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I think I speak for the majority of consumer electronics fans when I say that we would all love the chance to have the financial backing of a company like Apple to be able to dream up our own product line of innovative, beautiful and outrageously expensive products. Imagine your own home full of gadgets that you have imagined, invented and then had Apple bring them to life for the world to lust over. Unfortunately, unless you  are a product designing genius who gets snapped up and produces the next big thing, the chances are that dream is more than likely unreachable but designer Antonio De Rosa has produced a line of dream gadgets for Apple’s 2012 lineup.

Obviously the gadgets shown in the video below are purely fictional and in no way represent any real life products, either existing or in the pipeline but they do show off the designer’s wonderful imagination and design abilities. The first gadget to be showcased is the beautiful and sleek iBox which functions as a set top box with a touch screen interface. The iBox has a capacitive, seven inch touch screen and is designed to work as your own personal high definition television. Connecting the iBox to your existing TV would allow users to take control using touch gestures and Siri voice commands.

The next gadget in the ADR Studios lineup is the iCam which I am pretty sure a lot of photography fans would love to see. The iCam functions as a DSLR 4/3 camera with a beautiful, purpose crafted aluminum unibody and features a front and rear touch screen. The iCam would also be Siri compatible and house an LED flash as well as a pico projector making it an Apple camera with powerful functionality.

Probably the mouth watering of the range is the Apple iWatch which is designed to work harmoniously with iPhone and iPad. The watch can be connected to an iPhone or iPad to offer additional functionality and comes with a whopping 32GB of internal storage as well as the ability to beam stored media onto any surface through the use of a built in pico projector. As you may be aware, De Rosa is the designer responsible for the iPhone SJ concepts which we have seen flying around the world wide web and obviously no dream Apple range would be complete without the SJ iPhone. The new iPhone would benefit from a thinner form factor with a reduced weight, made from polycarbonate, aluminum and PK2 Kevlar which houses a fully capacitive glass touch display.

The problem that I find with concept designs like these is that it genuinely upsets me that I can’t rush out to an Apple Retail Store right now and hand my credit card over and walk away with these products. The iWatch and iBox concepts are not only beautiful in design, but offer amazing – albeit fantasy – features which any true gadget geek would salivate over. Check out the video below and see what you think about the beautiful concepts from ADR Studios.

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Clingle is a Geo-social app with video check-in and it is the first app with this feature. This app is from the creators of MyCityWay and it uses the data of MyCityWay while adding the social features along with that. It lets you explore popular places around you, keep track of your friends and also lets you send personalized messages(using text,picture, audio or video) to your friends about the spot.

Features of Clingle for Android and iPhone

Record and share your check-in moments as a video by sharing live videos of the place you visitAdd iTunes audio to Clings on your iPhoneLeave surprise messages and make your friends unlock it when they visit a particular place, add video clips to Clings or start private group conversions.Explore for popular places, deals and discounts in your neighborhood including suggestions for new things around the city.Redeem your points and badges for real life goodies! Earn points and special badges and start redeeming them on the Clingle store for exciting real life goodies FOR FREE! The Clingle store will soon be live for India and US.Download Clingle for Android and iPhone from the Android Market and the Apple iTunes Store for free. It would soon be available for Nokia and BlackBerry phones. It works in USA, UK, Singapore and India. Coming soon across the globe. Passionate about Mobile phones and Gadgets. Love to explore new and innovative mobile phone Apps.

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You might have seen the unboxing pics of Motorola RAZR  and now we have a short video of the handset being unboxed. As you might see in the video , the box is very compact and reminds us of a box of sweets or something like that. We do have a sweet looking handset inside the red-themed package.

Also you must check out the hands-on  and let us know if you have any questions about the Motorola RAZR ?

Varun Krish is a Mobile Technology Enthusiast and has been blogging about mobile phones since 2005. His current phones include the Nokia E6 and Apple iPhone 4. You can follow him on Twitter @varunkrish and on Google+

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Back at Nokia World 2011 we had the chance to get a neat little demo of the Nokia Lumia 710 from a Product Manager . The Lumia 710 which is going to be the most affordable Windows Phone device from Nokia along with changeable back covers and a user removable BP-3L 1300 mAh battery.  There are matching accessories available as well including the Purity headset and the Luna Bluetooth headset. Watch the video below ( available in 720p) for a short overview of the device.

The Lumia 710 packs a 3.7 inch display and is powered by a 1.4GHz processor and 512 MB of RAM . On the back is a 5MP autofocus camera with a dedicated shutter button on the side.

Make sure you check out our initial impressions post as well

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If you missed out the Google Galaxy Nexus and Ice Cream Sandwich announcement earlier today , good news for you , Google has uploaded the entire 1 hour event video on Youtube where Google’s Andy Rubin and Samsung Mobile’s JK Shin unveil the Samsung Galaxy Nexus

Make sure you crank up the video quality to 720p as the quality of the video is not great

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Skype for Android has been updated to version 2.5.0.108 that brings 2-way video calling support to 14 more Android phones and tablets.The new version also supports video calling in some of the Android 2.2 (Froyo) devices. The Skype v2.1 brought the video calling support for 17 devices.

The compatible devices are Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, HTC Nexus One, HTC Shooter, Sony Ericsson Xperia Live with Walkman, Sony Ericsson Xperia neo V, LG Optimus Black, LG Optimus 3D, LG Optimus 2x, Motorola Photon, Motorola Droid 3, Motorola Bionic, Motorola Xoom, Motorola Atrix and Acer Iconia.

This version also has improved support for bluetooth headsets and number of bug fixes and performance enhancements video enhancements. Some of the other features include option to switch between portrait and landscape mode during video calls, and zoom in with a simple double tap on the screen, In-client advertising, conversations are now grouped around your contacts in recent view and option to edit and delete IM messages.

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We already told you that the 2011 Sony Ericsson Xperia devices are getting Android 2.3.4. Now a user in the XDA forum has confirmed that the stock camera now supports 720p video recording with continuous auto focus after the Android 2.3.4 update. This update also brings lots of other features that include Gtalk video calling support, Swype Keyboard and 3D sweep panorama.

One of the XDA member has posted the 720p video taken using the Xperia PLAY:

Other than the Gtalk video calling and the Swype keyboard, this update would also bring option to take screenshot without rooting the phone when the power button is pressed, share apps directly Facebook, option to set auto brightness, new smooth screen on/off animation, Ability to change playlist order, Option to enable/disable extensions and New icons for Folder and Widgets.

This update is also rolling out for Xperia Neo and Xperia arc in some the European countries.

Source: XDA Forums | Via: Talk Android

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Idea has launched 3G video calling booth in Malapuram, Kerala that would offer ISD video calls to any 3G enabled phones across the world. People can visit Idea kiosk at IMT Mobile, Dubai Souk, behind Kottakkal bus stand, Kottakkal to make International video calls. Apart from ISD, people can also make STD and local video calls to any 3G mobile phones with front facing camera.

As a promotional offer they offer free ISD Video calling from the booth on 21st, 22nd, and 23rd of September 2011. This video calling booth is first of its kind in Kerala, and they would launch more booths in other locations of Kerala soon. Idea now has 1250 3G cell sites in Kerala offering 3G services like Video Conferencing, Idea Mall Application Store, Mobile TV, Video on Demand, apart from high-speed Internet Browsing.

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We’re getting closer and closer to a stable Android port for the HP TouchPad – a webOS-based tablet which was discontinued less than two weeks ago. A new video has been released today which shows the HP TouchPad booting into CyanogenMod 7 which suggests that development of Android on HP TouchPad is coming along very nicely.

The source of the news is RootzWiki – an Android developer forum – which is now the home for Android-related development for the HP TouchPad: Developer dalingrin from the CyanogenMod Team posted a video of an HP TouchPad booting into the popular CyanogenMod 7 aftermarket firmware for Android.

As you can see in the video, nothing on the screen is formatted properly and even the touchscreen drivers don’t work. However, this build of CM7 is in a very alpha stage of development so these things are expected. Everything will improve as the developers continue their contributing to the project.

From the thread:

Hey Internet/RootzWiki–

Here is some (older) touchpad progress from Friday. The Cyanogenmod team wanted to share it with the public as a blatant publicity stunt to bring attention to our need for a few more touchpads (for developers currently working without them).

As you can see from this quick demo, we’ve been working hard and have made progress. Since this video was created last week, the build has been more "tabletized" (tablet tweaks added, etc.), lvm support has been added, and 2d hardware acceleration should appear very soon.

This is all a part of the TouchDroid project, initiated by a group of four developers from RootzWiki forums. The project attempts to port over Android to the HP TouchPad wherein the first objective is to get Android 2.3 “Gingerbread” to the discontinued tablet and then, when it is released, bring over Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich”. It’s an ambitious project which, if successful, would make the HP TouchPad the cheapest and fastest Android tablet!

The developers have stated that they ultimately see Android and webOS co-existing on the TouchPad wherein users will be able to choose which OS they want to boot into:

Our ultimate vision is to create a *multiboot* solution where the end user will be able to boot into WebOS, Cyanogenmod, and/or other OSes. This appears to be very possible, and we have discussed several potential implementations with our new friends in the WebOS development community to make it easy for an end-user to set up.

The team behind the CM7 build has stated that they do not have an ETA (Estimated Time of Arrival) for the port. They are working as hard as they can and will release the ROM as soon as possible.

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Tata DOCOMO has launched new Value Added Service (VAS service) called Video News Alert in partnership with business channel group Network 18. This would let the users to know the latest news around the world in the form of video clip that could be streamed and also downloaded by both 2G & 3G subscribers. The customers can also search and view news stories, like it, participate in polls and also share their opinion.

To subscribe to this service customers need to SMS VIDEO NEWS to 53333 (Toll Free) or Via IVR by Dialing 155223, after that they would receive confirmation. They would receive 3 video alerts per day in the form of WAP links that could be used to stream or download the video. To unsubscribe SMS ‘UNSUB VIDEONEWS‘ to 53333.

This VAS service would work on all WAP enabled mobile phones. There are no charges to subscribe or use this service, however data charge of 10kb/10p would be charged for viewing or downloading videos.

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For almost as long as we’ve used mobile phones, we’ve been able to send and receive text messages, and later audio and video, through the cell network. Yet, as data packages become increasingly more common for mobile devices, sending those messages over the Internet sounds more conceivable than ever before. Samsung is the new player in this space with its ChatON messaging service.

Other companies have developed this type of service in the past; typically, they all allow text, video and picture messaging between compatible devices. RIM offers BlackBerry Messenger and iOS 5 by Apple will include iMessage, both with similar feature sets but different interfaces. Yet, they don’t support any device made by others, making it impossible for Blackberry Messenger users to communicate with Android or iPhone users, for example.

Samsung’s ChatON, on the other hand, will work with every major smartphone platform available, including iOS, Android, Blackberry OS as well as Samsung’s very own homebrew OS known as Bada. Indeed, ChatON will allow users to message each other no matter which platform they’re running, just as long as they have the client installed.

As you can tell from the demo video above, Samsung is being rather serious about ChatON and has indeed packed it with features. The most basic feature is one-to-one text chat, which behaves similarly to other chat clients on both traditional and mobile platforms. Group conversations are also easy to set up, making it easy to chat with many at once, much like what’s possible with other chat clients as well.

More than just text, users will also be able to share multimedia through a feature known as Trunk. For each conversation there’s a Trunk, which organizes all the multimedia sent throughout said conversation. It will even be possible to add comments to existing media, making interaction that much simpler. In addition to Trunk, ChatON will allow simple video animations to be created right from the device using hand drawings, text, backgrounds, images as well as a background music which is also available at the user’s disposal. This feature, which has no comparable equivalent on other clients, is known as AMS, which stands for Animation Message Service.

ChatON will be available in September in as many as 120 countries, according to Samsung itself. While not particularly innovative, this tool might help needing users cut down their SMS fees, but keep in mind that data charges apply.

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Here is a quick look at Multitasking on the Nokia N9 powered by MeeGo. When you see a preview of all the apps currently running , it shows you the every app’s current state in realtime and not just a screenshot like in some other platforms. For instance the Compass app reacts to movements even when in the Multitasking view. Pretty impressive ! Watch it in action in the video below.

You can also close apps my clicking on the red cross on the top right corner. You can swipe to the right from an app to get to the menu and swipe to the right again for the multi-tasking view.

Here is a look at the Youtube integration on the N9 and how switching between the video and the menu works wonderfully well.

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Looks like BlackBerry has a new celebrity to promote it’s products in India. The Dabang star Salman Khan launched the BlackBerry PlayBook in India recently. Watch the video below.

Also do check out our unboxing of the device.

Has anyone picked up a PlayBook in India ? It starts from Rs.26990 !

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Facebook for Android has been updated to version 1.6.0, that brings video upload support. The previous version was 1.5.4 that was released this April. The new version also brings some improvements in the news feed and ability to view the Facebook pages. The video uploading feature was available for Facebook for PlayBook app recently.

Changes in the Facebook for Android v1.6.0

Upload videos from the appView the Facebook pagesImprovements in the news feed

It only allows you to upload videos on you profile and you can’t upload a videos on other profile or page. Download the Facebook for Android from the Android Market for the Android devices that run Android 1.5 and above for free.

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Blackberry Curve Apollo / Sendona has been leaked again. The specs were already leaked earlier this year along with the Torch 2 and Dakota, this time the hands-on video and the images have been leaked.

This phone is 11mm thick with the curved look at the top and the bottom. The screen resolution is 480x360 pixels which is better than the Curve 8900 and 9300 which is 320x240. The function keys are similar to the earlier Blackberry Curve handsets.

There are volume rockers at the right side with the mute button cum standby key in the middle and the camera key below that. The Micro USB is at the left side. At the top, there is a key lock button in the center and a 3.5mm headphone jack next to it. Microphone is at the bottom and the speaker grill is at the back, below the back cover.

This has 5MP camera at the back with flash and a secondary VGA camera in the front. The 5MP camera doesn’t record HD videos like Dakota.There is a 1000mAh battery at the back code-named EM1, instead of 1050 mAh according to the specs that was leaked earlier.

Other specs like Marvell Tavor CPU MG-1 800MHz CPU, 512MB of eMMC, 512MB of RAM, Wi-Fi b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1, GPS and NFC, remains the same.

According to the site this phone is expected to launch late August after the Blackberry Dakota.

Source: tinhte, Via: Engadget

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Last week we brought you glimpses of the Nokia N9 from the FCC database and now it is looking more and more likely that the phone is about to be revealed soon.

A teaser video showing off the N9 has just been put up by the guys at PocketNow. Not much can be gleaned from the video but the UI does seem to be very smooth and a far departure from Symbian. The camera too is a Carl Zeiss unit and not of the much criticized EDoF variety. The operating system is expected to be MeeGo though technically it is Maemo 6 with MeeGo bindings. Check out the video below.

[Via - PocketNow]

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Google has just shown of the next major version of Android tailor made for Tablets called Honeycomb (Android 3.0 ) in a Video. There was some confusion if HoneyComb was Android 2.4 or 3.0  and now its clear that it’s 3.0. Also HoneyComb is  built entirely for tablet according to the Video you can watch below

The features of Android 3.0 HoneyComb showcased in the video are

Customizable homescreenRich Web Browser with support for TabsTablet optimized GmailRedesigned YoutubeGmail Video Calling3D Google MapsGoogle eBooks

What do you think of Android 3.0 ? Would you like to use it on a Tablet ?

We should be hearing more details soon !

We just heard about Android 2.3 with the launch of the Nexus S and some users are still waiting for an Android 2.2 update for their phones and Google is readying Android 3.0 .

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Back in December we told you about Android chief Andy Rubin showing off a prototype Motorola Android Tablet at the Dive Into Mobile conference. The next version of Android aka HoneyComb was spotted on this device and now we have the demo on video , thanks to a enthusiastic reader . The chances that this prototype tablet is the Motorola XOOM are pretty high !


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Facetime on the iPhone / iPod Touch finally has a new friend – Video Calling through Skype. Today Skype has released version 3.0 of it’s iPhone app which brings the much expected video calling functionality to the iPhone 4 Apart from doing video calls between compatible devices ( iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4th Gen ) , you can also call desktop Skype users provided they have a webcam.  The app works over both WiFi and 3G but we recommend the former. We just tested the app between 2 iPhone 4′s and it was certainly cool.

Skype v3.0 Features / changelogMake Skype to Skype video calls on WiFi and 3GCall Skype desktop users (Mac OS X or Windows) and other iPhone users.Two-way video calls supported on iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS and iPod touch 4th gen.Receive only video supported on iPad and iPod touch 3rd gen, with no camera.Make video calls in portrait and landscape.Skype video calling requires iOS 4.0 or above.

Have you tried the new Skype Video calling app ? Try it soon before the Skype servers crash again !

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One might think LG is out of the smartphone market but the company has managed to sell 2 million units of its affordable Optimus One smartphone.  Now LG has managed to surprise everyone by launching the world’s first dual-core smartphone- OPTIMUS 2x which is capable of recording and playing 1080p HD video.The LG Optimus 2X is powered by the dual-core Tegra 2 system-on-a-chip from NVIDIA  runs at a clock speed of 1GHz and offers low power consumption and high performance for playing video and audio.Users will experience faster experience compared to single-core processors running at the same speed.One can also expect instantaneous touch response and seamless multitasking between applications.

LG Optimus 2X Features1Ghz Dual-core Processor (NVIDIA Tegra 2) 4-inch WVGA screen 8GB memory (up to 32GB via microSD) 1,500 mAh battery 8 megapixel rear camera and 1.3 megapixel front camera HDMI mirroring 1080p MPEG-4/H.264 playback and recordingMicro-USB port

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