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  At the Acer Liquid launch, we also had the chance to play with the phone for quite some time and it sure looked and performed nicely. The phone runs the stock version of Android and the only customization Acer has done is integrating few apps like bringing the connectivity menu on the home screen [...]

  UPDATE: Acer Liquid Hands-on Acer today unwrapped its first and only Android offering for the Indian consumers. Dubbed as Liquid, the phone runs on Android 1.6 and is powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processor but unlike Snapdragon’s 1GHz clock speed, Acer’s Liquid will run at 768MHz. Acer reckons the reduced speed does not hamper the [...]

  Microsoft may be gathering all the attention for its controller-free motion-sensing gaming, known as Project Natal. But according to a CVG source, Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata apprarently turned it down before it was snagged by Microsoft almost a year later. The rumor claims that the guys at 3DV Systems – who’ve developed the tech – [...]

  Apple’s iPhone, iPod touch and even the recently announced iPad excel as far as web surfing is concerned but it’s an indigestible fact that all these revolutionary devices do not have Adobe Flash support. Now with the launch of iPad, Adobe has responded to bring Flash support albeit by way of apps only. Flash [...]

  Tablet PC makers were mum about their plans until Apple unveiled its offering. After Asus, another Taiwanese PC maker has confirmed their plans to launch a tablet. MSI’s Sales Director Sambora Chen confirmed that they’ll be launching an Nvidia Tegra-based tablet PC in 2H 2010. MSI’s offering will have a 10-inch touchscreen display, possess [...]

  Well, well we’ve got the first picture of the rumored Galaxy 2. Not sure if it’s real but Androphone, claims a lot of things in addition to the image. Except for the large 4-inch AMOLED display from the last rumor, the site claims similar specs. The Galaxy 2 will purportedly have a 3.7-inch AMOLED [...]

  While the world was waiting for Steve Jobs to unveil their latest creation, which we now know as the iPad, Asus’ executive confirmed the existence of an Eee Pad that we first saw at the CES. Eric Chen, Asus’ Corporate VP confirmed the development of their version of tablet but refrained from telling much [...]

  Research in Motion today announced the Bold 9700 smartphone for the Indian market. Taking over the reigns from Bold 9000 in India, the Bold 9700 offers top-of-the-line features in an attractive and rich design. Coming in a dark chrome frame and leatherette back, Bold 9700 supports global GSM and 3G bands, has a fast [...]

  Apple has ended months (maybe years) of speculation by unveiling the iPad, company’s first tablet device. Jobs claims the iPad sits in middle of smartphones and laptops and works more efficiently than the current mid-segment netbooks. The iPad can do web browsing, email, photos, videos, games and ebooks and in retrospect seems to be [...]

  In an attempt to gain half the market share in compact camera segment, Sony India has launched a slew of cameras ranging in the entry-, mid- and high-level categories. Starting with the most affordable is the introduction of two cameras under S series – S2000 and S2100. The 10.1MP S2000 features 3x optical zoom, [...]

  MSI shared few more details about its dual-screen netbook concepts, which we saw at CES this month. In an interview with Laptop, President of MSI, Joseph Hsu and Andy Tung, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for MSI North America confirmed that they’re looking to launch the 10-inch dual-screen netbook sometime in the second [...]

  Apple has nicely segregated its iPod line targeting mapping the needs of the users. Amongst this line features iPod Nano, it sits nicely in between the no-frills Shuffle and small computer-like iPod Touch. iPod Nano is currently in its fifth generation and this time it boasts some new features that ups the Nano family [...]

  Sure, we’d heard ‘WinMo 7 at MWC’ talks from Digitimes and from a MS exec before but now CNET has chimed in claiming more than unveiling of the OS. In addition to show a demo of WinMo 7 at the show, sources tell them, MS is looking to finalize the code by summer for [...]

  GeoHot known for his work in the iPhone community is off late, taking interest in Sony’s PS3 console. Last week, he tasted his first success by hacking the console and now he has gone ahead by releasing the PS3 exploit, “in the interest of openness”. Hackers can get the file quickly from here that [...]

  McGraw-Hill’s CEO has confirmed what Apple’s “latest creation” will be. In an interview with CNBC, he confirmed that Apple will indeed unveil the fabled tablet and will run on iPhone OS. Here’s the full transcript below. “Yeah, Very exciting. Yes, they’ll make their announcement tomorrow on this one. We have worked with Apple for [...]