The Motorola Droid is the only smartphone which has come closest to the iPhone in terms of customer likeness and recorded a whopping sales number of more than 800,000 handsets since it had been released in the US on November 6. The same is now being launched in the European market and has been already welcome by the major UK phone networks. The phone is supposedly to be launched in the UK on 7th December.

The Motorola Droid runs on Google backed Android operating system and it has some cool features such as; 5 megapixel camera, QUERTY keyboard which slides out, 3.7 inch touchscreen are few of the features its boasts about.
It is planned to be released via Expansys, UK technology retail website, with which it has struck a deal. It is ranged for £449.99, and for £50 with a T-Mobile Combi 30 contract costing £35 a month. In the UK it will be known as "Milestone", a change possibly linked to the fact that the name "Droid" is used in the US under licence from George Lucas' production company Lucasfilms, who copyrighted the term following its use in the Star Wars films.

In a statement from Motorola, the manufacturer cited international interest as a key reason for the release. "The device has received a great deal of interest from customers and consumers around the world," it said.

A diamond studded (200 diamonds) Golden iPhone has been unveiled by a British company which makes it the world’s costliest mobile phone. The phone is only meant for the rich.


The gold iPhone has been designed by Stuart Hughes for the Liverpool-based Goldstriker International. It is made from 22-carat gold has It has 136 diamonds in the front bezel and an Apple logo made out of no fewer than 53 diamonds. The phone's front navigation button comprises a rare diamond of 7.1 carats.


The Gold iPhone took 10 months to be made and it ships with a heavy crest crafted of a single granite block.

Pranav Mistry & Pattie Maes presents the SixthSense ; a wearable interface which augments the physical world around us into digital information with the use of hand gestures to interact with the information.

A very intelligent interface working on the lines of the five senses that we human beings use to perceive information. The SixthSense technology prototype is comprised of a pocket projector, a mirror and a camera. The hardware components are coupled in a pendant like mobile wearable device. Both the projector and the camera are connected to the mobile computing device in the user’s pocket. The projector projects visual information enabling surfaces, walls and physical objects around us to be used as interfaces; while the camera recognizes and tracks user's hand gestures and physical objects using computer-vision based techniques. The software program processes the video stream data captured by the camera and tracks the locations of the colored markers (visual tracking fiducials) at the tip of the user’s fingers using simple computer-vision techniques. The movements and arrangements of these fiducials are interpreted into gestures that act as interaction instructions for the projected application interfaces. The maximum number of tracked fingers is only constrained by the number of unique fiducials, thus SixthSense also supports multi-touch and multi-user interaction.

The current prototype system costs approximate $350 to build.

The SixthSense presented by Pattie Maes & Pranav Mistry at TED 2009 conference.

The quickest of all; the iPhone 3GS beats every other iPhones. As boasted by Apple, the phone can launch applications in a jiffy, Web pages render in seconds, email attachments are even faster. Improved performance and updated 3D graphics deliver an incredible gaming experience, too. In fact, everything you do on iPhone 3GS is up to 2x faster and more responsive than iPhone 3G.

Create your own video by shooting high quality VGA Video with your Apple iPhone 3GS and edit it with an inbuilt editor and you can then email it or publish it to YouTube or sync it with your Mac or PC.

The iPhone 3GS comes loaded with a lot of upgraded features like the automatically reorienting Compass, 3-megapixel camera, voice controller which recognizes the names in the contacts, Cut Copy & Paste feature from application to application, touch screen QWERTY keyboard which can be accessed bot vertical and landscape mode, Easy messaging with text / video / audio / location / contact info, Easy search functionality to search anything and everything on your iPhone 3GS and that's not the end.. its just midway. to sum it all it supports apps which make it more useful, who needs a laptop, the world is shrinking...

You will love the new iPhone3GS even more than the iPhone.

Watch a cool demo of the IPhone 3GS in play.

Orkut, Facebook and now Twitter in the year 2009. Twitter had an enormous year with millions of new users and a great following all over the globe.

According to Global Language Monitor, which examines language usage across the world, "Twitter" beat out "Obama," "H1N1," "stimulus," and "vampire" to take the top spot.

"In a year dominated by world-shaking political events, a pandemic, the aftereffects of a financial tsunami, and the death of a revered pop icon, the word 'Twitter' stands above all the other words," Paul JJ Payack, president of Global Language Monitor, said on Sunday in a statement. "Twitter represents a new form of social interaction, where all communication is reduced to 140 characters."

Global Language Monitor compiles it data by the use of its proprietary algorithm, called the Predictive Quantities Indicator. According to the company, the algorithm "tracks words and phrases in the media and on the Internet." It also monitors blogs and social media. Word frequency, contextual usage, and "appearance in global media outlets" contribute to a word's popularity.

Long awaited Assassin's Creed 2 has already started seeing a good rise in sales numbers. With game enthusiasts gunning for the early copies, it is already showing good signs as compared to its predecessor and other hot video games.

Ubisoft's action-stealth game Assassin's Creed 2 in the first week sold around 1.6 million units worldwide. Which is much higher than Ubisoft's original medieval sneaker, which sold about 1.1 million units during its inaugural sales week in November 2007. Ubisoft has also showed some growth in market share, and as reported to Reuters Ubisoft was banking on the release of Assassin's Creed 2 to meet or exceed its 2009-2010 financial goals. The company's sales target for Assassin's Creed 2 is 8 million units. If they hit that or better, they'll be at least 15 points over Assassin's Creed's 6.8 million grab.


Watch a Gameplay Trailer of Assasin's Creed 2

The new Nokia N97 mini launched in the Indian market at a approximate cost of 30K with new of new software features, with a stainless steel frame and other features.

The N97 mini has been optimized for better performance and battery consumption along with a smaller size as compared to the elder brother, the Nokia N97.

some of the other updates include shortcuts to the personalized home screen, the addition of Ovi Maps 3.0 which also brings with it 3D maps.

Nokia N97 Mini Features:

- Personalized home screen
- GPS with Ovi Maps experience
- Excellent internet browsing
- 3.2-inch slide-and-tilt 16:9 display
- 5 megapixel with dual LED flash
- 8GB on-board memory, expandable to 24GB with MicrosSD card
- 3-step email set-up – Nokia n97mini supports Nokia Messaging, Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, Windows Live Hotmail and most other POP3/IMAP email clients
- QWERTY keyboard with Touchscreen


Nokia N97 mini Specification:

- WCDMA, GPRS/EDGE, HSDPA
- 3.2 inch TFT nHD 16:9 widescreen (640 x 360 pixels) with up to 16 million colors
- 5 megapixels with Carl Zeiss Tessar lens; autofocus and flash
- Built-in GPS with A-GPS support
- 3.5mm headphone jack
- High speed MicroUSB 2.0
- Talk time: Up to 7.1 hrs
- Standby time: Up to 320 hrs
- Music playback time: Up to 28 hrs
- Video playback time: Up to 3.5 hrs
- Dimensions: 113 x 52.5 x 14.2 mm
- Weight: 138 g

The Nokia N97 mini is approximately priced at the range of 25,000 to 30,000 INR.

Nokia N97 Mini Photos:

Dell enters the foray of the Google Android Operating system; a touch screen mobile phone whose technical specifications are yet to be revealed. The Dell phone sports a 3.5 inch high definition touch screen and a “great sound” for music lovers.

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