Archive for January, 2011

2011 is the year for new Droids. 5 MP Camera for Motorola Droid The latest feat by Motorola is laced with fine quality of 5 MP camera with auto focus geo tagging, image stabilization and also the camera is capable of recording of high definition video (720p HD). Users don’t have to worry about the memory as the newly launched mobile handset has 8 GB inbuilt memory (highest inbuilt memory among the [...]

Microsoft has regularly trailed behind Google and its now-partner Yahoo in search. The desire to take share from Google has led the Windows developer to lose hundreds of millions of dollars and take radical steps such as its Bing cashbacks, where Microsoft paid for discounts on devices and other products bought after a Bing search. Microsoft Zune for Windows Phone 7 This should come as no surprise [...]

The gritty, single-player crime adventure now features a "Hustlin’ Wit Dre portion — allowing players to pick up virtual goods such as headphones, weapons and a vintage car. Of course, the game also features a stream of "Kush" (featuring Snoop Dogg and Akon)off the long-awaited "Detox" album slated for early 2011. There’s even a link within the game to buy [...]

Unfortunately, the justification for buying a Google TV is its ability to deliver the full Web experience. But with more and more content providers banning access to the device browser, the argument to ditch Google TV in favor of a connected laptop or home-theater PC becomes even more compelling. Sony hasn’t helped matters by discounting its own Google TV products, a lever designed to move more [...]

People have been experiencing this problem of scratches around their disc ever since the 360 released. Turning the console while the disc is running is a sure way to accomplish this scratch. How does it happen if your 360 is stationary? Xbox 360’s are made with a relatively cheap disc drive that allows vibration from your feet to move that disc drive ever so slightly. Mix this with Kinect’s [...]

Rarely asking for large-ticket items for Christmas, I carefully placed a cut-out of a Kindle advertisement on my husband’s computer keyboard (a sure-fire way to get something immediately noticed!) Not even a half hour later, the questions began to fly: “What kind of Kindle do you want, honey?” I learned that there were, of course, more options than I wanted to deal with at that moment. [...]

The Circuit Board Ceramic Speaker gives a nice artistic touch to portable speakers, an accessory that is known more for its function than its form. On an aesthetic level, the ceramic speaker is an inspiring work of art. Crafted from the ceramic substrate, the speakers have a wafer thin body frame, which measures a mere one millimeter. Come to think about it, the ceramic speaker is thinner than the [...]

A newly-disclosed Apple patent application suggests support of touch gestures which can be used while looking away from a screen. A recurring problem with Apple’s modern touchscreen devices is the inability to control some functions while glancing away, limiting usefulness during activities like workouts. Under the proposed scheme, people would be able to control media playback through gestures [...]

Apple is now facing tough competition in the smartphone market from Android as it is the highest selling smart phones. Android is comes in many models such as Droid Incredible, HTC Evo 4G and Samsung Epic. Price rate is also where Apple is facing a tough competition from Virgin Mobile Samsung Intercept which offers start from range of $25 per month while verizon can not offer for a low price. Boost [...]

Dev team’s unlocking solution works exclusively with baseband firmware 4.2.1/4.1 even 3.1.3 which comes bundled with firmware 4.0, so you will need to upgrade your iPhone 4/3g/3gs to iPhone firmware 4.0 without preserving its baseband and jailbreak it. You can check your firmware and modem firmware(baseband) versions via Settings->General->About and look for Version and Modem Firmware. iPhone 4/3g/3gs [...]

The Samsung Omnia 7 is a lightweight Smartphone at 138.2 g, with dimensions of 122.4x 64.2 millimeters in order to accommodate the large touchscreen. It is also a slimline device at just 11 millimeters so it will easily fit into a pocket or handbag. The 4 inch super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen boasts a pixel count of 480x 800, and is capable of displaying up to 16 million individual colours, meaning [...]