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Samsung Galaxy Nexus Launches on Verizon

News — December 20, 2011 at 4:24 am | Comment Now
Samsung Galaxy Nexus, the first smartphone to be equipped with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS will be available on Verizon for the price of $299 with two-year agreement. It comes with dual core 1.2GHz processor, 32GB of internal memory and zooms along 4G LTE network of Verizon. The Nexus become quite popular in the market and earned Editor’s Choice rating last month. Apart from Ice Cream Sandwich OS, it gets AMOLED 720p 4.7 inches display that offers unmatched brightness and truly superb movies. The operating system is super sleek, easy to use and allows for user friendly much more attractive smartphone design. With conventional front buttons on Samsung Galaxy Nexus you barely have to lift your fingers from the display. With impressive features like Recent Applications button, People Book is an alternative to usual address book along with streamlined notification  [...]

Nintendo Wii U Launches in 2012

News — December 16, 2011 at 12:05 am | Comment Now
Nintendo rocked the house at E3 2011 by revealing the upcoming console, Nintendo Wii U. Like always, the company targets to completely change and innovate the gaming world with their most up-to-date console; one of the examples is Wii U. It is a fitting successor to the original Nintendo Wii, but will feature the predecessor’s exceptional motion controls and will be complimented by high definition video and audio. The all new Wii U is designed to compete with Sony PlayStation and Microsoft Xbox 360 consoles. It is equipped with AMD Radeon high definition GPU and power based IBM multi core processor along with internal flash based memory for game save data and media storage. Nevertheless, the Wii U also supports USB HDD and external SD card support enabling users for expanding storage capacity. Probably utmost innovation of Nintendo Wii U is its 6.2-inch 16:9 LCD touchscreen display  [...]

Toshiba Wireless Keyboard: Slender Tablet Add-On Provides Solid Typing

News — December 5, 2011 at 12:05 am | Comment Now
Toshiba Corporation introduces its slimmest Bluetooth tablet keyboard, which is mainly because of the fact that it comes with built in battery instead of two AAA’s. The keyboard can be recharged through offered micro USB cable. And since Toshiba Thrive tablet comes with full size USB port, which allows you to charge it directly through the tablet. The switch at the bottom lets you turn off or on the keyboard, while the small yet hard to press button enables you to put it in the pairing mode. There are LEDs in two of top-row keys, which indicate battery and power state. The keyboard’s firmness fused with solid build quality provides it a stable feeling, while you pound away at buttons. The matte plastic flat island-style buttons are well placed and sturdy, albeit they are quite closer to notebook spacing as compared to large desktop spacing. The down and up arrow buttons are half  [...]

Apple Moves to Sharp for LCD Panels

News — November 29, 2011 at 12:03 am | Comment Now
Apple Inc. is adding Sharp Corporation as a manufacturing company of displays used in next generation iPad, people familiar with situation said Thursday as United States consumer electronics firm moves for diversifying component suppliers for its products. One of the people well-known with the matter stated that the next generation iPad of Apple will be introduced in the year 2012, while the Kameyama facility of Sharp in Central Japan will produce LCD screens for iPad. The person also stated that the company will be investing in the panel manufacturing facilities of Sharp in Japan, without identifying the amount, highlighting company’s plans to work with plenty of component manufacturers for ensuring that it can secure enough components for making its famous iPads and iPhones. Sharp Corporation, an Osaka-based company produces LCD screens that are broadly used in flat screen televisions,  [...]

Nikon’s D800 DSLR Images and Specs Leaked

News — November 24, 2011 at 12:05 am | Comment Now
Nikon Corporation, a Japanese multinational company has revealed the generously packaging, long rumoured 36-megapixel camera with healthy specifications. It is lighter and smaller as compared to D700 and offers 36-megapixel sensor that boasts 7360 x 4912 pixel resolution, SD+CF memory card slots, slightly bigger screen, impressive video quality better than D3s, videos modes: 720p/60/30/25/24 and 1080p/30/25/24 and Autofocus similar to D700 and D3. It seems that another manufacturer Canon is waiting for Nikon to go with announcements for deciding how to proceed. Canon could go for the standard megapixel, nevertheless with interestingly full frame camera with impressive high ISO performance. The D800 is possibly the most anticipated device from Nikon Corporation of 2011, which was rumoured to be launched in the year 2011 in the month of March. It will be  [...]

Windows 8 and its Specs Revealed

News — November 7, 2011 at 12:05 am | Comment Now
Windows, one of the most used operating system brings great challenges for Microsoft to keep its users impressed in the next version of Windows 8. Albeit, the 7 has done astonishingly well, since its introduction and the company has been continuously working for making the Windows 8 even better. Microsoft has revealed the early version of Windows 8, which is available in three different packages such as 64-bit version, 32-bit version and 64-bit version with developer tools. It offers plenty of new features from the new user interface to enhanced safety features and Windows App Store. Support for ARM based chipsets, sensors and touch makes Windows 8 perform exceptionally on your choice of full spectrum of gadgets including 10-inch slates with long lasting battery life, powerful all in one desktop PCs with 27 inch high resolution displays and ultra lightweight notebooks.  [...]

Amazon Kindle Fire Revealed

News — October 24, 2011 at 12:05 am | Comment Now
Amazon Inc., an electronics commerce corporation has unveiled the all new Amazon Kindle Fire, which was formerly introduced during the Amazon Press Conference, couple of days ago. It comes packed with plenty of features and has certainly got its competitors nibbling by announcing the gadget for market friendly $199 price tag. It is equipped with abundant of features such as streaming television shows and movies and access to application store of Amazon; seven-inch Gorilla Glass color screen and Android operating system of Google with Wi-Fi connectivity. Standard features on Kindle Fire include multitouch seven-inch display with anti-reflective treatment, in-plane switching technology, 16 million colors and 1024 x 600 pixel resolution at 169ppi; 8GB internal memory, which is enough for 80 apps, 800 songs, 6,000 books or 10 movies; Free cloud storage for Amazon content; 7.5  [...]

Virgin Mobile Proclaims HTC Wildfire S Priced At $199.99

News — September 30, 2011 at 3:46 pm | Comment Now
In their latest announcement, Virgin Mobile has proclaimed that they will be launching the HTC Wildfire S on 23rd of October and the handset is said to be priced at $199.99. With the forthcoming HTC Wildfire S the Virgin Mobile USA will strengthen their AndroidTM-powered smartphone series of handsets. The HTC Wildfire STM will be available in Silver at Best Buy, while from Radio Shack you could get the handset in White. The two versions of the handset are prefect for the people who wants to bring in some personal style to their handsets without any contract. The HTC Wildfire S will be exclusively available with Virgin Mobile. The vivid display screen will please the users who use a lot of Apps and are addicted to Social Networks. The HTC Wildfire S is fitted with Virgin Mobile Live 2.0 social networking app, which is used for accessing the