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  Alcatel has announced a new device for Indian consumers – ICE3 OT880. It’s their second device for the Indian market and just like the previous one, this one’s also aimed at fashionistas but comes with a horizontal-sliding QWERTY keyboard. As for remaining features, the phone has a 2.4-inches touchscreen display with customizable home screen, [...]

Microsoft at its event in NYC unwrapped the phones that will be powered by its new OS. A total of nine phones will be launched this holiday season and will be available from over 60 operators in over 30 countries. Windows Phone 7 OS is said to bring together things consumers care about and allowing [...]

  Windows Phone 7 phones don’t go official for another 15-20 minutes but someone at AT&T have decided otherwise. AT&T’s website has revealed three phones that will be powered by Windows Phone 7 OS. The phones are HTC’s Surround, Samsung Focus and LG Quantum. HTC Surround seems to be a perfect entertainment device that features [...]

  Microsoft won’t be unveiling its new shiny OS and supported devices for at least a few more hours but it seems both the Korean handset manufacturers have jumped the gun a bit early. LG’s offering as we know, is called Optimus 7 and features a 3.8-inch WVGA LCD screen (800×480), 5MP camera with 720p [...]

  Hot on the heels of N8 being delivered to customers worldwide, Nokia has confirmed that its second Symbian^3 device is also on its way. They have begun shipping C7 and should reach customers soon. Nokia C7 comes in a stainless steel body and features a 3.5-inch AMOLED display, 8MP camera with dual LED flash, [...]

  KT subscribers may have been last in the line to receive Samsung’s Galaxy S variant but they’re the first ones to get Android 2.2 on their Galaxy S phone. Samsung today announced Galaxy K (SHW-M130K) for KT and runs Android 2.2 (Froyo) out-of-the-box. Apart from the OS bump (which other Galaxy S’ are expected [...]

  George Hotz aka GeoHot has released a new jailbreak tool that jailbreaks all the latest Apple devices running iOS 4.0 and 4.1. Limera1n is a bootrom level untethered exploit that can be used to jailbreak iPhone 3GS, iPod Touch 3G, iPad, iPhone 4, iPod Touch 4G and “technically” Apple TV 2G. It’s in beta [...]

  It’s 10-10 today and Canonical has chosen a perfect day to unleash Ubuntu’s new release. The Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat makes one of the best Linux distros even better and is now available for download. The Ubuntu 10.10 brings in a lot of new features like the Unity UI for the netbook edition, which [...]

  We’ve seen HTC’s Mondrian quite a few times before and this time it surfaces in a nice looking render showing its AT&T connection. Mondrian is expected to be one of the first Windows Phone 7 devices from HTC that will be available on AT&T. As far as specs are concerned, Mondrian will have at [...]

  If Antennagate wasn’t enough to put a blemish into iPhone 4’s otherwise clean image, Gdgt now claims that Apple has discovered another potential design flaw in its bestselling device. Apparently, the new issue, referred to as Glassgate is related to the glass body breaking when used with a case. The site says slide-on iPhone [...]

  Cowon has launched a new portable media player for its home market. It’s the hard disk-based Cowon X7 that brings huge storage along with the qualities you’d find from a Cowon product. The X7 comes in various capacities (up to 160GB) and boasts a big 4.3-inch display, integrated speakers, JetEffect 3.0 to enhance audio [...]

  Samsung’s bullishness on the bada platform is pretty evident as they’ve announced their sixth bada phone in less than a year. This time it’s the Wave 575 (GT-S5750) that will cater to the mid-range market along with other Waves – Wave 525 and QWERTY keyboard-toting Wave 533. Wave 575 is similar to Wave 525 [...]

  If you were worried about Blackberry service getting banned in UAE, you don’t have to now because the UAE telecom authorities and Research in Motion have agreed to a solution. About 500,000 subscribers will be able to enjoy uninterrupted services as RIM has worked out to locate encrypted servers inside UAE. “The Telecommunications Regulatory [...]

  Mozilla has launched a new beta of its Firefox browser for mobile phones. The Firefox 4 beta for Maemo and Android is built on the same platform as for the desktop and brings a lot of similar features. This release emphasizes on performance and responsiveness and features Electrolysis and Layers. Electrolysis makes the browser [...]

  Razer has taken its portfolio of premium gaming accessories a notch up with the introduction of Ironclad mouse mat. It is Razer’s first metal mat created from an anodized aluminum and features a smooth soundblasted surface that makes the mouse movement breeze. Moreover, Ironclad uses unibody construction that not only gives it a premium [...]