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  The wait for Samsung’s Android phone is over. At the presser in Delhi, Samsung unveiled its first Android phone, making it the third Android phone for the Indian market. For the launch, Samsung has tied up with Tata Docomo to provide Galaxy users with 500MB of free data for the first six months. It’s [...]

  AMD has unveiled the world’s first graphics cards to fully support DirectX 11 that will be shipped with Windows 7 this October. The ATI Radeon HD 5870 and the ATI Radeon HD 5850 from the 5800 Series boast full DX11 support, 1GB of GDDR5 memory, 1440 (5850) / 1600 (5870) stream processors and up [...]

  Looks like Nintendo will lay all Wii price cut rumors to rest by announcing the cut this Friday. According to this screenshot, the new $199.99 price will be effective from Sep 27 while Nintendo’s expected to make the move official on Sep 25. This move will finally help Nintendo to evade competitor’s cheaper consoles [...]

  Vodafone has announced to bring HTC’s affordable Android phone to the UK. Coming in an exclusive Black hue, Tattoo will be launched in October bringing the advantages of Sense UI along with 2.8-inch touchscreen display, 3.2MP camera, Wi-F, GPS, Bluetooth and more. Register here for the updates. Product Page

  We’ve already seen Galaxy Lite pictures couple of times before but these new ones looks more refined, pretty much like the final build. However, this post is not about how better it looks from the previous prototypes but the claim that Dial a phone is making. The phone was slated for an October release [...]

  Samsung announced a flurry of mobile technologies at the Mobile Solutions Forum in Taiwan today and I’m sure if we were to pack all of it in a single phone, it would be one hell of a device. The technologies were aimed towards increasing performance while reducing power consumption which heartily welcomed a new [...]

  Uncharted 2 and FIFA are not the only ones rumored to get the esteemed 250GB PS3 Slim bundle. According to a Norwegian GameStop employee who captured the above pictured inventory screen, the high capacity PS3 Slim will be bundled with three more games, namely – Ratchet & Clank, Assassin’s Creed 2 and NFS: Shift. [...]

  At the IDF 2009, Toshiba unveiled a series of SSDs that are based on 32nm MLC NAND flash and support mini-SATA (mSATA) interface. The mSATA SSD is smaller than a business card and help manufacturers to accommodate adequate storage in a small space as compared to regular SSD or conventional HDDs. In addition to [...]

  First shown by way of a leaked roadmap, the Eee PC 1210N has been confirmed by an Asian retailer, PCpop. Slated for an October release, the 1210N will become Asus’ first Nvidia-Ion powered Eee PC netbook. On the specs front, it is powered by N270 1.6GHz CPU, 2GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce 9400M GPU, 250GB [...]

  Just like companies launch plethora of products before Christmas in most markets, the Indian market goes through the same effect just before Diwali. Samsung too wants to cash in on the festive season and have launched 15 digital cameras in India, including the dual-display equipped ST500 and ST550. Both the cameras are priced at [...]

  UA Profile of Samsung’s Linux-powered I8320 and I6410 have been discovered revealing few details, which were scarce till now. Starting with I6410, it has a WQVGA screen resolution (400×240), Opera 9.6 browser and 3G and powered by an ARM11 CPU (ARM1176JZF-S coupled with S3C6410). The clock speed varies according to the voltage so we’re [...]

  Well, it won’t be as futuristic as this one but definitely at par or more than that the current set of competing consoles. In an interview with Financial Times, Square Enix’s President Yoichi Wada told them that he expects Ninty’s next console iteration will come sometime in 2011 with possibly a different controller. His [...]

  New phones from Asus will grace the Indian stores soon. Asus India’s Business Head, Edward Wang confirmed they’ll soon be launching touchscreen multimedia phones loaded with LBS. “We have the expertise in multimedia touch-screen phones. At present, we are selling at least six multimedia phones priced between Rs. 10,000 and Rs. 26,000 apart from [...]

  Here it is. Sony Ericsson has pulled the veil off of its new motion activated Gandalf aka MH907 earphones. With the built-in sensors and SensMe Control technology a user can play/pause music as well as receive/end calls without needing to press any button. The working is pretty simple – put on two earbuds and [...]

  UPDATE: Its official. Sony Ericsson will unveil its new accessory today but Mobile-review has spilled the beans by not only revealing it but giving it a detailed preview. Codenamed as Gandalf, it’s a regular looking earphone but the distinguishing factor here is the integration of sensors. The sensors help the earphone to automatically play [...]