The man behind the snack: John Montagu, the fourth Earl of Sandwich, is said to be the man after whom the sandwich was named, 250 years back. When he ordered beef served between slices of bread about 250 years ago he probably did not think his request would become a global convenience meal. The story goes that the Earl asked for the particular serving so that he could eat while...
03:08 PM, May 14, 2012
New Delhi: Spice Mobile is planning to launch Android Ice Cream Sandwich based phones soon, a person close to the development told 'The Mobile Indian'. Though no specifications or pricing of these phones have been disclosed till now, according to our source Spice will launch around five devices majority of which will be based on Android 4.0 operating system. If indeed Spice launches these phones in this month, as is...
10:26 AM, May 14, 2012
New Delhi: Samsung has finally started rolling out the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update for its Galaxy Note smartphone, according to a report. The Galaxy Note N7000 owners across the world will have to wait for the update which will be pushed to them Over-the-Air (you will receive a notification). Meanwhile, Devin Balentina from Netherlands posted an image of the Android 4.0 update for Galaxy Note on Twitter. The...
01:23 PM, May 11, 2012
New Delhi: No Galaxy Nexus for Indians! Yes, you read it absolutely right. Samsung has announced that the company is not going to launch the Galaxy Nexus smartphone in India. "The Galaxy nexus will not be launched in India," said Samsung in a tweet reply on its Samsung India Twitter page. This is for the first time that the company has officially denied the launch of the Galaxy Nexus in...
10:14 AM, May 03, 2012
New Delhi: One thing is for sure, tablets are the future of education. But I am not quite certain if that tomorrow will be displayed on a 7-inch screen. 10-inch devices do seem to have an advantage. Even if they currently carry a heavier price tag, I am quite sure things will change fast. As fast as the plummeting prices of feature-rich tablet devices. On Tuesday, when Micromax announced its...
04:46 AM, Apr 04, 2012
New Delhi: Reportedly, HTC is going to hit the Indian market with its much-awaited smartphones - the One X and One V - on April 2 (coming Monday). Both the phones run Android 4.0 with HTC Sense 4 operating system. The HTC One X features a 4.7-inch touchscreen with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels. The phone comes engineered with a 1.5 GHz quad core processor. It has 1GB...
01:43 PM, Mar 31, 2012
New Delhi: The wait seems to be finally getting over for all Samsung Galaxy S II owners, as very soon, well, next week in fact, you'll be receiving the coveted Android 4.0 or Ice Cream Sandwich update. Samsung will probably be rolling this update out in phases and so in case you don't get a prompt a few days after March 15, don't worry as you can always update it...
03:54 PM, Mar 05, 2012
New Delhi: Huawei, the Chinese handset maker, has announced a 10 inch tablet powered by a quad core processor, at the Mobile World Congress 2012. The tablet, called Huawei MediaPad 10 FHD, has a Huawei 1.5 GHz quad core processor, Google Android 4.0 operating system and a 10 inch IPS high definition display screen. "Most consumers use tablets for entertainment purposes such as gaming, viewing multimedia content, browsing the internet...
12:28 PM, Feb 28, 2012
New Delhi: After launching its 7-inch Galaxy Tab 2 earlier this month, Samsung has now announced to come up with a new 10.1-inch version of the Galaxy Tab 2. The device features a 10.1-inch PLS TFT dispaly with a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels. Powered by a 1GHz dual-core processor, the device runs a Touch Wiz-skinned version of Android 4.0. The tablet is 9.7 mm thick, and has 1GB...
11:27 AM, Feb 26, 2012
New Delhi: Bengaluru based Indian startup, Notion Ink, had released the first ever Android Ice Cream Sandwich update for its Adam tablet sometime back but being the pre beta or alpha build, it had some issues. To resolve the problems, Notion Ink has now come out with a beta version of the ICS upgrade for its Adam tablet. With this new update, not only does Adam tablet get the latest...
01:36 PM, Feb 22, 2012
New Delhi: Here is a comprehensive list of devices (tablets and smartphones) which are available in India and will get an Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) update, and the date when they will get that update. There has been a lot of euphoria in the market about the most advanced Android operating system, which is dubbed as Ice Cream Sandwich. On the same hand, there is a lot of confusion...
02:15 PM, Feb 18, 2012
New Delhi: After HTC and Samsung, now Motorola has come up with its Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update schedule for Motorola devices. The devices, which will be initially upgraded to Android ICS include Droid Razr, Droid Razr Maxx, Droid 4, Droid Bionic, Droid Xyboard 8.2 and 10.1, and Motorola Xoom WiFi + 3G/4G will be upgraded to ICS. Currently only the Motorola Xoom tablet has been updated to Android...
01:46 PM, Feb 16, 2012
New Delhi: Now here is good news for those who have been waiting for Andorid 4, codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich(ICS) on their Samsung Galaxy smartphones. Samsungs Galaxy line of smartphones and tablets will receive an upgrade to Android 4 in the first quarter of 2012. The latest post on the Facebook page of Samsung Mobile reads, "We know you have been waiting and we're thrilled today to announce that we'll...
03:43 PM, Dec 20, 2011
New York: India may figure among the 18 select countries where technology giant Google would launch its upcoming smartphone Galaxy Nexus, widely being billed as an iPhone-killer, in its first phase later this month. Google aims to make available this device, which would rival technology major Apple's smartphone iPhone, later this month in the US, Canada, and select European and Asian countries. To start with, Google has launched specific web...
05:15 PM, Nov 01, 2011
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