Author: Amarnath Natarajan

The tiny 2.6-inch Veer with webOS and the Samsung Infuse 4G with giant 4.5-inch Android both available for sale. They two have one important thing in common; they both are made for AT&T. The HPs Veer 4G costs $99.99 and Samsungs Infuse 4G costs $199.99. The Veer 4G is now available on Best Buy right…

ViewSonic finally got its Android tablet out of Froyo doldrums and it is first in the market with a Honeycomb slate of 7-inch variety. According to Pocket lint, the company will debuts the ViewPad 7x features Tegra 2 processor, Wi-Fi, HSPA+, HDMI port, DLNA support, weighs 0.84 pounds. There is no word on the pricing…

The NECs VersaPro VK15V/TM-C looks like a slate it is, but packs like a netbook like specs. It runs on Windows 7 Professional. It features 1.5GHz Intel Atom Z760 processor, 2GB RAM, HDMI-out, SDHC slot, it comes with 10.1-inch, 1280*800 display, 64GB SSD. No words of pricing and battery life of the tablet, but it…

Kajimoto Lab in Japan brought this one with maximum sensation. You only have to exert gentlest of pressures on this prototype touch pad and it zaps your fingertip with little electrical signals, feeling of sliding your finger over surface. If you dont mind stretching your finger to your old style mouse or track pad, then…

Google said that the new Galaxy Tab 10.1 would be getting Android 3.1 update in next couple of weeks, now its time for Motorola Xoom Wi-Fi only model got the update. In Motorola Xoom official forum, it seems like few individuals have already received their update on their Wi-Fi only Xoom. 3G Xoom Users also…

The Motion Computings CL900 tablet is now available for the orders with starting price at $899. The tablet features 2.1-pound Windows 7 Slate, 1.5GHz Intel Oak Trail Atom Z760 processor, 10.1-inch display, 1366*768 resolution multi-touch displays shielded with Corning Gorilla Glass. It got 1.3MP front-facing camera and 3MP sensor keeping back side camera. The tablet…

Google has been planning to bring peer-to-peer NFC sharing to the Ice Cream Sandwich release of Android. It got 0-click contact, webpage, and YouTube video sharing between your NFC-equipped Android smartphones and tablets. Just the bring the devices together and voila, data shared without launching an application or navigating through the UI. Google plans to…

The Googles Ice Cream Sandwich will be a Universal OS that runs on everything from teeny tiny Android phones to 10-inch tablets and will adapt to each form factor with things like a resizable status bar. Some other fancy new additions were demonstrated during Googles I/O conference, it includes face-tracking and camera focus shifting based…

Google announced its movie rentals in the Android Market at its I/O conference. They demonstrated about renting movies on the Android Market from your phone, tablet, and PC with a single click. Pinning mirrors the experience with apps and books, you can select it on your PC and download device in the background for offline…

Google announced that Android 3.1 is now available for Verizon Xoom 3G users. It got a lot of improvements and refinements, includes resizable widgets, a new host mode lets you to improve photos to your tablet directly from your camera, takes advantage of number of USB devices, including XBOX 360 and PS3 controllers. It also…

Android has recently crossed its 100 millionth activation milestone, and also growing at its fastest pace yet, 400,000 devices are activated daily. There are now 200,000 Android Applications in the Android Market, it has accumulated a total of 4.5 billion installs, and Google says it as accelerating.

Double Twist introduces a media and mp3 sharing between two devices now. Play the video below on how DoubleTap works but basically you will need two Android phones with NFC, then tap them together and watch the file sharing magic happen automatically over Wi-Fi or Bluetooth. The new update went live in Android Market overnight,…

Advents Vega tablet with its Tegra2 innards costs 199 ($326 approx), some couple of hackers have replaced the Vegas antiquated Android2.2 with a heaping help of Honeycomb. Its in alpha phase now, the widgets and apps are working well, camera capabilities, screen rotation, web surfing on Wi-Fi, and most everything is currently off limits. There…

The Xplore technologies got its new bombproof tablet, the iX104C5. The model follow its progenitor PCs, the C2, C3, and the C4, in that it has a 10.4-inch XGA display and rugged good looks. The C5 improves on earlier models with specs, 2.13GHz Intel Core i7-620UE Processor, 2GB RAM (expandable up to 8GB) running Windows7.…

Watch ESPN App is now available on Android devices, brings the live video streaming of ESPN channels it features its debut on iOS last month. The interface running will require the installation of Adobe AIR on your Android 2.2 or higher device (no tablet optimizations yet and no mention on Honeycomb too read the press…

Here is the news about Microsofts upcoming Mango OS update. The date rumoured is now fixed for the preview on 24th of May as the date Redmond will dish the full details of its next major software release. The mangoish colored invite makes no mention of Windows Phone 7 anywhere, leading us to suspect that…

Windows Phone 7s Mango release got the extra bubbles for regular users; Microsoft will reportedly add new features to Bing in the near feature can prove useful. A new function called Bing Audio will act like a Shazam for recognizing music while Bing Vision will use your smartphones camera to read barcodes and do optical…