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  LG has announced an ultra-thin LED monitor that is the slimmest LG has ever created. The E90’s slimness measures at just 7.2mm and will sell under LG’s new Super LED monitor line. The monitor features 2ms response time, integrated Image Booster software to reduce blurriness, up to 40 percent less power consumption when compared [...]

  Consumers seeking an affordable Android solution can take a look at MetroPCS’ recently announced Ascend. Ascend from Huawei is the latest entry-level Android handset that claims to give decent features at just $179. Do note that the asking price of the handset does not involve any contractual obligation so it is in fact the [...]

  Seagate today announced the Constellation.2 hard drives meant for the enterprise-class consumers. The 2.5-inch drive goes up to 1TB in storage and is designed for server storage applications like Directed Attached Storage (DAS), Network Attached Storage (NAS) and Storage Area Network (SAN) environments. The Constellation.2 supports 6GB/s SATA or SAS interface and comes with [...]

  We’ve seen many Android devices come and go but very few have managed to give the dual-SIM goodness (which rules the roost here in India). Well, Gigabyte has not revealed its plans to launch its phones in India but they’ll surely bring out the GSmart Rola – a dual-SIM Android phone in early 2011 [...]

  Lenovo’s CFO Wong Wai Ming has confirmed to Reuters that their LePad tablet device will be showed off within the next few weeks. Although Wong didn’t divulge any more details, he did confirm that it will be sold in China. Lenovo has concentrated more on its home market, so it comes as no surprise [...]

  We’ve been tracking LG’s dual-core equipped smartphone for the past few weeks but this seems to be the biggest leak so far. Thanks to Engadget’s generous souce, the site managed to get their paws on the prototype device. LG Star’s design is what Engadget calls is “unadventurous and safe design,” The WVGA display is [...]

  Intel, AMD, Dell, Lenovo, Samsung Electronics LCD Business and LG Display have announced their intention to phase out analog display outputs like low voltage differential signaling technology (LVDS) and 2 decade old Video Graphics Array (VGA). Intel says they plan to end the LVDS support by 2013 followed by VGA in 2015 and adopt [...]

  LG has announced that its cheapest Android 2.2 running phone has surpassed sales of 2 million units. LG says the first million took about 40 days but the next million sold in just 20 days. The phone has been getting good reception in regions like United States and South Korea where they’ve sold about [...]

  Both the Korean mobile manufacturers have confirmed their Android devices will be updated to the recently released Gingerbread OS. LG has issued a “public notice” saying that its cheapest Android smartphone – Optimus One will receive the Android 2.3 update. The upgrade schedule is unconfirmed but will be announced in “due course.” Meanwhile, Samsung [...]

  Uncharted has been a very important franchise for Sony’s PS3 console and good news for Uncharted fans is that the third part in the series has been announced. Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception takes Nathan Drake to the desert in search of Atlantis of the Sands. Developers of the game, Naughty Dog have promised to [...]

  Just as expected, HTC has released the Android 2.2 Froyo update for Legend users. The update is limited to European shores only but we can expect the update to be available in other regions as well. The update promises to bring performance and UI improvements to the phone and also playback of Adobe Flash [...]

  Here’s is another proof about the surging growth of Android phones. Google Android VP, Andy Rubin confirmed on his twitter account that over 300,000 Android phones are being activated every day. This is an interesting stat because a quick math tells us that although being the most fragmented OS, Google sees their operating system [...]

  Cowon has announced its hard-drive based portable media player for Indian consumers. In addition to the excellent multimedia codec support Cowon gives, users will now be able to store heaps of content on X7’s 160GB integrated storage. Promising a playback of up to 103 hours of music or 10 hours of video, the X7 [...]

  Asus has expanded its O!Play media player range with the new HD2 model. Asus touts the O!Play HD2 is the world’s first media player to feature support for USB 3.0 that will allow consumers to stream high-definition content at faster speeds. O!Play HD2’s uniqueness comes from the fact that it comes with a slot [...]

  HTC has kept its promise and have announced the Froyo update for Legend users. Starting tomorrow, unbranded Legend users will start getting the Froyo update with the roll out spreading to different European countries. The Android 2.2 update will bring significant speed improvements along with support for Adobe Flash. Considering the European roll out [...]