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Google has announced the availability of Google Earth for iPhone/iPod Touch users. The software is more or less like the desktop version and benefits a lot from its intuitive multi touch. The globe rotates with just a finger flick, pinch or double tap to zoom in and two fingers to zoom out. There’s also My [...]

 
Hop-on has taken their iPhone hatred one step further. They have issued a press release saying that their Android powered is in the making and will be unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January next year. The phone details are unknown except for the fact that it will be available under $200.
With [...]

 
Major news to break in this weekend is iPhone Dev’s successful attempt to get into iPhone 3G’s baseband. It does not unlock the iPhone 3G yet but the D-day doesn’t seem far now. They have managed to get access to the baseband that stores all the core files and will be instrumental for providing us [...]

 
Not so famous, USI recently showed up their mobile internet device at the Intel Developer Forum to take the crown for thinnest MID built on Intel Atom processor. USI MID-160 is one good device to look at and has equally good specifications in a slim 1.5cm profile. Its got a nice 5-inch WVGA touch screen [...]

 
There has been a sudden spurt in the existence of 8 megapixel phones in the market. Though companies have always resorted to the megapixel count as the ultimate benchmark for best camera phone, Samsung wants to change this view by launching their M8800 Pixon phone this week in Europe.
It has got almost every photographic [...]

 
Asus’s P552w phone has made a couple of appearances before and today they have announced the handset for the Indian market. Priced at Rs. 27,900 ($560), it is the first phone from Asus to support their own Glide interface that sits atop the usual Windows Mobile 6.1 Pro OS. The Glide interface from Asus uses [...]

 
The Google Mobile team released the second version of Gmail for Mobile app yesterday. The application is a major improvement over its first version. It’s fast, has the ability to create draft e-mails offline and the best part is the multiple account management. I am sure multiple account management is the thing most people will [...]

 
AMD is turning on the heat with its onslaught of graphics cards. First, they announced two pocket friendly cards and now a mid-range high-definition GPU aimed to take on NVIDIA’s GeForce 9800GT. AMD has made the card pretty identical in features but gives an edge to its offering than 9800GT.
HD 4830 hails from the 4800 [...]

 
Nokia introduced their smallest Bluetooth headset ever – BH-804. It is a basic headset which comes in aluminum case and boasts digital signal processing (DSP) for background noise cancellation and crisp voice quality.
The headset integrates a couple of buttons too for easy call management and comes with a desktop charger and a neck strap. [...]

 
Reliance Communications (RCom) in association with HTC announced to bring the CDMA variant of Touch Diamond phone (P3051) to the Indian market. RCom says the phone is a small effort from them to bring state-of-the-art phones to their loyal customers. But with such an exorbitant price, I think their loyalty will surely take a hit. [...]

 
At a press conference held today in Mumbai, Apple announced the updated range of Macbook notebooks along with the 24-inch Cinema Display. These are the same products which were unveiled by Steve Jobs a few days back. However, one major difference about it is the price. The Indian prices for Macbook and Cinema Display is [...]

 
After making its way in many countries, Blackberry Bold will make its mark in US markets soon. AT&T is chosen to be the perfect one which would be selling from November 4 at a price of $300 with a 2-year commitment.
Bold is one of the best handsets to come out of RIM’s stable. For [...]

 
Here’s a repetition of the Yahoo-Microsoft saga. Samsung officially announced their withdrawal of the hostile bid to buy SanDisk for the earlier price of $26 per share in cash. Samsung is obviously unhappy because the deal not going through and also more millions of dollars will be spent by them in the form of [...]

 
Out of nowhere, HP announced their two new Windows-powered iPAQ phones. Pictured on the left is HP Data Messenger which has a 2.8-inch QVGA touchscreen display and a sliding QWERTY keyboard. And on the right is a non-touchscreen Windows smartphone HP Voice Messenger which tries to mimic Blackberry’s SureType keyboard layout. Voice Messenger has a [...]

 
CNET’s taken a video demonstrating the features of SanDisk’s new Sansa slotMusic player. It is a no-frills music player and according to CNET, it sits nicely between a Discman and today’s music players. SanDisk is not looking to make considerable profits with the player but it is the accessories where they can milk in some [...]