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  Yes, it’s coming out next week. I have registered with the Nokia Dealer who has promised to reveal the price as soon as the phone is available (obvious?!). Anyways, expect it to be around Rs. 25,000.

  Renowned Taiwanese rumor monger has published a news report which makes a perfect piece for yet another juicy iPhone rumor. According to them, OmniVision has grabbed an Apple order for providing a 3.2MP CMOS image sensor for the next iPhone variant. This claim isn’t that surprising because an evolved iPhone with a higher resolution [...]

  There have been few phones doing text to speech for visually impaired users but a touchscreen phone for blind will be the first. Researchers at the University of Tampere in Finland have taken a Nokia 770 Internet Tablet device which is equipped with piezoelectric material built in the touchscreen and installed a software that [...]

  All’s going good for RIM at the moment. Apart from selling more than 50 million Blackberry phones, the company posted positive results for the last quarter which ended on Feb 28. The quarter which included the holiday season as well posted a revenue of US$3.46 billion, up 84 percent from the same quarter last [...]

  Dell has freshened up its Vostro line with three laptops – Vostro 1320 (13.3-inch), 1520 (15.4-inch) and 1720 (17-inch). Dell claims that these notebooks are built with keeping SMBs in mind and thus, these come with a pre-installed videoconferencing and webcam software (provided you the buy the optional webcam and mic), SSDs and security [...]

  This proof of concept by Nvidia is another evidence that they want to barge into Intel’s territory. Yes, Nvidia has Ion to take care of netbooks but when Tegra SoCs can work on netbooks, you know, the Tegra integration possibilities are endless. At the CTIA, Nvidia replaced an Atom chip with its Tegra processor [...]

  Hot on the heels of PS3’s firmware update, MS also released an upgraded firmware for its Xbox 360 console. According to Major Nelson, there’s no new features as such but “this update addresses interruption issues that some Xbox LIVE users may have experienced when playing a limited number of Xbox 360 games.” Users need [...]

  Russian hacker Vortex did the honors this time by releasing an unofficial QuickPWN tool for jailbreaking the latest version of iPhone OS 3.0 beta. The tool is just over 3MB and works on both the iPhones and 1st gen iPod Touch. But before you hit click the download page below, here’s a piece of [...]

  Sony has announced a new camcorder that boasts decent features in a slim package. The compact HDR-TG5V device is capable to shoot videos in full HD resolution or if you need to click a still image, a 4MP sensor comes to your rescue. It’s also got a 2.7-inch touchscreen LCD, Smile Shutter and Face [...]

  After being sighted in the wild and getting an extensive review, AMD has officially announced HD 4890 bragging 1.36 TeraFLOPs of compute power, making it the fastest GPU available in the market. The card’s got a GB of GDDR5 memory, 800 stream processing units, DirectX 10.1 support and CrossfireX support. The card also features [...]

  PS3 has got yet another firmware update. The v2.70 firmware now brings in text chat feature with PSN friends, in-game text chat and an option to add 15 people to a conversation. The update will also allow users to sort their friends according to their name or status, increased attachment size up to 3MB [...]

  This has got to be the best fusions of tech we have seen in recent times. Jon wanted his RX-8 to be “live” and always connected and thus, he hooked his car with a low power PC equipped with 3G, GPS and created a password protected web server link. The result is that he [...]

  HTC has announced its first handset at the CTIA expo. Dubbed as Snap, the phone takes a dig at Blackberry. The smartphone runs on Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard and is powered by a 528MHz Qualcomm processor along with 192MB RAM and 256MB ROM. The phone features TouchFLO 3D UI and has something called as [...]

  iPhone OS 3.0 is a significant upgrade over the current OS 2.0 and most the developers who have been trying it out, seems to be content. However, Apple has now seeded an updated beta for the developers to dabble with. The actual changelog is a mystery but couple of early testers found a new [...]

  Here’s some good news for those looking for a sub-$299 HTPC solution and also packed with decent computing features. According to the leaked info, Acer Hornet will playback full 1080p HD content over HDMI and will also come with a Wii-like Remote that will double up as a Media Center remote and a gaming [...]