We are approaching the announcement for the next Android version aka Gingerbread and following traditions, a huge Gingerbread statue has been delivered to Googleplex. Check out the video below and let the speculations begin about which few smartphones will get official Gingerbread upgrades.

Motorola is expected to launch the Quench XT3 in India as soon as tomorrow. The XT3 will be Motorola’s fourth Android smartphone in India after the Milestone, Backflip and Milestone Xt720. It will run on Android 2.1 and features a 3.0 MP fixed focus camera and a 3.2-inch HVGA display. Rest of the features are [...]

Sony Ericsson has announced the world’s first 16.2 MP camera phone with a CMOS censor, giving a major set back to all the 12.0 MP phones in the world. The Sony Ericsson Cyber-shot S006 will be launched in Japan on KDDI’s network early next spring. The phone appears rather fat with a thickness of 17mm, [...]

Tata Indicom has launched the Fly CG588 aka the X-LIFE on its network. The phone is a dual-SIM handset and runs a GSM connection and of course, Tata Indicom’s CDMA connection. The carrier will also offer a few voice and data benefits with a recharge of Rs 104 – 1GB of free data usage, 250 [...]

Game publishing behemoth Electronic Arts (EA) has acquired Chillingo, the popular game publisher that has come out with games such as the amazingly popular Angry Birds and Cut The Rope. The price? A very cool twenty million dollars, which is not really a bad deal considering that it paid $250 million for Playfish not too [...]

Garmin Asus has launched the nivifone A10 in India. The A10 runs on Android 2.1 and is upgradeable to Android 2.2. It is Garmin Asus’ first Android smartphone. We had first reported about the company’s plans to launch the A10 in India earlier this month. The A10 is priced at Rs 18,990. It features a [...]

Vodafone Essar today announced its plans for launching 3G networks in India. Unlike Tata DoCoMo, which plans to flip the 3G switch on November 5, Vodafone will start offering 3G services only in the first quarter (calendar year) of 2011. According to Sanjoy Mukherjee, operations director for North and East, Vodafone Essar, they want to [...]

Modu Mobile, an Israeli cellphone manufacturer, took the industry by storm in 2009 when it showcased the world’s first modular phone at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The concept was powerful – a tiny device that could function on its own as a cellphone but could morph into different roles when it was inserted [...]

LG has launched 5 CDMA Open Market Handsets in India – the 6160, 6210, 6300, 6400 and 235. The LG 6160 and 6210 handsets sport multimedia features such as MP3 player, FM radio with recording, Bluetooth and a 3.5 mm audio jack. The memory is expandable up to 4 GB with a microSD card. While [...]

Lava Mobiles has launched the KKT15, India’s first phone with support for 12 regional languages such as Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, Punjabi, Telugu, Gujarati, Kannada, Urdu, Malayalam, Oriya and Assamese. This multi-lingual phone is meant for the masses and allows users from every nook and corner of the country to communicate in their own language. [...]