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  Announced in February, the Touch Diamond2 finally reaches the Indian shores. the Touch Diamond upgrade excels in almost every department. It runs on Windows Mobile 6.1 with HTC’s TouchFLO 3D UI and gets a vivid 3.2-inch VGA display, 5MP camera, touch-sensitive zoom bar, Push Internet that downloads content regularly from user set websites, expandable [...]

  Averatec has introduced a 25.5-inch all-in-one PC for the US market. Deemed as the flagship model, the D1200 AIO is packed with multimedia goodness like 1080p HD playback, integrated ATSC TV tuner and decent computing prowess with 2.5GHz Pentium dual-core, 4 gigs of RAM, 320GB HDD, 802.11n Wi-Fi, Ethernet, DVD burner and a 2MP [...]

  At the SID Display Week, Samsung showed a color e-paper that was also capable of displaying moving pictures with the help of a switch. Samsung’s active matrix panel was created with the help of cholesteric liquid crystal and used a mysterious switch to turn into memory mode to function as a normal e-paper or [...]

  After getting leaked in Russia a couple of months back, YP-CP3 has been officially announced in the same region. Coming in 4 and 8GB storage options, the player supports wide variety of multimedia formats including Ogg and FLAC in music, Xvid in video and features a 3-inch WQVGA (400×240) screen, microSD expansion slot, FM [...]

  Asus has its hands in many things – computer hardware, servers, monitors, mobile phones, netbooks, notebooks and in the future could be in the gaming console as well. Jonathan Tsang, Vice Chairman, Asustek said to BITS that they have a Wii like console ready but does not have a game to show its prowess. [...]

  WD have introduced its monstrous 4TB offering for users looking to dump their lifelong collection of movies, songs and other content. Essentially, My Book Studio Edition II is made for Mac with out of the box partition for Mac and Time Machine backup support but it works with Windows too after a quick format. [...]

  UPDATE: Only one model, NW31 will be available in India. And the only upgradeable part will be the RAM. Hey, I need faster processor too! Sony have announced a new life style oriented line for the Indian market dubbed as the Vaio NW series. The 15.5-inch notebooks boast a textured display lid, 2-tone color, [...]

  Apple also announced the Snow Leopard Mac OS at the WWDC yesterday. Claimed as the most advanced operating system, Snow Leopard has been refined by more than 90 percent in around a thousand features present in Snow Leopard. Snow Leopard is faster in many areas than Leopard, gives extra security because of the support [...]

  Another day another rumor emerges from the Taiwanese shores. The heart of the rumor today is Acer and its ultra-thin notebook Timeline series. Apparently, due to the not so pleasing sales of Acer’s 11.6-inch netbook, its OEM, Quanta Computer has been asked to develop an 11.6-inch ultra-thin notebook. Ultra-thin chassis means it will fall [...]

  HP has unveiled a new notebook targeted at youth with its artistic design and a bundle of creative software. The notebook is designed by 27-year old Hisako Sakihama that depicts the sea and the sky in Japan. Dv6z’s screen size comes in two options, either 15.6- or 16-inch, choice of AMD Turion processors, discrete [...]

  Acer is trying hard to gain some foothold for Gateway, its acquired brand. At this year’s Computex, they showed a Gateway branded all-in-one PC, dubbed as the One ZX6800. Unlike other Atom powered AIOs, this 23-incher has Core 2 Duo processor onboard and is multi-touch enabled. Other specs that make this AIO more stronger [...]

  Apple released the Safari 4 browser at the WWDC yesterday. Moving from beta, the final build sports the same Nitro engine that loads javascript up to 4.5 times faster, support for web standards like HTML 5, fully passes Acid3 test and different processes for plug-ins and browser making it crash resistive. Safari 4 also [...]

  LG Electronics will be bringing Xnote R580 notebook to suffice the portable hi-def needs of the users. R580 will be available in two variants, R580-UP8WK and R580-KP42K that will come White and Black Cube Design respectively and features slightly different specs. Both the notebooks have a 15.6-inch16:9 720p high-gloss display, Intel processor, Nvidia GeForce [...]

  Apple finally lifted the curtains from the next iPhone, which is dubbed as the iPhone 3G S (S stands for Speed, Gruber was right!). iPhone 3G S is faster than the current iPhone and has a lot of improvements and features like high speed 7.2Mbps HSDPA., Open GL|ES 2.0, Voice control, integrated digital compass, [...]

  UPDATE: Apple India have release the Indian pricing of the Macbook Pro Family. 2.26GHz 13-inch Macbook Pro – Rs. 74,000. 2.53GHz 13-inch Macbook Pro – Rs. 93,300. 2.53GHz 15-inch Macbook Pro – Rs. 1,04,900. 2.66GHz 15-inch Macbook Pro – Rs. 1,19,600. 2.80GHz 15-inch Macbook Pro – Rs. 1,41,600. 2.80GHz 17-inch Macbook Pro – Rs. [...]