Qualcomm is the exclusive chipset provider for Window Phone 8 smartphones and majority of Windows 8 RT tablets and hybrids. Almost half of the smartphones sold globally are powered by its silicon and so is every LTE enabled device. In other words, no matter what tablet or smartphone you pick up, there is a very high probability of Qualcomm’s tech being inside that runs the show. However, Qualcomm is now gunning for a different segment in India all together – the low-cost tablet market. (more…...

The tech industry lost one of its most influential visionaries a year ago. During his lifetime Steve Jobs changed the course of at least three industries – technology, music and animation movies. He revolutionized how we interacted with computers with the Macintosh, changed the way we accessed and played music with iTunes and iPod, and with Pixar he took animation movies to a different level all together. It was he who came up with the iPhone that changed the entire smartphone industry. It was under him...

Yesterday I wrote a post on how Apple had hit a new low for its botched attempt at making maps. Probably, I couldn’t make it clear enough that the “quality of maps” was a new low for the company and not the fact that Tim Cook had to apologize to his customers. It takes a lot of courage for a company, especially one the size of Apple, to apologize to its customers when things don’t go as planned. However, it takes cojones of Titanium to recommend services offered by your rivals and that...

No phone can claim to be the most innovative smartphone on the planet until a new iPhone is unveiled. You can always leave it to Apple to ruin a party and for Nokia’s sake, things did not turn out to be all that bad when Apple unveiled the iPhone 5. While the iPhone 5 is better in every way than the iPhone 4S that it replaces, Nokia might just have things going its way when it launches the Lumia 920 later in November. (more…)Google+

There is a reason why I hate going to parties or attending family gatherings in the weeks leading up to the launch of a new iPhone. The only thing people across age groups and professions want to know is what the next iPhone is all about and when would it be launched. They would know zilch about smartphones, but they certainly know about the iPhone and want to know more about the next one, most probably to impress others.It is no surprise then that millions of eyes will be set on Tim Cook as he takes the stag...

Nokia finally revealed its first Windows Phone 8 smartphones a few hours ago and they seem impressive. We were lucky enough to get to spend some brief time with both the Lumia 920 and the Lumia 820, and I must say they have done a darn good job with the hardware. The 4.5-inch 1280×768 pixel display on the Lumia 920 is definitely among the best I have seen on a smartphone and the Lumia 820 (pictured above) is cute-looking with smooth curved edges. The rest of the hardware is equally impressive with the latest...

Today we all woke up to a story of how Samsung flew a couple of bloggers from India to Berlin to “cover” IFA but were later threatened to either don Samsung’s uniform and work as a promoter at their booth or they would be left stranded in Berlin and their return tickets to India cancelled. One of the bloggers, Clinton Jeff, narrated this incident to me a couple of days ago and I told him to write a post about it. He has not written his post, yet. (more…)Google+

A court in the US awarded almost a blanket victory to Apple against Samsung in what has been hailed as the patent battle of the century. The verdict, which could still be overruled (but unlikely), awards Apple slightly over $1 billion and more importantly a precedent with which it could gun for other vendors. The iPhone maker is already embroiled in patent-related litigation with Motorola and HTC. While the verdict is US-specific and does not hamper sales of Samsung products found infringing Apple patents in ...

Apple’s next iPhone announcement is just a month away and like every year many will be scrambling to their friends in the US to get one before it hits their country. But we suggest they hold on till Apple officially launches the iPhone 5 in their country (and on your carrier) before you get one. For all we know, the iPhone 5 (or whatever Apple might eventually call it) might not work even if it is factory unlocked. Read on to find out why… (more…)Google+

The rumors have finally come true. Google has indeed launched the Nexus 7 tablet, which runs on stock Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and is the first Android tablet to get the Nexus branding. Starting from $199, the Asus-built tablet has top-of-the-line hardware specifications with the latest Nvidia Tegra 3 quad-core chipset, a sharp 1280×840 7-inch IPS display, a front-facing 1.2 megapixel camera, NFC, Wi-Fi and the works.Google has managed to keep the cost down as tablets with similar specs normally cost twice...

It is Google I/O day and we are all kicked up to check out the latest addition to the candy shop that Android has become. This year it is Jelly Bean, confirmed by its namesake statue that was installed a few hours ago at Googleplex joining the other diabetes inducing delicacies. Read on for my expectations from Android at Google I/O that goes live in about 12 hours from now. (more…)Google+

Google is expected to announce a Nexus tablet, the first of its kind, tomorrow to kickstart proceedings at its annual Google I/O developer summit. The tablet is expected to come in two variants priced at $199 and $249 and would run the latest version of Android, called Jelly Bean, which would also be announced at the event. Eric Schmidt had hinted at a $200 Android tablet in December last year and it seems we could finally see it tomorrow. In my view, the Nexus 7 tablet could be Google’s best attempt ti...