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  Meizu has announced an upgrade to its Meizu MX phone. The new Meizu MX slated to hit in June will now feature a quad-core processor. The Meizu MX Quad-core is in fact the world’s first smartphone to use a quad-core Exynos processor, which is produced by Samsung. With the new processor, the phone boasts [...]

  Microsoft has launched a new Kinect sports value bundle for the Indian market. The new Xbox 360 bundle comes with a white 4GB Xbox console, Kinect sensor and two games – Kinect Adventures and Kinect Sports and three months subscription of Xbox Live Gold. Its priced at Rs. 24,990. Kinect for the uninitiated, makes [...]

  Google co-brands with manufacturers to market and sell Nexus phones and it seems they’ll adopt a similar strategy for their tablets as well. According to Wall Street Journal’s sources, the company will start selling co-branded tablets on their online store. The article also says that until the Motorola deal is approved, Google won’t produce [...]

  It has been rumored for years but it seems Google’s fabled storage service will come out for real next month. Dubbed as GDrive, GigaOM’s source claims the service will go live in the first week of April. As for the free storage, Google is rumored to give 1GB of space compared to Dropbox’s 2GB [...]

  Archos has introduced a new tablet that goes for a very young crowd. We’re talking about the kids of course! Archos has revealed an aptly named Child Pad that tries to lure kids with jazzy software UI and apps. The tablet comes with a Kids App Store that allows to download child-suitable apps and [...]

  Is 3.6-inch and 4-inch display size small for you and 5-inch a little big? Well, Samsung has announced a new PMP that boasts a display size of 4.2-inches with resolution support of 800×480 pixels (WVGA). Interestingly, the PMP has an IPS panel, which apparently is the first time Samsung has used in its Galaxy [...]

HTC at Mobile World Congress yesterday unveiled their new range of Android smartphones. The new range is known as One Series that emphasizes on a refreshing design along with improved camera and audio experience. The new phones now have ImageSense technology that is a result of the custom designed ImageChip. With ImageSense, phones will be [...]

  Looks like cloud storage war is getting big in the Android arena. After Box.net announced to give away 50GB of free storage, Dropbox today released an update to its app that adds a new feature and a way to earn up to 3GB of extra space. The app now features automatic photo upload feature [...]

  If you had any doubts on Samsung’s supremacy in the Android arena perhaps this little figure released by Samsung today would suffice your apprehension. The Korean giant has announced that its Galaxy S II phone has surpassed sales of 20 million units in just 10 months of its launch. Although the numbers reflect the [...]

  Tegra 3 has four main cores that drive all the processing power but Nvidia recently confirmed to have added another core that allows the device to carry-out less performance intensive tasks while maintaining the device’s battery life. While it was referred to as a companion or a ninja core back then, Nvidia has decided [...]

  Continuing the unveilings prior to Mobile World Congress, LG has dropped three new devices under the new L-Style range. LG says the L-Style range will sport a “timeless design” that will differentiate itself from the rest of the competition. L-Style design concentrates on five aesthetic features – Modern Square Style that gives a comfortable [...]

  SanDisk has launched its Extreme line of SSDs in the Indian market. Touted to be 10 times faster than a 7,200RPM HDD, the SanDisk Extreme SSD delivers up to 83,000 of maximum random write Input-Output Operations Per Second (IOPS) and up to 44,000 random read IOPS achieving a sequential read/write speeds of 550/520 megabytes [...]

  If there is anything we can be certain of, LG Electronics will put together a strong show at MWC. After confirming the Optimus Vu yesterday, LG has announced the Optimus LTE Tag. The Optimus LTE Tag takes over from LG’s first Optimus LTE phone and adds Near Field Communication (NFC) support. The phone uses [...]

  What do you do when you have something you won’t use but knows someone else will? You give it to them, of course! HP did a similar thing today by releasing more source code related to webOS. They’ve released the code of Isis webOS browser which is a work in progress based on technologies [...]

  Google’s Chrome team has had a busy week. First was the release of the Android-based Chrome browser and now they’ve updated their desktop version to make it better than before. Version 17 is now available in the stable channel and enables faster browsing by pre-rendering the most likely to visit web page. As for [...]