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  According to a report on Bloomberg, Samsung is tipped to beat Nokia and Apple in terms of smartphone sales for Q2 2011. The report cites research company, Strategy Analytics who reckons Samsung has a very bright chance to beat the two of top companies ruling the smartphone market. Samsung is estimated to sell around [...]

  Opera just launched its Opera Mini 6 and Opera Mobile 11 browser for mobile devices. It’s a major launch for Opera as both the browsers are now available for almost all mobile platforms including Symbian, Java/J2ME, Blackberry, Android, MeeGo and Windows 7 tablets. Opera has managed to make the new browsers faster and smoother [...]

  Samsung who were non-existent in the smartphone race till 2009 jumped into the race in 2010 with their Galaxy S range of devices. Now the company is confident than before and claims they can sell 60m smartphones in 2011 alone. At the CES, JK Shin told reporters that they’re looking to sell 60m smartphones [...]

  Sharp who recently launched its phones for the Indian market will bring 3D smartphones by next year. Sharp has confirmed smartphones that don’t require special 3D glasses will be sold in the United States, China and India in 2011. While we don’t have details on the upcoming phones, we can expect 3D phones similar [...]

  Mobile VoIP service, Fring now allows iPhone and iPod Touch users to carry out video calling over Wi-Fi, albeit with a catch. Since both these devices don’t have a front facing camera, users will only be able to receive the video stream and not send it. Nonetheless, it’s a first for Apple devices. On [...]

  Really HTC, it was not necessary for you to iterate what you had said before but nonetheless, here it is. HTC today confirmed the tentative release dates of one of the hottest WinMo phones for different markets except Europe, where it is already selling. HTC’s home market will get it in the middle of [...]

  As we had expected, Acer has officially entered the smartphone arena in India with 5 phones from the Tempo Series to compete with the likes of Nokia, Blackberry etc. The phones unveiled at the presser yesterday were Acer DX900, DX650, X960, F900 and M900, all of them powered by Windows Mobile 6.1 Pro. DX900 [...]

  Thanks to Verizon-RIM’s BOGOF promotion, Blackberry Curve has zoomed past Apple’s iPhone. The report released by NPD Group makes Curve the undisputed king in the US smartphone market for Q1 2009. RIM managed to snag a good 15 percent of the smartphone market while Apple and Palm lost 10 percent of it. The top [...]

  It seems Nokia is unable to keep their phones under cover. Another phone alleged to be E63 leaks out at the Symbian Smartphone Show for us to ogle. The phone is a smaller sibling of E71 with lower specs which makes us to believe that it will be cheaper than the former. The classy [...]

  HTC just announced a new smartphone, S740 based on Touch Diamond/Pro design. HTC wants to tap in the smartphone market and thus dishes out a rather tried and tested sleek, slender design of Touch Diamond. The S740 has a conventional number keypad on the front with the QWERTY hidden beneath it. The phone has [...]

  HTC announces P3350 in an already crowded Windows based phone market. Music is the core of this device so the phone comes with something called as Audio Booster, the same Audio Manager we find in other HTC phones and FM Radio. Unique things present in this phone is a 360-degree scroll wheel and an [...]

  Samsung announces a new phone dubbed as Omnia or SGH-i900 which tries to compete with…you guessed it right…the iPhone. There is a large 3.2-inch touchscreen WQVGA display which uses haptic feedback, has got GPS, a 5 megapixel shooter, DivX and many more. The phone runs on WinMo 6.1 Professional OS which makes it effective [...]

  Asus spurts out yet another smartphone in the Indian market. This time its M930 which more or less looks like E90 but runs WinMo 6 Standard edition. The phone bundles with pre-installed business applications from Asus. It will retail for Rs. 27,500. Full specifications after the jump.

  If HTC Touch Diamond mesmerized you but that hidden feeling of ‘wished it had a keyboard’ contained you from buying it then behold the new Touch Pro which fulfills your secret desire. It features a full QWERTY slide out keyboard, a crisp 2.8-inch VGA touchscreen display, mammoth 8 hours of talk time , 3.2 [...]

  With the plethora of products being launched at Computex, E-TEN is another company joining the bandwagon and launching four Glofiish smartphones. First in the line is V900 which targets the TV viewing audience. It integrates T-DMB and DVB-T/H for TV on the go and boasts a VGA screen. Next in the line is DX900 [...]