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Replacing the iPod, iPod touch or iPhone battery and for that matter even some Macbooks is a pain with there being no option of a removable battery. No matter how good the battery quality and life is, it has to wear out one day and there would always be cases where the battery dies out [...]
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Apple is all set to go live with the iPad sales on 3rd April and the pre-orders have already began last week. It is rumored that the on Day 1 i.e. Friday, Apple received pre-orders for 120,000 iPads. This certainly gives an idea of what to expect on 3rd April (long lines outside Apple Store!) [...]
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Intel has already spilled the beans over Core i5 powered Macbook Pro and fans are eagerly waiting for the official announcement to come in. However just to push the anxiety to another level, here we now see an online store actually listing the Core i5 and Core i7 powered Macbook Pros with availability marked at [...]
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While every eye has been watching App Store closely, the iTunes service form Apple is about to hit a milestone. Sometime today, iTunes is expected to sell its 10 billionth song. Just like the 1 billionth app download contest, Apple is giving away $10000 gift card to the lucky chap who will download the 10 [...]
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HP seems so be going aggressive against the Apple iPad and despite the aggressive iPad pricing by Apple, HP seems to be aiming to do better on the $ front. The HP slate that was unveiled at CES came just days before the iPad and both are naturally seen as competitors. The Slate packs in [...]
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While Opera has shown off the Opera Mini for the iPhone at MWC (no footage though), they also revealed Opera Mobile for Android devices. And here is a video of Opera Mobile in action. We can expect the iPhone app to be similar to this one (video below)
Opera Mini is the browser that [...]
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The battle against iPhone hasn’t been easy for any one. Particularly the established players in the market like Nokia have felt the heat to a large extent, while others like Android & Palm WebOS have done reasonably better. However in a bid to speed up things against the growing crowd in the smartphone arena, Symbian [...]
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FCC has recently cleared a device which appears to be the AT&T version of the Google Nexus One. The only version of the Nexus One available till now is the one compatible with the T-Mobile network which is being sold unlocked by Google. A Verizon and a Vodafone version has been officially promised by Google.
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Geohot who originally hacked the Apple iPhone when he was just 17 has released numerous jailbreak and unlocks for the iPhone / iPod touch recently. And he isn’t stopping at just Apple, while we do expect him to repeat his magic with the Apple tablet this year; George Hotz has actually went ahead and hacked [...]
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Pulling small and funny pranks is not considered a big deal, but what if your prank involved a deadly threat targeting an Apple Store. A 17 years old boy called Jason Barry from New York, decides to pull on a little prank of his own, by posting a threat note on one of Apple’s computer [...]
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Unlike the iPhone there isn’t a mad rush of apps on Palm’s WebOS platform, but we do know that the Palm Pre is powered by a similar capacity CPU/GPU and can handle good enough games. Apps / 3D games are must have essentials for any smartphone platform as of today. The iPhone and Android are [...]
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Motorola Droid is perhaps the most hyped and advertised Android device in US. While reviewers believe that it is still not enough to beat the iPhone 3GS, this would surely help Motorola towards a revival. Amongst the whole lot of Android devices that we have seen the HTC Hero and the Droid stand out as [...]
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Apple tablet rumors are plenty, but this one seems to have convinced many since the source banking on the rumor this time is BGR. Known to leak big ones BGR seems to be 100% sure that Apple is cooking up a 7″ tablet for january launch. Their sources is unsure about the 10″ version which [...]
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Androlib keeps track of the applications available on the Android Market. If the numbers from Androlib are to be believed, Android Market has crossed the mark of 20,000 applications. There is no official confirmation from Google on the number of applications but with 20k apps and strong Android devices it certainly getting difficult for 3GS [...]
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Missing your favourite songs while out swimming? Well not any more! Swimman has this iPod shuffle modded such that it happily survives underwater upto 25ft. For the ones who aren’t too keen on swimming with your shuffle on, how about biking in the rains? or just resistance against sweat or water spills?
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Its been long months and years of rumors claiming a netbook or tablet from Cupertino. While I have dismissed the tablet rumors before as a hype and decided long ago that I would not write about it until something official turns up, this is a interesting bit of news here. Apple has registered the trademark [...]
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We have enjoyed all kinds of emulators and game ROM’s on the iPhone since the v1.0 of the firmware was out and the gaming charm of the iPod touch pretty much proves the potential of mobile handsets doubling as Gaming devices. So it comes as no surprise that Nokia is trying to show off the [...]
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QWERTY keyboards have become an essential feature of the smartphones, be it a solid QWERTY or a virtual one. The introduction of QWERTY has also reduced the use of the T9 predictive typing system. The developers of the T9 predictive system have developed Swype for the new smartphones to make typing easy.
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Call it what you like, an attempt to wash hands on faulty hardware or extra care for its people; the latest news is that Apple is denying servicing Macbooks / iMacs belonging to smokers. They point out that nicotine is a biohazard and servicing systems that were exposed to too much smoke. The official words [...]
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Apple rumors are amazing and it can’t get better. While I decided not to write about the Apple Tablet, until something real or OFFICIAL comes up – this is getting crazy. Every other day I still see something about the Apple Tablet on my Google Reader (guess the latest was something about high end graphics [...]
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Suing Apple for patent infringement is not all that Nokia is doing these days, instead they have this new multi touch technology for which a patent has been files. Fillings reveal the use touchscreens to measure how much pressure the user is applying to the display to suggest different actions. So a hard press on [...]
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