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  HTC HD2 aka Leo has got its first semi-official sighting. Someone passed over an image of O2 UK’s in-store catalog that shows HD2 in full glory. Touted as the phone with the largest screen (which stands at 4.3-inches), the phone is expected to get a UK release on October 26. As for other features, [...]

  At a press event today, Bose unveiled the newest addition to its SoundDock family. The SoundDock 10 is a nifty dock that not only supports iPods and iPhone, it also brings in support for auxiliary input to connect different music players as well as a Bluetooth dock to play music from any Bluetooth enabled [...]

  Samsung’s youth-oriented multicolored phone has reached the Indian shores. The Corby S3653 will come in dual tone diagonal contour designed phone with an emphasis on its social networking skills that gives instant access to Facebook, Twitter et al. Other things remain the same GSM/EDGE connectivity, 2.8-inch QVGA touchscreen, Bluetooth, 2MP camera, FM Radio and [...]

  Consumer research is one of the best ways for a company to know what they’re expecting from them. Take this for instance. LG conducted a research and found out people want touchscreen devices but does not want extra features that they do not use to the fullest. Well, LG paid heed to it and [...]

  New rumor about Apple’s Tablet has emerged claiming some beefy details about the device. The new device will supposedly be known as iPad and be more or less look like an oversized iPhone. The screen size will be 10.7-inch with resolution 5-6 times more than the iPhone and surprisingly won’t go for the netbook [...]

  Just as rumored, Microsoft today announced the Xbox 360 Elite Holiday Bundle that comes with the Elite console and two games. For the same $299 price, a user will get LEGO Batman: The Videogame and PURE along with the Elite console that includes a 120GB HDD. It is unclear if a user can claim [...]

  The Garmin-Asus phone will finally start selling in US from Oct 4. Arriving on AT&T, the phone is touted to be a perfect combination of phone and personal navigation device. It comes preloaded with North America map and loads of Points of Interests (POI) bundled along with a dashboard and windshield mount, making it [...]

  Nintendo has released a new firmware update for its Wii gaming console. The v4.2 does not bring new features but is said to improve system performance and iron out bugs. The bugs unfortunately for homebrewers, also includes homebrew so you better stay away from it, if you don’t want to close the doors to [...]

  The UK market has suddenly got more friendly with Apple’s cash cow. A few days back Orange confirmed to bring iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS to the UK market and now Vodafone will be doing the same for UK and Ireland. However, the availability will be in early 2010 as compared to Orange’s late [...]

  Dell’s super sexy Latitude Z has got the much needed official acknowledgement. The first Latitude Z notebook, the Z600 is expectedly targeted at businessmen who demand distinct style along with the speed. Half inch thick and weighs 4.5 pounds, the Latitude Z600 takes the crown of being the lightest and thinnest 16-inch notebook. On [...]

  The teardown specialist is at it again. This time it’s the PSPgo getting the treatment and has not one bit of interesting hardware. iFixit managed to open up easily and found the following: – No internal framework to keep the innards intact – Battery is easily replaceable but has a warranty void sticker pasted [...]

  After being revealed couple of times in the past few days, Samsung has rightly made the world’s first phone with 12MP camera and optical zoom official. AMOLED 12M or SCH-W880 can take pictures at 12 megapixel resolution and offers 3x optical zoom, 2x digital zoom, 720p video recording (1280×720) at 30fps and Xenon flash. [...]

  Apple dedicated site, Apple Insider has got on good word that the Mac maker will soon out the revamped Macbook as well as iMac line, as part of the upcoming holiday season. The sub-$999 13-inch polycarbonate Macbook will be the most cost effective Macbook Apple has built till date and will also sport a [...]

  Acer’s Aspire Revo has been selling for quite some time but it’s the first time Acer’s compact nettop has integrated the Ion LE chipset. Newegg’s been carrying it for a modest $200. Rest of the specs however, remain the same – 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor, 160GB HDD, 1GB RAM, GeForce 9400M GPU, HDMI out [...]

  It took around nine months for Apple to pass the first billion mark but the second billion has come in a pretty quick time, 5 months to be precise. Today Apple’s App Store passed over 2 billion downloads with more than 85,000 apps on display. The surge in the downloads was possible because of [...]