Apple All Set to Launch Itself in the Television Market with “APPLE TV”

Apple has started to innovate even in the television market as is planning to invade the living room of people by the end of 2012 with one of its most phenomenal innovations the APPLE TV. Please don’t confuse it with the current Apple TV, which is just a palm size gadget allowing users to stream contents to their television sets. It is a real Television with much aided facilities.

Apple TV will be available with iOS and is not limited to just watching movies and cable TV but also you can play games, run different applications and share what you watch or play in the Apple television. It will run applications like FaceTime, Skype etc. and will also work with other iDevices.

Gorilla Plus GPS Navigator launched by Sanyo and NTT DoCoMo

Sanyo and NTT DoCoMo has recently made an announcement about the launch of their latest GPS Navigator called Gorilla Plus. This latest device comes along with 5 inches of backlit touchscreen display that offers bright and clear images. The Gorilla Plus device will come loaded with 8 GB of internal memory.

The users will be able to get real time traffic information with the help of this navigator and moreover the user will also have access to the parking spot information, latest map updates and other useful information like weather at destination.

The Gorilla Plus also comes packed with quick start feature of Sanyo, and has a maximum GPS fix time of 10 seconds. This latest device will also be capable of uploading the Point of Interest and various other information from the computers through a SD card. So if you are in search for the latest GPS navigator with impressive features then the recently launched Gorilla Plus is a good choice.

iBall Announces a Tablet for the Masses – The iBall Slide

In the past couple of years, every major and minor player in the industry has come up with their own tablet computer. It was only a matter of time before Indian companies jumped onto the bandwagon too. After Reliance and Beetel recently announced their versions of budget tablets, yet another Indian company, iBall, has come up with the goods. Presenting the iBall Slide – the tablet of the masses.

Running on a 1 GHz ARM Cortex A8 processor, the iBall Slide is a 7-inch slate offering a WVGA resolution. The device comes with 8 GB of built in storage, which is expandable up to 32 GB. Although there is no official word on the amount of RAM, 512 MB seems like the best guess, looking at all the other specs of the tablet.

Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray

In a world addicted to size zero, Sony Ericsson launched its slimmest and sleekest smart phone with a 9.4mm thickness and 100g weight. Running Gingerbread Android OS, it supports a 512GB RAM, 1BG memory with only 300 MB available to users and 4GB microSD card slot expandable up to 32GB.

Data transfers can happen over GPRS, Wi-Fi hotspot connections, EDGE, 3G, WLAN, Bluetooth and a USB port. An 8.1 mega pixel high quality camera with autofocus and LED flash has latest features like Geo-tagging, face detection and image stabilization and it lets you capture your special moments. Other high-end features are HD video recording, video light, smile detector and self-timer. With Google Android as its backbone, it supports all the apps available in the Android Market and services provided by Google.

Motorola Strikes the Market with the Motorola Photon 4G Phone

Motorola speeding itself to hold the market of mobile phone launches the Motorola Photon. The phone is a true and elegant stylish piece yet powerful.

The Motorola Photon runs with the speed of 1GHz powered by dual core ARM Cortex A9 Processor. It has Android 2.3 as operating system mounted in Gingerbread chip. The phone has a 1GB RAM and 2GB inbuilt memory expandable upto mammoth 32 GB.

The phone has a big 4.3 inch TFT capacitive touchscreen, 540×900 pixels display with 16 million colours. The phone comes with 2 cameras, 8 Megapixels rear camera and a VGA front camera. The phone can record HD quality video of 720 pixels @ 30 fps.

Logitech Launches Keyboard for Android Tablets

Logitech is one of the leading brands when it comes to accessories related to computers and tablets.And now they are hoping to continue the success as tablets begin taking a foothold.After recently launching accessories for general Android tablets in a Bluetooth keyboard, mouse and speaker, Logitech is now getting more specific.Today sees the company announcing an exclusive accessory for the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the form of a Bluetooth keyboard/tablet stand and carrying case. Features include an aluminum lid and ZAGG's award winning protection to (keep it secret), keep it safe.

Blackberry Price List

Blackberry Price list Cost October 2008 all Prices are in Indian Rupee (INR)

BlackBerry 8320 – Rs.24,000
BlackBerry Bold 9000 – Rs.33,600
BlackBerry Pearl 8110 – Rs.24,199
BlackBerry 8310 – Rs.24,029
BlackBerry Pearl 8120 – Rs.24,229
BlackBerry 8820 – Rs.30,800
BlackBerry Curve 8300 – Rs.23,367
BlackBerry 8800 price – Rs.28,800
BlackBerry 7130g – Rs.14,400
BlackBerry Pearl 8100 – Rs.21,100
BlackBerry 7100g – Rs.10,500
BlackBerry 8700g – Rs.14,400

Samsung’s Wave devices to hit the 10 million mark soon

Yesterday we saw the Galaxy S II making records, and now its Samsung’s Wave series that is making news. The Wave range of handsets were launched back back in May 2011 with the Wave S8500 and now these handsets are going to hit the 10 million milestone before the end of this year. Running on Samsung’s own Bada OS, these devices have caught up with consumers as they are a unique experience to use. These handsets also feature the Samsung’s TouchWiz User Interface which is now catching up with Android users.

Recently Samsung had introduced the Wave M, Wave Y and the Wave 3 into this series and these handsets will help Samsung cross this milestone in next few months though an official date of launch for these handsets is not yet available but they are to be available for consumers anytime in this quarter.

Toshiba announces the 7 inch Thrive Tablet

A new Thrive tablet has been announced by Toshiba. This time it’s a 7-incher model called the Thrive 7 which is scheduled to launch in December. The 7 inch display on the tablet has a 1280x800 resolution, a 5MP rear camera and 2MP front camera, 16GB and 32GB memory options, Android 3.2, NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual processor. It’s a lightweight tablet with various ports like miniUSB, microHDMI and a microSD card slot.

Pricing of the device has not yet been disclosed.

Opera updates for Symbian, Anna and Belle users rejoice

The Opera browser for Symbian has been updated and brings in split screen keyboard for Symbian Anna and brings in compatibility for Symbian Belle. The Opera Mobile blog has confirmed the news and even we have tested the app on Belle, and it seems to be running smoothly. We did have compatibility with Belle earlier but finally this update has fixed the crashing of the app has been resolved.

HTC EVO 3D comes to Europe in July

If those living in the Statesides are already enjoying a great 3D experience with the HTC's smartphone, EVO 3D, the company officialy announced its availability across the Europe too starting with the next month.

The Taiwanese company said in a press conference held yesterday that the stylish HTC EVO 3D will hit the stores in Europe in various countries in July. Delivering glasses-free 3D experience, the Android-powered handset brings the latest HTC UI experience with the ability to capture and share 3D content.

Beetel Magiq 3G Tablet vs Reliance 3G Android Tablet

More than a year and we are still awaiting the launch of Sakshat Tablet PC/laptop from the Indian government. Infact to look at, many providers most private have jumped in and announced their tablet versions which might not be costing $ 100 but something in the near range when compared with premium tablets like Apple iPad, Samsung Galaxy Tab and Motorola Xoom.
India’s two leading network provider Reliance and Beetel has launched their tablets into the market and they have launched their tablets in India. So we have compared Reliance 3G tablet and Beetel Magiq 3G tablet on the basis of what they have on the paper.

The Reliance 3G tablet is an Android based tablet which runs the Android Gingerbread 2.3 operating system. The firmware can be update with the latest firmware release by Google Android. Coming to the screen, it has 7 inches LCD WVGA capacitive touch screen display with multi-touch support. The screen is capable of displaying 800 x 480 resolutions. It boards an 800 MHz processor, good enough to support speed operation.
Apart from that one would expect a camera and it has 2 mega pixel camera on the rear side and a VGA camera on the front for video calls. Through Lithium ion 3400 mAh battery it can last for a day operation and it’s quite good when it comes to tablets backup.
It supports various audio formats like AAC, AAC+, AMR/AMR-NB, MP3 MIDI, Ogg PCM/WAV and MP4, H.263, H.264 video formats. One would be happy to see BMP, PNG and JPEG image format too supported by this tablet. It includes 4 GB of expandable memory through micro SD card and the microSD card can be expandable up to 32 GB in memory.

Samsung Galaxy Note, a new 5.3 inch device by Samsung

Samsung has introduced and announced yet again a new device that is somewhat in between a tablet and a Smartphone. The Galaxy Note is the newest addition to the Galaxy family and it is a 5.3 inch device capable of calling features and is said to be a hybrid device just like the Dell Streak 5.

The Galaxy Note has a 5.3 inch WXGA screen with a 1280x800 resolution. It has the same Exynos chipset as the Tab 7.7 which is dual-core 1.4GHz CPU, 1GB RAM, Mali-400MP GPU, an 8MP with 1080p video recording, and it comes with a stylus, the S Pen which works with dedicated apps.

Samsung GALAXY Note Specifications

Network

HSPA＋ 21Mbps 850/900/1900/2100
EDGE/GPRS 850/900/1800/1900

Processor

1.4GHz Dual Core Processor

Display

5.3” WXGA(1280x800, 285ppi) HD Super AMOLED

OS

Android 2.3(Gingerbread)

Camera

Main(Rear) : 8 MP with LED Flash
Front : 2 MP
Action Shot, Beauty, Panorama Shot, Smile Shot, Share Shot
Video

Video : MPEG4, H.264, H.263, WMV, DivX, Xvid, VC-1Recording 1080p@24~30fps, Playing 1080p@30fps

Audio

Codec : MP3, AAC, AMR, WMA, WAV, FLAC, OGG
Music Player with SoundAlive
3.5mm Ear Jack, Stereo FM Radio with RDS

Value-added Features
Samsung Apps

Samsung Kies 2.0/ Samsung Kies air

Samsung TouchWiz/ Samsung L!ve Panel UX

Samsung ChatON mobile communication service (Downloadable via Samsung Apps)

Smart Note Apps

S Pen / Pen UX

Social Hub
- Integrated Messaging(Email, SNS), Contacts/ Calendar Sync
- Basic: POP3/IMAP Email

Social Hub, Readers Hub , Music Hub

GoogleTM Mobile Services
- GmailTM, Google TalkTM, Google SearchTM, YouTubeTM, Android Market TM,
- Google MapsTM with Google Places and Google Latitude

A-GPS

Enterprise Solutions
- ODE, EAS, CCX, MDM, VPN, WebEx

NFC(optional)

Connectivity

Bluetooth v 3.0
USB 2.0 ＋ HS
WiFi 802.11 b/g/n
WiFi Direct

Sensor

Accelerometer, Proximity

Memory

16/32GB Internal Memory ＋ microSD (up to 32GB)

Size

110 × 58.2 × 12.3 mm, 102.4g

Battery

Standard battery, Li-on 2,500 mAh