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  So Apple has reacted to iPhone frenzy released by Gizmodo yesterday. The iPhone which was shot from every angle possible and will mostly take place as the next iPhone has been demanded by Apple. The official letter says Gizmodo is in possession of the iPhone and they want it back. “It has come to [...]

  HTC has announced Legend Android phone for the Indian market. Taking the helm from Hero, Legend too sports a similar chin design but comes in an attractive unibody chassis that is carved from a single aluminum block. The HTC Legend is powered by a Qualcomm 600MHz processor and runs Android’s latest Éclair 2.1 OS, [...]

  Acer will soon be releasing a new Aspire One netbook powered by an AMD processor. Macles, who’s spot on Acer’s upcoming products claims AO521 will be powered by AMD V105 processor. The netbook won’t be the fastest one around since the CPU is clocked at 1.2GHz but will boast decent graphics performance with the [...]

  The supposed next-gen iPhone leaked over the weekend has found its way out again and this time its bundled with some high quality pictures and analysis. Gizmodo has managed to score the iPhone 4G prototype and have revealed some new features. The iPhone 4G or HD will feature a front-facing camera, improved rear camera [...]

  Samsung and Verizon have officially announced the Reality (SCH-U820). It’s an entry-level touchscreen phone with a physical sliding QWERTY keyboard aimed at avid text messaging and social networking users. Samsung Reality includes a 3-inch WQVGA (240×400) touchscreen display, 3.2MP camera, full HTML web browser, Bluetooth, Microsoft Exchange mail support, microSD card slot (up to [...]

  Danish toy manufacturer, LEGO today announced to roll out its augmented reality Digital Boxes to its shops worldwide. The Digital Box was created metaio and what the box does is that it allows buyers to know what the LEGO toy will look like after construction. Buyers need to place the LEGO product in front [...]

  Asus India has launched a new media player to take on Seagate’s FreeAgent Theater, WD’s TV Live and Amkette’s Flash TV. The Asus O!Play Air HDP-R3 HD media player is the latest addition in the O!Play family that adds the much needed wireless functionality in addition to playing most of the widely used multimedia [...]

  Sharp has introduced a MID in the NetWalker series to woo the Japanese consumers. Although it’s designed differently than the previous NetWalker model, PC-Z1, the innards remain the same. The new PC-T1 adopts a 5-inch touchscreen display with high 1024×600 pixel resolution but adds handwriting recognition to compensate the missing keyboard. Other than that, [...]

  HTC’s portfolio boasts a number of Android phones and though most try to cater the high-end consumer market, HTC Tattoo was created to give a taste of Android at an affordable price. A spec’d down Android device for those who don’t want to invest in expensive HTC Hero but get almost all the features [...]

  Engadget posted a few pictures of aka iPhone 4G that basically sent everyone in a tizzy over the weekend. Engadget claims the pictures were found “on the floor of a San Jose bar” and will feature a front-facing camera and 80GB of storage space. Interestingly though, the iPhone 4G is also said to tout [...]

  Samsung has announced the industry’s first 20nm-based NAND flash chips aimed to use in SD memory cards and embedded memory solutions. Samsung says memory cards based on this process tech give faster write and read speeds. Samsung had created 30nm-based NAND flash a year before and today these 20nm MLC NAND touts to give [...]

  AT&T’s portfolio of quick messaging phones has got a new addition in the form of Pantech Link. The cheap messaging phones seek avid texters who want full QWERTY keyboards at a very affordable price and Link is no different. Pantech Link features a large LCD, 3G, 1.3MP camera, a music player and to access [...]

  UPDATE: Now Home Ministry asks DoT to withdraw the ban. Indian telecom ministry today issued a directive to 12 operators restricting all incoming and outcoming SMSes in Jammu & Kashmir. The directive says the decision has been taken in the “interest of the national security” and will be effective from tonight. – DoT has [...]

  Looks like Asus is gearing up to release a new 3D notebook in the third quarter of this year. While the details on the new notebook is still a mystery, Digitimes claims that number of 3D panel makers want to do some business with the Taiwanese notebook maker. Chimei Innolux Corporation (CMI), Samsung Electronics [...]

  Sony will launch “division two” VAIO notebooks soon. Division two, you ask? Is it a new range? Well, not exactly a new range but it will be VAIO laptops designed and manufactured by their partners. Ryosuke Akahane, deputy president of Sony VAIO’s Business Group told PC Pro that the laptops that will be created [...]