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Canon USA introduced EOS 50D DSLR camera for budding amateur photographers. The new 50D camera improves on one of Canon’s popular offerings, the EOS 40D. It will have a 15.1 megapixel sensor equipped with an intelligent and fast DIGIC 4 image processor capable of shooting 6.3 frames each second. ISO settings on the EOS 50D [...]

 
HTC just announced a new smartphone, S740 based on Touch Diamond/Pro design. HTC wants to tap in the smartphone market and thus dishes out a rather tried and tested sleek, slender design of Touch Diamond. The S740 has a conventional number keypad on the front with the QWERTY hidden beneath it. The phone has a [...]

 
After flooding the market with Eee netbooks, Asus is now focusing on the notebook market. Asus introduced five laptops – F6, F8, G71, G50 and B50. The F6 range of notebooks will be able to save the day for the user if his perfume fails to do the trick. This limited edition notebook has been [...]

 
After the leaked announcement yesterday, Nokia has officially announced N79 and N85 phones at a virtual event. N79 will begin shipping from October 2008 at a price of EUR 350 (USD 511) before tax. Other things we didn’t knew was the support of Xpress-on covers and a special Friendster widget for N79 users via the [...]

 
The iPhone Dev Team have released the 2.0.3 version of Pwnage Tool which can jailbreak iPhone/iPod Touch running firmware 2.0.2. The Pwnage Tool is only for Mac but if you’re a Windows user, a beta version of QuickPwn is also available for download. It has a better GUI and some bug fixes.
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UPDATE: N79 & N85 officially announced.
The phones which are supposed to be officially unveiled tomorrow have got a premature release today. The phones, N79 and N85 are bound to take up the baton from N78 and N81 respectively. Starting with the N79, this one ups the ante into photography department to 5 megapixel with [...]

 
The other two media players announced after S9 Curve are the O2 and L3. O2 measures approximately 5-inches in breadth, 3-inches in height and has a slim profile of just 0.7-inches which makes it highly pocketable. It sports a 4.3-inch touch screen sans capacitive and has storage options starting from 8GB up to 32GB.
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Cowon announced the S9 Curve PMP at the IFA Berlin which has all the ingredients to be an iPod Nano killer. Seriously. A perfect package of beauty with brains, the S9 boasts a large 3.3-inch AMOLED capacitive touch screen and is powered by a 500MHz dual core processor. If aesthetics alone didn’t do the [...]

 
Logitech India has updated its universal remote range, Harmony with One. The Harmony One can take care of all the remote controlled electronic equipments in your home with ease. It has a 2.2-inch color touch screen with capacitive technology (also found in iPhone). This means that the touch screen will only respond from the electrical [...]

Kevin Rose, the founder of Digg was in the news this weekend because of his rumors about the iPod line getting an update. According to him, the new iPod Nano will do away from the small fatty design to the earlier slim, tall look. The image you can see is purportedly of the Nano though [...]

 
The megapixel war is back with LG being the third company to throw their 8-megapixel phone in the fray. The powerpacked KC910 is Viewty’s successor and boasts Schneider-Kreuznach sensor with Xenon flash. It can record video at 30fps and slow motion QVGA vids at 120fps. LG decided to put in all the four GSM bands [...]

 
Sony announced PSP Slim’s successor by adding some improvements. Famitsu got hold of the new PSP and decided to put it side by side with PSP Slim to see the difference. Verdict? Sony’s worked on it and there are improvements. Marginal though.
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[Via Engadget]

 
UPDATE: Airtel has also started selling iPhone on EMIs. More details here.
With the current iPhone price in India, it is next to impossible for the masses to get their hands on the iconic phone. With this view in mind, Vodafone India has launched a scheme to sell iPhone on half yearly or yearly Equated Monthly [...]

 
BGR’s Daddy Genius is working overtime to see that Prada’s nuptial with LG Electronics lasts for a long time. He pictures a live shot of a LG Prada successor, reportedly the PRADA II. Not much is revealed at the moment but the slide out keyboard seems to be a nice inclusion.
[Via BGR]

 
TM-506 from Sony Ericsson will be the first phone to use T-Mobile’s AWS spectrum. Users wanting a taste of 3G on T-Mobile will be able to pick this up from September. The phone has a glass like exterior camouflaging the external screen and packs the usual Sony Ericsson UI with some customized services for T-Mobile. [...]