The Dell Streak with its 5.0-inch display might come across as a confused gadget (Is it a smartphone or an Internet Tablet? Answer: Probably neither.) but there is no mistaking the upcoming Streak 7. While it was known for sometime now that Dell will launch a 7.0-inch tablet, but now we have the entire storyboard [...]

Sony Ericsson has started sending out press invites for its annual press conference on the eve of MWC, which happens to be February 13 this time. What’s interesting to note is that the invite specifically mentions there will be new XPERIA smartphones (there will be more than one!). I have been attending Sony Ericsson’s MWC [...]

Taiwan-based news portal, Digitimes, is reporting that the next version of Android, codenamed Honeycomb, will be launched as early as March 2011. These pearls of wisdom were hidden in a feature that talks about Internet Tablets some Taiwanese brands will showcase at CES, which begins on January 6 in Las Vegas. An excerpt from the [...]

Online retailer, Flipkart, is now displaying that the Desire HD will be available in India in the fifth week of December, which translates into next week! The Desire HD runs on Android 2.2 (Froyo) and has an 8.0 MP camera that shoots video in 720p resolution and a 4.3-inch display. Priced at Rs 27,499, the [...]

Motorola today announced that it has acquired Zecter, a startup that specialises is personal cloud streaming and data sync technologies. Zecter currently provides two offerings – ZumoDrive for syncing content and ZumoCast for streaming media. According to a Motorola press release, the acquisition will help the company enhance its Moto Blur user interface, which is [...]

Opera Software, the makers of the popular Opera Mini browser for mobile, today released a widget runtime for Android that would enable developers to create widgets that will be compatible with Wireless Applications Community (WAC) 1.0 specs. WAC is a consortium of handset vendors, carriers and services companies who aim to create a universal app [...]

Google has released Google Maps 5.0 for Android smartphones, which will offer 3D maps and offline navigation options. Unlike the present version, which fetches blocks of images and stitches them together, the new version will use what engineers call vector graphics that will have more information stored in them and allow users to interact with [...]

Airtel’s CEO, Sanjay Kapoor, maintained that the carrier was set to launch 3G services in India before the end of this year while speaking at the Nokia Conversations event in New Delhi. Kapoor said that the carrier was awaiting government clearances to flip on the 3G switch. When asked about unlimited data plans, he insisted [...]

Motorola has launched the Quench XT5 in India, the successor of the Quench XT3, which we reported a few months ago. The XT5 brings to the table a 5.0 MP camera with LED flash, Wi-Fi and a 3.2-inch display. The XT5 is priced at Rs 13,990 and Motorola has tied up with Aircel, which is [...]

LG has announced the world’s first Android smartphone with a dual-core processor. The LG Optimus 2X aka the LG Star, features a 1 GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor that offers much better graphics processing than other single core 1 GHz processors and consuming lower battery at the same time. The Optimus 2X also captures video [...]