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Rumor has it that Google is working on a new version of Nexus One designed specially for the developing markets like India. The Indianised Nexus One would be a scaled down version of the phone. Although it would not be power-packed, but less features obviously mean lower prices!!!
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An interesting Apple patent that makes me feel – ‘wow, this is something I so so need’. Imagine having a visitor at your door when you are just 5 mins away from home? or even better, being outside your own house without the keys and waiting for your spouse to return from the market [...]
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That time of the week when analyst predictions comes in to please us
The latest word from the analyst stable is that Apple will beat RIM in the samartphone marketshare sometime in 2011. iPhone has been a superhit ever since it was introduced in 2007 and it still remains a white horse for [...]
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Multiple iPad rumors are out today and we are stitching together the speculations. As rumored the iPad would go hands-on with the retail staff on 10th March as said by a California Apple store manager. I have heard from at least one game publishing co. that they expect to get it hands on during the [...]
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iPhone is undoubtedly a revolutionary phone and Steve Jobs claimed in 2007 launch that its patented. Given the number of Patents these corporations file on a daily basis, it isn’t a surprise that Apple is suing HTC for 20 iPhone related patents. What will follow in the coming months is certainly a long drawn messy [...]
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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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Samsung has just gone official with the S8500 aka Wave and it expects to create waves across the smartphone industry with the new Bada OS powering the smartphone lineup. Samsung has done very well selling the Star and the Corby. In 2009 they perhaps sold more touchscreen phones than any other smartphone maker did. With [...]
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While the iPad is all ready to be shipped across in the US by March end one of its strongest competitors viz, Notion Inks’ ADAM is pulling up its socks for a showdown with with the worlds best in innovation to be officially announced and unveiled at the Mobile World Conference (MWC) next week.
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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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Apple is no new to patent disputes and crazy lawsuits and here is one of the first lawsuits concerning Cupertino’s latest release – the iPad. A Chinese firm Shenzhen Great Long Brother Industrial Co. is suing Apple for the iPad design, which they claim is patented by them back in May 2009. According to the [...]
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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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Nokia and Apple are fighting over patents and the cat fight has already made headlines in the past few weeks. It began with Nokia suing Apple for infringing 10 of its patents in all 3 iPhone models and Apple responded with its own lawsuit against Nokia. Nokia later filed a complaint with the International Trade [...]
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iPhone users who are frustrated due to the lack of flash in iPhone’s browser, are in for a nice surprise. An open source project called Gordon , is a Flash™ runtime written in pure JavaScript that can be used by iPhone’s own Safari.
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The famous iPhone application and website Fandango, which allows you to purchase theater tickets online, is getting ready to release a new major feature that will be a replacement for paper movie tickets, and best of all its hassle free.
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With Nexus One, Google has finally arrived in direct competition with Apple in smart phone market. Google calls it a Superphone, and it indeed satisfies the buzz.
Google unveiled the HTC Nexus One at its Android press gathering, Nexus One comes with Android 2.1 (Eclair) OS. Lighter and slimmer than iPhone, Nexus One comes [...]
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Nokia is in all attempts to make the new year bitter for Apple with another patent complaint, this time to the US ITC (International Trade Commission). Just weeks back Nokia had filed a lawsuit against Apple claiming that all the iPhones released till date infringes on 10 Nokia patents. Apple later responded by counter-suing Nokia, [...]
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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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RIM Blackberry is the only smartphone that the Apple iPhone is yet to beat in the US. Powered with numerous models appealing to business users the Blackberry Curve and Pearl series were the only devices that surpassed the 3GS and 3G in Q2 2009 sales. However it seems that the year ending might change that [...]
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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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