Motrola Droid Xoom and LG Optimus Pad

The Tablet market is heating up and Android is leading the way, Samsung has already launched the 3G Galaxy Tab which runs on Adroid 2.2 with a 1 Ghz Processor. Eyeing the success of the galaxy tab, now Motorola and LG also want a piece of the 20 billion dollar Tablet market.

Motorola is launching the Droid Xoom Android Tablet at CES 2011 next week in Las Vegas, it will run the latest android 2.4 release called honeycomb and is also rumored to support 4G LTE. Here are a few cool pics for you to drool :









LG also is also getting on the Android Tablet bandwagon with their Optimus Pad, however there are no official details available , according to the LG company officials they have nothing official to share about the Optimus Pad, however we have a scoop photo that proves that they are trying to hide something.

Cool phones : NOKIA E7 - another iPhone killer ?

Nokia has done it again ! Take a great product and replicate it to suit all pockets. It's what they did with the N97 ( n97 mini), the 5800 XpressMusic (5230, 5233, 5235 etc) and now they are doing the same with the the Nokia N8. The Nokia E7 looks exactly like the N8 and runs the same OS - Symbian 3 ; which is only the second model ever to get the cutting edge OS from Nokia. It features a full QWERTY slider keyboard and the same beautiful 4inch AMOLED touch screen.

Externally, the only differences one notices, between the Nokia N8 and E7 is the slider QWERTY keyboard, a quick scrutiny of the phone's back and one will also notice that the camera is downgraded to 8 mega-pixels from 12 and the phone's size is a little bigger than the N8 due to the additional slide out keyboard (Picture on the right shows the E7 vs the N8). The camera downgrade also means that the cost of the E7 might be lower than the N8 , that's the same thing that Nokia did with the 5800 XpressMusic; take a high-end model that costs 15000 rupees remove the flash, downgrade the camera from 5 mega-pixels to 2 mega-pixels and price it at just 7000 rupees. It's a win-win situation for the customers and for Nokia.


Both the phones are similar in shape and have the same anodised aluminium chassis, in apple iPhone fashion the battery is now non-removable and the SIM card can be inserted in a pop-out tray on the side, plus there is no micro-SD card slot, however with 16GB on-board memory it isn't all that important. The phone runs on a 680 MHz ARM processor which is lower than the 1 GHz processor on the N8, (which again cuts the costs down ) however there is hardly any noticeable change in performance when using the phone.

More than the cool looks and thing about this phone is however the Symbian 3 OS which replaces the S60 5th Edition OS. The Symbian 3 OS incorporates all the great features of iOS 4.1, Android as well as Nokia's own s60v5, this means that you get the best of all worlds plus the reliability and intuitiveness that is the hallmark of Nokia phones. The Ovi store , which is Nokia's version of the App store is also ver nicely integrated into the OS, for example when you add a gadget to any of the home screens you get an option to go directly to the ovi store and download an application directly as a widget. As of now the applications available for Symbian 3 are very few and far apart, however as newer models are launched this should improve.

There are 3 home screens , each allows you to edit and add upto 6 widgets or individual apps. Compared to iOS 4.1 this isn't much , however this is keeping in Nokia's symbian 3 UI style guide . Making it easy to use applications and keeping the user interface intutive was one of the priorities for the developers and they have been very successful in doing so.

If you like Symbian or of you would like to get an easy to use phone – then you would love the Symbian 3 OS. It has everything that the S60v5 platform had , plus it now incorporates the same features that many of the next generation platforms like android and iOS offer.



Also included is Ovi Maps with free car and pedestrian navigation, compass for correct orientation. This is a good use of the Integrated GPS, A-GPS receivers and wi-fi positioning systems. And since this is a 3G phone (HSDPA Cat9, maximum speed up to 10.2 Mbps, HSUPA Cat5 2.0 Mbps), there is also a front facing VGA camera (640 x 480 pixels). The standard micro USB port and 3.5mm audio jack is on the top of the device alongside the HDMI port. The micro USB port also doubles as the charging point.

Keep in mind that this is not the last we will see of the N8 kind phones , if experience has taught us anything , Nokia is not a company that will easily kill off a model without first extracting all the potential that a design has to offer. So we may still see even lower featured and low priced models than the E7 probably for a cheaper market. However if you want to get on the Symbian 3 bandwagon , the E7 is the best bet.

With its 16:9 nHD 640 x 360 pixels AMOLED display, Symbian 3 OS, slide-out QWERTY keyboard and an 8 megapixel cam this will be an amazing phone if made available at a price of about 12000-15000 rupees. The E7 is supposed to be out in the first quarter of 2011. Do share any thoughts that you might have about the symbian 3 platform or the Nokia E7.

Internet Hoaxes : Adam Sandler dies

So most people will read the title of this blog and think "WOW", now that is exactly the kind of reaction I would like to get with each and every post on this blog. I am not going to limit this blog to any particular kind of content . Here you can read about anything and everything that exists , had existed or will exist - only it has to be really amazing and should really be fascinating. Here you will get details of anything and everything that is new and thought provoking.

And by the way , did you hear ? Adam Sandler died !!! Well that's not true, in fact it's a hoax and not the first time that something like this has happened. The internet has made the world a very well connected place. Where any information and disinformation can be spread just the same. The most common of hoaxes are spread through chain emails. A classic example of a hoax emails is one which informs you that a child has been injured or on the verge of death BUT you can help save them if you forward the e-mail , because some company is tracking that e-mail and will pay to the benefit of the child for every e-mail forwarded.

Another way that hoaxes are spread is by the misuse of PR and press services on the internet, someone who may be a legitimate journalist and is using these websites to find leads for a story may pick on the wrong information probably uploaded by a prankster.This misinformation when reported in an actual press report receives credibility and spreads even further.

The recent report about Adam Sandler's death stated that the comedian died while vacationing in Switzerland. It said that "Adam Sandler lost control of his snowboard and struck a tree at a high rate of speed", "he was air lifted by ski patrol teams to a local hospital, however, it is believed that the actor died instantly from the impact of the crash. The actor was wearing a helmet at the time of the accident and drugs and alcohol do not appear to have played any part in his death. "

Hoaxes that inform of the death of a celebrity are now becoming an everyday issue, A couple of days agao the same hoax was perpetuated about Charlie Sheen . Other celebrities to have been killed by these rumours include Morgan Freeman, Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, Eminem and the late Michael Jackson.

What are your opinions about theses celebrity death hoaxes ?

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