Samsung Introduces Environment Friendly, Solar Powered Blue Earth Mobile Phone

Motorola started environment friendly cellphone race when they announced their new phone made by recycled plastic last month. Well, Samsung has one up them by announcing new Blue Earth handset made by PCM (recycled plastic from water bottles), and it features a solar panel on the back that will charge it enough to make a phone call anytime during the day. Read More

Garmin-Asus Reveals Specifications for nuvifone G60 and M20

Garmin and Asus today revealed more details about their upcoming GPS inspired nuvifone G60 and M20 smartphones. The nuvifone G60 will feature a 3.55-inch touchscreen, quad-band GSM/EDGE, 3G HSDPA, WiFi, Bluetooth, 3-megapixel camera with autofocus and geotagging, Internet connected GPS navigation, preloaded maps and automatic route recalculation. Read More

New 16GB iPhone Image Leaked, China Unicom in Talk with Apple

iPod Observer is reporting that Apple is preparing to roll out an updated version of its 16GB iPhone 3G. An image that they received from their source shows a new back design and a new model number A1303. The new case appears matte black and not glossy black found on present generation iPhone. Read More

Intel’s 2009 Roadmap: Add More Cores, Decrease Manufacturing Size and Invest in Fab/R&D

This week Intel has been talking about upcoming processor technologies at ISSCC in San Francisco. At the event, Intel showcased its first 8-core processor prototype designed for servers. The new Nehalem 8-core processor will join the Xeon family later this year and feature 16-thread and 64-bit processing. Intel also talked about its plans to salvage usable part from a defective chip by disabling the core or cache region, which is found defective. Read More

Google Releases Free Push Calendar and Contact Services for iPhone

Google has announced new beta Google Sync for iPhone. The service synchronizes built-in calendar and contacts on your iPhone with your Google account using Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync protocol. The use of push protocol keeps your calendar and contact in sync whether you access them from your iPhone or from your computer. You can add or edit contacts or calendar entries right on your device or on your Google account on the web and the changes will be immediately pushed to you various devices. Read More and Watch Video

Sony Unveils XB-Series Headphones

Sony today unveiled five new XB “eXtra Bass” series headphones designed to create a heavy club vibe with rich, powerful bass, while reproducing crystal-clear midrange vocals and high frequency sounds. Three of the headphones are over-the-ear style and two are in-ear style with brushed metal accents. The top of the line MDR-XB700 is a premium over-the-ear headphone with extra-large 50mm dome type driver optimized for bass. Read More

Amazon Introduces Kindle 2

Amazon today announced new slim Kindle 2 with longer battery life, faster page turns, over seven times more storage, sharper images, and a new read-to-me feature. More than 230,000 books are now available for about $9.99 each, many US and international magazines and newspapers plus more than 1,200 different blogs are also available for Kindle 2. Read More

BlackBerry Storm 9530 Available on Amazon for $99

Verizon is trying everything in its power to increase sales of BlackBerry Storm. On Friday, Verizon started buy one get one free program through its stores and website. And, now Verizon is selling the BlackBerry Storm on Amazon for $99 with two-year contract. It looks like BlackBerry Storm sales are falling down fast, after initial high sales at launch and Verizon is taking all possible measures to keep the sales up. If you are a BlackBerry fan you can’t get a better deal on Storm anywhere else.

Intel and NVIDIA Going for Each Other’s Core Business

It is a known fact that Intel will launch their first ever dedicated GPU codenamed Larrabee this year. And on the other hand, rumors are that NVIDIA is heavily recruiting x86 engineers for making its own x86 processor. So, why suddenly both the companies are gunning for each other’s core market? The reason might lie in Intel’s decision to develop a dedicated graphics card. Read More

Analyst: Three New iPhone Models in 2009

Canaccord Adams analyst Peter Misek claims, “Three new iPhone could be coming in 2009. The first is a 32GB iphone in multiple colors that is likely to arrive during the next six months. Next up is a lower-cost handset based on the 2.5G iPhone, which is targeted for China and India. Third is a smaller version – about one-third the size of the 3G iPhone – that costs 40 percent less and is also likely before year-end.” Read More

Microsoft Leaks My Phone Online Mobile Backup Service

Microsoft has accidentally launched My Phone (aka SkyBox) mobile backup service, which they were going to announce at Mobile World Congress 2009 in Barcelona, Spain on 16th February. The My Phone service offers 200MB of storage that can be used to backup contacts, calendar, tasks, photos, videos, text messages, music and documents directly from your mobile phone to the online service. Read More

Microsoft Developing Smartphone for Second Half of 2009

Research Firm Broadpoint AmTech claims that Microsoft is planning to release a smartphone of its own in second half of 2009. Research analysts Mark McKechnie and Rob Sandserson say that multiple industrial sources have confirmed Microsoft’s smartphone development plan. With the new smartphone, Microsoft will tightly integrate hardware and software like the iPhone does. Read More

Apple to Include Location and Multitouch Services in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

The upcoming Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard will include geographical location and multitouch apps support. According to AppleInsider, people familiar with the Snow Leopard beta released few days back say that the OS includes CoreLocation framework and a Cocoa based programming interface for leveraging the multitouch function. Read More

Microsoft Explains Windows 7 SKUs

Microsoft has posted a closer look at Windows 7 SKUs on The Windows Blog, to explain you “exactly which edition of Windows 7 is right for you and help you understand how we approached addressing the large amount of feedback we received. According to Microsoft the SKUs are based on feedbacks from the customers and addresses the following: Read More

T-Mobile Officially Launches Samsung Memoir the 8-Megapixel Camera Phone

T-mobile today announced the launch of Samsung Memoir – a full touchscreen mobile phone with 8-megapixel camera and many multimedia features. The Memoir is the highest megapixel camera phone available in US via a carrier. The main feature of the phone is its 8-megapixel camera. The phone is designed to look, feel and work like a point-and-shoot digital camera. The camera has Xenon flash, 16x digital zoom, auto focus and five shooting modes. Read More

Next Gen iPhone in June with Support for 3rd Party Background Tasks

In an interview with Dow Jones, Mark Davis, Program Director for iPhone at Etisalat, has revealed “next version of the iPhone, which is due out in June will be launched in the UAE at the same time”. This news along with iPhone 2,1 code string found in latest iPhone firmware almost confirms that Apple has next generation iPhone ready for summer release. Additionally, Phil Schiller, Apple’s marketing chief has also said at WWDC that Apple will follow the June release cycle for its iPhone updates. Read More

Toshiba Announces iPhone Competitor TG01 Smartphone

Yesterday, Toshiba announced their new smartphone based on Qualcomm’s 1GHz Snapdragon QSD2850 chipset in London. The super slim phone is only 9.9mm (0.38-inch) thick and features a 4.1-inch resistive touchscreen with 800 x 480 resolution. Toshiba says that the screen uses many of the technologies like color matching, dynamic gamma correction and LCD backlight control present in their HDTVs, resulting is more colorful and crisper images. Read More & Watch TG01 in action.

Nikon Unveils One Ultra Zoom P-Series, Three L-Series and Four S-Series Digital Cameras

Nikon today announced eight new point-and-shoot cameras that will ship before March 2009. The top of the line CoolPix P90 has 12.1-megapixel sensor, 24X (26-624mm) ultra zoom, 15fps burst mode, 3-inch LCD screen, image stabilization, motion detection, face detection and ISO up to 6400. The camera will ship in March for $399. Read More

Mac OS X and Safari Online Market Share Continues to Grow

Net Applications has released their latest data for online OS and browser market share in month of January. Mac OS X continued its growth whereas Windows continued its decline in operating system market share. Similarly in browser market share, Safari and Firefox continued to grow, while Internet Explorer lost market share. iPhone’s market share also rose to 0.48 percent and it looks like iPhone will surpass Linux by end of 2009. Read More

Palm Pre Video with Detailed Information About Both Software and Hardware

Palm’s VP of design, Peter Skillman shows various features of the upcoming Palm Pre touchscreen phone in a video. The Pre is one of the most impressive smartphone after the iPhone. The video shows how Palm differentiates the Pre from the iPhone, but it also shows how much the Pre is influenced by the iPhone. In fact the design of the shipping box for the Pre is also almost similar to the box iPhone ships in. Read More & Watch Video