Following the success of the Wave phone, Samsung has announced the launch of its next member of the Bada family, the Samsung S7230E Wave 723. Samsung Wave 723 is a midrange touch screen phone and will be priced lower than its elder brother Samsung Wave.

The Samsung Wave 723 comes up with a 3.2? capacitive TFT touchscreen of WQVGA resolution (240 x 400 pixels) and is 11.8 mm thick. The handset is based on Bada OS (SDK 1.1) with auto UI scaling feature – Automatically downscales the UI of apps -and comes with a leather flip case by default to protect the screen.

The Samsung Wave 723 supports Wi-Fi Wireless-N and Bluetooth 3.0 connectivity, and sports a 5-megapixel camera with LED flash and dedicated camera button. The handset also has a 3.5mm audio jack, 90MB of storage (expandable through a microSD card slot) and a built-in GPS receiver. It will comes with a support quad-band 2G and dual-band 3G as well as 802.11n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 3.0. Continue Reading

TechCrunch has reported that they have received information that Google has finally decided to acquire Like.com service.

The search engine giant came close to acquiring this company back in 2005 but they decided against it at the last moment.

Like.com is managed by the same company that once ran Riya. Both the services are based on visual recognition technologies.

Google has been working on similar technologies in their search services and Picasa application. So, this acquisition would be a good technical boost for them.

Just weeks after the new symbol for the Indian Rupee was unveiled, there were talks about who would be the first to integrate the symbol to their systems (both, hardware and software). While folks have already made the new Rupee font available for download, what was missing so far was a keyboard that could actually let you type in the symbol with ease.

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John Carmack of id Software made a welcoming announcement in-front of attendees of QuakeCon today by announcing an iOS version of the developer’s upcoming shooter, Rage. The respected programmer took out an iPhone 4 on stage and showed it powering a scaled-down tech demo of Rage, running at 60 frames-per-second featuring the id Tech 5 engine with “all of the megatexture goodness” and advanced lighting. Continue Reading

Adobe today has updated its photo editing software for iOS devices. It is still free and below are the list of new changes that got implemented.

• Initial support for iPad
• New name: Adobe® Photoshop® Express
• Updated UI
• Bug fixes and performance improvements

Features specific to iPad:

• Support for portrait and landscape orientations
• Redesigned Online, Edit, and Upload workflows
• Ability to work on multiple photos in sequence from within a single workflow
• Redesigned Organizer view with simplified album sharing
• Updated icons and visuals that make it easier to navigate and use the Editor
• Ability to upload to Photoshop.com and Facebook simultaneously

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There is no official number for the number of users that jailbreaked their iPhone or iPod using pdf exploit, but the number is certainly huge. However, the method that was used to jailbreak can be pretty tedious as it allows access to file system. Earlier cydia released a patched which allowed users to see a warning, before loading a pdf file through their browser, but this wasn’t the completely secure.   Continue Reading

Just a few hours after finally pushing webOS 1.4.5 out to Sprint customers, Palm has updated the webOS Doctor tool to match.  For those unfamiliar, the webOS Doctor is a utility that allows users to reinstall and/or repair and replace damanged webOS files from either a Mac or PC.  Interested users can click here for a direct download link. Continue Reading

About a week and a half ago, iPhone developers TapTapTap pushed an updated version of their Camera+ photography app to the App Store, and all seemed well. Just yesterday, however, they revealed (via a message on Twitter that was pulled about 30 minutes after it went out) that this latest build had a hidden feature: by visiting the URL camplus://enablevolumesnap in Mobile Safari, one could make the volume buttons on the side of the iPhone instead act as a camera shutter button — something which Apple had already said was a no-no. Continue Reading

Dell is silently making lots of buzzes with Streak and now its time for thunder – another gadget dressed with Android, specs include a 4.1-inch AMOLED display, and Android 2.1 with Dell’s custom skin on top (this could change, obviously, as the device isn’t expected until Q4 for AT&T). We also believed this device would have a screen with a WVGA resolution, but judging by how many icons are displayed in the app drawer, it could end up being higher (much higher). We still have some time to go before an official announcement, but the device is still real and it looks like it’s coming along nicely.

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I am a fan of products created by Apple. I love the way they go for perfection in small things, but often leave big things out of the story. They join late in providing basic software features but also provide excellent experience for users. The first version of iPhone was all about users touch experience rather than hardware wow factor and later, they beefed up hardware configuration for performance in newer versions of iPhone. Continue Reading