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  Garmin-Asus Android phones were rumored to launch last year but today, Benson Lin, President of Asus’ handheld business unit confirmed to Digitimes that it will be launched at the MWC next month. He did not spill more details on the Android device but be rest assured, it will hover around GPS and location-based services. [...]

  Taiwanese storage and memory maker A-DATA has unveiled its latest external USB HDD. The pocketable CH94 does its work like just another USB 2.0 HDD but its uniqueness comes from the design, which is created to resemble like that of a diary and comes with self-adhesive letter stickers to customize the ergonomically designed enclosure. [...]

  UPDATE 2: N97 support has been added. UPDATE: N97 support will be added in a week. After Google heating up the PND market by offering free navigation to DROID users, it seems Nokia will follow the suit too. Nokia’s official announcement is expected in an hour but a report from Reuters suggests that Nokia [...]

  Amazon is trying to emulate the real newspaper-like experience. After enabling users to read articles from newspapers (or books and sites) on their Kindle, they’ve announced a KDK aka Kindle Development Kit allowing developers to create apps for Kindle. In short, the puzzles like Sudoku which you find on the back of the newspaper [...]

  Sony Ericsson scheduled to launch a new phone tomorrow but seems their PR team jumped the gun early (now retracted) by unveiling Vivaz (formerly known as Kurara). The phone is powered by Symbian S60 and as a matter of fact, one of the powerful Symbian devices. The 12.5mm phone boasts 8MP camera sensor capable [...]

  Ballmer has iterated time and again that Microsoft is not interested in manufacturing hardware of its own for Windows Mobile. But Jefferies & Company analyst Katherine Egbert thinks otherwise. She claims recent industry checks from the firm say Microsoft has restarted the Pink project. Most details are unknown but few things Egbert reckons is [...]

  Most snippets from Digitimes are seen cautiously but I think this very news makes perfect sense. Asus is a Taiwanese company and since Computex is held in Taiwan every year, there’s a fair chance Asus want to unveil their latest technology over there. Digitimes calls it Eee Pad and is claimed to be priced [...]

  Google has struck a deal with DLF IPL to stream Twenty20 matches live on YouTube that starts from March 12 (60 matches in 45 days). Well, the matches won’t exactly be live (it will be deferred by 5 mins) but the fact that YouTube users anywhere in the world will be able to enjoy [...]

  Sony today announced the date for the worldwide launch of PS3’s motion controller. Rumored to be known as Arc, the motion-sensing controller will make its way out in fall of this year in most of the countries. The controller was set for a Spring release but has been pushed back so that consumers will [...]

  MSI India is making sure to please every type of consumer by offering slew of notebook models. As part of their 2010 notebook series, they’ve announced 14 models spanning across 5 series. MSI’s G-Series, targeted at gamers will bring GT640 and GT740 notebooks. Both the notebooks come in 15.4- and 17-inch screen sizes with [...]

  iPhone OS 4.0 is supposedly expected next week but thanks to Boy Genius, we’ve got the first few features of the OS. According to his source, there will be many graphical and UI changes that will make the OS more easier and efficient to navigate. The full details are still under wraps but the [...]

  HTC’s first Android device for the Indian market was a downer. I would say it was a futile attempt to give Indians an Android device but cripple it by locking it down to Airtel and give no possible way to gain access to the Android market. Soon after, HTC introduced the Hero, an Android [...]

Samsung dropped a big update adding five new cameras to its point-and-shoot range. The cameras introduced are SL630 (PL80), TL105 (ST60), TL110 (ST70), HZ30W (WB600) and HZ35W (WB650). Starting with the SL630 (PL80), the camera seems to be the lowest spec’d of all the cameras unveiled today. SL630 can shoot images at 12.2-megapixel resolution and [...]

  There’s a lot been going between Google and the Chinese government in the past few days. After threatening to pull out of China and uncensoring search results, Google has decided to postpone launch of two Android devices meant for the Chinese market. The phones were due tomorrow but Google’s spokesperson confirmed that it won’t [...]

  UPDATE: Turns out to be fake. HD2 is one power packed device but the recent rumor says HTC is already working on the successor, dubbed as HD3. A forum poster at XDA-dev has posted the full specs, which is claimed to be taken from HTC workers. According to it, HD3 will pip HD2 on [...]