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  Remember the Nokia 5800XM getting capacitive touchscreen rumor which eventually got debunked? Apparently, Nokia spoke the truth because a new report surfaced today claims that a Taiwanese company has been given the mantle to provide them with capacitive touch panels for ‘another’ Nokia phone. Wintek, the current provider for 5800XM resistive touch panels will [...]

  It’s time for celebrations for India’s top cellular operator. Bharti Airtel today confirmed that they have surpassed the 100 million subscriber mark, making them the world’s third operator to achieve such a figure in a single country. A big celebration is in the offing but wouldn’t it be nice if they include their customers [...]

  Intel at the Saarland University’s Visual Computing Institute showed a die image of the Larrabee based chip, confirming the undergoing development of the platform. The Larrabee chips will pit against Nvidia’s GeForce and AMD’s ATI Radeon cards with x86 32 processor cores and will have its own vector math unit as well as cache [...]

  Asus has done the honors of unveiling 1005HA in France today. Taking design cues from 1008HA Seashell, they have introduced 1005HA-M and 1005HA-H netbooks. The 1005HA-M is another 10.1-inch netbook that has a 1024×600 resolution LED backlit display. It is powered by a 1.6GHz N270 processor and integrates 1GB RAM, 160GB HDD, 1.3MP webcam, [...]

  LG Electronics is now shipping its 8 megapixel Viewty Smart phone in UK. The phone was announced last month and is the slimmest 8 megapixel phone in the market. It features a 3-inch touchscreen display, 3D S-Class UI, Wi-Fi, high speed 3G, GPS, DivX, Bluetooth, 1.5GB internal memory and microSD card slot. LG also [...]

  Microsoft’s Laptop Hunter series has broken the lull with a new ad featuring Lauren and her Mom. They have been allotted a $1700 budget in which Lauren demands speed, portability and battery life. After going through a series of laptops, she finally gives it in for a Dell XPS 13 (thankfully, no HP again).

  Samsung has announced the third phone from Windows Mobile’s highest selling BlackJack franchise. Jack or technically called as i637 is an AT&T exclusive and will take advantage of its 3G capability. The smartphone runs on Windows Mobile 6.1 but Samsung has given the freedom to upgrade it to WinMo 6.5 whenever it comes out. [...]

  The guy who seems to have leaked the Onyx photos is back again with the pictures of Blackberry’s second touchscreen device, the Storm 2. There are no hardware details but the successor looks thinner, has a 3.2 megapixel camera and possibly runs a new touchscreen tech. [Via Engadget]

  Uh oh, the battery hazard monster is back to haunt notebook users. HP has now announced to take back 70,000 notebook batteries that can potentially pose a fire or burn hazard. The lithium-ion batteries came with HP and Compaq laptops or were sold separately from August 2007 till March 2008. The problem seems to [...]

(Click for a larger view)   Hey look! As the guy who supposedly hacked Steve Jobs’ account we also managed to do the same and made him visit our Kindle Edition page. Will you subscribe it now on your own Kindle? Steve loves our blog, so should you. PS: Orin0co might have phished Jobs’ account [...]

  Legitimate Mac owners are obviously elated with yesterday’s 10.5.7 update but there are other bunch of people who feel the same. Yup, it’s the hackintosh users who run Mac OS on netbooks. Apparently, the new update is being blessed by users as they are reporting an improvement in netbook’s battery life. One user’s netbook [...]

  Samsung today introduced its N Series mini-notebooks (netbooks) and R Series notebooks in India. The N Series includes N110, N120, N310 and NC20 netbooks. First is a 10.1-incher N110 that promises to give up to 9.5 hours of run time with its 6-cell battery. It has an Atom N270 processor, 1GB RAM, 160GB HDD [...]

  A forecaster ringed us today to tell that most of the future gadgets will run on Android. And heck, his prophecy is already turning true! After being ported to netbooks, Android is now integrated on a digital photo frame. Fujitsu and Macnica jointly developed this frame and are currently exhibiting at 12th Embedded Systems [...]

  It seems HTC and Sprint are gearing up to launch a CDMA based Snap variant. The phone is known as Willow and will get a minor facelift from the original version. The Sprint smartphone features Windows Mobile 6.1, 528MHz processor, 256/128MB ROM/RAM, 2MP camera, 1500mAh battery and an Inner Circle button. Unlike Snap, Wi-Fi [...]

  Samsung will be bringing a new phone to the Russian market that specifically targets old age users. The C3060R boasts a simple menu, large fonts, large keys and SOS call function. The SOS function can be activated by pressing the red button placed on the side of the phone which reveals five different numbers [...]