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  Wynncom, subsidiary of SAR group today announced a new range of affordable phones in India. A total of 7 phones – Y50, Y30, Y22, Y21, Y20, Y11, Y10 were launched and will be priced starting from Rs. 1,500 to up to Rs. 5,000. The feature set of all the phones are as follows: Y10: [...]

  Yahoo is holding a press conference on May 24 in New York. While the details regarding the announcement is pretty light, AllThingsD seem to have got the intrinsic details of the announcement. Apparently, Yahoo will announce their “Project Nike” partnership with Nokia that will allow the Finnish phone maker to pre-install email, search and [...]

  After being showcased at the Google I/O conference, we’ve now got the first live pictures of Galaxy 5 (GT-I5500). The source still refers Galaxy 5 as a Corby Android but is confirmed to run Android 2.1. Other than that, the phone will feature a QVGA TFT capacitive display, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 3G, 2MP camera and [...]

  If you recently bought an HTC Android phone that was released this year, chances are your phone will be able to taste the Froyo goodness. HTC has confirmed to Android Central that “if your phone was launched this year, we will most likely offer an upgrade for it to the Froyo version”. [...] if [...]

  Concepts seldom turn into real products and this will most likely be the case with MSI’s new laptop concept. Known as Sketchbook, it was shown off in Amsterdam and is created with designers in mind, who do a lot of drawing. The Sketchbook looks like a normal laptop but the distinctiveness is its rotating [...]

  HTC Hero users are still waiting for the official Android 2.1 update but this modder has already installed the SDK image of Froyo to HTC’s chin-bearing device. It’s a brief one minute video and reveals some issues like the irresponsive touchscreen and non working of Wi-Fi. These issues will apparently be ironed out before [...]

  Google has officially announced Google TV platform at the I/O Conference. The new TV platform will be available as standalone set-top box or will come integrated directly into the TV set. Google’s aim is to combine the world’s largest watched medium with internet and Google TV helps the search giant to fill the void. [...]

  Google is yet to set a date for Android’s 2.2 Froyo release but this hasn’t kept them from revealing the release timeframe of the update after Froyo. In the FAQ page of WebM, Google slips out Android’s next update, termed as Gingerbread for Q4 2010. The big word in the FAQ is “planned”, which [...]

  In addition to unveiling the Chrome Web Store at the Google I/O yesterday, Google also announced WebM, an open and royalty-free video format created especially for the web. The WebM format uses VP8 video codec and Vorbis for the audio and can be licensed for free as compared to H.264. Another advantage WebM possesses [...]

  LG Panther’s existence is not surprising for anyone who’s been tracking Windows Phone 7 phones development for a while. In fact, it was the first device pictured running Windows Phone 7 and now it has landed in hands of UK journos who’ve been snapping this nearly-finished prototype. ElectricPig who got their hands on the [...]

  Indians can expect high-speed 3G services by end of this year as the spectrum auction for the same has been completed. The auction took 34 days and 183 rounds to end that will earn the Government a whopping Rs.70,000 crores, more than double what the government expected to collect. Seven operators manage to win [...]

  Google’s I/O Developer conference has kicked off in San Francisco and they’ve announced a Chrome Web Store or simply put, an app store for web apps. Developers can create their web apps using standard web tools and sell it in the store for a price. An advantage these web apps have is that in [...]

  Samsung India has bolstered the printer market with the introduction of new mono laser printers, network and multifunction printers. Samsung expects to capture about 30 percent of the laser printer market share and the product that can contribute majorly is ML-1666. ML-1666 is world’s smaller laser printer that prints up to 16 pages per [...]

  MetroPCS today launched LG’s vertical sliding messaging phone in the United States. The LG Imprint sports a sliding physical QWERTY keyboard to allow easy typing of SMSes and emails. The phone’s feature set includes threaded messaging support, 1.3MP camera, speakerphone, built-in image editor, micro USB port, Bluetooth, music player and MetroNavigator for voice-guided turn-by-turn [...]

  While HTC’s original Hero is still awaiting its official Android 2.1 update, Sprint has let loose the latest Android build for the chinless version. The Éclair update brings number of features like improvement in the Sense UI, enhanced corporate email support and minor bug fixes. Sprint Hero users can download the update from here [...]