Author: Amarnath Natarajan

Acer will not be launching the Iconia Tab A100 in May, as planned. The company was not exactly saying at the bit to explain its 7-inch, Tegra 2 powered tablet is making such a tedious trip to market. The DigiTimes reports that the hangup comes down to compatibility issues with Honeycomb, an OS that so…

Galaxy Tab 10.1 is going to ship with Android 3.1, with a tweet saying the tablet is mere days away. Samsungs tweet actually promises Android 3.0, but Tab 10.1 page clearly lists the harder, better, faster, stronger Android version as the one that comes with slate. Another tweet from Samsung US also confirms that Android…

TomToms Go Live announced the companys new 800 series of PNDs. With the purchase of 820 or 825 GPS, you will get a years worth of free access to HD traffic, a speed camera alert system, local weather updates and all rest of TomToms live service. The devices came with intelligent orientation sensors, allows for…

Nokia now unveiled a new smartphone. Its your good old C7 3.5-inch, AMOLED screen, 720p video recording, 8MP camera, a pentaband radio, and Symbian as your OS. But externally it taken on a lick of gold paint and rear cover made of real leather. The price of the phone built so quietly so luxuriously is…

LG Revolution now came to Verizon at $250. LG seems to think that Revolution has more to do with such niceties as HDMI out, the Android 2.2 mobile OS, and 16GB microSD card. The pre-installed Netflix app does seem nice. The nationwide talk plans starts at $40 with unlimited data for $30. Click on the…

Digital Stroms first pre-built gaming system, the ODE. Available on Good, Better, Best, or Ultimate configurations, it packs Core i7-2600K Processor, can be overclocked to 5GHz, NVIDIA GTX 570 graphics, 8GB RAM and a 1TB HDD can be paired with SSD up to 120GB. The starting price will be $1,499 for base model and $2,499…

If you are in US and had a Sonos whole-home audio system than the world of streaming audio is now yours. Today Sonos adds the MOG music service with high-quality 320kbps streams available on-demand or through customized artist only radio stations. You can sample the 11 million songs library for free over the next 14…

Students at California State University will be at least make a set up to fast food. CSU announced a 3 year deal with Nature Publishing Group for low-cost, interactive, web-based textbooks with access options for disabled students. Students on the L.A., Northridge, and Chico campuses will each have varying payment and licensing models, but $49…

Qualcomm confirmed that Microsoft has chosen it to bring a new generation of Windows Phone devices exclusively featuring Qualcomms Second Generation Snapdragon Mobile Processors to the market. The companys executive vice president says that Qualcomm is excited about next Windows Phone Mango Release, and it will leverage the synergy of our highly integrated second generation…

Pantech released its new Android Tablet Phones and named it as Vega No.5. It features 5-inch, runs on Android2.3.3 powered by Qualcomms brawny dual-core 1.5GHz MSM8660. Its packed with Vega Racer: 800*480 LCD display, 8MP camera with 1080p and front facing camera, 1GB DDR2 RAM, 16GB Memory, 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi, 14.4 Mbps HSPA+ connectivity. No…

Windows Phone Mango update would bring 500 new updates that are what we said before today. In addition to the long awaited landscape mode address bar, IE9 for Windows Phone promises to bolster performance through GPU acceleration and an improved rendering experience. The browser update features: the aforementioned GPU-accelerated browsing, full-screen video through HTML5, GPS-based…

Microsoft had some Mango-flavored updates in store for its Windows Phone operating system. Steve Ballmer promised over 500 new features in the next major release of the OS and we cant wait to hear him list them all out.

Many of the consumers have figured out how to overclock it. Now XDA forum posted a custom kernel allows the hackers to crank the tablets clock speed to 1.4GHz, the same peak reached by ViewSonic G Tablet. The performance at that speed is unreliable anyways, so for now the dev recommends a more modest 1.2GHz…

Some sources from Taipei says that Amazon launch 10-inch LCD tablet before holidays and they also heard of 7-inch models and plans to use NVIDIAs new quad-core Tegra SoC. Tims sources say that Amazon wanted to use a switchable black and white E Ink display and a color LCD hybrid but two vendors approached. It…

You may have already seen the leaked pictures of Droid 3, but now TechBuffalo claims the inside scoop. According to them Motorola is upgrading it well, 4-inch qHD panel, inside one of them is a dual-cores of all cool phones may be a Tegra2 variety. It has a new 5-row keyboard layout and front facing…

Livescribes note-recording smartpen now getting some apps, hacks, and upgrades, the company now got a software update called Connect, lets you to share your scribbles like Emails, Google Docs, Facebook and Evernote, through the Pencast platform of Livescribe. Some of the sharing options are already available but Connect is speeding up the things by letting…

During a press conference in Cannes, HPs Eric Cador said that his companys new slate wont just be the best on market, it will be bestest. He explains In the PC World, with fewer ways of differentiating HPs products from our competitors, we became number one; in the tablet world were going to become better…

Toshibas Honeycomb tablet finally get named as Thrive, we found some chatty Twitter accounts that Toshiba is sticking to the former, a seemingly verified by new J&R listings for the device. The retailer has 8GB and 32GB versions of the tablet up for pre-order at $449 and $579. Some of the specs are10.1-inch screen, NVIDIA…