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  Don’t expect meaty details but according to Bloomberg, HP may launch an ARM based netbook soon. They are quoting HP’s Personal Systems VP, Todd Bradley who says that they are seriously considering it and also “the mini category is one that plays closely to ARM.” HP’s ARM stint somewhat hints at a possible Android [...]

  Chinese are famous for producing knockoffs but for a change, they have an original creation made specially for the Japanese people. Apart from offering the usual telephony and multimedia features, the Odin 99 phone allows Buddhists to pray to Buddha anywhere, anytime. It works by pressing the Lotus button that shows an animated Buddha [...]

  Trash your hopes for a Mac OS X netbook because Mac clone maker, Psystar has filed for bankruptcy. The documents were filed on May 21 in Florida and are seeking for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. While there is every reason to believe that they succumbed to Apple’s courtroom pressure, their filing reveals they are [...]

  After a series of leaks, Microsoft has officially acknowledged its next-gen Zune player. Though the full specs of the Zune HD are not out yet, the things confirmed are almost accurate to the rumored specs. It has a 3.3-inch 16:9 OLED (480×272) multitouch display, HD Radio, HD Video-out with the help of an AV [...]

  We have seen unique claims for the Apple products in the past so when a new one about iPod Nano 5G and iPhone surfaced today, we weren’t exactly surprised. iLounge is citing its never-been-wrong source to give us some dope on the slim Apple music player and iPhone. Apparently the fifth generation iPod Nano [...]

  Another proof to confirm that 32GB iPhone 3G is coming at the WWDC. The culprit this time is AT&T who reveals the 32GB iPhone secret on a Blackberry Trade up website. On selecting Apple as the manufacturer for the trade-in, the dropdown menu reveals the 32GB offering. In addition to that, there’s also a [...]

  Samsung has introduced its compact messaging clamshell phone in the US. U.S. Cellular will be bringing in pink and charcoal by the name of Gloss or widely known as SCH-u440. The features include a 2.2-inch CIF screen, QWERTY keyboard, Stereo Bluetooth, 1.3 megapixel camera, expandable storage, easyedge service and a music player. The pricing [...]

  Windows Vista users (I’m sure there are many of them) can now download Service Pack 2 for their respective x86 and x64 OS copy. Microsoft hasn’t revealed the exact fixes or changes but the pack brings support for new kinds of hardware and emerging hardware standards. This service pack is also applicable to Windows [...]

  Sharp has introduced a solar module that can possibly pave way for solar powered gadgets in addition to mobile phones. Their thinnest solar module currently measures at 0.8mm and it is mainly achieved by using compact semiconductor packaging technology that helps to deliver a maximum power of 300mW. The LR0GC02 solar module is now [...]

  Lenovo announced a new AIO for users looking for a cheap Atom powered desktop replacement. The artistic IdeaCentre C300 is pegged at just $450 and comes with a 20-inch 16:9 display, Atom 230 processor, integrated graphics, up to 2GB RAM, up to 640GB HDD, tray in RAMBO aka optical drive, LAN, optional Wi-Fi, 1.3 [...]

  We all knew Vaio P’s processor was not competent to handle Vista and thankfully, Sony has realized it too. They are now offering Vaio P50 and P61 with Windows XP Home Edition onboard. Starting at a price of 67,800 Yen ($714), a user gets a high res 1024×768 pixel 8-inch screen, Atom Z520 (1.33GHz) [...]

  Looks like HP has got more problems than they had anticipated. After recalling about 70,000 batteries in US, they have issued a recall of 15,000 laptop batteries sold in China from August 2007 to January 2008. Though any incidents have not been reported, the batteries are said to overheat and trigger into an external [...]

  The last two days has been abuzz with Nokia’s Maemo powered Internet tablet, dubbed as Rover. MobileCrunch posted a render instead of an actual image but Cellpassion has managed to give us a pixellated image. The picture looks seemingly real except a few keys missing when compared to the render. Anyways, the device will [...]

  Nokia’s Ovi Store is now live in all the countries. Symbian S60 users can go to store.ovi.com or can access Download! from their phone to download the app. The apps list on the Store is slim at the moment but expect it to populate in the coming days. Ovi Store

  One attentive user managed to spot the existence of Alpha A500 Series DSLRs. Apparently found on Sony’s Canada website under the camera registration dropdown menu, the list pointed to DSLRA500, DSLRA500S, DSLRA550 and DSLRA550S. The feature set is totally absent for now but we can expect these to add HD recording which have been [...]