Digital Camera Deals for Black Friday and Christmas Holidays 2008

We have made a list of digital camera deals offered by Best Buy, Circuit City and others on Black Friday and we have also compared the sale price of those cameras to the price offered for the same camera on Amazon. Read more

Black Friday is known for sale on electronics and many brick and mortar stores are offering digital SLR on sale, but you can get the same cameras for

Black Friday is known for sale on electronics and many brick and mortar stores are offering digital SLR on sale, but you can get the same cameras for less online. Below is the list of all the digital SLRs that are on sale in various stores. We have also added prices for the same cameras offered by online like store like Amazon. Read More

Laptop Deals For Black Friday and Christmas Holidays in 2008

Black Friday is known as the biggest shopping days of the year and many online and brick and mortar stores offer great deals on electronics. Below is the list of all the laptop deals offered by various stores and where can you find a better deal. Read More

Verizon Releases Samsung Omnia SCH-i910 Touchscreen Handset for $249.99

We have seen the GSM version of Samsung Omnia i910 before, but Verizon today announced that it would release the CDMA version of the Omnia SCH-i910. This Windows Mobile 6.1 based touchscreen handset features Samsung’s TouchWiz interface that allows users to customize widgets on the home screen. It also has an optical mouse in place of D-pad, which should be convenient for navigation. Read More

Apple Placed 7th in Q3 2008 Worldwide Mobile Phone market

According to Gartner’s report the worldwide mobile phones sales reached 309 million units in third quarter of 2008, a 6 percent year-over-year increase. Nokia topped the mobile phone market with 118 million phones sold, which were more than twice Samsung’s sales of 52.8 million. Sony was in third place with 24.8 million units followed by Motorola and LG with 24.6 million units and 24 million units respectively. RIM was in the sixth place followed closely by Apple in seventh place. Read More

Apple Promoting the New MacBooks as The World’s Greenest Notebooks

Apple has setup a page to promote the environmentally friendly nature of the new MacBook lineup. The headline of the page says “The new MacBooks. The world’s greenest family of notebooks. The highly recyclable even more energy efficient MacBook family has been designed with the environment in mind.” Read More

Apple Safari and Google Chrome Gain Worldwide Browser Market Share

Research firm OneStat is reporting that both Safari and Chrome web browsers saw a market share increase in 2008. Safari’s market share increased 0.24 percent to 2.42 percent whereas Chrome reached 0.55 percent. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer dominated the worldwide browser market share with 81.36 percent, which drop from 83.27 percent in February 2008. Read More

LG Officially Launches Prada II Handset

LG has officially announced update for its Prada smartphone, the new LG Prada II. The new handset will be accompanied by a Bluetooth watch called Prada Link. The new watch will allow uses to see incoming calls, read SMS and see other alerts without taking out the handset. The watch is designed specifically to work with the LG Prada II handset. Read More

Samsung Shows Concept Phone with Foldable OLED Screen

Samsung is showcasing their new concept phone at FPD International Show in Yokohama, Japan. From top the phone looks like ordinary mobile phones, but it opens like a book to reveal a flexible OLED screen big enough for most mobile uses. According to Samsung, the new design will eliminate the screen size constrains normally associated with mobile phones that limits the usability of the device. Watch the Phone in Action.

BlackBerry Storm Review Roundup: Touch Magic Missing

BlackBerry Storm was the second most talked about phone after the iPhone 3G this year. The new BlackBerry was supposed to stop the iPhone Tsunami by its clickable touchscreen. But if the reviews are any indication this touchscreen Blackberry is just another iPhone wannabe and not an iPhone killer. The clickable touchscreen was the most talked about feature of the new phone and almost all the reviews unanimously agree that RIM failed to implement a very interesting concept. Below are the ten well-balanced reviews of the new RIM BlackBerry Storm 9530. Read More

Apple Releases 2.2 Firmware Update for iPhone and iPod touch

Apple today released iPhone 2.2 Firmware Update, which is available through iTunes for iPhone and iPod touch owners. To get the 246.4MB update just connect your iPhone or iPod touch to the computer and click check for update. According to the release note, the update contains many bug fixes and improvements, including the following: Read More

Apple Plans to Release Mac OS X Snow Leopard in Q1 2009

Apple’s Director of Engineering for Unix Technologies, Jordan Hubbard, revealed at LISA 08 (Large Installation System Administration Conference) that Apple plans to ship Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard in first quarter of 2009. He also talked about Mac OS X development and what the future of Mac OS X will be. He talked in detail about various Unix features present or modified in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Read More

Alienware Announces Area-51 X-58 and ALX X-58 Gaming Desktops with Core i7 Processors

Alienware has also jumped on Core i7 bandwagon with their new Area-51 X-58 and ALX X-58 gaming desktops. The X-58 is available with 2.66GHz Core i7-920 processor as base configuration with option of upgrading to 2.93GHz Core i7-940 or 3.2GHz Core i7-965. The ALX X-58 comes with 2.93GHz Core i7-940 base processor with option of upgrading to 3.2GHz Core i7-965 Extreme processor. Read More

Google’s Voice-Enabled Mobile App Launched for iPhone

Last Friday, Google released information about its upcoming voice-enabled search app for iPhone. The new application is now available through iTunes for free. The voice-enabled search is actually an update to Google’s existing iPhone application Google Mobile App. The updated version now allows users to place the phone to their ear and ask any question, like where is Starbucks? or movie shows timing or which is the nearest Thai restaurant? Read More

Dell Introduces Core i7 Based Studio XPS and XPS 730x Desktops

Today, Intel officially released the Core i7 processors and all the computer makers have started to announce systems based on the new processors. Dell has launched two new systems based on Core i7 processors the Studio XPS and XPS 730x. The Studio XPS features 2.66GHz Intel Core i7-920 processor as standard, along with optional $470 upgrade to 2.93GHz Core i7-940 processor. The base configuration will be priced $949 and it will come with Windows Vista Home Premium, DVD burner, 3GB DDR3 tri-channel SDRAM, 500GB hard drive, 256MB ATI Radeon HD 3450 graphics and integrated 7.1 channel audio. Read More

Verizon Officially Announces BlackBerry Storm Pricing

Few days back Verizon announced that it would start shipping the new Blackberry Storm on November 21st. But at that time no information about pricing for the device and monthly services was released, well that has changed today. Verizon today announced that with two-year contract the phone would be available for $199.99 after $50 mail-in rebate. With one-year agreement it will cost $299.99 and without contract it will be priced $599.99. The BlackBerry Storm will require a Nationwide Email Plan along with Nationwide Voice plan. Read More

Asus Introduces First Smartphone P565 with 800MHz CPU

Asus today introduced their new P565 PDA phone with 800MHz processor. Asus claims that the phone is the fastest in the world. The phone is based on Windows Mobile 6.1 and uses a touch-driven user interface – Glide – an innovative touch interface designed by Asus. Asus says that the new phone posted Vsbenchmark scores almost two times that of competing products in its class. The company didn’t say what the score was or what devices were compared. Read More

Intel Officially Ships Core i7 Processors

Intel has started shipping the new Nehalem architecture based Core i7 Processors, which they announced in August of this year. Nehalem is the seventh major x86 architecture and is designed explicitly for multi-core processor architecture. Intel claims that the new processors will see significant increase in memory efficiency and overall performance, as Intel has dropped the front side bus system in favor of new QuickPath Interconnect system, which uses point-to-point link between the processor and peripherals. Read More

V-Moda Introduces Vibe II Stereo Headset for iPhone

V-Moda has introduced successor to their iPhone-centric Vibe Duo headset, the new Vibe II headphones with in-line mic. We liked the look of original Vibe headphone the new Vibe II design it too jazzy for our taste. But, V-Moda claims that the new-machined metal design is eco-friendly and will also improve audio quality. Read More

iPhone 2.2 Update Coming Next Week

iPhoneHellas.gr has posted information from reliable source stating that iPhone software version 2.2 will be released next Friday on 21st November. Apple started the beta testing of the 2.2 software update last month and there have been many reports about the above-mentioned features. There is still now word if Apple will add system wide Push support as it has promised before. Read More