New Windows Phone 7

MIX 2011 is well underway and one of the really cool things that Microsoft showed at MIX 2011 in Las Vegas is the new IE9 for Windows Phone 7 and how it performs against Safari on iOS and Android’s native web browser. Well, rather interestingly, IE9 for Windows Phone 7 clearly smokes the above mentioned browsers, all thanks to its hardware acceleration capability. Windows Phone 7 Devices Director of the Windows Phone program Joe Belfiore took the stage to start of the HTML5 browser wars. Obviously, seeing their browsers get smoked by IE9 mobile would definitely initiate a retaliation from both the companies. The HTML5 speed reading demo was...

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Amazon App Store Launched Internationally

The Amazon Appstore has earned a name for being a great market for buying discounted apps. But only US customers were able to benefit from their promotional offers as the company had restricted its service for the region. Today, Amazon has launched its store in a number of countries without any official announcement of an international launch, since customers from many locations are reporting that they can access it. Earlier on it was reported that only the EU was granted access of the Appstore outside of the US, but soon we found out that the launch was extended to other countries as well. Currently, the Appstore has been reported to be available...

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Apple vs Samsung

 According to the Wall Street Journal’s report, Samsung has simply outshined Apple with its smartphones sale during the last quarter which is more than 20 million whereas Apple has been able to sale 17.1 million phones so far. For describing the Apple’s smartphone figures, the journal used the term “sold” in specific. In this regard, shipments cannot be considered as sales and thereby lie the nub. The journal has specifically emphasized on the term “shipped” while referring to Samsung’s 20 million smartphones. By next week, new quarterly figures will be revealed by Samsung, but the company has stopped sharing its shipment figures for...

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Android Based Tablet to Hit Markets This Year

It seems that Amazon’s launch of cheap tablets like $199 Kindle Fire has started a new race among tablet manufacturers. Now every company wants to launch a tablet which is low-cost yet attractive for consumers. In India, they have launched $35 tablet called Aakash for students and teachers. If you remember, a company named Leader International Inc. launched its first Android-based tablet called Impression 10 in the start of current year. The 9.7 inch tablet costing $350 was one of the cheapest tablets available then. Now, the company is launching its 7-inch tablet model which is much cheaper than the 10-inch one. On Tuesday, the California-based...

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iPhone Nano

Once again, we see Apple giving its competitors a run for their money. It certainly wishes to dominate year 2011. The latest news in the tech world, confirmed by Wall Street Journal, states that Apple is now working on a mini version of iPhone, which is going to be called ‘iPhone Nano’. This is not the first time you will see Apple downsizing its products, if you recall ‘iPod Nano’. The 8GB device is predicted to be cheaper than all the iPhone versions and would be 1/3 smaller than the original iPhone with an edge-to-edge screen and a number of apps. This seems like one of Apple’s tactics to counteract the growing Android products market share...

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Chromatic Iphone

I really love the chromatic series, especially the red/white one, because pretty much red is my favorite color. But the thing is , i dont really know if i would get that one. Ever since Apple came out with the Unibody concept for the MacBook pro, It is an iconic design statement. We would expect a lot of mobile manufacturers to tout a unibody design in the future and why not the iPhone itself going unibody? Here are some renders … not by Apple of course ...

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