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  RIM is really having a hard time keeping their upcoming phones under wraps. Now BlackBerry Bold Touch has got the hands-on treatment, thanks to BGR. Bold Touch was leaked couple of months back and is said to give best of both worlds with an integrated physical QWERTY keyboard and a touchscreen display. The site [...]

  It’s early 2011 and as promised, Creative today launched both their tablets in the Indian market. The ZiiO tablets will come in two sizes – 7-inches (800×480) and 10-inches (1024×600) and will run on Android 2.2 OS. Barring the physical dimensions, both tablets have same specs like Bluetooth 2.1 with apt-X and A2DP support, [...]

  Opera Mini has played a very important role in the success of Opera Software. The Norwegian company has now announced that this nifty little browser – responsible to improve browsing experience on feature phones – has surpassed 100 million monthly users. This means more than 100m users used the Opera Mini browser on their [...]

  HTC continues to expand its Android range in India and it’s the Desire S that has got the official acknowledgement. Just like the new range of HTC Androids, Desire S too boasts a unibody design and comes with some interesting features like Android 2.3 OS, 1GHz Snapdragon MSM8255 CPU and an all-new HTC Sense [...]

  The uncertainty about Galaxy S II’s delayed launch has finally been put to rest. Samsung Tomorrow, official Twitter account of Samsung Electronics Korea confirmed that Galaxy S II will be launched in April itself, refuting yesterday’s claim from Samsung Mobile India. Unfortunately, Samsung didn’t say which country will be the first recipient of their [...]

  Professionals looking for a proper graphics solution to deal with CAD/CAM applications can take a look at the new Nvidia Quadro 400 GPU. Priced at a modest Rs.10,140, the new professional GPU claims to be 5X faster than high-end gaming-centric graphic cards and has a 10X improvement while running CAD apps. Coming with 512MB [...]

  As you can figure out from the heading, there’s some good news and bad news for those waiting for Galaxy S II. Good news is that Samsung has decided to bump the processor speed of its upcoming flagship to 1.2GHz. The reasoning behind this decision is unknown but a logical guess would be to [...]

  Xperia acro that was leaked yesterday has apparently got an image to its name. The image was unearthed by a Japanese site who says the phone is codenamed as Azusa or SO-02C for NTT DoCoMo. The phone is said to be an improved version of Xperia arc, which is why the phone looks very [...]

  There’s a fair chance that HTC’s event on April 12 will announce the oft-rumored Pyramid phone. However, there will be a slight change in the name, according to a Pocket-lint source. Apparently, the phone will be known as Sensation when it comes to the Blighty, which if true, will be the same moniker for [...]

  At the launch of Optimus 2X and Optimus Black yesterday, LG executive Vishal Chopra also confirmed about the upcoming launch of its 3D Android-based tablet Optimus Pad. LG is expecting to launch the tablet in June that will compete with Samsung’s Galaxy Tab and Apple iPad. Mr. Chopra didn’t divulge the price of tablet [...]

  Toshiba today announced the development of a new NAND chip that can be integrated in upcoming audio players, tablet PCs and other devices that require high-density, non-volatile memory. Dubbed as SmartNAND, the package is based on 24nm process NAND flash chips and comes with a control chip supporting error correction code (ECC) that helps [...]

  The images you’re looking at are allegedly of the upcoming iPod touch. The veracity of the images remains an obvious question but the person who sent these images to Macrumor claims this device is indeed the 5th generation iPod touch. The device is marked at DVT-1 and sports a capacitive home button and 128GB [...]

  First dual-core smartphone has reached India and it comes by way of LG. LG just announced the Optimus 2X – a dual-core Tegra 2-toting smartphone and considering the price of other Android smartphones, I would say its priced competitively. For an asking price of Rs.30,000 a user gets an Android 2.2 running phone (upgradeable [...]

  Companies can’t really save themselves from eagle-eyed readers. One such reader spotted a reference to Sony Ericsson’s acro phone on SE’s Japanese website. The acro goes with two different model numbers which means the SO-02C is meant for the NTT DoCoMo network whereas the IS11S is for KDDI. As for the specs, acro will [...]

  Nikon has announced a new mid-range DSLR that brings in impressive editing features with good picture and video quality. On the still photography side, the 16.2 megapixel D5100 is equipped with DX-format CMOS sensor, EXPEED 2 image processing engine that helps to take perfect pictures, an 11-point AF system that tracks fast moving objects, [...]