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  Whenever at vacation, I carry a smartphone, PSP, iPod, a digital camera, charging cables, spare mobile phone and camera batteries and a portable hard drive. All this stuffed in a compartment of a laptop backpack that makes me struggle to find the required gadget when needed. However, my woes came to end when I [...]

  The Communicator and Eseries lineup has been instrumental in Nokia’s success. The range targeted executives who needed a phone that oozed professional looks, gave the ease of a QWERTY keyboard to type mails and of course business tools that allows users to do their work on the go. The latest entrant in Nokia’s business [...]

  It’s no secret that Apple revived the almost-dead tablet market. The iPad changed the whole perception of how manufacturers were developing the tablet and how consumers looked at it. Needless to say, iPad was a huge success and although it came about a year-late in the Indian market, Apple amended it by launching the [...]

  With mobile internet catching up, more and more people are now going in for handsets that support all sorts of apps, from online to offline. Thanks to Android OS from Google, everyone is trying to manufacture phones powered by it. This has given way to affordable smartphones. An Android phone with an affordable price [...]

  After the 5-inch Dell Streak, the device that is too uncomfortable to make calls and too small to call itself a tablet, Dell comes up with a “proper” smartphone powered by Android 2.2 OS (Froyo) labeled as Venue. Dell has handful of devices in India powered by Android, which includes the 5-inch Dell Streak, [...]

  Photo printers are now an essential accessory for a home user. With camera phones, featuring huge megapixels and influx of digital cameras coupled with these hi-res photo printers, it is now possible to get lab-like prints from your desktop. Epson, one of the leaders in quality photo printing offers the fastest All-in-one (AIO) colour [...]

  Netbooks were a rage couple of years back. Compact, portable, similar to a full-fledged notebook and most of all cheap. Now fast forward to this year, although the growth of netbooks has slowed down, there is still a market for the form factor for those who wants a decent computer experience on-the-go without spending [...]

  Want to know if Google’s latest Nexus device is worth the spend or not? Head over to our other site, Samsung Hub where they’ve managed to get their hands on the device and take it for a spin. Nexus S is the first device to Android 2.3 and is one of the best devices [...]

  Symantec is back with its yearly update of Norton 360, which is Symantec’s answer for an all-round protection. It not only promises to protect from virus and infectious malware, the all-in-one security solution will help users backup their data as well optimize their computers to keep it running as smooth as possible. The latest [...]

  Epson’s offering to the business world, the B510DN is a colour inkjet printer that has low cost page per print like the laser printers. The B510DN is huge than a conventional inkjet Multifunction device (MFD), nearly the size of a laser printer. Hence, make sure to allocate some good real estate to the printer [...]

  Direct to Home (DTH) services have come a long way in India. With so many operators to choose from, so many channel packs to select, it at times becomes very difficult to judge the best fit. The DTH advantage over conventional analog cable television line is that it offers digital picture quality and watching [...]

  Dell is predominantly a computer-making company but has evolved to become a complete mobile device manufacturer with the entry in the tablet and a re-entry mobile phone market in the past couple of years. Dell entered the tablet arena to cash in on the demand generated by Apple’s iPad with its 5-inch Streak tablet. [...]

  RIM upgraded its Bold line with an all new Bold 9780. At first glance, you’d miss the Bold 9780 as the Bold 9700 but it comes with one major difference – the Blackberry OS 6. The new Bold 9780 comes with RIM’s new eye pleasing OS, making it first the non-touchscreen Blackberry phone to [...]

  From DVD players, Home Theatres to Blu-ray players, entertainment has taken a leap from one form to another. In fact, people even watch movies on their PCs. We don’t mind to sacrifice the sheer pleasure of watching our favourites on our Full HD LCD TVs probably for the reason that we don’t want to [...]

  Phones have become an integral part of our lives. No matter wherever we go or whatever we do a phone is something we’ll have in our pocket. Needless to say, these prized possessions are also subject to a lot of abuse like accidental drops, scratching against objects in pockets etc. and it becomes necessary [...]