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  Samsung announced a candybar QWERTY device on Sprint today. Dubbed as Intrepid, the phone is targeted at business users coz of its worldwide roaming capabilities and QWERTY keyboard to handle everyday emailing and messaging. The phone runs on Windows Mobile 6.5 with a customizable Today screen and features a 2.5-inch touchscreen display, 3.2MP camera, [...]

  The world’s powerful WinMo (at least for now) has made an entry. HTC HD2 takes over the reigns from Touch HD and brings lots of appealing features. HD2 features a humongous 4.3-inch capacitive touchscreen – another first for Windows Mobile – running HTC’s Sense UI that is found in couple of HTC Android devices. [...]

  Just like its elder brother, GSM variant of Palm’s Pixi too revealed itself in Vietnam. There’s not much to tell here except the fact it boasts a SIM card slot and surprisingly 4GB of internal memory as compared to CDMA’s 8GB. [Via Tinhte]

  When you thought every possible innovation has been implemented to enhance netbooks, Kohjinsha comes with this two-headed creature. The prototype was on display at the CEATEC which features two LCDs to supposedly enhance your productivity and when you need just one, the additional screen slyly hides behind another one. As for internal specs, it [...]

  Last year, NTT DoCoMo showed a prototype gadget that controlled music with the user’s eyes. This year at the CEATEC although the concept remains the same, the massive headphone-like tracker has been transformed into a small earbud. The earbuds integrate sensors that track the movement of the eyeballs and execute commands like increasing/decreasing volume, [...]

  Watch phones are the newest fad. We’ve already seen devices from LG as well as Samsung but here is a new entrant who not only claims to have the smallest watch, it is one of the cheapest, considering LG’s GD910 and Samsung S9110 prices. Despite being small, the W Phone from Kemplar & Strauss [...]

  Toshiba unveiled its Cell platform powered Regza TV yesterday but on the showfloor, Toshiba is wooing attendees with the 3D Cell Regza Next concept. 3D video along with Cell processor inside are obviously a plus but the integration of motion-controlled user interface makes it more appealing. It does work somehow like Natal but unlike [...]

  USB portable HDDs are available aplenty but A-DATA’s latest offering has something that distinguishes it from the lot. The 2.5-inch A-DATA SH93 is one of the few drives to boast waterproof as well as shock resisting capabilities. It can work efficiently even after being submerged in water up to 3.3 feet for up to [...]

  The first time Dell’s Mac Mini wannabe surfaced there was not much to tell about except to interpret anything and everything from the image. Now thanks to some sleuthing, we’ve got detailed specs of Dell’s compact Inspiron zino HD machine. Apparently, zino HD will come in two variants – the Inspiron 300 and Inspiron [...]

  AT&T set free four new phones that will allow full HTML browsing helped by Opera’s compression technology. The phones, 2 each from Samsung and Pantech will become a part of AT&T’s messaging and touchscreen lineup for the holidays. Starting with the Samsung offerings, the Mythic (center) and Flight (left) are touchscreen only and hybrid [...]

  At the Adobe MAX conference, Adobe announced Flash Player 10.1 that is not just another update patching up security and other loopholes. In fact, v10.1 brings lots of new additions, like full flash viewing capabilities for smartphones, smartbooks and also benefits from GPU accelerated video decoding. Flash Player 10.1 is specially designed for mobile [...]

  Toshiba today unveiled a 55-inch LCD TV that sets it apart from the regular LED LCD TVs. The CELL REGZA 55X1 is powered by Cell Broadband Engine that helps to give unmatched picture quality. Coupled with the CELL Platform and Toshiba’s image-processing algorithms, the 55X1 processes images 143 times better and quicker than that [...]

  So Samsung has finally transformed its regular featurphone Behold into a fully fledged smartphone, thanks to Android. Set to woo consumers in time for holiday, the Behold II becomes the second Samsung phone to feature Android OS with worthy integration of Samsung’s proprietary TouchWiz UI and the Cube menu. Technical specifications include: 3.2-inch AMOLED [...]

  Sony today unveiled a major breakthrough that makes wireless charging more interesting. Their newly developed wireless power transfer system can transfer up to 60W of power up to a distance of 50cm. The contactless electricity transmission is possible with the help of magnetic resonance. The power recipients such as a TV needs to be [...]

  It’s good to see Asus breaking from the mould of nettops with rectangular shells. The EeeBox EB1501 not only adopts a metallic curvy chassis but is decently spec’d with Nvidia’s Ion chipset onboard and a surprise inclusion in a nettop – a slot loading optical drive. The core specifications include Atom 330 dual core [...]