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  Samsung has announce a new naming strategy for their Galaxy smartphones. Going forward, the Galaxy range of smartphones will be segregated in five different categories — “S” or Super Smart that will be the flagship Galaxy device, “R” (Royal) which will be a tad lower than the flagship phone, “W” (Wonder) that will be [...]

  We did see this was coming but didn’t expect it to come so early. Steve Jobs has announced to resign as a CEO of Apple Inc. Jobs says its his inabilities to meet his duties and expectation as Apple’s CEO, the reason for the resignation. Effectively immediately, Tim Cook will assume the position of [...]

  Nokia also announced three mid-range phones powered by Symbian Belle. First up is Nokia 600 which is touted to be the loudest smartphone to day. The phone features loudspeakers that reaches up to 106 phon and comes with an FM Transmitter or FM radio with internal antenna. On the hardware front, the Nokia 600 [...]

  Nokia at an event in Hong Kong announced the next version of Symbian OS. Symbian Belle will take over from Symbian Anna later this year and will bring lots of new features and UI improvements. As evident from the screenshots, Belle has been made to be more touch-friendly and will sport subtle UI improvements [...]

  Owning a shiny and expensive DSLR is not the only thing you need for perfect pictures. A memory card is equally important to allow faster processing so that you don’t miss that perfect shot. Today we take a look at SanDisk’s newest memory card that promises excellent read/write speed and see if its worth [...]

  Lenovo’s busines-class ThinkPad tablets are now on sale in United States. The Android-based tablet starts from $499 that brings lots of business-centric features like business apps support, full VPN support and enhanced security. On the hardware front, the Honeycomb 3.1 running tablet features a 10.1-inch screen Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, SD card slot, USB port and [...]

  LG has announced an interesting product that will make scanning documents a swipe of the mouse. Literally. LG has developed LSM-100 mouse which integrates scanning functionality. With the built-in Smart Scan button on the mouse, a user just have to press it and swipe across the page to start scanning. The scanned image can [...]

  Apple is apparently developing a new iPhone 4 with lower storage memory. According to couple of Reuters sources, Apple suppliers have started manufacturing an 8GB iPhone 4 with a Korean company, presumably Samsung, manufacturing the said 8GB flash chips. The decision for a lower capacity iPhone 4 is because Apple wants to reach more [...]

  RIM has updated its affordable Curve lineup with three new handsets — 9350/9360/9370. These are the first Curve Series phones that will run on BlackBerry 7 OS, giving users the benefit of an improved user interface, browser, updated BlackBerry Messenger, Social Feeds and more. On the hardware front, the new phones feature NFC, GPS, [...]

  Razer is teasing us with a new site that claims PC gaming is far from dead. The site as well as an open letter published today in the Wall Street Journal says console gaming cannot take over PC gaming and the death of one of the oldest gaming platform is “greatly exaggerated.” We don’t [...]

  We’ve already seen it in live pictures and LG has now officially acknowledged the Optimus Sol smartphone (E730). Optimus Sol might not be a fight to the current breed of high-end smartphones but Optimus Sol sits well in the mid-range price segment. The 9.8mm thick phone runs Android 2.3 OS and sports a 3.8-inch [...]

  Apple has just released a new beta version of iOS 5. It is the sixth beta and follows Apple’s fortnightly schedule of new betas. New features and improvements are unknown at the moment but developers can quickly head to the Apple developer site to download. In addition to the new iOS beta, Apple has [...]

  Following a price drop in North America and European region, Sony has also reduced the PS3 price in India. Indian consumers will now be able to buy the 160GB PS3 for a price of Rs. 16,990, which is a 15 percent discount from the original price. The 320GB PS3 SKU with Move has also [...]

  It’s gaming season all around, thanks to the ongoing Gamescom in Germany. Samsung’s German outfit too cashed on the opportunity by unveiling the very first gaming laptop. The 17.3-inch Series 7 laptop is packed with some serious hardware like quad-core Core i7 processor, AMD Radeon HD 6970M GPU with 2GB DDR5 memory expandable up [...]

  Creative has launched a new line of headsets in India targeted at gamers. The line consists of Aplha, Sigma and Omega wireless headsets and are equipped with THX TruStudio Pro audio technology that users advanced algorithms to recreate sound, allowing gamers to hear voices and sound with clarity. All the headsets come with high-resolution [...]