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  Do you like sleek and sexy phones? Moreover should they be Android? Then you are about to get lucky, two extremely sleek and sexy Android smartphones are heading India and they already have been listed up for pre-order. Motorola Droid RAZR is bound to make you go crazy with its Kevlar and glass build for Rs. 33,990 if you pre-order them now on Flipkart but if you have a slightly less budget... 

NFC or Near Field Communication is being touted as the next big thing in the field of mobile computing after Bluetooth, let’s try and demystify it. NFC is Bluetooth’s modern day cousin offering services that Bluetooth could have only dreamt of. The services of NFC range from simple file sharing to sophisticated e-payment techniques. Now let’s get down to the business, frankly speaking... 

HTC is working on a new phone with a Quad Core processor and a humongous 4.7 inch HD screen. HTC Edge is the phone packing latest Nvidia Tegra 3 processor clocked at 1.5GHz coupled with 1GB of RAM. If HTC manages to release it early next year, it will be the first quad core phone in the world. Courtesy of PocketNow for leaking its picture and specifications. After quad core powered Asus Transformer... 

Indian mobile phone manufacturer, Micromax Mobiles has today, launched their costliest and most powerful phone till date. Micromax A85 is a dual-core Nvidia Tegra 2 powered processor coupled with an 3.8-inch IPS screen covered with Gorilla Glass and a spacious 512MB of RAM. Currently, it will ship with Android 2.2 which is from yesteryear, although they are promising an update to Android 2.3 as early... 

At a live event, HTC officially unveiled the HTC Rezound with Verizon supporting their 4G LTE network. This behemoth has a first ever HD 720p screen from HTC yet and a super fast 1.5GHz dual-core processor supported by a gig of RAM. The 4.3-inch screen is of SLCD type and has the highest ever pixel density on a device yet and that’s 342 ppi and mind you, it does not have a pen-tile arrangement... 

What happened with LG Optimus One lineup of phones regarding the Android 2.3 Gingerbread upgrade, is happening all over again with LG Optimus 2X lineup. After a series of confused replies from the Korean phone maker about their Optimus 2X lineup of phones getting the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update, they have finally confirmed about their Optimus 2X phones will get ICS update. Although the final... 

As we know the time of Android superphones with HD resolution screens is upon us, even the latest version of Google’s OS a.k.a Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich was designed to run on a default resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels. HTC Rezound was probably built with this in mind so we are sure of it getting the Android 4.0 update although it will ship with Android 2.3.4 as shown in the video. HTC Rezound/Vivid... 

Samsung has announced that it will release the hugely anticipated Galaxy Note on November 2 through a live webcast. The Galaxy Note is a cross device between a large smartphone and a tablet. Already tablet was a hybrid that sits perfectly between a netbook/laptop and a smartphone. I think there is no need of a third device, but hey, choice is good for consumers anyway, right? Samsung Galaxy Note has... 

Google indirectly let us know that their very own, Google Nexus One won’t be officially updated to the latest and greatest version of Android; Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0 may be due to insufficient hardware specs to run it as smooth as Google expects. Google Nexus S however will get the official update to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich “weeks after Galaxy Nexus release”. Don’t worry... 

The biggest ever Nokia World happened today with over 5,000 attendees. They have announced some pretty good stuff both in hardware and software with 6 new phones and 3 new apps/services developed by Nokia. The first 2 phones being the Nokia Lumia 800 and Lumia 710, both of them running on Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 smartphone platform. They are a result of Nokia’s exclusive multi billion... 

Finally! Google’s Android event with Samsung gave rose to a new super phone; Samsung Galaxy Nexus. Well well, this is a speed demon as Google calls in its introductory video and it truly is a specification monster. First off, it is running the latest version of Android named as Ice Cream Sandwich and aptly numbered as 4.0 as it bring the biggest changed Android has ever seen since 2009. More... 

The Blackberry services were down completely last week and people were hugely suffered due to it. The services were affected largely in Americas and Europe but not so much in other continents. As per Mike Lazardis (Founder and CEO of Research In Motion), they are nearing normal levels in Europe, Middle East, India and Africa as of now. He denied pointing out exact date for full restore of the services... 

After Microsoft launched Windows Phone 7.5 Mango in India, 3 new smartphones based on that very platform were launched; HTC Radar, Samsung Omnia W and Acer Allegro. Microsoft has also officially launched localized Windows Phone Marketplace, voice recognition support. Acer Allegro is the cheapest at INR 16,000 while the Samsung Omnia W is priced at INR 19,000. HTC Radar as we earlier reported is priced... 

AT&T has confirmed the huge demand of Apple iPhone 4S as they have recieved more than 200.000 pre-orders for it in the first 12 hours alone which they cited as ‘extraordinary demand’. The iPhone 4S is available on 3 out of 4 major carriers in the US; AT&T, Verizon and Sprint but AT&T is the only one which will be enabled to give the iPhone 4S the download speed of 14.4 Mbit/s... 

The Froyo powered portrait QWERTY laden Android Smartphone from Motorola; the Droid PRO is now being officially updated to Android 2.3 Gingerbread. Droid PRO is available through Verizon network in the US and they have posted a complete changelog so that you can check out what will change in the build number 4.6.8 after the 98MB update. It is avaialble as an OTA as well as through PC update options. Changes... 

Microsoft has finally released the Windows Phone 7.5 Mango in India shortly after its international release about 2 weeks ago. This update brings more than 500 new features to all the existing and upcoming phones based on Windows Phone 7 platform. The newest phone running this new OS, HTC Radar was launched in India at the same time. Lets have a look at the new features of this version of Windows... 

HTC Radar has been launched in India at the same time when Microsoft launched the Windows Phone 7.5 smartphone operating system. This beautiful looking compact smartphone has a unibody made of aluminum and comes in chic white and silver color and is sure to turn heads when you take it out of your pockets. Hardware wise it has a Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8255 single-core CPU clocked at 1GHz and a Adreno... 

The final version of Cyanogen Mod 7.1 is released for officially supported devices including the newly added Sony Ericsson Xperia series with the help of FreeXperia team. Many have been waiting for the stable release of the most famous Android custom ROM in the world. This is the first Stable release after Samsung Mobile hired Steve ‘Cyanogen’ Kondik. Read the complete changelog (features)... 

                           Samsung Galaxy R which has been announced as a cheaper version of Samsung Galaxy S2 is now available in India through the online store Flipkart for Rs. 27,438 which is not so cheap if you ask us. You can get the original Samsung Galaxy S2 or HTC Sensation for a little under 30K. May its price would fall after the official launch by Samsung Mobiles (India)... 

There were rumors that there will be 2 new iPhones; iPhone 4S with cheap price tag and new internal but external similar to iPhone 4 while a premium prices iPhone 5 with new internal as well as external which were put to rest after the only iPhone released in Apple’s ‘Let’s talk iPhone’ event recently. They released only iPhone 4S as the whole new iPhone along with an 8GB version...