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  Samsung has announced Guru 1175 in India, which is more or less similar to the other Guru Series phones. The phone trades for an affordable Rs. 1,690 ($37) and brings in nifty features like FM Radio that can play for up to 23 hours in a single charge, a torch, Bike Mode that allows [...]

  While Motorola has been selling the Android 2.1 loaded Milestone in India, they’ve released the much needed Android update for users in UK. Users can now grab the latest Éclair Android 2.1 update for their Milestone device that claims to bring live wallpapers, 9 home screens, text to speech, free voice-guided navigation and enhanced [...]

  Nintendo loaded their pockets with lots of green paper with their Wii gaming console. However, with the annual fiscal report out today it looks like the Wii juggernaut is slowing down. Of course, there’s aggressive competition from other consoles but Wii’s slowing down of sales can be contributed to its lack of exciting game [...]

  Seagate’s enterprise-level Constellation ES HDD is bound to get a new addition. According to a source of Inquirer, Seagate is prepping a 3.5-inch 3TB HDD to launch it later this year. The drive will hail from Seagate’s Constellation ES Series that currently maxes out at 2TB. The 3.5-inch HDD is expected to support 6Gbit/s [...]

  Samsung has announced that they’ve developed a 30nm-based 8Gb (gigabit) OneNAND chip for use in smartphones. The new chip is based on single-level-cell (SLC) NAND flash design and allows to phone manufacturers to handle more code data that is used with touchscreen and other high-resolution smartphones. The 30nm 8Gb OneNAND is 40 percent more [...]

  It seems the latest iPhone OS 4 beta features more than what we’d expected. Macrumors has done a bit of sleuthing and has uncovered the preset “AVCaptureSessionPreset1280x720” value that hints the iPhone can record video in 720p HD resolution. Previously, iPhone was able to record at VGA (640×480) resolution only but with most high-end [...]

  New pictures and specifications of Samsung’s first phone with 3D Display has surfaced. The phone is known as AMOLED 3D (SCH-W960) in South Korea and has a dedicated 3D button that shows 3D content without the need of any special glasses. The phone features a 3.2-inch WQVGA AMOLED display, TouchWiz UI 2.0, 3G, 3.2MP [...]

  If you’re wary to format your flash drive manually to expand storage for the Xbox 360, SanDisk is now shipping their pre-configured flash drives. Just plug it in and you’re all set to save all your game saves, map packs, downloads etc. on the flash drive. The SanDisk flash drives comes in capacities of [...]

  Premium gaming peripherals maker, Razer has launched a new special edition of its Abyssus gaming mice. The Abyssus Mirror Special Edition now comes with an attractive black chrome mirror finish preserving features of the original Abyssus mouse. In addition to the aesthetics, the special edition boasts a 3500dpi 3.5G infrared sensor, 1000Hz ultrapolling with [...]

  With the turmoil going on between Apple and Adobe, this should come as a respite for the Flash software maker. At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Zedomax stumbled upon a prototype Android tablet at the Adobe booth. The prototype seemed to run Android OS 2.1 but more importantly, ran Adobe’s Flash and [...]

  Microsoft has launched their first application as part of its alliance with Nokia for mobile productivity. Microsoft Communicator Mobile is a unified communications client that connects to company’s communications systems. The application simply integrates with the contacts menu and allows users to see their colleague’s availability where they can easily communicate with them over [...]

  Following its fortnightly schedule, Apple released a new beta of its iPhone OS 4 and SDK to developers. The devs were quick enough to unravel new features and some managed to successfully uncover couple of noteworthy features. First is the screen orientation lock in iPhone and iPod touch and the other is quick access [...]

  Intel’s Atom-processor based platform, formerly known as Moorestown is now available to OEMs. The platform comprises of a System-on-chip (SoC), a controller hub and dedicated Mixed Signal IC (MSIC) that promises to provide high performance while consuming very less power. The platform has the 45nm-based Atom Z6xx CPU with 3D Graphics, video encode/decode support, [...]

  Microsoft’s dual-screened Courier tablet may be dead before its arrival but Microsoft hasn’t –expectedtly – left the tablet arena yet. This comes directly from Bill Gates who in his interview with Fox News confirmed that Microsoft is working on a lot of different tablet projects. “Microsoft has a lot of different tablet projects that [...]

  We may’ve seen Blackberry slider images before but it’s the first time we’re seeing it running RIM’s upcoming OS Blackberry 6. Admittedly, the images are of bad quality but BBleaks claims that the pictures are legitimate. Couple of other interesting things pointed out are that the phone runs on Rogers network and the firmware [...]