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  Vietnam has suddenly become a hotbed for scooping all unreleased devices. After giving us a sneak peek of iPhone 4G, Vietnam-based Tinhte has posted some images and a video of the next iPod touch…with a 2 megapixel camera. The iPod touch is clearly marked as “DVT-1”, a design verification test unit and pretty similar [...]

  Corby and Star phones offer touchscreen interface at an affordable price but if that is still outta your budget, Samsung has announced more affordable Champ (S3300). Champ will be priced lower than Samsung’s current cheap Corby range and will sport a small 2.4-inch QVGA touchscreen display, TouchWiz Lite UI, Bluetooth 2.1, 3.5mm audio jack, [...]

  PSPgo is not a successor to PSP-3000. In fact, it can be termed as a console that was created to buy some time to develop a worthy successor aka the PSP2. Now VG247 has got their mitts on some info on the PSP2 and boy, it looks promising. As per their sources, some British [...]

  Maintaining a fortnightly release schedule, Apple has seeded beta 4 of its iPhone OS 4 to developers. Complete changelog is missing but devs are reporting about a new option to change wallpapers. Other than that, a new configuration setting has been found for AT&T users, allowing them to tether their internet connection with other [...]

  Samsung’s EX1 (TL500) that was unveiled in February is now retailing in Samsung’s home market. The flagship compact camera boasts f/1.8 24mm wide-angle lens which is touted to be the brightest, capable of capture good pictures under low light conditions. The camera can shoot images at 10 megapixel resolution and features a 3-inch swiveling [...]

  Seagate has confirmed the rumor related to its capacious 3TB hard drive. Seagate’s Senior Product Manager, Barbara Craig confirmed to Thinq that the 3TB enterprise-class HDD is scheduled to launch by end of this year provided the technical issue gets sorted. The issue is not from Seagate’s end but from the PC industry because [...]

  After bring the Kindle application for iPhone OS, PC, Mac and Blackberry, Amazon today announced the app for Android platform. Similar to the Kindle app on other platforms, this Android-specific app brings the liberty to buy from over 5,400,000 books from the Kindle store, sync books with Whispersync so that the user can read [...]

  Microsoft has unwrapped the all new Hotmail email service that brings a lot of features in addition to the UI revamp. Microsoft promises to give us “back our inbox” which will give us more liberty to control not only our Hotmail inboxes but also of other email services like Gmail. More features include viewing [...]

  Apple has finally upgraded its polycarbonate 13.3-inch Macbook while maintaining the same $999 price tag. Under the new configuration, a user will now get a faster Core 2 Duo processor with a clock speed of 2.4GHz, Nvidia GeForce 320M GPU with 256MB DDR3 shared memory and a 10-hour battery life, making it at par [...]

  Nintendo along with Mitsumi recently submitted a Wi-Fi module to the FCC for approval. While the module is of little interest, the interesting thing is the motherboard that is said to be of upcoming NDS console aka Nintendo 3DS. Another noteworthy thing is the integration of two screens with the bottom one looking similar [...]

  Hold your horses! Acer has squashed the recent rumor surrounding a Chrome OS announcement. While they’re excited about the OS, they’ve confirmed that no Chrome OS netbook or prototype will be shown at the Computex or in “short-term”, which means we’ll have no luck of seeing it for few more weeks or couple of [...]

  Nintendo of America and American Heart Association (AHA) have announced a new partnership to encourage healthy lifestyle by endorsing physically active games. In addition to the Wii console, Nintendo games like Wii Sports, Sports Resort and Wii Fit will come with an AHA logo that signifies “active-play” video games. The new packaging for the [...]

  We do know that Google is jointly working with Sony and Intel to produce a set-top box enabling web browsing but this new piece in Financial Times claims that Google is ready to show off the Android-toting set-top box. Purportedly, it will be known as the Smart TV platform and is expected to go [...]

  It seems HTC just announced their entry-level Android device that will take the helm from Tattoo. Dubbed as Wildfire, the phone takes some design inspiration from Legend and Desire and runs the latest Android 2.1 OS on its 528MHz CPU. Other features include a 3.2-inch capacitive touchscreen display, Sense UI with Friend Stream, an [...]

  Japan is known for its technology prowess and also the quirkiness it brings along with it. Take this for instance – the Japanese couple you see above is the first couple in Japan (in fact, in the world) to get married in front of a robot priest. The i-Fairy robot is used in museums [...]