Who says app developers are limiting innovation to only two mobile platforms? Platform may or may not be capable enough, but app developers find their way to creating amazing apps.

ThinkContacts is an app for the Nokia N900’s Maemo platform, which is able to dial a contact using only the power of thought.

Originally, the idea is to create an app for “Motor disabled person”  to enable them to make phone calls to a desired contact by himself/herself by using power of thought, alone. But if it gives good results, it can be made available to .. Read Further »

Its a Win-win situation for Google as its smartphone OS takes leads to become no.2 Most popular smartphone in the U.S, knocking the iPhone to the 3rd position.

As per the report from AC Neilson, Android is rising way more quickly when comapred to iPhone. Android adoption is more serious with first time smartphone users. Google phones accounted for 27 percent of U.S. smartphone salesg leaving Apple iPhone .. Read Further »

RIM is back in the game with a  shameless copy of Android, iPhone interface in its latest Blackberry 6 OS.

Everything is revamped and they call it “Flow UI”.

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With 160,000 Android phones activated every day, Android is becoming fastest growing smartphone, ever!

Yesterday at  Motorola Droid X release with Verizon, Eric Schmidt announced Launch of Android froyo and industry adoption of Android as high as 2 phones per second.

Android Froyo brings lots of new goodies, best one being the speed improvements with .. Read Further »

Intel’s plans for entering smartphone market is making sweet progress. Few days back, Intel announced Official Android port to x86, Atom and today they demonstrated the next generation Atom processor that would lay the building blocks of the future smartphones.

ARM currently controls a big piece of the mobile processing market, but Intel is attempting to make a comeback.

To give you an estimate of the power of the new processor, Intel demonstrated Quake 3 .. Read Further »

Indian Government has taken a big step to counter Mobile Phone Piracy. MSAI, Mobile standards Authority of India)  has put down a new rule abiding to which, cellular operators will ban BTS-Registration for any of the cellphones which has a non-legal International Mobile Equipment Identity  number also popularly known as the IMEI.

As I write this, there are only couple of hours left till all those phones meet the graveyard. However, MSAI wants peeople to get their IMEI registered, a way to control the legality of Phone identification and usage upto the standards. Owners of the Chinese-made handsets are crowding authorized outlets to get the IMEI on their handsets.

As per the Times of India:

MSAI feels that even by conservative estimates, at least 2.1 crore [20.1 Million] mobiles may not get GII (Gemmological Institute of India) by Monday and are bound to go dead. NVS Prasad, who .. Read Further »

Almost every gadget manufacturer is making touchscreens larger but HTC took it to a new step. HD2 features a whooping large screen (4.3 inches WVGA 480×800 pixels), among the largest one would find on cellphones. [Motorola Droid features similar resolution] Uniqueness, another attraction of the screen is capacitive touchscreen, in fact first Windows mobile running Capacitive touchscreen, meaning we finally get pinch and zoom capability on this OS.

Overall Feel

The phone, looks large, but is actually .. Read Further »

Else seems to be the first contender that has a futuristic UI accelerated fully by OpenGL. The name itself is tricky, it’s called “else” and the model is “First Else” Phone.

The First Else phone comes from a Israeli company Emblaze Mobile, supposed to hit stores next year.

On the Specs part, Phone has 3.5-inch (480 x 854-pixel) touchscreen .. Read Further »