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  Sometime back we reviewed Dell high-end Android offering – Dell Venue. This time we have put together our thoughts on the Venue Pro that runs on Windows Mobile 7. The Venue Pro looks almost identical to the Venue. We bet 9 out of 10 people would not able to differentiate it with its younger [...]

  Sony at an event yesterday showcased its complete VAIO laptop range for the Indian market. Sony sells a whopping 62 variants amongst four VAIO series — S, C, E & Y that are targeted at different set of consumers. For the uninitiated, VAIO Y is targeted at the first-time and budget-minded laptop buyers that [...]

  Rumormongers have been spinning the Amazon tablet rumors for quite some time and now Wall Street Journal has done a piece revealing more info on the upcoming tablet. The article notes that Amazon is looking to launch a 9-inch tablet based on Android OS in October. Surprisingly, this version of Amazon tablet won’t be [...]

  Just like Amazon did for their Wi-Fi-only Kindle model, they’ve reduced the price of the entry-level Kindle 3G, but with a catch. The new Kindle 3G with Special Offers can save an extra $50 if you’re willing to watch few ads and screensavers on the Kindle 3G, which can be suited to your tastes [...]

  Google has overhauled its Android Market that claims to make app discovery easier. With the new interface (reminiscent to Windows Phone 7’s Tile interface), users can quickly search and download new apps, games and books. While the new Market will be rolled out globally, American consumers will get two exclusive features like renting movies [...]

  Microsoft confirmed the swirling rumors of Galaxy S II-like WP7 phone by unveiling the device themselves. Microsoft executive Steve Guggenheimer flaunted the new device in his keynote saying it will be a light and thin phone, which clearly resembles Samsung’s current Android frontrunner Galaxy S II. Although he didn’t mention any intrinsic details of [...]

  Apple released the new iOS 5 beta yesterday and it took just a few hours before the build was jailbroken. Users using the iOS 5 beta 3 can now jailbreak their device using the Snowbreeze update that offers an untethered jailbreaking experience to iPhone 3GS users with older bootroms. iPhone 3GS with newer bootroms [...]

  Acer has refreshed its TimelineX lineup notebook with an improved design, new processors and features. Powering the 5830T and 5830TG notebooks are choices of Core i3 and Core i5 processors and 4GB of RAM. The 15.6-inch notebooks comes with an HD Widescreen CineCrystal LED-backlit display, Nvidia GeForce GT 540M GPU, 500GB HDD, Bluetooth 3.0 [...]

  Looks like we’ll see an emergence of portrait QWERTY phones running Android OS. To combat the Blackberry and other Android devices like Samsung Galaxy Pro, LG has announced an affordable Optimus Pro C660. In addition to the contoured four-row keyboard, the phone runs on the latest version of Android OS aka Gingerbread. Additionally, the [...]

  Americans have a new e-book reader option to choose from – the iriver Story HD. Uniqueness of this product is the tight integration with Google’s open eBooks platform that will allow users to buy over thousands of books or read over 3 million Google eBooks for free. iriver HD is a lightweight e-book reader [...]

  HTC today confirmed the timeframe as to when users can expect the phones with unlocked bootloaders. The bootloader unlocking for the global variant of Sensation will begin in August which will be followed by Sensation 4G for T-Mobile USA and EVO 3D on Sprint. HTC says the unlocking capability is under a “testing phase” [...]

  A new firmware update for Galaxy S II has been unearthed by its users. Unlike previous leaks, the XXKG1 build is one of the biggest Gingerbread updates as it upgrade the phone firmware to Android 2.3.4. In addition to the video chatting capability in GTalk, the firmware also adds other improvements like no home [...]

  Portable 3G modem market can be segregated with 3G USB dongles that can share connection with a single computer or a MiFi that creates a Wi-Fi wireless hotspot that can be shared with more than one PC. But what if we get the best of both worlds? D-Link is trying to do just that [...]

  The upgraded iPad 2 rumor is gaining traction. Now website, This is my next claim iPad 2 with higher resolution is indeed coming. Interestingly, the new iPad 2 won’t be known as iPad 2 Plus but will be christened as iPad HD. The device will have double the resolution (2048×1536 pixels) and will be [...]

  Apple’s App Store today surpassed yet another milestone validating its numero uno status in the world of application stores. The App Store which is available in more than 90 countries has clocked over 15 billion app downloads by more than 200 million iPod touch, iPhone and iPad devices. Such a large number of downloads [...]