Author: Amarnath Natarajan

Nanosys unveiled its new Quantcom Dot Enhancement Film (QDEF), marking the first time that the nanotechnology is available for LCD manufacturers. Its optical film can deliver up to 60 percent of all colors visible to human eye, compared with the 20 to 25 percent the most displays offer. Nanosys engineers suspended a blend of quantum…

Sony Ericsson mystery handset might have actually become a real smartphone. There werent a ton of specs to go off from the original leak, the ST18i features 854*480 resolution does match up, runs in Gingerbread, 8MP camera, and ARM Cortex-A8 Processor. According to Esato message board also seems to have got its hands an ad…

Sony Ericsson Xperia Play hits the first US carrier to offer the PlayStation Phone, will be available for pre-order on carriers website starting by May 19th and will be available on stores by May 26th for the usual $199.99 on a two year contract. This is the first PlayStation certified handset with console style controls…

RadioShack is taking pre-orders for HTCs EVO 3D. The company make sure to inform the employees that the launch date for the Sprint-bound smartphone is still unknown that what you are really signing up for is a glorified reservation. You have to ask for it specifically, as it wont be advertised undertaking, and you will…

Acer postpones its launch of Acer Iconia Tab A100 to second half of the year. Its Honeycomb sporting Tegra 2 powered slate will not be arriving right now. No reasons have been given, the Acers PR team was report out of Poland suggesting the A100 is been cancelled. Acers UK reps are adamant that is…

For: Dual SIM, Social networking features, QWERTY keypadAgainst: Glossy shell, track pad is too sensitive, No bundled flash memoryTechCom TQ-21 is dual SIM Java based QWERTY budget mobile aimed at the social media users. This dual-band mobile supports two GSM SIM cards and allows user to use both of them simultaneously. It also features built-in…

BrainChild Kineo, a 7-inch, 800MHz Android tablet, locked down for education use only. No unauthorized web browsing, no personal email, and no Angry Birds. It runs on a specified version of clair, the Kineo allows educators to limit student access to curriculum related apps, websites or features negating tablets potential of more distraction than learning…

The PlayStation Network Outage started in late April and lasted up through this weekend phased restoration. Sony likes to sincerely apologize for the whole thing, and it knows how to: free video games. The company announced its Welcome Back program, lets all the existing PSN and Qriocity users in North America pick two of the…

The official announcement from Lenovo the ThinkCentre Edge 91Z, calling it as thinnest AIO, at 2.5-inches, the centrepiece of the system is 21.5 widescreen HD Infinity LED display 1900*1200 capable of playing back HD Video. The system came with an optional wireless keyboard. It also features some built-in speakers, 2MP webcam, six USB ports, Windows…

The new X7 handset is undressed by the FCC, this brings the Symbian Smartphone all much closer to reality for US users hoping to get their fingers on that 4-inch touchscreen, offering visions of availability through Nokia US store. We will have to be content to check out some stripped naked shots of Samsung designed…

The Microsoft outlines there are some new enterprise features in the release of Windows Phone update Mango. First one is pinnable e-mail folders, gives the users the opportunity to pin a specific folder of higher priority such as emails from your boss to your start screen. Toss in email threads complete with conversation view, now…

Toshiba just enters the pixel density wars at SID 2011. The company shows the range of LCDs for cellphones, it shows fine 367ppi on its 4-inch HD with 720*1280 resolution model. They got red, green and blue dots in each inch, these panels also top the bar setting Retina Display in the Contrast with an…

Its now the official announcement from the Samsung that the Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab is going to get the Gingerbread update in the mid-May. It announced that starting with the models in the UK and Nordic countries from the middle of this month. The rest of them will be following the suit. For more…

For: Good build quality, crisp displayAgainst: Below average camera, sluggish UI, heating issues, low battery lifeThe Liquid Metal is the latest smartphone offering from Acer, and while many smartphones are content with sticking to Android 2.1, this phone runs on Android 2.2 out of the box. The phone is powered by an 800 MHz Snapdragon…

The dual-booting Fujitsu LOOX F-07C smartphone goes official, the preliminary spec sheet is released. It got 7.69 ounce landscape slider, handles both Windows 7 (Home Premium, 32bit Japanese Edition) and Symbian. It got 4-inch LCD with 1024*600 resolution, 1.2GHz Intel Atom Processor, 1GB of LPDDR4 RAM, 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi, 32GB of eMMC disk space, expandable…

The Windows Phone Dev Podcast made some screenshots of Windows Phone 7 last week that revealed some new features of the mobile OS. The Mango update includes support for Facebook chat and Office 365 and some revamped games hub that suggests even more Xbox Live integration option. The Lock screen is apparently shows the album…

Microsofts still born Courier, a dual-screen device. It made its appearance in this weeks CHI conference in Vancouver, seeing how Microsoft Research apparently played a role in its development. But this gadget presented by the University of Marylands Nicholas Chen, is clearly awesome looking one at that. The reader actually has one screen; it can…

Samsung Galaxy S II smartphone didnt have many issues, Android Community reports there is firmware update that fixes the auto-brightness setting. The i9100XWKE2 revision also apparently increases the responsiveness of Swype Software keyboard is always a plus. This update sounds like a desirable one.