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  UPDATE: LG has ‘officially’ announced it today and set the price to Rs. 16,490. Android devices are generally launched with some fanfare but LG has quietly rolled out its first ever Android phone, GW620 in India. The phone will go at a modest price tag of Rs. 18,990 but the deal breaker here is [...]

  SanDisk was planning something big for 23/3/10 and the big thing is the announcement of a 32GB microSDHC card. It’s the first microSDHC to be available with such capacity and will allow users to store heaps of data on their phones, PMPs and other devices before they run out of space. SanDisk’s cards are [...]

  AT&T will soon get its second Android device. Dell whose been happily showing its Mini 3 Android smartphone will arrive on the US network renamed as Aero. Dell and AT&T are trying to keep most of the details under wrap but there is a confirmation that the UI will be customized and co-developed by [...]

  Palm has announced to bring its Pre Plus and Pixi Plus devices to AT&T. Palm’s offerings will take advantage of AT&T’s “fast 3G network” for $149.99 (Pre Plus) and $49.99 (Pixi Plus). Pre Plus is a fully featured webOS phone with a large touchscreen display, sliding QWERTY keyboard, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS and 16GB internal [...]

  Hero maybe one of the best Android devices but the non-availability of Android’s latest 2.1 Eclair is a deal breaker since many 2.1 equipped phones are releasing soon. However, if a forum user from XDA-devs is to be believed, European HTC Hero users will get Android 2.1 in April. All the countries won’t get [...]

  Eco-friendly Sprint users now have a new phone to choose from – the LG Remarq. The Remarq if you see is strikingly similar to Samsung’s Reclaim and boasts lots of environmental friendly things. 19 percent of the outer casing is made from post-consumer recycled plastic and overall 87 percent of the phone is recyclable. [...]

  Asus continues to expand its Eee PC line. The latest addition has been surfaced in Europe in the form of Eee PC 1001PX. The netbook boasts carbon-fiber design and echoes the specs of most of the netbooks available in the market like a PineTrail 1.66GHz N450 Atom CPU, 1GB RAM, Wi-Fi, USB 2.0, Ethernet [...]

  It’s always good to see products being launched in India soon after they get their official unveiling in the international market. Couple of weeks back Western Digital announced a portable HDD optimized for audio and video storage/playback and now it’s available for the Indian consumers. The My Passport AV HDD comes in 320GB capacity [...]

  Nokia E72 is faring well but Nokia reckons the feminine crowd is yet to embrace this excellent piece of technology. The solution to lure them is to give the phone a new paintjob, which in this case is Purple and targeted squarely at the gals. The release date is still unknown but since we’ve [...]

  RIM has announced its second touchscreen device in India. The Blackberry Storm2 expectedly ups its predecessor with an updated SurePress technology, Wi-Fi and Blackberry OS 5. Storm2 boasts a smooth design with sloped edges, stainless steel backplate and features a 3.25-inch (360×480) capacitive touchscreen display, 3.2MP camera, Wi-Fi, quad-band GSM and 3G support, 2GB [...]

  LG has announced a classy designed XD6 USB HDD to lure the fairer sex. The 2.5-inch XD6 Jewelry HDD was made in collaboration with Nelly Rodi and the drive features a cubic pattern on a clean aluminum body and comes with a leather pouch. As for its technical prowess, the drive come in capacities [...]

  Symantec has nicely segregated their security solutions as per user’s needs. Norton Antivirus gives protection from viruses, Trojans, worms etc. whereas Norton Internet Security or NIS – which we recently reviewed –shields from viruses and also protects user’s network with a two-way firewall. However, for those who seek a complete piece of mind, Symantec [...]

  Microsoft had released the Windows Phone 7 Series SDK at MIX few days back but the SDK along with the emulator was locked down restricting developers to check out its full features, until now. With few hours of tinkering, Dan Ardelean managed to unlock the ROM image giving full access to the build. Needless [...]

  UPDATE: Product Page added below. The small FAQ on the page says “the handset will be available at Airtel Authorised Stores very soon” and will mostly be bundled with a 3G plan. While most countries are waiting for the updated version of iPhone, Indians will officially be getting the iPhone 3GS soon. Airtel, India’s [...]

  Microsoft is on its way to add one of the most requested features in Xbox 360. The 2010 software update will give Xbox 360 USB storage support, which means users will then be able to download and run Arcade games, DLC, save games directly off the USB storage device. Although a good news for [...]