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  Nokia is tightlipped about its future products but here’s some imaginative creation to cheer up your otherwise boring Wednesday. Some lad over at YouTube posted a supposedly “top-secret” Nokia document revealing the N87 12MP phone. Going by the specs and assuming its true, we can safely say N87 is the one to look for. [...]

  Whenever a new PMP comes to the market it is more than often compared with the iPod range. Although this holds true that iPods have created the portable music and video revolution, but there are other PMPs that also offer good sound and video. Today, we review the recently launched Sony’s E-Series Walkman player, [...]

  Heavy spenders take note, here’s a gadget in town craving for your attention. Samsung has announced a Gold Edition of its power packed I8910 HD (Omnia HD) that is inlayed with gold and bundles special accessories. The Omnia HD Gold Edition comes in two choices of colors – Champagne Gold and Luxury Gold and [...]

  Digitimes is reporting that Acer could be the first one to launch a Chrome OS netbook. According to “industry sources” Acer has started developing the netbook and plans to launch in second half of 2010, which also happens to be the release time frame for Chrome OS. Though it’s a rumor for now, you [...]

  We already know HTC is working on v2.1 update for Hero but if you can’t wait to go the official route, good folks at XDADevelopers have managed to get 2.1 ROM, which is now available for download. It’s a customized pre-release ROM so obviously you won’t find few things you’ll find in the official [...]

  Nokia has filed a lawsuit against top mobile LCD makers alleging them for fixing LCD panel prices. The lawsuit was filed on Nov 25 in San Francisco and includes makers like Samsung, LG Display, AU Optronics etc. Nokia’s lawsuit is more or less similar to AT&T that was filed in October. LCD panel manufacturers [...]

  Mobile VoIP service, Fring now allows iPhone and iPod Touch users to carry out video calling over Wi-Fi, albeit with a catch. Since both these devices don’t have a front facing camera, users will only be able to receive the video stream and not send it. Nonetheless, it’s a first for Apple devices. On [...]

  Samsung is trying to strengthen its position in the NAND memory market by starting mass production of industry’s first 30nm-based 3-bit Multi Level Cell (MLC) NAND chips and 30nm-based asynchronous DDR NAND flash. Samsung claims the 3-bit MLC NAND increases the efficiency of the data storage by 50 percent compared to current 2-bit MLC [...]

  So what do you do when you’ve to show your laptop as one of the toughest from the competition? Transform them into bus seats, of course. Lenovo and its creative agency in Germany thought of this unconventional idea to attract sales dialogues by highlighting the rugged feature of ThinkPad notebooks. Needless to say, this [...]

  Creative has kicked off the Zii Summit in China and as promised, are showing the Zii powered cell phone. Unfortunately, it’s just a prototype and like Zii EGG, it will be available initially only to interested mobile phone manufacturers who can create and sell it under their brand name. Nonetheless, the TRINITY concept looks [...]

  The Google Phone rumor is back again and if Gizmodo’s source is to be believed, the phone “is a certainty”. According to him, Google Phone prototypes will soon arrive at the giant’s campus sporting different hardware and a large LCD. As for the OS it will obviously be powered by Android but the source [...]

  Samsung has officially announced the S7070 and S5150 phones that we saw couple of weeks back. The phones will be sold under the Diva brand and understandably reaching for the fairer sex. The Diva (S7070) and Diva folder (S5150) boasts some features appealing to women, like the quilted back cover that claims to “emanate [...]