Author: Dhruv Bhutani

Your friendly neighborhood techie. Currently using a Pixel 2 XL. Catch him on Twitter (@DhruvBhutani) / Facebook .

Wyncomm Launches Two New Devices In India

Wyncomm , one of the upcoming cellphone manufacturers from India just announced two new devices aimed at the low-end market. The Wyncomm O 77 Konnect and O 78 Touch are EDGE enabled Dual SIM phones which are being bundled with plans from operators to offer free data packs.

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MAXX Mobiles Launches Gaming Oriented MAXX GLO MX388

MAXX Mobiles, one of India’s largest homegrown mobile phone companies, today announced the launch of a new gaming phone , MAXX GLO MX388. Priced at  Rs. 2361 MAXX GLO MX388 comes with a free 2 GB memory card and is JAVA and Bluetooth enabled. The multimedia features include MP3 playback and an FM Radio. MAXX GLO MX388 is packed with games across categories like action, racing, puzzles, adventure, fighting, shooting and sporting. Preloaded games include Super Mario, Pacman, Race, Trojan, Battle City, etc.

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Third Worker Dies In Foxconn Plant Explosion

Foxconn’s Chengdu plant was recently in the news because of an explosion resulting from combustible aluminum dust stuck in the ducts in the polishing section of the plant. Two workers were immediately reported dead with as many as 16 others critically injured. Today another worker succumbed at a local hospital due to injuries from the explosion. Hon Hai Chairman Terry Gou meanwhile issued a statement that the explosion would in no way affect production of the iPad 2 while adding that products scheduled for Quarter 3 production would also be on track.

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iPhone 5 To Sport Curved Glass Display ?

Digitimes strikes again with news that Apple plans to fit curved glass displays in the next iPhone . Cover glass manufacturers have been reported to be reluctant to invest the large amount of capital required to procure machines capable of making curved glass panels in sufficient quantities. Due to this Apple has had to  procure 200-300 curved glass cutting machines to make displays for its upcoming iPhone 5 .

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Japan’s NTT Docomo Launching 24 New Devices

Japan’s largest telecom operator NTT Docomo just revealed its plans for the summer by announcing 24 new devices. These phones cover almost any kind of usage a person might have or want and gives them unparalleled choice. Android Gingerbread is the operating system of choice on 8 of the devices. The camera phone segment has been pushed up a notch by the 6 devices on offer with cameras ranging from 12 to a whopping 16 megapixels.

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Honeycomb Hiding Gingerbread UI , Glimpses Of Ice Cream Sandwich ?

At its Google I/O event , Google let loose the next version of Android ie Ice Cream Sandwich. What is so special about it ? Well for one it makes the entire code base cross platform. What this means is that the same OS will run on your tablet , smartphone and even the desktop. The only change will be the UI. So what do we have here ?

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LauncherPro Developer Brings WP7 Music Player To Android

We all love Android for its flexibility and customization. But even the most ardent fan will agree that the music player on the Android is in need of a major revamp. Enter , Fede , the developer responsible for Launcher Pro which is the most popular third party launcher on the Android Marketplace. Fede’s Music Player is a complete port of the Windows Phone 7 music player UI to Android. Even at its current Alpha level of development everything just works. The UI is identical to Zune player on WP7 and animations are fluid.

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HTC Desire S Review

When HTC launched the Desire and the aluminum bodied HTC Legend, it created two of the most popular Android devices in the market. So much so that Google basically took the HTC Desire and named it the Nexus One ie the first Google phone. Fast forward to 2011 and we have the successor to the original Desire ie the Desire S. Is it still as ‘desirable’ as the original? Read on the FoneArena HTC Desire S Review to find out!

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4G iPhone Coming To China ?

State owned telecom operator , China Mobile , has finalized a deal with Apple to bring a 4G enabled iPhone to the country. No more details have been announced so far but it lends further credibility to the rumors that Apple are working at integrating 4th generation network technology like LTE into their devices.

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Nokia N9 / RM-680 Passes FCC Tests , Coming Soon ?

The long awaited MeeGo smartphone by Nokia might finally be making its way to consumers soon. FCC documents reveal that the device has undergone testing and packs in quad band GSM and penta band 3G support like the recent Symbian 3 devices. The device bears an uncanny resemblance to the previously leaked design. There were rumors around the internet that the design had been ditched for an all new fully touch based phone but the FCC images say otherwise.

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Sony Ericsson Preparing Android Cybershot Device ?

Sony Ericsson’s cybershot line up of photography oriented devices are known for their image capturing prowess. In recent years however they have been let down by the lack of a proper flagship device but this might change soon.

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G’Five G5 Projector Phone Review

Mobile projectors were all the rage a while back. Deemed to be the next big thing in mobile computing , the size restraints and power requirements caused the idea to never really materialize.Over the past year however we have seen a few interesting models by various brands both big and small in the cellphone projection phase. This includes the Samsung Beam which is probably one of the most popular projector phones in recent years ran on the Android OS and bring high priced , it never really caught on. Fast forward to 2011 and we have a number of manufacturers bringing mobile phone enabled with Pico-Projectors at affordable price points. We take one of the more interesting devices in the market , the G’Five G5 , for a spin and bring you the low down on the mobile-projector experience.