The past week has been great for the folks at Apple and Samsung, and the major reason for that being the fact that their companies won accolades for their display technologies on their mobile phones. Apple’s iPad and iPhone bagged gold Display Application of the Year and Display of the Year awards from the Society for Information Display. Both, the iPhone and iPad were praised for their convention of in-plane switching engineering, which incorporates the orientation of crystal molecules in such a way that their motion is collimate to the panel, rather than being perpendicular to it. As a result of which you gets an extended range of viewing angle along with superb color. The viewing angle on these devices is up to 180 degrees. The high pixel-density “Retina Display” of Apple’s iPhone 4 is supposedly developed by LG Displays, which also is the primary supplier for the display of iPad. The Samsung Electronics on the other hand earned silver  [...]

It’s not been too long that we got the first glimpses of the Samsung Exhibit 4G for T-Mobile. And now if the rumors are too be believed it looks as if this Gingerbread phone will be available for the customers from June 8th. We still haven’t got any words on the pricing though, but we expect the dealers to pay something close to $325 a pop. According the rumors and the unauthorized photos launched in the market, the Samsung Exhibit 4G is expected to be an HSPA + handset running on Android 2.3 and will be having TouchWiz in addition. Some other features for the phone comprises of a rear- and front-facing cameras, a microSD card slot and an LED flash on its rear end. The rumor mill also suggests that the phone will be having a 3 mp rear camera and a 1GHz Hummingbird CPU.  All the specifications that the rumors have told are completely different from the speculations that we were  [...]

Ok so we are back from the weekend and while we were enjoying the weekend we heard a lot of rumors from our tech buffs regarding the next iPhone, yes, next iPhone. So as soon as we got on our desks this morning we decided to dig deep in to the rumors and find out what exactly is the story, and whether there is any fire without this smoke. The latest rumor that we heard came from a technical analyst who is giving out some of the details of the “so-called” iPhone, told that the next iPhone will be called iPhone 4S, and later we saw a case design from another technology website. All those rumors makes us think whether its real or just some random guesses at what Apple can do? But it didn’t take us too much to realize that it was just a scam, and the bowed midsection in the graphic  [...]

The Wireless 4G network for Verizon is known as, and it actually is one of the fastest 4G Network. Now, the company is all set to launch their second phone which will function properly with its speeds. The phone will be Samsung-built Droid Charge, and was launched on Verizon on Saturday. The Samsung Droid Charge will be joining the HTC’s flagship model Thunderbolt. The HTC Thunderbolt impressed us in our performance testing by delivering some really fast data-transfer speeds. But recently Verizon’s 4G network suffered a break down across the country, which made many of the customers think: Can the company afford another 4G phone? Verizon customers experienced a countrywide downtime for more than 30 hrs from April 26 to April 28, on 4G LTE network of the company. The problem first was figured by the customers using the Thunderbolt smartphones, as they only were able to receive 3G or sometimes even 2G connections. Considering the  [...]

Long before the launch of Google’s Acer Chromebook and Samsung Series 5 Chromebook, we were acquainted from the fact that Verizon telecom service will be providing unlimited 3G coverage for the netbooks from the internet giants. But until yesterday there was no news of any data carrier across the Atlantic. We haven’t got a lot of details as for now, but there is news saying that Three UK has came forward as Chromebooks' carrier of pick for the 3G data in the United Kingdom. As for now, the company hasn’t spoken anything on the entire issue, but has told that they will be offering some more details in coming “next few weeks”. The latest update that we’ve got from the Chrome OS Site of UK, the British Chromebook customers will be getting a free SIM card, which will offer 3GB of 3G coverage for three months, after which the users will be free to choose any contract free pay-as-you-go plans of their choice. These pay-as-you-go plan ranges  [...]

Despite the strongly burning rumors in the market that Google is developing Chrome OS for tablets, Google has reported that they at present are concentrating only on notebooks, and will continue that for sometime more in the near future. Google also has raised some eyebrows last month when they made some alteration to Chrome OS’s source code. It added numerous references to tablets and touchscreen, including a brand new touch-optimized tab page. The basic idea of the Chrome Operating System tablet is not new though; Google even had made mocks of devices like this in February 2010. When asked about the future plans for the Google Chrome OS beyond the notebook, SVP of Google Chrome, Mr. Sundar Pichai said that the Chrome OS is “agnostic” for the hardware, the system runs on. In other words you can say that, Chrome OS can easily  [...]

After a lot of hard work and determination, Google finally has introduced its own steaming music service to bring music storage to cloud. Google debuted their “Google Music” on Tuesday morning at their I/O developer conference. The service currently is called “Music Beta by Google,” and is intended to function as a “digital locker,” where users will be able to store their music in the cloud rather than storing the music on their mobile phones or hard drives. This supposed music library will let you access your music files from anywhere using a web connected PC or using your android phone. So as long as you have access to internet you will be able to access the music that you’ve stored on the music library on Google’s remote server. The best thing about this service is that you’ll be able to add as much as 20,000 songs, and that the service will be free till it’s in its beta mode. Just as Amazon, which also launched a service  [...]

Things just got better for iPhone and iPod users with the latest iPhone app “Search Ninja”. This one week old application is all about easy and fast search on mobile. Search Ninja offers a query once and search ubiquitously experience, which is convenient, innate and a lot more practical than doing the same search query all across the multiple sites or applications. “Search Ninja has been explicitly designed for the users who uses the web search frequently on their iPhone,” says Ankit Ahuja who is the developer of the app. This indicates that the most remarkable feature of the application is to save useful few seconds for the users while they search. He further adds, “Users will be saving plenty of time even if they are using Google search”. “While the advanced users can customize the app by adding custom search engines for comparatively less popular services in the market.” Fan the flames of this $0.99 app and you’ll  [...]

Samsung Galaxy S II has the typical Android e-mail inbox which lets you configure all the accounts in to one or filter an account to see one at a time. Features worth mentioning here are Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, conference calling, voice dialing and speakerphone. This phone can be a hotspot for about eight devices at a time. In a few global markets it comes with NFC. There are also attempts made by the manufacturer to make it more business friendly through VPN, support for Cisco voice calling, virtual desktop and on-device encryption. You get all the Google services here like e-mail, voice navigation, maps, search, Places, chat, YouTube, and Latitude alogn with tools like alarm clock, calendar, calculator, world clock, timer, and stopwatch. There is also voice search and to-do list. There are a lot of preloaded apps on the phone including Social Hub Premium which will group all the feeds of social networking in a single place and you will be able to see the IM status and communications  [...]

A new lawsuit has accused Pixar, Lucasfilm, Intuit, Adobe, Intel, Google, and Apple of conspiring to suppress and fix compensation of their employees. It was launched yesterday by Siddhart Hariharan, a former software engineer at Lucasfilm and it is focusing on the agreements of ‘no solicitation’ that companies in question have agreed between the year 2005 and 2009. It is claiming that the tech companies have violated the California antitrust statues but it isn’t seeking relief under U.S. Clayton Act of 1914 which is quite interesting. This assures that the case is dealing only with California law instead of the federal statues of antitrust. These accusations might sound familiar and it is because Pixar, Intuit, Intel, Google, Adobe, and Apple settled with Department of Justice last  [...]