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  Sony seems uninterested with the idea of a portable 3D console, to be specific with the – Nintendo 3DS. When IGN asked John Koller, SCEA’s Director of Hardware and Marketing, he said that playing 3D on a portable console “is a bit of stretch”. His reasoning comes from an in-house research and says 3D [...]

  3-Dimensional content is expected to be supported by most electronic devices but South Koreans have developed a technology that shows off 3-D in a book. The smart scientists at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology have developed two story books for children that come to life as the kid triggers some cues. The animation [...]

  MetroPCS has roped in Samsung to deploy LTE network in various metropolitan cities across United States. Samsung will not only provide MetroPCS with its commercial infrastructure network products, they’ll also have a phone, the SCH-r900 during the 4G roll out in the second half of 2010. We don’t know how Samsung’s LTE device looks [...]

  Nokia’s upcoming killer phone, N8 could get the official treatment as early as next month. A trusted source of Engadget claims that the flagship device will be announced in the middle of the next month, before Nokia’s Annual General Meeting. As rightly pointed out, the phone’s announcement could be done to instill faith in [...]

  Yesterday’s 3DS announcement of Nintendo was filled with both surprise and mystery. Now Nikkei’s here to fill some void by sharing few more details surrounding the 3D-enabled DS. I would like to point that this report is unconfirmed but Nikkei’s perfect track record predicting Nintendo’s future products wants us to believe them. Anyways, Nikkei’s [...]

  Eye-Fi has released the X2 lineup of memory cards that brings in high capacity along with faster uploads. The line consists of Connect X2, Explore X2 and Pro X2 and possesses 802.11n radio that enables quick uploads to various social networking sites. The Connect X2 is the cheapest of all that comes in 4GB [...]

  UPDATE: Here are the prices. 16GB will trade for Rs. 35,500 whereas 32GB for Rs. 41,500. Additionally, users will get 500MB worth of free data every month for a year. Airtel’s official twitter account spilled more details regarding iPhone 3GS. We wouldn’t have to wait for months as told before because the iPhone 3G’s [...]

  Xbox 360’s 250GB add-on HDD is on sale in Japan since last month and despite the initial plans of not launching the drive elsewhere, Microsoft has made it available in the US. The drive will give users double the storage from the current maxed 120GB HDD option for $129.99. The previous high capacity HDD, [...]

  HTC’s oft-rumored Supersonic has finally become a reality. At the CTIA yesterday, HTC unwrapped the Sprint exclusive device. The phone will be known as Evo and its major selling point is the integration of the 4G radio, which will allow users to download large chunks of multimedia content at faster speeds than 3G. The [...]

  Samsung at the CTIA unveiled their new Android phone – the Galaxy S (GT-I9000). The Galaxy S seems to be the most promising Android device to come out of Samsung’s stable. It boasts a huge 4-inch WVGA Super AMOLED screen with mDNIe (mobile Digital Natural Image engine), Android 2.1 OS, 1GHz applications processor, GPS, [...]

  We have heard murmurs of a 12MP phone from Nokia but it’s the first time we’re seeing it. Chinese site, IT168 has published some pictures of the upcoming Nokia device, dubbed as N8-00. The pictures and preliminary report confirm most of the details like the inclusion of a 3.5-inch capacitive screen, Symbian^3 OS, 12MP [...]

  iPhone app developers generally come out only after they’ve been approved but here’s Opera whose issuing a release for submitting their Opera Mini application to the App Store. The approval is obviously on the mercy of Apple (which for now looks slim) but it seems Opera is trying to gain some media hype so [...]

  Say Wha?? Nintendo has confirmed to launch a new portable console that will take the helm from DSi. We’re not sure about the Tegra or large displays previously rumored but it will support 3D gaming. Yup, a portable 3D gaming console from Nintendo that will be tentatively called as 3DS and won’t need any [...]

  Seems we’ve got some meaty information about today’s Samsung S Life event. We do know that Samsung will highlight their global mobile phone strategy but according to Engadget, it will be more towards the content. The S Life or Smart Life will provide content like e-books, full-length movies to take advantage of the phone’s [...]

  Google has taken its first major step after the fallout with the Chinese government early this year. Not bogging down to the government’s demand of censoring search results, Google has finally moved its Search, News and Images from the Mainland China to Hong Kong servers. All users trying to visit Google.cn will now be [...]