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  UK or US users waiting for iPhone 4 can head to Apple’s online store as they’ve started taking pre-orders of the device. iPhone 4 can be pre-ordered in black only and Apple’s US Store is selling it for $199 (16GB) and $299 (32GB). However, if you’re ordering from UK, Apple is selling officially unlocked [...]

  Apple has unveiled an all new Mac Mini, complete with specs bump as well as design. The Mac Mini starts at $699 but brings the goodness of Mac in a sleek unibody aluminum enclosure. Moreover, the new design now integrates the power supply which helps to reduce system volume by 20 percent and also [...]

  Karbonn Mobiles has expanded its mobile portfolio with two new sub-5k phones for the Indian market. Starting with the K777, it’s a dual SIM candybar phone that packs in decent features in a 9.5mm shell. It comes with a 2.4-inch QVGA display, GPRS/EDGE connectivity, a 3.2MP camera, video recording, Opera Mini web browser, music [...]

  While Microsoft was all about Kinect at the E3, it pulled out a new Xbox 360 console at the expo. The new Xbox 360 is known as Xbox 360 250GB Elite and as you would’ve guessed it comes with 250GB of storage. But wait, storage is not the only thing upgraded here. The new [...]

  UPDATE: Specs of Wave 2 and Wave 2 Pro. Both phones support quad-band GSM with EDGE connectivity, 3.2-inch TFT LCD, TouchWiz UI, Social Hub, Wi-Fi 802.11n, Bluetooth 2.1, 3MP camera, A-GPS, 80MB internal memory and microSD card slot. As expected, Samsung has introduced new phones on bada, Windows Mobile and Android platforms at CommunicAsia. [...]

  HTC has announced a new Android device, Aria for AT&T consumers. It’s a mid-range device that features Android 2.1 OS, 3.2-inch HVGA capacitive touchscreen display, HTC Sense UI with FriendStream, HSPA, Wi-Fi, 5MP camera and access to Google services including Android market. Moreover, the phone sports touch-sensitive menu buttons and optical navigation key, which [...]

  The image of Samsung’s upcoming tablet that was leaked couple of weeks back didn’t reveal anything substantial. It was called as Galaxy Tab and claimed to have a 7-inch TFT LCD with 3.5mm headphone jack. Now, some new info has surfaced that not only reveals its purported specs but also claims that the tablet [...]

  Portable Media Players (PMPs) these days have converged to do a lot of things. However, companies like Cowon still produce a “true PMP” that concentrates only on the multimedia prowess and nothing else. The product we try out this time is Cowon’s V5 HD PMP.

  Nokia’s Connection event in Singapore saw the unveiling of a new Xseries phone and another variant of X6. The new device to be announced is X5-01 that is said to fill the features void between X3 and X6. However, more than the features it’s the design that is more catchy. The X5-01 adopts a [...]

  What the world knew as Microsoft’s Project Natal will now be known as Kinect. At the E3 gaming expo, Microsoft unveiled the new name, which they reckon is more marketable than the former name. Other than that, we’re still looking at the same peripheral in a more polished design that has a RGB camera, [...]

  Samsung’s maiden bada phone is yet to hit retail markets in some regions but the Korean giant has confirmed to launch its successor at CommunicAsia 2010 tomorrow. There will be two bada devices – Wave 2 and Wave 2 Pro that will apparently take helm from Wave. Wave 2 Pro seems to be similar [...]

  LG and iriver have announced Freestyle (LG-LB4400) music phone for LG’s cellular network. iriver says Freestyle has been created for the youth who wants to enjoy any type of music anywhere, anytime. The phone boasts 40 hours of continuous music playback, supports wide range of codecs like FLAC, DRM-free, Dolby Mobile, 14 equalizer options, [...]

  We already know a lot of things about YP-MB2 and now one new piece of information has trickled out from our source. He claims that YP-MB2 will be “more or less similar to South Korean version of Galaxy S (SHW-M110S).” We’re not sure if he claimed about the design but when going through the [...]

  Motorola and Research in Motion have announced to enter into a Settlement and License Agreement that ends any ongoing litigations between both the companies and allows them to share licenses of various patent rights of common technologies like 2G, 3G, 4G, 802.11 and wireless email. Furthermore, RIM has also agreed to pay an up-front [...]

  After months of beta testing and release candidates, Adobe has finally released Flash 10.1 for Windows, Mac and Linux OSes. The new update brings a lot of things like improved performance, H.264 video decoding, multi-touch support, better power management and Mac-specific updates. The Mac version is now a Cocoa app that takes advantages of [...]