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With the plethora of devices leaked on different platforms, including Android and webOS, it may not fully wrong to believe that AT&T’s exclusive iPhone deal is nearing its end. Speculations aside, the phones that you’re going to witness now could be the exciting ones after iPhone. HTC is expected to launch Warhawk, Fortress and Lancaster. [...]

  As expected, Nokia has gone by its word and launched the Ovi Store. Though it’s accessible only from countries like Australia, Ireland and Singapore, more countries are expected to join the list soon. Nokia also confirmed about moving the Ovi Store to ‘production servers’ which means a global access will be possible by the [...]

  After being available in the other market for quite some time, Nokia has announced to sell the 6208 Classic in the Indian region. 6208 Classic is Nokia’s first touchscreen attempt on Series 40 platform and features a 3.2MP sensor with dual LED flash, 2.4-inch QVGA touchscreen display, handwriting recognition, music player, FM Radio and [...]

  Underpowered, cramped keyboard, not-so multimedia friendly tags bestowed on netbooks will be a thing of the past. Lenovo has announced its first 12-inch IdeaPad netbook, S12 that also happens to be the first netbook based on Nvidia’s ION platform. For the uninitiated, the ION platform is cooked up together with Intel’s Atom processor and [...]

  We take Sony’s portable noise cancellation solution for a spin to see if it’s worth Rs. 4,500. Does it fulfill the promise? Well, read on. MDR-NC7 comes in a small package that includes headphones, one carry pouch and a dual pin adaptor for in-flight use.

  KDDI au has unwrapped its new offerings that will amaze the Japanese citizens this summer. There are some interesting phones out of the eight models announced. First is Hitachi’s Mobile Hi-Vision CAM Wooo, capable of recording videos at 720p, 30fps and comes with an HDMI-out to view the HD recorded video on an HDTV. [...]

  Samsung and CPSC have initiated a recall of the a110 and a120 Jitterbug phones. The reason for the recall is that the phones are equipped with BB14 software and cannot connect to emergency 911 services when it’s in a no-service area. The recall affects Jitterbug phones sold from March 2008 through May 2009 and [...]

  LG will be wooing Korean businessmen with its new KU4000. The 3G phone will come to KTF and brings in various features like 60 types of LED illumination, Mobile Planner, documents viewer and accelerometer for various games like fishing, darts and baseball. Specifications: – WCDMA HSDPA 7.2 support – Size and Weight: 105.9×51.5×15.3mm / [...]

  Google’s Chrome 2 is now available for public consumption after serving as a Beta for the last two months. The second stable version irons out over 300 bugs and updated the WebKit and JavaScript’s V8 engine. On the visible features front, it now has a form autofill option, full screen mode and the option [...]

  Airtel launched Net PC today claiming to be “a next-generation computer that never goes obsolete and never crashes”. Really? To straighten the marketing lingo, it’s basically a PC in the clouds (on the server) and for Rs. 7,999 Airtel gives the user a 15-inch LCD monitor, keyboard and mouse. A user also gets a [...]

  The D-Day is not very far but new iPhone claims are coming thick and fast these days. John Gruber, recognized for nailing Apple rumors in the past has come out to confirm a few things. According to him, the next iPhone will get a 600MHz processor, 32GB storage (which was also confirmed by T-Mobile [...]

  Asus’ yet another Eee PC have surfaced online which can be preordered from online retailers. Dubbed as Eee PC 1000HV, the netbook is similar in specs and looks to 1000HE but the major advantage 1000HV gets from the inclusion of 256MB ATI Radeon HD 3450 GPU. Apart from this, everything seems to be normal [...]

It seems Nokia might have to bite their own words. Contrary to what they said the last time, Ultra-Scan, has managed to replicate the hack on their 1100 device produced in Bochum, Germany. They managed to reprogram the phone by installing a ‘special firmware’ by hackers and intercepted the mTAN. However, this was successful only [...]

  Sharp released DX Series of LCD TVs in Japan that boast to be the world’s first TV with integrated Blu-ray players. This means a user can insert a BD disc into the TV and enjoy the movie right away without the need to own an additional Blu-ray player for it. It sure is nifty [...]

  The existence is still under wraps but the word from a Sony Ericsson man is that they’ll be coming out with an Android phone sooner or later. Peter Ang, VP Marketing for Asia Pacific confirmed the news and said their offering will be based on Android 2.0 (Donut) OS that has more multimedia advantages [...]