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  HP has announced five affordable digital cameras and camcorders that will be showcased at the PMA tradeshow in couple of days. The devices range from $99 to $199 and will be available in different colors and easy to use user interface. The 12MP HP CW450t and PW460t are priced at $109 and $149 respectively [...]

  Here’s an interesting fact revealed by Sony Ericsson’s CEO, Bert Nordberg recently. An interview with Swedish site Sydsvenskan, he claimed that Google initially approached them to make a Nexus One before settling with HTC. But despite seeing it as an opportunity, SE replied negatively because making phones for someone else wasn’t SE very keen [...]

  Apple’s very successful iTunes Music store will be reaching 10 billion song downloads soon and to celebrate the iconic milestone, Apple is giving away a $10,000 worth of iTunes Gift Card to one lucky user. iTunes users above 13 can enter into the countdown contest by submitting this form or buy a song from [...]

HTC unraveled three new phones at the world’s biggest mobile expo this week. Joining in HTC’s wide portfolio are WinMo powered HD Mini and Android powered Legend and Desire. As the name suggests, HD Mini claims to give the same HD2 experience in a smaller chassis. Although the HD Mini is not powered by the [...]

  Mitsubishi’s latest tech will help you to make the full HD content look more in-depth and detailed. This unnamed technology helps to upscale 1080p content to higher resolution of 4K x 2K. However, despite it being able to churn a larger than the current 1080 resolution, the technology does not support Blu-ray upscaling. It [...]

  Asus has unveiled a new netbook to woo all Indian fashionistas. Created in association with renowned designer, Karim Rashid, they’ve got the Eee PC Seashell (1008P) Karim Rashid edition. Rashid’s designs emphasize on two human senses – vision and touch and this one’s no exception. With the help of Asus’ industrial designers who created [...]

  Samsung officially announced their first bada phone, Wave (S8500) at the recently concluded MWC. The Wave is a powerhouse possessing some meaty specs like 1GHz processor under the hood, Bluetooth 3.0, HSDPA and Wi-Fi 802.11n for speedy connectivity. Other features include 3.3-inch Super AMOLED screen supporting WVGA resolution and mDNIe (mobile Digital Natural Image [...]

  Symantec announced the newer version of its all-in-one security suite, Norton 360. Into its fourth iteration, the Norton 360 v4 not only offers protection from viruses and phishing attacks at 100 percent of protection rate (according to a test done by Dennis Labs), it comes with complete PC Tuneup features as well as backup [...]

  Well, that didn’t take much time. After getting a glimpse of Samsung’s bada-powered Wave on an advertising billboard, DailyMobile has leaked pictures as well as detailed specs of the phone. According to them, the phone is just 10.9mm thick, runs on 1GHz CPU and will feature 3.3-inch AMOLED screen (unconfirmed but mostly Super AMOLED), [...]

  Samsung has finally let the cat out of the bag. At Barcelona, Samsung is displaying a huge billboard showing off their first bada phone dubbed as Wave (aptly named!). The teaser shows only the phone along with few highlighted features like AMOLED display, multimedia and messaging capabilities. The things we know for now is [...]

  Another manufacturer has confirmed to bring their Chrome OS netbook later this year. This time it’s Samsung whose Australian unit spilled the beans on its Chrome OS plans. According to Samsung Australia’s Phil Newton, their Chrome OS variant will be similar to its N210 netbook and will feature a 10.1-inch screen, 2GB RAM, Wi-Fi, [...]

  Wall Street Journal is citing “people familiar with the matter” confirming the Windows Mobile 7 rumor lurking for quite some time. At the MWC next week, Microsoft will finally show off the next-generation of Windows Mobile. The report does not specify the probable features but claims to have Zune-like UI specifically made for “touch-sensing [...]

  HTC Legend has been subjected to lots of leaks before but this one nails it to give an almost official status. Dutch retailer, KPN listed the device on their site only to take it down after sometime. The page didn’t have it on pre-order but were inviting users to sign up for future updates. [...]

  Info on upcoming Nokia phones seem to be coming thick and fast. Now it’s the N87 that has reclaimed its existence after it was shown off in a document in December last year. Contrary to earlier report, BeGeek’s N87 docs claims a 3.7-inch AMOLED touchscreen display. As for other features, the phone will carry [...]

  We were talking about a power packed Nokia N8 phone a few hours back but now another Nokia phone has cropped up online claiming to be Nokia N98. Going by the naming scheme, the phone looks to take over the N97 duo with a 4-inch touchscreen display, a nicely spaced out QWERTY keyboard and [...]