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  Anticipating strong demand of e-book readers and e-books, Sony has announced to expand its e-readers availability in five new countries. They’ll soon announce their range of e-book readers in countries like Japan, China, Australia, Italy and Spain. Like existing regions, the e-readers sold in the new markets will be integrated with Sony’s Reader Store [...]

  Samsung is already selling S3370 as Corby 3G in Russia and now they’ve announced it for the Indian market. However, this time the phone will belong to the Star family and will be known as Nano 3G. Samsung wants to provide a 3G handset on the cheap and Star Nano 3G enables it for [...]

  Looks like Acer will jump in the tablet bandwagon soon. At an event in Beijing, Acer’s CEO, Gianfranco Lanci was snapped with a 7-inch tablet in his hands. He refused to divulge intrinsic details but has confirmed to run Android OS and will sport a “color screen” that will be “fast with sensitive touch”. [...]

  Research in Motion has announced a new color variant of its high-end Bold 9700 device in the Indian market. Starting today users will have the option to pick Bold 9700 in white, if the black standard version seems a bit dull to them. The phone comes in satin chrome finished frame and leatherette backplate [...]

  Microsoft will reveal Project Natal’s price and availability details at the E3 Premiere in couple of weeks but if you want an estimation about how much you’ll be shelling out when it comes to the market, Edge Online claims to have got it from their trustworthy source. Provided its true, the standalone Project Natal [...]

  MeeGo has announced the release of the first version of MeeGo. The MeeGo Netbook user experience is understandably for the netbooks and will provide a stable environment for developers to develop apps as well as give a taste of the rich user experience on netbooks. The current build includes features like: – Visually rich [...]

  Motorola Droid Shadow that was purportedly found at the gym yesterday, has been found again, this time at an undisclosed location and in a different pose. The credit for the new picture goes to a Howard Forum member named wnrussell who not only reveals the mini HDMI port but also some specs, which is [...]

  Looks like Samsung’s power packed Android device Galaxy S (GT-I9000) is ready for primetime. CNET Asia has confirmed that Galaxy S will be launching in June in Asia for around $780 and if Samsung’s launch strategy is any indication, we might find the Galaxy S in European and other markets too in the same [...]

  Nokia might have been the first one to unveil a Symbian^3 device but it will be an Asian vendor who will bring the Symbian^3-equipped phone to the market first. Lee Williams, executive director of Symbian Foundation confirmed to Reuters that a phone running Symbian 3 software will be shipped first by an Asian vendor [...]

  Nokia may lead the pack in the mobile handset race but when it comes to their smartphone market share, it’s totally a different story to tell. Nokia has evidently struggled to keep pace with the growing competition in the smartphone space but is trying their best to gain some lost ground. It has the [...]

  As promised, the site that originally leaked info on the LiMo-powered I8330 H2 has published some pictures of the same. There’s not much on the design front, just a little facelift with a different placement of the camera at the back but the interesting thing is the specs, which are powerful enough to pip [...]

  Sony is showing off a new rollable display at the SID 2010 expo. The flexible display measures 4.1-inch in size and is just 80 um-thick, capable enough to be wrapped around a thin circular object. To create the display, Sony first developed organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs) with an original organic semiconductor material – a [...]

  Dual-booting OS in a portable device is often the work of modders but Korea-based Viliv has taken the same concept to its upcoming Portable Media Player. The Viliv P3 Prime is one-of-its-kind PMP that has partition to run both – WinCE and Android OS. As far as its remaining specs are concerned, it has [...]

  While AT&T and Apple are sticking to 16GB iPhone 3GS’ original price, Walmart is now selling the iPhone 3GS for just $97. That’s a good $102 discount on the existing model and makes it at par with 8GB iPhone 3G, which means the older iPhone is about to be discontinued or will be given [...]

  It’s certain that this little incident won’t be as widely discussed as the iPhone-Bar saga but heck, we’ve got a new phone. And it looks great too. It’s the Motorola Droid Shadow and according to the Gizmodo tipster, the guy supposedly left the device in a Verizon gym in Washington. The phone will be [...]