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  Dutch navigation company, TomTom today announced a partnership with HTC for their smartphones in India. Under the partnership, TomTom will provide maps, points of interest and turn-by-turn navigation to HTC for their smartphones in India. This is a first consumer focused partnership for TomTom in India and needless to say, they’re excited to serve [...]

  Sony today announced the availability of its handheld console, PlayStation Vita in India. The PSP successor will sell in India for Rs. 19,990 (Wi-Fi) and Rs. 24,990 (Wi-Fi+3G). On the hardware front, Vita packs some serious power that includes a quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor, PowerVR SGX543MP4+ GPU, 5-inch touchscreen OLED display, rear touchpad, front [...]

  Samsung today dropped a pair of Ultrabooks for the Indian market. The Series 5 ultrabooks are now available in India with display size options of 13-inch and 14-inch. For the uninitiated, ultrabook is superior to the low-cost netbook and are portable and powerful enough to get the work done. The 17.6mm thin notebooks come [...]

  Acer has expanded its netbook lineup in India with the new Aspire One D270. Unique thing about this new netbook is that it is powered by Intel’s Cedar Trail Atom chip, which is a dual-core processor clocked at 1.6GHz. Coming in a variety of colors along and the signature water droplet ripple effect on [...]

  Indian computer maker, Wipro Infotech has announced their entry in the ultrabook market with the new e.go Aero. Wipro claims e.go Aero to be one of the slimmest and lightest ultrabooks in the market that boasts a thickness of 19.3mm and weighs about 1.7kg. The 14-inch e.go Aero Ultra comes with a choice of [...]

  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 [...]

  Samsung today barraged the Indian market with four dual-SIM phones, including three Android devices. First is the Galaxy Ace Plus (SCH-i589) that gives users an option to use GSM or CDMA simultaneously. As far as other specs goes, Galaxy Ace Plus is pretty much the same as the original Ace which includes Android 2.3 [...]

  HP has expanded its notebook range in India with the new ENVY15. It’s a power packed notebook which according to HP “marries performance and advanced technologies with precision craftsmanship, while allowing for the touch of luxury.” ENVY15 boasts a clean design clad in full metallic body with rounded edges and comes with a meaty [...]

  Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 2 may lure you with a cheap price tag and Android 4.0 onboard but if you’re looking for a high-end Samsung tablet, Galaxy Tab 680 is the way to go. For the uninitiated, Galaxy Tab 680 is Galaxy Tab 7.7 known elsewhere and is available in India for a price of [...]

  Sony promised to launch the 3G variant of its first Android tablet in a few weeks after the launch of its Wi-Fi-only variant and it seems they’ve delivered on that front. The 3G variant of its Tablet S is now available in the Indian market for around Rs. 34,000. The launch of the 3G [...]

  Samsung has expanded its dual-SIM lineup with the new Champ Deluxe Duos. It’s an entry-level touchscreen phone that is light on the pocket yet gives functionality comparable to smartphones like surfing the web, quick access to social networks et al. The phone also comes pre-loaded with Samsung’s own ChatON messaging service which is a [...]

  Sony India has expanded its Bravia lineup with a 65-incher – HX925 LED TV. It is the biggest LED TV by Sony in its Bravia lineup that promises to give the best picture quality thanks to the X-Reality PRO Engine, Intelligent Peak LED and Motionflow technology. X-Reality PRO analyses each scene pixel-by-pixel and optimizes [...]

India court has warned Internet giants, Google and Facebook to remove offensive content or the sites will be blocked like it is in China. This warning is as a result of a filing of case against them by a private petitioner in a lower court case. The hearing on this will be taking place at [...]

  There’s no doubt that e-commerce in India is on the rise, which is why Nokia India has announced their dedicated Nokia store for Indian consumers. Nokia says consumers will be able to buy genuine Nokia phones and accessories directly on the store. Although a good initiative by Finnish giant, biggest caveat we found was [...]

  Western Digital has started shipping its high-capacity 2.5-inch HDD line for notebooks in India. The 9.5mm WD Scorpio Blue HDD boasts a storage capacity of 1TB that utilizes two 500GB-platter form factor. WD says that its Scorpio Blue line of HDDs are designed to consume very less power and is coupled with WD’s WhisperDrive [...]