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Budget 2010: Handsfree Cheaper, Thats IT!
The only real tech-related sops in today's Union Budget speech by the FM relate to some minor duty cuts in mobile phone accessories and battery chargers!
Wall of Stats: About Google
Royal Pingdom has compiled an amazing list of stats about the world's most popular web portal.
The BMW PC Cabinet - Now In India
The Thermaltake Level 10, designed by BMW, is one of the most innovative cabinet designs we've ever seen and many would say you have to be clinically insane to want one of these things. After all, that's also the going rate for a current generation Android handset or iPhone, though we feel that you get a whole lot more money's worth when you buy this.
Emporia's Simple Phones for the Elderly
At last week's Mobile World Congress, Austrian manufacturer Emporia unveiled two new "simple phones" for veterans and others dismayed by the feature-creep on today's smartphones and super-smartphones.
Screen Test: iPhone 3GS vs Nexus One
Boffins at DisplayMate will be publishing a series of scientific articles comparing the two superphones, and the benchmarks are currently in favour of the iPhone 3GS.
No Google Goggles on HTC Tattoo?
The two mid-range Android phones currently available in India, the HTC Tattoo and Samsung Galaxy Spica, which run on Donut (v1.6) and Cupcake v(1.5) respectively will sadly miss out on Google Goggles. While the site says that it is currently available for Android devices running Android 1.6 and above, it did not work on the HTC Tattoo, which is a v1.6 phone.
Intex Launches 3 (Yes, Triple) SIM Phone
The next remake of the Aladdin story will soon have the hero saying "Khulja SIM SIM ... SIM" if Intex were to be the main sponsor! The New Delhi based hardware maker today announced the launch of the Intex 5030 which is clearly targeted at road warriors, who can't wait any longer for mobile number portability. It comes with two batteries (one to recharge externally while using the one in the phone), and claims 3.5 hours of talktime and 270 hours of standby time.
MWC: New Solar Phone For India?
The Samsung Guru may have been first to market, but it looks like the solar phone floodgates will open in 2010 with more players entering the country.
Exclusive: Meet the Adam designer
Technoholik chats with the National Institute of Design alumnus who is the design brain behind the Notion Ink Adam. Makarand Kulkarni talks to us about the metaphor of the "spiral bound form" and other design decisions around the tablet that's creating waves even before it launches
MWC: SlideIT Takes A Swipe At Swype
SlideIT claims to have superior word prediction, work on more platforms (symbian, windows, android supported; iphone version about to launch), and offer a free one-month trial. Well, considering that Swype just raised more money, Nissim should be hard selling those claims to the VCs.
MWC: Compact Phone From Videocon Soon?
This Chinese OEM had a rather interesting/bizarre looking phone on display and we decided to shoot it on our Flip just for novelty value.
MWC: Moblin + Maemo = Meego
Intel and Nokia have announced that they are merging their Linux development platforms - Moblin and Maemo, which will eventually translate into "pocketable mobile computers, netbooks, tablets, mediaphones, connected TVs and in-vehicle infotainment systems".
Sneak Peek Video: Notion Ink Adam
You've seen the pictures, so here's the exclusive video of the Notion Ink Adam from this weekend's edition of Technoholik on ET NOW. We flew down to Hyderabad and caught up with the Notion Ink team just before they left for Barcelona to showcase the Android-based tablet tomorrow at the Mobile World Congress.
EXCLUSIVE: Notion Ink ADAM (Specs, Pics)
As the global tech media waits for Notion Ink to unveil the Adam at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, we decided to hop across to Hyderabad and catch them before they caught the flight to MWC!
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