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  Sony’s plan to unveil the PSP2 at an event in Japan on January 27 could turn out to be true. Bloomberg has published a report that cites their two sources claiming to reveal the updated gaming console on January 27 in Japan whereas the oft-leaked PlayStation Phone in February at the Mobile World Congress. [...]

  Joining the long list of speculations about Apple devices is that Apple might integrate a new A4 chip. AppleInsider is citing their source who claims that the next A4 System-on-Chip (SoC) will use SGX543 graphics that gives double the processing power at the A4′s current GPU clock speed. Moreover, the graphics on the SoC [...]

  Sony is looking to give the first glimpse on its upcoming PSP2 handheld console if the latest report is to be believed. VG247 claims that Sony is holding a “business overview and strategy meeting” in Tokyo on January 27 and “very select press” is invited where they’ll get a look at the PSP2. PSP2 [...]

  Latest report from Japan indicates that DSi might be counting its last days. According to the article, Nintendo has apparently stopped manufacturing the camera-equipped DSi and is currently sold out in most locations in Japan. However, the DSi XL (or DSi LL) is still in production and the supposed reason to stop selling the [...]

  Wall Street Journal has an impeccable record when it comes to predicting Apple rumors and now they’re claiming that Verizon is really close to launch the iPhone in the US. According to their sources, Verizon will unveil the iPhone on Tuesday, ending AT&T’s exclusivity since iPhone’s launch. However, it is unclear when the phone [...]

  The latest edition of Verizon iPhone rumor comes from Bloomberg who claims that we won’t see the CDMA iPhone next week at the CES. Instead according to their source who is acquainted with the plans says the phone will be out before Valentine’s Day. The article also says that although AT&T will lose exclusivity [...]

  One thing that has kept Microsoft out of the tablet race is the uptake of its operating system. In order to give a full PC experience, manufacturers were forced to adopt Intel or AMD CPUs for their devices but compromise on the device’s battery life, which is a big factor while considering a tablet. [...]

  HP will fulfill its promise of unveiling a tablet running webOS operating system. FoxNews.com who claims to have obtained specs sheet of upcoming PalmPad says that HP will reveal three PalmPad tablets at the CES early next month. The tablets will be based on webOS 2.5.1, run on Sprint’s 4G network and will have [...]

  Microsoft’s Windows OS may be down in the tablet arena but that is going to change from next month, if NYTimes latest report is to be believed. The paper’s source claims that Steve Ballmer will unveil few Windows-based tablets when he’ll take the stage at CES in January. Amongst various devices, Ballmer will show [...]

  Samsung is apparently working on a Windows-based tablet. According to the sources who spoke to Blogeee, Samsung is preparing a 10-inch tablet PC dubbed as Gloria that runs on Windows 7 OS. What’s more interesting is that the tablet is rumored to have a sliding QWERTY keyboard. The site claims that we can expect [...]

  A phone found in a bar is infamously associated with the iPhone 4 leak but if this device is anywhere close to being legitimate, we might soon be cracking bar jokes on this Nokia phone as well. Apparently, a prototype of Nokia’s “N00” phone was recently found in a bar and is put up [...]

  If the latest rumors are any indication, the upcoming CES could be a show dominated with Google TVs. According to Reuter’s sources, Toshiba and Vizio are also planning to unveil their Google TV sets. The web-enabled television sets are expected to be unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in January but is still unconfirmed [...]

  We’re not sure about the veracity of this document but apparently Sony has been sending press invites about a mysterious PlayStation-related event. The event is scheduled to take place on December 9 and reads as “the most awaited event of the past 10 years.” The event could very well be about Sony’s rumored PlayStation [...]

  The Glassgate issue that was reported a month back seems to haunt Apple again. CultofMac is claiming that Apple retail stores have suspended sales of iPhone 4 slide-on covers citing concerns about dirt, scratches and cracks. The news is yet to be confirmed by Apple but the site claims to have spoken to few [...]

  Apparently, we’ve got one of the first phones confirmed to run Google’s Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) OS. According to a tweet from Open Handset Alliance official Alvaro Fuentes Vasquez, Google will release an over-the-air update of Android 2.3 to Nexus One users using the developer version. The translated tweet reads “Prepare your Nexus One (Developer [...]