Author: Varun Krish

Varun Krish is a Mobile Technology Enthusiast and has been writing about mobile phones since 2005. His current phones include the Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max and Galaxy S25 Ultra. You can follow him on Twitter @varunkrish You can also mail Varun Krish

Download Android 2.2 FroYo for Nexus One Now – Tested and Working

UPDATE : Information in this post might be old .  Head over here for the latest update

Google is already rolling out the Android 2.2 update for the Nexus one and few users have manged to get an OTA (Over the Air) update.  Now the manual update is available from Google’s servers and we just installed it to show you the changes in this version. We are also sharing instructions about how to get the update working on your nexus one manually Continue reading “Download Android 2.2 FroYo for Nexus One Now – Tested and Working”

Vic Gundotra the man who can win Developers for Google Android

Vic Gundotra was 21 in 1991 according to this document from Stanford  University pictured below and was then Demoing some stuff to Microsoft’s then head of Sales , Steve Ballmer who is currently the CEO.He sparked Microsoft’s change from Win32 to the .NET programming model. In fact he spent 15 years at Microsoft since then. Vic quit Microsoft to join Google back in 2007 and spent 1 year in between due to Microsoft’s non-compete clause.

Now in 2010 , he’s on stage at Google I/O – the company’s largest annual developer conference to woo developers to build applications for the Android operating system. He’s currently VP of Engineering at Google responsible for developer evangelism

Vic did make the inaugural address on the first day of the event but it was pretty short yet he managed to poke fun at competitor Apple CEO’s Late night email about HTML5. On day 2 this man was on stage for nearly an hour and he did talk about Android and the latest version – Froyo and the upcoming changes to the  Android platform and boy-o-boy he made us laugh repeatedly by criticizing Apple, Phone and the latest iPad . It was pay back time for Google against Apple who has criticized Android over Porn Continue reading “Vic Gundotra the man who can win Developers for Google Android”

India 3G Auctions Winners Announced

The Department of Telecom (DoT)  just posted the list of winners for the 3G Auctions in various circles. Airtel , Aircel ,Reliance, Idea, Tata , STel won atleast 1 circle. Videocon and Etisalat did not win even one circle ! Once the formalities are over we should expect commercial services to be offered by the winners starting from September 2010

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Fly Booom MC105

Fly Mobile has launched the Booom MC105 with an inbuilt amplifier and a 30 x 40 mm speaker . Yeh it claims to go BOOM with an extra ‘o’  and aims to be your Portable Music system in a relatively small form factor. and reasonable price . Apart from the Bo0om’s Music capabilities It’s a Dual SIM phone so you can make calls too ! Continue reading “Fly Booom MC105”

OtterBox Protective Cases for LG enV and Nokia N900

Otterbox has launched new cases for the LG enV Touch, enV3,Chocolate Touch and the Nokia N900. These protective cases are built to save your phones from bumps, scratches and shocks .  The entire phone is covered including ports and earphone socket. You also get a protective film for the screen and keypad. They are not waterproof but they have separate line of products for that

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HTC Wildfire Official Photos

HTC has just launched the Wildfire for Europe and Asia and here are some official photos of the phone for your viewing pleasure. You will clearly notice in the photos that the phone looks a lot like the Nexus One and HTC Desire .The Wildfire  is expected to replace the Tattoo and will bring Android 2.1 to many users at a lower price compared to the Legend.

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Rumour – 24 million iPhone HD units to be shipped by Foxconn

According to Digitimes Research , close to 24 million iPhone 4G / HD units are going to be shipped by Foxconn this year. The company is known to manufacture iPhones and other Apple products. Last year an employee of the company committed suicide after losing an iPhone prototype. Foxconn is expected to ship 4.5 million units initially and 19.5 million units later . Some interesting details about the iPhone 4G have emerged

Image of iPhone 4G leaked in Vietnam

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HTC Wildfire a mini Desire

HTC has launched the Wildfire a Android 2.1 handset which takes design cues from Desire , Smart and Legend. The company has been coming up with some incredible names for its products and the Wildfire is the latest one. The product announcement is coming from Germany and we should have more information from HTC soon.

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Download Playlist DJ Mobile App for non-touch Nokia phones

Syntonetic the company which released the PlaylistDJ app for Nokia Touchscreen phones is now making the app available for free for non-touchscreen Nokia phones too.  The app basically analyzes your music library stored on the phone and then displays tracks based on the mood of the song – joy, passion, anger and tempo etc. The app has is approaching 1 million downloads on the OVI Store already.

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FoneArena on NDTV CellGuru

As many of you might know folks from NDTV were at the FoneArena HQ recently to check out the Google Nexus One. Our small review of the phone was aired on NDTV yesterday in their cellphone show CellGuru. If you didn’t watch the show don’t worry as you watch it online even now. You can watch the video embedded below.  Just wait for around 10mins and someone you know must appear 🙂 Continue reading “FoneArena on NDTV CellGuru”

NFS Shift Launching on Android soon

Android seriously lacks some nice games with hi-def graphics which are one of the main strengths of the iPhone platform. NFS shift is one of the best games we have ever played on a mobile device – iPhone. This game is going to be launched soon on the Android platform. EA Games is going to release the NFS Shift Game on the Android Market on June 4th . Continue reading “NFS Shift Launching on Android soon”

HTC Desire Tons of Pics

Here are tons of pics of the HTC Desire running on Android 2.1 . The Desire is expected to be launched in India really soon and we bring you new exclusive pics of the Phone. The Desire hasa 3.7 inch AMOLED display and a optical trackpad. It has 3 physical keys below the screen. Continue reading “HTC Desire Tons of Pics”

Google shutting down phone store , going to sell Nexus One at Retail Stores

In a blog post by Andy Rubin of Google, the company is going to shut down it’s phone store which sells the Nexus One Android Phone. They are instead going to bring the phone to Retail Stores

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