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  Dell has announced 3G equipped Inspiron Mini 10 for the Chinese market. The Inspiron Mini 10 integrates 3G from China Mobile and is the first offering from Dell to sport a mobile broadband solution in China. Apart from 3G, the Mini 10 will come with a Z530 Atom processor, 1GB RAM, 160GB HDD, webcam, [...]

  More Zune HD details continue to trickle out. The insider sources of Neowin blurt out the specifications that puts a few rights and wrongs against yesterday’s leaked specs. The confirmed things that the new Zune HD will have are: – 3.6-inch OLED full touch screen – NVIDIA Tegra powered – 4GB, 8GB, 16GB, 32GB [...]

  Motorola unwrapped a new clamshell phone in Mexico earlier this week. The W6 phone from the ROKR series aims to give a decent music experience as well as few workout suggestions to keep the user healthy. With the integrated fitness app, a user can key in his name, age, sex, weight and height and [...]

  Announced a couple of weeks back in India, we finally managed to lay our hands on this 8MP beauty. Known as Tocco, S8300 UltraTouch or just UltraTouch, the phone looks classy in its brushed aluminum finish on the front. Though the phone is on the heavier side, the hold and feel is quite nice [...]

  LG’s Viewty II has got more or less official with LG’s German blog posting (now removed) few details and pictures of it. The GC900 or Viewty II is now known as Viewty Smart and boasts most of the features we have known before. It weighs 90 grams and is just 12.4mm thick making it [...]

  The products that were unveiled in the US way back in January will now make its way to the Indian market. Lenovo has launched its first ever AIO, A600 and 16-inch Y650 laptop which is touted to be the lightest and the slimmest in its class. Lenovo’s AIO offering boasts a 21.5-inch frameless screen [...]

  Nokia has announced the availability of E75 messaging phone in India. Available in Red or Silver Black for Rs. 26,299, the phone ensures complete email and messaging services integration and support for up to 16 email accounts. The phone also includes 3.2 megapixel camera with flash, media player, FM Radio, A-GPS, built-in VPN and [...]

  With the unprecedented growth of netbooks, Sharp is also looking to make a quick buck by jumping on the bandwagon. They have held their netbook too tightly to reveal anything but have promised to spill the beans next week in Japan which will grace under the Mebius brand. We are not expecting them to [...]

  Just after the marketing materials were leaked last week, we have got a press picture showing Zune HD in full glory. Boy, it does look beautiful with brush aluminum finish at the back aand very 1G iPhone-ish. Nonetheless, WMPoweruser, who received this picture has also slipped few details about the PMP. There will be [...]

  Developers can now download the beta 3 (7A280f) update of the iPhone OS 3.0. There are no details on the changes in the update but the new SDK which comes along with it has brought changes to various components like Xcode, Interface builder and Dashcode. Apple has also confirmed a bug that does not [...]

  To commemorate 10 years of Yepp music players, Samsung has introduced Diamond Sound edition of Yepp Q2 PMP. The diamondness of the player is that it upscales the music on the basis of three sound modes – Café/Church/Concert. It also has DNSe 3.0 onboard to enhance the audio quality. Features-wise, the player boasts a [...]

  Nintendo has announced the Wii Motionplus accessory release date for the US. Attaching a Motionplus to the Wii Remote promises extra precision to its motion sensing capabilities and Americans will be able to buy it from June 8 at a price of $19.99. Ninty also put a release date against the Wii Sports Resort [...]

  Microsoft has announced to cover the E74 error under warranty that has haunted many Xbox 360 users before. The E74 error is similar to the RRoD where an error screen pops up on the screen because of the hardware failure. Good thing on Microsoft’s part is that though it covers all the future E74 [...]

  Russian site, Mobile@mail is looking at more than the technical specs of LG’s Arena (KM-900) phone. They are testing its machoism by making it go through the atrocities which you won’t do with your phone, even in your dream. The phone gets freezed in -20C, whirls for a short ride in washing machine, gets [...]

  The Open Handset Alliance is now offering Android 1.5’s early look SDK which is based on the cupcake branch of the Android platform. The new version brings in lots of new features like on-screen soft keyboard, homescreen widgets, live folders, video recording etc. which now developers can benefit of. Developers can head over to [...]