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  One product that amazed CES attendees last month was the introduction of Motorola’s Atrix 4G phone. A regular looking Tegra 2 running phone but with an ability to power as a laptop or even use it with a HD Multimedia dock. Now, AT&T and Motorola have finally released the pricing and availability of the [...]

  Nokia has released its first major update for new Symbian devices — the N8, C7 and C6-01. Nokia says the 1.1 update does not have many aesthetic enhancements but claims to bring more stability. For the visible improvements, all the devices will get couple of features like accepting meeting requests directly from the email [...]

  There’s not much to see here if you use beta builds of Chrome browser but if using the software without the beta tag is what you prefer, Google has released a stable build of Chrome 9. The new build concentrates on three features — WebGL that brings hardware-accelerated 3D graphics; Chrome Instant which is [...]

  WD has brought its updated external HDD line to the Indian market. They’ve introduced the My Passport Essential, My Passport Essential SE portable hard drive and My Book Essential HDD, all equipped with the latest SuperSpeed USB 3.0. Users will be able to transfer data to USB 3.0-compatible PCs at speeds to up to [...]

  Chronic-Dev team has released Greenpois0n tool that will allow users to jailbreak their iOS 4.2.1 running devices. This jailbreak solution is an untethered one, which means the jailbreak will still be active even after a user restarts his iDevice. However, users planning to unlock the device are warned to stay away as you can [...]

  HTC is preparing its first dual-core Android phone, according to reports from Androidandme and Tmonews. Both received some meaty info from different sources but the info was the same – codenamed as Pyramid, the phone will have a 4.3-inch qHD display, 4G support and 1.2GHz dual-core processor. The phone will be launched on T-Mobile [...]

  Dell has expanded it’s mobile phone offerings for the Indian market with the addition of two new phones — Android 2.2 running Venue and Windows Phone 7 powered Venue Pro. Both phones look identical except for the fact that the Venue Pro has a vertical sliding QWERTY keyboard. On the spec front, the Venue [...]

  Samsung will out a new variant of Galaxy S soon. The new variant — I9003 will look to replace the current I9000 model and bring some changes to the hardware specs that should hopefully bring the price down of Korean’s best selling phone. The new model found on Samsung’s MEA site says it will [...]

  When you have a room full of journalists how can anyone not catch a glimpse of a person carrying an iPad 2? Well, the fact is everyone did except an “eyewitness” of Reuters. Reuters’ eyewitness saw a working model of an iPad 2 that featured a front-facing camera. The camera is placed at the [...]

  Android Market that was restricted to devices for all these years has got some nifty enhancements. The first and foremost is the arrival of the Webstore. Now users can surf and buy apps directly from their computer while the apps will be delivered over-the-air directly to the phone, eliminating the need to connect the [...]

  T-Mobile today announced full specifications and expected release for what would be the world’s first 3D Android tablet. The G-Slate will be developed by LG, run Android 3.0 aka Honeycomb OS and features the ability to record 3D and full HD video. The 8.9-inch tablet is also capable to display 3D content on its [...]

  LG who were non-existent in the smartphone race until the last year has come out hard, really hard. After a successful showing at the CES last month, LG is building up some good hype for its MWC showcase. They’ve released a new video that shows off the Optimus 3D. However, the video doesn’t show [...]

  Continuing with its developer releases, Apple has seeded the third beta of iOS 4.3 to developers. We’re yet to see the full change log but the new build — 8F5166B now allows users to cancel and delete downloading apps. Although a small feature, this will prove handy to many as the only way to [...]

  Motorola has announced a new Android phone — Defy for the Indian market. Staying true to it’s name, Defy defies dust, water spills and scratch resistant screen to protect the phone from any untoward incident. On the technical side, the phone is decently spec’d with Android 2.1 OS, a 3.7-inch touchscreen display (WVGA), 5MP [...]

  Google has brought the latest fad in location-based services – Check-in feature to Google Latitude. Available on Google Maps 5.1 for Android, users will now be able to check-in to their favorite places as well as earn special statuses for checking into at frequented places. Few things that Latitude differentiates from other services like [...]