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Samsung Galaxy S2 gets early UK release date

Posted by Abhishek Wednesday, 20 April 2011 0 comments


Phones4U has announced that it will be the first mobile retailer to offer the Samsung Galaxy S2.
The dual-core handset will hit Phones4U stores and online on 27 April, giving the retailer an exclusive headstart in selling the much-lauded handset.
samsung-galaxy-s2-coming-to-phones4uIf you're itching to get your mitts on the Samsung Galaxy S2 you can pre-order it on the Phones4U website now, and bag yourself a free 8GB memory card while you're at it.
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Russell Braterman, Marketing Director at Phones 4U is pretty excited, saying, "With its super-slim good looks and the latest Android 2.3 operating system, the Samsung Galaxy S2 is the next step in the evolution of mobile.
"We're really proud to be the first retailer to offer the Samsung Galaxy S2 to our customers. The original Samsung Galaxy S was hugely popular when it launched last year, and we're confident the Galaxy S II will be just as successful as its predecessor."
Phones 4U has also revealed its Samsung Galaxy S2 UK pricing: it's available for free on a £35/month contract with a choice of networks, or on pay as you go for £499.

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Samsung Galaxy S2 gets early UK release date

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Phones4U has announced that it will be the first mobile retailer to offer the Samsung Galaxy S2.
The dual-core handset will hit Phones4U stores and online on 27 April, giving the retailer an exclusive headstart in selling the much-lauded handset.
samsung-galaxy-s2-coming-to-phones4uIf you're itching to get your mitts on the Samsung Galaxy S2 you can pre-order it on the Phones4U website now, and bag yourself a free 8GB memory card while you're at it.
Galactic
Russell Braterman, Marketing Director at Phones 4U is pretty excited, saying, "With its super-slim good looks and the latest Android 2.3 operating system, the Samsung Galaxy S2 is the next step in the evolution of mobile.
"We're really proud to be the first retailer to offer the Samsung Galaxy S2 to our customers. The original Samsung Galaxy S was hugely popular when it launched last year, and we're confident the Galaxy S II will be just as successful as its predecessor."
Phones 4U has also revealed its Samsung Galaxy S2 UK pricing: it's available for free on a £35/month contract with a choice of networks, or on pay as you go for £499.

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Yahoo announces the death of Buzz on April 21, but nobody cares

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As part of Yahoo’s plans to shutter several major services, the company has announced that it will shut down Yahoo Buzz, its social news Digg competitor, on April 21.
But perhaps more interesting than Buzz’s imminent death is the fact that Yahoo announced the service’s closing several weeks ago on April 4, but nobody seems to have noticed. It wasn’t until this morning that TechCrunch reported on the shutdown, and other than a few scattered press releases from Yahoo on the net, there doesn’t seem to be much earlier mention of Buzz’s passing.
There’s also a prominent announcement at the top ofthe main Buzz page, which I assume has been there for weeks and has also gone unnoticed.
That it took so long for anyone to recognize Buzz’s passing is more telling of Yahoo’s failures than the actual death of the service. Even in its heyday, when Buzz was sending obscene amounts of traffic to sites that were voted popular (mostly because those sites also appeared on Yahoo.com, one of the most trafficked sites on the Web), it still seemed no one but hardcore social news junkies was talking about it.
Buzz, which first launched in February 2009, is yet another potentially useful service that was squandered by Yahoo. That list includes Delicious, which Yahoo says it’s planning to sell off, and the social photo site Flickr, which somehow completely missed out on the mobile photo craze. Yahoo has already shuttered MyBlogLog, a service it bought for $10 million that let you create communities around your blogs.

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Yahoo announces the death of Buzz on April 21, but nobody cares

Posted by Abhishek 0 comments


As part of Yahoo’s plans to shutter several major services, the company has announced that it will shut down Yahoo Buzz, its social news Digg competitor, on April 21.
But perhaps more interesting than Buzz’s imminent death is the fact that Yahoo announced the service’s closing several weeks ago on April 4, but nobody seems to have noticed. It wasn’t until this morning that TechCrunch reported on the shutdown, and other than a few scattered press releases from Yahoo on the net, there doesn’t seem to be much earlier mention of Buzz’s passing.
There’s also a prominent announcement at the top ofthe main Buzz page, which I assume has been there for weeks and has also gone unnoticed.
That it took so long for anyone to recognize Buzz’s passing is more telling of Yahoo’s failures than the actual death of the service. Even in its heyday, when Buzz was sending obscene amounts of traffic to sites that were voted popular (mostly because those sites also appeared on Yahoo.com, one of the most trafficked sites on the Web), it still seemed no one but hardcore social news junkies was talking about it.
Buzz, which first launched in February 2009, is yet another potentially useful service that was squandered by Yahoo. That list includes Delicious, which Yahoo says it’s planning to sell off, and the social photo site Flickr, which somehow completely missed out on the mobile photo craze. Yahoo has already shuttered MyBlogLog, a service it bought for $10 million that let you create communities around your blogs.

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Olive launches its low-cost Android phone, the OliveFluid V-Wi

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Olive Telecom has launched a new low-cost Android phone in the market, the OliveFluid V-W1. Priced at Rs. 10,990, the OliveFluid is an Android 2.1 handset, something unexpected after Olive brought the first Gingerbread phone in the Indian market, with the OliveSmart V-S300.
However, once we take a look at the specifications, we begin to see why the software is not up to date, and begin to wonder just what Olive was thinking by bringing such an offering into the bustling low-cost Android market, even at a sub-Rs. 10K price. Nothing really stands out about it.

The OliveFluid has a 3.5-inch capacitive touchscreen with a 320x480 resolution, which is on the lower side of pixel density, but not too bad. It has a 468MHz processor however, with just 256MB of RAM and ROM. Relevantly (for a phone running Android Eclair), the OliveFluid has just 256MB built-in storage, though it is expandable to 32GB via microSD.
All is not all bad however, and the OliveFluid redeems itself slightly by offering 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, and A-GPS connectivity. It has a 3MP camera onboard, as well as a 3.5 mm audio jack, digital compass, gravity sensor, and proximity sensor. Its 1,300 mAh battery is surprisingly rated to deliver just 4 hours of talk time, and 192 hours of standby time.
Finally, with perhaps the best way to offset the out-of-date hardware, Olive Telecom has also included a content bundle with the Olive Fluid – a free six month subscription to Zenga TV.

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Olive launches its low-cost Android phone, the OliveFluid V-Wi

Posted by Abhishek 0 comments


Olive Telecom has launched a new low-cost Android phone in the market, the OliveFluid V-W1. Priced at Rs. 10,990, the OliveFluid is an Android 2.1 handset, something unexpected after Olive brought the first Gingerbread phone in the Indian market, with the OliveSmart V-S300.
However, once we take a look at the specifications, we begin to see why the software is not up to date, and begin to wonder just what Olive was thinking by bringing such an offering into the bustling low-cost Android market, even at a sub-Rs. 10K price. Nothing really stands out about it.

The OliveFluid has a 3.5-inch capacitive touchscreen with a 320x480 resolution, which is on the lower side of pixel density, but not too bad. It has a 468MHz processor however, with just 256MB of RAM and ROM. Relevantly (for a phone running Android Eclair), the OliveFluid has just 256MB built-in storage, though it is expandable to 32GB via microSD.
All is not all bad however, and the OliveFluid redeems itself slightly by offering 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, and A-GPS connectivity. It has a 3MP camera onboard, as well as a 3.5 mm audio jack, digital compass, gravity sensor, and proximity sensor. Its 1,300 mAh battery is surprisingly rated to deliver just 4 hours of talk time, and 192 hours of standby time.
Finally, with perhaps the best way to offset the out-of-date hardware, Olive Telecom has also included a content bundle with the Olive Fluid – a free six month subscription to Zenga TV.

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Bugatti Galibier to go the Hybrid way

Posted by Abhishek Tuesday, 19 April 2011 0 comments


Known for making the world's fastest production car Bugatti now to go the hybrid with its new Galibier
Started in 1909 by Ettore Bugatti, it has not just seen success in the production world but also in the racing biz. The German automobile manufacturing company does not just produce cars. Bugatti’s production lines also see creation of airplanes and on few occasions even railcars.

One thing that the Bugatti cars have always been renowned for is its high-performance fast automobiles. This did not change even though its management changed over the years, its ambition to produce performance cars has not died. They took this to another level after they produced the Bugatti Veyron and the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport. 

Needless to say that the Galibier is going to be exclusive and expensive with the W16 engine with its dual-clutch gearbox from the Veyron the car will definitely be worth looking at. The Galibier will also be seen in a hybrid version.


The Galibier Concept was unveiled in 2009 and was described as the ‘most exclusive, elegant and powerful four-door automobile in the world’.  The only difference that the Galibier has over the Veyron (except of course the design) is that it has two superchargers instead of the four turbochargers in the Veyron.

The project is still in its early stages, Volkswagen hopes to produce ten times the number of Veyrons it produces annually with an approximate figure of 3000. As the car is still taking shape, no official word of the launch and the pricing is yet to be heard from the German engineers.

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