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  As like every other Apple product, the new Mac Mini has also undergone the teardown ceremony. This time, however Apple has made it easy to access the innards, which the iFixit guys accessed it buy by twisting the cover at the bottom. As for internals are concerned, there isn’t anything exciting except for the [...]

  Toshiba has announced industry’s highest storage NAND flash module that is used in various consumer electronics items like cellphones, music players, tablets etc. Toshiba has increased the capacity to a whopping 128GB and the module is created using sixteen 64Gbit (about 8GB) NAND chips fabricated with 32nm process. The memory module is compatible with [...]

  Considering Nintendo churning out a portable 3D console, one would expect Nintendo to bring the 3D functionality to Wii too. Good thing is they’re already contemplating it, according to Nintendo’s CEO Satoru Iwata. In an interview with Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Iwata dropped hints that the next-gen Wii could support 3D provided 3D television market [...]

  Samsung has announced a new 512GB SSD that employs toggle-mode DDR NAND helping high-end notebooks to achieve greater performance and reliability. The toggle-mode DDR structure coupled with SATA 3.0Gbps interface gains a max. sequential read speed of 250MB/s and read speed to up to 220MB/s, which is three times faster than conventional HDDs or [...]

Olive is one of the few mobile handset players that has positioned its devices according to user’s needs and that too at very affordable prices. They have their hybrid cell phone for those who’re always on the move or a triple SIM device for those who have more than a single number but don’t want [...]

  Rounding up today’s announcements, Sony Ericsson confirmed that the Xperia X10 range that includes X10, X10 mini and X10 mini pro will receive Android 2.1 update later next quarter. X10 will also add HD video recording functionality along with the update. In Q4, another update will be released specifically for X10 that will allow [...]

  Moving from Yendo, Sony Ericsson also announced Cedar at CommunicAsia. It’s a simple candybar device that promises to give 3G connectivity at an undisclosed “affordable price”. With Cedar, users will be able to delve into social networking site anywhere with tri-band 3G support and Widget Manager 2.0 that gives quick access to these sites. [...]

  Sony Ericsson’s Yendo that got leakedhas got the official treatment. However, unlike the rumor said about Android, Yendo does not run on Android but features corner touch UI that is found on Xperia X10 mini and Xperia X10 mini pro. Yendo is the first touchscreen device from Sony Ericsson to come with Walkman player [...]

  It doesn’t matter if the phones land or reach the shore because good thing for Indian consumers is that they’ll be able to enjoy both powerful Samsung devices at competitive prices. The Wave is based on Samsung’s bada operating system. Bada in Korean means ‘Ocean’ and Samsung wants to give consumers endless possibilities with [...]

  We’ve seen the image, a confirmation from the Samsung executive and now we have the first blurry video of the tablet. The video is merely 30 seconds long but shows off its numeric keypad, an extra physical button at the bottom and an image gallery. The Galaxy Tab will feature 7-inch Super AMOLED screen, [...]

  Looks like Motorola and Verizon have decided to take on the Sprint-HTC partnership. Engadget has posted a preview of Motorola Droid X and have nothing but praise for the next-generation Droid that is supposed to launch on Verizon next week. The phone is as big and awesome as HTC Evo but comes without 4G. [...]

  Sony has finally put a release date and price to its motion-sensing Move controller. The Move controller will cost $49.99 whereas the sub-controller will cost $29.99. Sony has also introduced couple of Move bundles – one comes PlayStation Eye and Sports Champions game and another one with the PS3 console along with the Sports [...]

  Sony Ericsson will soon add yet another Android phone to its arsenal. This time it will be Yendo, an Android phone that looks more or less like X10 mini but will have a Walkman player. Built-in Walkman means we can be rest assured about high quality music on the Android OS. Other intrinsic details [...]

  UPDATE: The bottom touchscreen display measures 3.02-inches and has a third camera in the inner side in addition to the two for taking 3D pictures. As we were promised, Nintendo has made its 3D portable gaming console official. Nintendo has decided to keep 3DS as the official name and though not all details were [...]

  Sony might unveil 250GB and 500GB versions of PS3 today at the E3 expo. Fudzilla says Sony deliberately tried to mislead everybody but their sources confirm that higher capacity PS3s are indeed coming. Additionally, both the SKUs will be bundled with Move controllers, will have 802.11n wireless built-in and be priced at $299 and [...]