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  This is straight off the rumorville and as most of the times Digitimes is the first to hear those whispers. Citing Taiwan-based handset makers, they’re reporting that in addition to the Intel-based Booklet 3G, Nokia is also planning to offer an ARM-based netbook better known as smartbooks. Compal Electronics and Foxconn are tipped to [...]

  In addition to 5230, Nokia also announced 5530 XpressMusic for the Indian market. The phone sits nicely in between 5230 and 5800XM and brings a 2.9-inch display, 3.2MP camera, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, EDGE, microSD card slot, 3.5mm audio jack and customizable shortcuts on the home screen. As for the price, the 5230 will sell for [...]

  Alright fellas Motorola is asking to ‘save the date’ and you better follow them because that day will have the first major unveiling from them in recent months. September 10 is the D-day where Motorola will show its Android offerings, presumably Sholes and Morrison. [Via Mobilecrunch]

  Sony has announced a new high-end e-book reader solution in addition to the recently unveiled PRS-300 Pocket Edition and PRS-600 Touch Edition e-book readers. The Reader Daily Edition features a 7-inch wide touchscreen display that supports content viewing in either portrait and landscape orientation. User can download new content via USB or can download [...]

  If Acer’s Veriton nettop is not your style, you can consider the Veriton Z280G all-in-one computer. Starting from $499, the AIO makes movie watching a better experience on its 18.5-inch (1388×768) 16:9 display and also gives decent computing power to carry your daily tasks effectively. The Z280G is powered by 1.6GHz N270 Atom processor, [...]

  After being sighted couple of times in the past few weeks, Sony has made its S540 Walkman player official. The first Walkman with integrated speakers, S540 packs a 2.4-inch LCD, FM Radio, voice recorder, Digital Linear Phase Speaker System to enhance loudspeaker music quality, iTunes support and video codec support comprising of H.264/AVC/MP4/WMV formats. [...]

  While we’re expecting Nokia to officially unveil the N97 Mini next month, Eldar from Mobile Review has already put it to paces to publish the first preview of the miniature version of Nokia’s flagship phone. The phone unsurprisingly didn’t manage to wow him and feels the phone doesn’t look to have a bright future. [...]

  Out of nowhere Nokia today dropped another touchscreen device that could be termed as the cheapest Nokia touchscreen in recent times. In fact, it’s priced to take on other cheap touchscreen phones like Samsung Star. Coming with colorful interchangeable back covers, the 5230 boasts a 3.2-inch touchscreen with the same S60 v5 OS found [...]

  Asus has unveiled its first nettop that will be based on Nvidia’s ION platform. The Eee Box EB1012 scores on few fronts against its local competitor’s Aspire Revo like the inclusion of dual core Atom N330 CPU and Wi-Fi antenna. The rest of the specs include 2GB RAM that can be upped to 4GB, [...]

  Last week, Best Buy spilled some info on Sprint’s upcoming phone in the Instinct line. The phone which we believed to know as M850/Dash/Instinct S50 will actually be called the Instinct HD. Though we’re not sure if the phone will be able to record hi-def video just like its another HD sibling but it [...]

  Apple has confirmed the rumored August 28 as the shipping date of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. From this Friday, Mac users will be able to pick the latest Mac OS X iteration at Apple retail stores, authorized resellers and online store. Snow Leopard is claimed to be a 90 percent refinement of [...]

  Nokia has finally put speculation to rest with the introduction of its first ever netbook dubbed as the Booklet 3G. On announcing the device, Kai Oistamo, Nokia’s Executive Vice President for Devices today said “Nokia Booklet 3G is a natural evolution for us” and I couldn’t agree more. The netbook will try to extend [...]

  So if you’ve been following the console gaming scene for quite some time, you already have a hint that Microsoft is gearing up to chuck the Xbox 360 Pro unit out of the inventory and reduce Elite’s price to same as Pro. Well, here’s one more unofficial confirmation sent by a tipster to Engadget. [...]

  Asus has announced its first ever range of multimedia speakers targeted at notebook users that tries to kill two birds with one stone. First and foremost, give quality audio output and secondly, it is designed in such a way that it doubles up as a laptop dock. The uBoom and uBoom Q speakers support [...]

  Asus’s Eee Keyboard has enamored us since its first showing and if the latest report from the Taiwanese rumormonger is to be believed, Asus is ready to roll the device in the market. The Eee Keyboard which is a fully functional PC with its netbook-like specs and 5-inch touchscreen display will arrive “as early [...]