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  P835 that was officially announced in March has now reached the Indian shores. The phone also known as Galaxy packs in a vivid 3.5-inch WVGA screen with Asus’ in-house Glide UI, Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, 5 megapixel camera, trackball, high speed HSDPA and doubles as Wi-Fi Access Point for up to 10 devices that [...]

  Remember the leaked pinky Android phone that unusually tilted at the bottom? Well, it has finally come out of rendition and been caught in the wild – with the tilted bottom, of course. The phone which looks more of a prototype for now runs Android, features a 3.5mm audio jack and a few keys [...]

  Amazon is holding a press event tomorrow to unveil the next iteration of Kindle with a larger screen. Amazon’s move for a larger sized e-book reader comes in order to lure newspaper and academic textbook publishers to adopt the platform. The first images that have surfaced, show Kindle DX (that’s what it’s called) with [...]

  The U and UX Series which first made its appearance at the CeBIT this year has been given the official acknowledgement along with the full specifications. The U Series comprises of five different models with screen size ranging from 12.1-inch to 15.6-inches and are said to take a design inspiration from butterflies. The notebooks [...]

  So Cult of Mac received an image from their “trusted contributor” claiming to be an Apple netbook. However, it turns out to be that the purported netbook is nothing but a pencil drawn wooden model. Kyle Buckner is the mastermind of this creation which is a ¾ scale model of Macbook made out of [...]

  Just a month away from the actual release, Amazon US is now taking up preorders for Nintendo’s Wii MotionPlus accessory. It goes for $19.99 apiece which is a tad expensive if you’re buying it along with a game. The MotionPlus accessory when attached helps Wii to get a 1:1 gaming response resulting in better [...]

  Thanks to Verizon-RIM’s BOGOF promotion, Blackberry Curve has zoomed past Apple’s iPhone. The report released by NPD Group makes Curve the undisputed king in the US smartphone market for Q1 2009. RIM managed to snag a good 15 percent of the smartphone market while Apple and Palm lost 10 percent of it. The top [...]

  UPDATE: Direct Download Links added below. Its May 5 and as promised Microsoft has released the public RC version of Windows 7. Users can jump on the download link below to get their copy which will be valid till June 1, 2010. However, Microsoft will start crippling your OS experience by automatic bi-hourly shutdowns [...]

  You’re not too demanding if you expect endless hours of fun for a huge $5.99 game. But what if I say the game lasts less than 5 minutes? Of course, this happens only if you take the shortcut but if solving puzzles is your forte or want to kill your time, the game does [...]

  Acer already has its 11.6-inch netbook in the market and now according to Digitimes, its Taiwanese counterpart, Asus will also jump in the bandwagon with an 11.6-inch Eee PC netbook. Jerry Shen, President, Asus didn’t have much to say about the larger sized Eee PC but claimed that 30 percent of this year’s shipment [...]

  A new application has been announced at the Nokia’s Beta Labs website. The app goes by the name Point & Find and it literally does that – point the phone’s camera on any object in the real world and you get the information on the same on the phone’s screen. Here’s an example – [...]

  Crackberry has managed to get hold off a few pics of the unannounced Blackberry Curve 8520. The Curve 8520 is codenamed as Gemini and as with the Gemini we have seen in the past, this one bears a different model number as well as the look. One of the distinct features of the device [...]

  Acer’s Aspire One 751 has finally got few official pictures as well as a price to its name. Taiwanese shopping portal, PCHome is selling the 11.6-inch netbook for TW$21600 which comes to around US$654. That’s steep of course, considering the Intel Atom Z520 processor, 1GB RAM and 160GB. However, we are looking here at [...]

  Just as Apple is committed to release fortnightly updates of its iPhone OS, the hackers are also doing their bit of work to provide the goodness of jailbreak on every beta update. Apple released the fourth beta release last week and hackers have already pwned the update. Users wanting to jailbreak the device can [...]

  I’ll confess I have never played Myst. But going through the Wikipedia page and learning how successful it was in its times, I thought to give it a try until I knew its download size. Heck, it’s a 727MB download and needs 1.5GB during installation (around 750MB is freed after the installation). So what [...]