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  UPDATE: White iPhone 4 arriving tomorrow. The black colored iPhone 4 has gone on sale today but for those waiting to get the device in shiny white, you’ll have to wait a bit longer. Apple has issued a statement updating the status on the white iPhone 4s. They claim manufacturing white iPhone 4 is [...]

  We have seen few pictures of a non-functional iPhone 4’s screen shattered in pieces and now the same guys from iFixyouri have got their hands on a full working device and put through the same ordeal, this time with video. The result is the same – iPhone 4’s glass display broken into pieces after [...]

  As expected, Motorola has officially introduced Droid X for Verizon. It is Motorola’s most feature packed device that comes with a huge 4.3-inch display with WVGA (854×480) resolution support, 1GHz CPU and Android 2.1. Motorola has promised to release Android 2.2 as an OTA update in late summer with Adobe Flash Player 10.1. Other [...]

  The legal skirmish between Apple and HTC continues as Apple today filed a new case claiming HTC to violate one more patent. The violation is due to HTC Sense UI’s Leap feature. Leap with the help of a pinch on the screen allows user to view all the home screens and quickly select the [...]

  Lenovo has strengthened its portfolio for the Indian market by expanding with 12 new products across the notebook, netbook, all-in-one and desktop categories. The new products are a part of Lenovo’s marketing initiative that hopes to change perspective of consumers regarding computers as “lifestyle enablers.” The new products include Lenovo IdeaPad Z460, Z560, Y460, [...]

  Red Ring of Death (RRoD) is one issue that has caused many Xbox 360s to break down. With the launch of a revamped console, Microsoft did think about the issue and has a workaround rather than a proper solution. Instead, now whenever the Xbox 360 will go beyond its stated temperature limit, a red [...]

  SanDisk has started shipping its 1GB WORM SD Card. WORM means write-once-ready-many and Japan police is SanDisk’s one of the major customers who’ll buy the card for tamper proof forensic image archiving. SanDisk says most forensic images are stored on a 35mm film that degrades over time but WORM SD cards on the other [...]

  The good guys over at iFixit has done it again. They’ve taken Apple’s latest gadget under knife to show us the innards for our guilty pleasure. While they’re still updating their teardown, they’ve confirmed that the iPhone 4 does have 512MB of RAM, double than what is present in iPad and iPhone 3GS. Also, [...]

  The iPhone Dev team seems to be hard at work since the release of iOS 4. They’ve released their PwnageTool for Mac that allows to jailbreak iPhone 3GS. It also supports jailbreaking of iPhone 3G and iPod touch 2G but users have the option to jailbreak with redsn0w as well. The jailbreak will allow [...]

  TicToc (YP-S1) music player that was unveiled at the CES this year has been officially introduced in South Korea. The 12 gram TicToc player comes in trendy blue or pink colors and relies on the acceleration sensor to execute commands. User needs to press a button on the top and shake vertically to increase [...]

  If you needed another confirmation about how well iPad is doing, Apple has announced yet another milestone its tablet device has crossed. In just 80 days or under 3 months, the iPad sales have surpassed 3 million units. It phenomenal considering its averaging more than a million units a month. “People are loving iPad [...]

  Nintendo did confirm that its 3DS console will start retailing during the fiscal year ending March 2011 and though Nintendo of America’s president Reggie Fils-Aime has iterated the same thing, he has confirmed a bit more. According to him, the 3DS will be on sale before March 2011 and that too in “all major [...]

  In an attempt to wade competition from other e-book readers and tablets, Amazon has announced a price cut to its Kindle device. The Kindle now sells for $189 from the original price of $259 and comes with free 3G service, allowing users to download books anywhere on-the-go as well as surf the internet. Kindle [...]

  Adobe has announced that they’ve released their Flash Player 10.1 to mobile platform partners. Flash Player 10.1 is available as a beta on the Android App Store and Adobe will release their final version once users will be able to upgrade their devices to Android 2.2 Froyo. Flash Player 10.1 will also be released [...]

  It’s been few hours since iOS 4 went live and here we are with the jailbreak tool from the iPhone Dev team. The updated Redsn0w tool can now jailbreak iPhone 3G and iPod touch 2G devices running iOS 4 to allow you to install 3rd party apps outside the Apple App Store. The tool [...]