But contrary to my belief, Palm is already readying another webOS enabled device to complement the Pre says Techcrunch’s source.
“Palm is very far along on a second Pre-like device [...]

 
The ailing Motorola is all gearing up for its revival. BGR sources have spilled a bit too much about the future handset developments. Apparently, we have got couple of Android phones, a high-class Aura like phone in the offing and two phones canned from the portfolio. So here it goes.
A horizontal QWERTY slider dubbed [...]

 
Samsung reckons we’ve got a penchant for its smart looking Touch of Color (ToC) and that is why they have extended the glossy black color with a tinge of red on two new camcorders – SMX-C14 and SMX-C10. Apparently, Sammy was so smitten with the creation that they haven’t mentioned the number of megapixel it [...]

 
Samsung has released a 3.5-inch STORY Station external HDD that aims to handle user’s data needs in a secure and eco-friendly way. The drive which comes in a brushed aluminum casing integrates three key features – Auto Backup, Secret Zone and SafetyKey.
The Auto Backup backs up data at prescheduled intervals while [...]

 
Nokia’s bid to establish its hold in the US market has again misfired. This time it does not deal with phone recalls but for the payment options of its to be launched Ovi Store. The one-stop shop from Nokia will not offer operator billing option for customers buying content from US. The reason for the [...]

 
PSP related rumors don’t seem to die. This time it comes from 1up who claims to have the dope from the sources directly involved with the hardware. They say that the device will first show its face at the E3 expo, which is just over a month away and September being the likely release for [...]

 
It looks like Nokia is following the age old saying ‘strike when the iron is hot’. Nokia’s 5800 XpressMusic is doing well in the market but to earn a few more moolahs off their hot selling phone, they have launched a Star Trek edition 5800XM in UK. Unfortunately, you won’t get any features like you [...]

 
Apple is sticking to its two week cycle for the iPhone OS 3.0 beta releases. They have seeded the fourth build of its upcoming iPhone OS. The changes are not known for now.
Apple also let loose a pre-release copy of iTunes 8.2 that is required for the activation of latest beta build. Similar to [...]

 
You’ll easily lose it if you’re trying to count the number of Eee PC variants available in the market. However, the newest entrant 1000HE, which launched a month back in India has distinct qualities that sets it apart from the rest of the Eee PC clan. First and foremost, Asus’ first Eee PC to sport [...]

 
Lenovo’s dual way Blackberry email synchronization tool, Constant Connect card is now available with Lenovo’s business partners and on their website. For those who are wondering what’s the big deal, this card allows emails from a Blackberry device to be synced onto the card via Bluetooth and when a user inserts it into his ThinkPad, [...]

 
Users who have no issues trying beta builds can go ahead and download a copy of Firefox’s 3.5 beta 4. Amongst the improvements – there’s a Private Browsing Mode aka Porn mode, new enhanced Javascript engine, improved Gecko layout engine, support for new web technologies and much more.
The beta is available for Windows, Linux [...]