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  Norwegian browser maker has launched its Opera Mobile 10.1 browser for Android users. The beta version of Opera Mobile is now available on the Android market for free. If you’ve used Opera Mobile on another platform, there’s not much to talk about but if you’re a first-timer, Opera boasts lots of advantages like tabbed [...]

  Verizon Wireless has announced the release date for Motorola’s candybar-QWERTY device. The Droid Pro is available as a pre-sale order from today while it will be available in stores from November 18. Droid Pro features a 1GHz CPU, Android 2.2 OS, GSM/CDMA network support, 3G with Hotspot capability, 3.1-inch HVGA screen, 5MP camera with [...]

  At an event in New York yesterday, Samsung announced a new device in the Galaxy S family. Dubbed as Continuum (SCH-i400) the phone sports two Super AMOLED displays – a 3.4-inch one as the main screen and an 1.8-inch one acting as a ticker display. The ticker display can be customized by user to [...]

  Symbian Foundation today announced that they’ll no longer develop the Symbian platform but would rather become a simple licensing body. This decision comes after the non-profit organisation failed to capture attention of phone manufacturers except Nokia. However, this does not mean the end of the world’s widely used smartphone OS. Nokia issued a separate [...]

  Apparently, we’ve got one of the first phones confirmed to run Google’s Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) OS. According to a tweet from Open Handset Alliance official Alvaro Fuentes Vasquez, Google will release an over-the-air update of Android 2.3 to Nexus One users using the developer version. The translated tweet reads “Prepare your Nexus One (Developer [...]

  It’s no secret that Japanese always have the coolest phones. While we devour ourselves with a 12MP phone with Xenon flash, Japanese consumers will enjoy the power of optical zoom in addition to the camera. NTT DOCOMO today announced a plethora of phones (28 to be exact) but the two phones that will make [...]

  Japanese mobile subscribers wanting to delve into the LTE goodness will be able to do so from 24th of next month. NTT DOCOMO will launch Xi (read as Crossy) that will become Japan’s first LTE service giving users a max. downlink of up to 75Mbps. DOCOMO will initially sell USB dongles, and LTE-compatible mobile [...]

  Microsoft’s Kinect is barely out in the market for a week and we’re seeing reports about Microsoft’s Xbox 360 controller getting hacked. Adafruit had offered a $2000 bounty to develop an open source Kinect driver and looks like someone has already achieved it. However, the hackers NUI Group that managed to hack it are [...]

  Toshiba has introduced a new SSD series that offers the advantages of a high-performance SSD in a very compact form factor. The Blade X-gale SSDs are just 2.2mm thick and comes in capacities ranging from 64GB to 256GB. These RAM-like modules can be a boon to computers that are restrictive in space. Despite the [...]

  If you’re a Legend owner here’s some good news for you. HTC has confirmed that the Android 2.2 (Froyo) update will hit the device “in the coming weeks.” HTC says they’ve been testing the Froyo build for quite some time and the “update has been progressing quite well.” The update will be initially released [...]

  Google has expanded its Instant search to mobile devices as well. The real-time search that shows results as you type is now available on iOS and Android OS. Users need to go to Google.com and Turn on the Google Instant link to make it work. Google says with Instant activated, users can save about [...]

  LG and Microsoft have teamed up to offer a special treat to LG Windows Phone 7 users. In a unique promotion, users using LG WP7 handsets will get 10 free apps every 60 days. The apps valued more than $30 will be handpicked from different genres and will be offered for free for a [...]

  Most new gadgets are subjected to a teardown and Microsoft’s new Kinect for Xbox 360 is no exception. Folks over at iFixit did the honors and have found some interesting things in this compact game controller. Few noteworthy things found in the teardown are that the Kinect sports two cameras and one IR projector [...]

  Skype today issued a new beta for Skype Mac users. The Skype 5.0 beta comes with a new look that emphasizes on simplified navigation and adds the most important 5.0 feature – group video calling. The new beta allows users to make video calls to more than two people using Skype 5.0 for Mac [...]

  Nokia has started shipping the world’s second Symbian^3 (or new Symbian as Nokia prefers to call it) device. The C6-01 has left the factory warehouses and will be available to consumers in the coming weeks. The C6-01 is not as hip looking as the N8 but is Nokia’s greenest devices till date. The C6-01 [...]