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  We’ve already seen a live picture of Onyx in a T-Mobile garb and now an image has appeared on the web showing a nicely touched up press photo. As you can see, Onyx too, will ditch the trackball in lieu of trackpad which was first seen on Curve 8520. The T-Mobile Onyx features a [...]

  Intel introduced the new 45nm based Core i5 and two Core i7 processors yesterday. Codenamed as Lynnfield, the Nehalem based Core i5 750 is the smaller sibling of Core i7 900 series CPUs that clocks at 2.66GHz with an ability to overclock up to 3.2GHz. It also has 8MB cache with 1333MHz FSB, TDP [...]

  Palm has officially announces the second webOS powered device, Pixi aka Eos. Palm’s thinnest creation till date, the Pixi will hit Sprint at an affordable tag in time for holidays. The Pixi feature set includes EVDO Rev. A connectivity, 2.63-inch touchscreen display (320×400), gesture area, GPS, 2MP fixed focus camera with LED flash, Bluetooth, [...]

  Just over 27 hours to go for the annual iPod event and new report from AppleInsider claims that the Cupertino giant has run into a major problem. According to a source, bad camera modules seem to be problem that was meant for the revamped iPod Touch, Nano and possibly, the Classic. The iPod with [...]

  The cheap Android phone which we knew as Click has been officially outed as the Tattoo. The phone is touted to bring Android OS to the masses along with HTC’s customizable Sense UI that allows a user to organize his contacts, widgets and do much more according to the way he wants it to. [...]

  New images and a video has surfaced showing Samsung’s second Android phone. The new pictures show a different Galaxy Lite complete with a Home and Web button which were lacking in the previous image. It has a 3.2MP camera, 1GB internal storage, microSD slot, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GPS and HSDPA. There’s no mention on the [...]

  HTC today launched the Hero Android device in India. It will be the second Android phone for the Indian market and as like Magic, Airtel will carry the device offering 100MB of free data transfer for the first six months along with flurry of Airtel services like Portfolio Manager, Hello Tune Manager, Weather Channel [...]

  Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom have entered into an exclusive agreement to combine their T-Mobile UK and Orange UK in a 50:50 joint venture company. This venture will make them UK’s leading mobile operator that will have about 37 percent market share with around 28.4m subscribers. As for consumer advantages are concerned, the new [...]

  Vodafone UK has added N97 Mini on its website. The N97 Mini, which was first blabbed on a Vodafone forum is now being offered to consumers with an option to be notified about its availability. Vodafone has not revealed the exact date but has confirmed to release it in October along with the exact [...]

  While LG had no plans to show off its Android offering, Vodafone was generous to show it on their booth, which means that Vodafone has picked this baby up and will be launching it soon. Known as Etna, its picture was captured by Chip Online who also managed to get some specs. The preliminary [...]

  Samsung is showing a robot vacuum cleaner at the IFA that will ensure you won’t have to move an inch or oversee anything while it is performing its cleaning chore. Called as the Furot II, it has an integrated camera and Visionary Mapping System that allows the robot cleaner to see, think and remember. [...]

  We heard few murmurs about Asus’ Eee Reader last month and now the things look more concrete. Times UK has got some meaty details of Asus’ iteration of the e-book reader that clearly matches the description of the dual screen concept shown at CeBIT this year. Asus’ Eee Reader will feature dual color screens [...]

  HTC set the standard last year when they launched Touch HD that boasted a rich hardware set like wide 3.8-inch touchscreen, HSDPA, 5MP camera, GPS and Wi-Fi but Windows Mobile 6.1 seemed to undermine these things. Now a Register Hardware source chimes in to say that HTC is ready to unveil the Touch HD [...]

  It seems LG has also jumped in the world’s first race against its South Korean counterpart. At the IFA 2009 they are displaying an LCD TV equipped with 400Hz (PAL, NTSC has 480Hz) technology. Its TruMotion engine uses backlight scanning to reduce motion blur. [Via FullHD]

  Remember the weird swiveling Nokia phone? Well, it’s really real and according to the document procured by Engadget, it’s arriving exclusively on Verizon. For $150 on contract, you’ll get a phone with a unique form factor and features a 3MP autofocus camera, HTML browser, a contact light ring on the lower right that will [...]