Wednesday, January 14th, 2015

India fastest growing smartphone market in Asia Pacific: IDC

The Indian smartphone market grew 82% from a year ago and 27% over the preceding quarter, making it the second consecutive quarter of more than 80% year-on-year shipment growth for smartphones. There were 23.3 million smartphone handsets shipped in the reporting quarter, comprising 32.1% of the overall mobile phone market that touched 72.5 million units […]

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Monday, October 15th, 2012

LG Nexus expected on October 29

Quad-core 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4 CPU 2GB of RAM 4.7″ Display Sealed battery which can’t be changed or replaced. 8GB  or 16 GB of internal storage (which won’t be expandable as no microSD slot) Price of US$ 399 (no contract or locked) [amazon_enhanced asin=”B005ZEF01A” container=”” container_class=”” price=”All” background_color=”FFFFFF” link_color=”000000″ text_color=”0000FF” /]

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Friday, June 17th, 2011

Whatsapp a nice cross platform instant messenger

[amazon_link id=”B00414WBT4″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Do you envy when your Blackberry friends talk about BBM, short for Blackberry Messenger. Time to show them Whatsapp. What is Whatsapp? Its a cross platform instant messenger, think SMS/BBM. It works on iPhone, Android, Blackberry and Nokia. Currently BBM is restricted to Blackberries only. It offer messages, videos, photos, […]

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Wednesday, April 6th, 2011

HTC incredible D provides an update to HTC Desire HD

HTC has launched the HTC Incredible S, which is an update over HTC Desire HD. Here are the improvements of HTC Incredible S over HTC Desire HD. Its lighter, 135g vs 165g Incredible S has 4″ display, while the HTC desire is 4.3″. Incredible S however has better quality Super LCD with the resolution remaining […]

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Monday, March 14th, 2011

10 reasons why I like Android more than Apple iOS

I have been using an Android phone for more than month now. I used the original iPhone which I upgraded upto iPhone 3.0. I have used newer iPhones 3GS, 4 occasionally. Here is what I find better in the Android platform: No Need for iTunes: Apple insists for syncing music, video and other things, you need […]

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Saturday, March 12th, 2011

Motorola Atrix now available for $599, $129 with 2 year contract

Motorola Atix the most powerful Android phone is now available for purchase. US$599 without any contract and $129 with 2 year contact with AT&T. Order Motorola Atrix on Amazon.

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Tuesday, March 8th, 2011

Samsung Galaxy S II coming

Samsung has announced the I9100 here is whats new.. 8 MP Camera 4.3″ Super AMOLED Plus capacitive touchscreen 16 or 32GB memory HSDPA 21 Mbps for high speed data downloads USB on the go, so you can connect other USB devices Full HD, with 1080p video recording Gyroscope sensor for gaming and other applications which […]

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Monday, March 7th, 2011

Samsung Galaxy S replaced by SL

Samsung has discontinued Samsung I9000 Galaxy S and has replaced it with Samsung I9003 Galaxy SL, here is the difference: Sumer AMOLED display is replaced by Super Clear LCD. Resolution remains the same. Slight heavier 131 grams vs. 119 grams. Preloaded with Android 2.2, while Galaxy S has 2.1 but is upgradable to 2.2 Has […]

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Monday, February 21st, 2011

Intel CEO says Nokia should have picked Android

Intel CEO Paul Otellini agrees with me 🙂 Otellini said Nokia’s Chief Executive Stephen Elop received “incredible offers — money” from Google and Microsoft to switch. “I wouldn’t have made the decision he made, I would probably have gone to Android if I were him,” Otellini said Nokia would find it hard to differentiate using […]

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Friday, February 18th, 2011

Yet another dual-OS phone

After the Motorola Atrix which runs both Android and a Linux based OS, ARM showcased a TI OMAP4 based phone that runs Ubuntu and Android. Todays phones have become powerful enough to as a phone as well as provide basic PC functionality. This should get more PCs accessible to People, as more people today have mobile […]

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Monday, February 14th, 2011

Nokia: MeeNoGo?

Nokia has been losing marketshare in the last few years and has been trying a few things. In 2010 Q4, They lost the title of being the number 1 smartphone to Android. This was after having this lead for 10 years. They tied up with Intel for Meego, which is Linux based OS for smart […]

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Monday, November 15th, 2010

Android is now No. 2 Mobile OS

As per last quarter reports published by Gartner, Android is now number two Mobile operating system with 25.5 percent market share. While Symbian is loosing market share, it still retails the number 1 slot due to Nokia. Android market-share jumped from 3.5 percent to 25.5 percent vs the same quarter last year. Android 2.3 is just round […]

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