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Apple announced that the IOS 5 would be made freely available to iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad 2, iPad, iPod touch (fourth generation) and iPod touch (third generation) from October 12. For a brief look of feature improvements of IOS 5, please click here.

  What started as an attempt to give music aficionados and iPod lovers a way to enjoy music and video on a large touchscreen-enabled device has now transformed into multi-functional one. iPod touch in its third year, now efficiently works as a PMP, a gaming console and supposedly for many, a small tablet computer. The [...]

  Fifth gen iPod Nano and third gen iPod touch were announced last week and the iFixit folks quickly took to their beloved task – to dissect (or rather teardown) to reveal the innards of these babies. As for iPod Nano, Apple has crammed the new hardware in the same chassis as before with camera [...]

  Apple product price cuts generally happen after an official announcement but it’s surprising that US Apple Store has quietly reduced the price of iPod Nano, Classic and Touch range. The Nano now starts at $129 from the earlier $149, Classic now going for $229 (original was $249) and Touch starts with $189 which was [...]

  HTC set the standard last year when they launched Touch HD that boasted a rich hardware set like wide 3.8-inch touchscreen, HSDPA, 5MP camera, GPS and Wi-Fi but Windows Mobile 6.1 seemed to undermine these things. Now a Register Hardware source chimes in to say that HTC is ready to unveil the Touch HD [...]

  HTC announced two sexy upgrades, Touch Pro 2 and Touch Diamond 2 to their successful Touch Pro and Touch Diamond. Touch Pro 2 looks like a massive overhaul over its predecessor that features a vivid 3.6-inch WVGA screen, tilt-able screen and a touch sensitive zoom bar on the front. It also has Straight Talk [...]

  UPDATE: Xperia X1 ROM is available for download. Hit the Xperia link below. Alright, this is not official. ROM cookers at XDA-Developers are working hard to port Windows Mobile 6.5 (build 5.2.21159) on different devices and few notable ones are Touch HD and Xperia X1. The Touch HD version is known Davideuck_6.5_V-2 and according [...]

  Please welcome another member in the Touch family, the Touch Cruise. Oh yes, it is the Iolite which made an appearance earlier this month. HTC says the new Touch Cruise upgrades their 2008’s GPS offering which also goes by the same name. What’s so special about this phone? Well, the footprint button or rather [...]

  This is what we have been waiting for! HTC has finally announced the beast from the Touch family to please the Indians. It has all the qualities for your mobile entertainment needs like a huge 3.8-inch touchscreen with WVGA resolution (480X800 pixels), music player, 3.5mm audio jack and a 5-megapixel camera with autofocus. However, [...]

  Touch HD looks like a dream for now but HTC is heading in the right direction by launching Touch 3G from the Touch family. Instead of tying up with a cellular operator, HTC will sell the phone in the open market carrying a price of Rs. 28,450 ($573). No changes on the feature front [...]

  So you thought iPod Touch was just a cellular radio-less version of the iPhone? Well, this may sound true for the first 1st gen iPod Touch, but the case is a bit different with the successor. Handheld Games Corp’s CEO, Thomas Fessler claims that the iPod Touch 2G houses a 532MHz processor as compared [...]

  Google has announced the availability of Google Earth for iPhone/iPod Touch users. The software is more or less like the desktop version and benefits a lot from its intuitive multi touch. The globe rotates with just a finger flick, pinch or double tap to zoom in and two fingers to zoom out. There’s also [...]

  HTC unveiled the Ice White version of Touch Diamond. Touch Diamond is a fingerprint magnet and the black hue made it more visible. Under the hood, it is the same thing as its black sibling but being white in color would mean less smudges seen. Specifications: Processor: Qualcomm® MSM 7201A™ 528 MHz Operating System: [...]

  Milking on the Touch brand, HTC announces three new phones under the Touch family. The Touch HD has a humongous 3.8-inch widescreen supporting VGA resolution (480 x 800 pixels) and a 3.5mm audio jack. The phone is targeted at multimedia enthusiasts and runs Windows Mobile 6.1 OS with TouchFlo 3D gracing the home screen. [...]

  Alright, before you get excite with HD making its presence in the name, let me spoil your excitement because this one’s not Hi-Definition ready yet. However, it is a nice upgrade to HTC’s existing Touch Diamond. A poster at Modaco forums leaked the pictures of this phone with a screenshot of the device information. [...]