By Imran Hussain  |  250 days ago  |  3 Comments

New Zune HD image with Marketplace

fitret, the Program Manager for Xbox 360 posted a new picture of the Zune HD, a few days ago on Twitter. The image shows Zune Marketplace. As expected it matches the rest of the UI. All fitret says about the Zune HD is It’s awesome! Great UX. Don’t know about battery life yet, mine hasn’t run out....

By Imran Hussain  |  252 days ago  |  10 Comments

The cost of buying every iPhone App from the App Store is $144,326.06

That’s right. Even though you can’t install all of them at once, that’s what it’ll cost you to buy all of them. Busted loop has done some calculations and found out the price of 55,732 apps ( as of July 7 ) to be $2.59 per app. It goes up to $3.34 if you just count the paid apps which make up 43,194 apps. They’ve also made a table...

By Imran Hussain  |  265 days ago  |  13 Comments

Wireless charging for your iPhone ala Palm Pre

The Touchstone wireless charger is one of the coolest features of the Palm Pre, which lets you just put the phone on the dock and it charges itself – without the need of connecting any wires at all. It is probably the first cell phone in the market to have this feature. If you’ve found yourself envious of this as an iPhone user, worry...

By Imran Hussain  |  267 days ago  |  1 CommentMicrosoft

Another hands on video of the Zune HD

The folks at Engadget just keep getting their hands on the Zune HD, one way or the other. They’ve got another new hands on video of the Zune HD up and it shows the same eye candy that we’ve already seen. As you’ll see in the video, the Zune HD is slimmer than the iPhone, and looks really small in the user’s hands. Yes, there’s nothing...

By Imran Hussain  |  277 days ago  |  5 CommentsMicrosoft

Nokia 5530 XpressMusic, E72 and 3710 officially unveiled

Nokia has officially announced 3 new handsets, all aimed at different audience. 5530 XpressMusic aimed at music and Internet enthusiasts, E72 for business users and 3710 for the ‘great value for money’ seeking crowd. Every phone is equipped with powerful cameras and multimedia capabilities but with totally different designs and focuses. ...

By Imran Hussain  |  336 days ago  |  3 CommentsMicrosoft

Chrysler’s Touch based Dashboard Concept on a Microsoft Surface

I just stumbled across this video on the Microsoft Surface blog. It shows a Surface being used to showcase the 200C Concept from Chrysler. 200C Concept shows a next-gen dashboard with touch based interaction. It is inspired from the iPhone and features cover-flow as well along with surface like features such as using a Smartphone as a key....

iPod Touch uses iPhone’s platform. What will Zune HD use? Win Mo 6.5?
By Imran Hussain  |  342 days ago  |  3 CommentsMicrosoft

iPod Touch uses iPhone’s platform. What will Zune HD use? Win Mo 6.5?

Honestly, this is a really weird thought. Engadget has leaked images of the Zune HD, which looks rendered due to the high level of effects used. It already looks as aimed to compete with the iPod Touch by looking at the somewhat copied inspired design. But, to compete with the iPod Touch, the Zune would need a great browser, app store, a dev...

By Imran Hussain  |  398 days ago  |  3 CommentsMicrosoft

360 Degree News Reader on Microsoft Surface

The Microsoft Surface Team Blog has posted a video of a cool new demo application which is a News Reader using a 360 degree globe-like interface. The news and videos are fetched from MSNBC.com. The touch capabilities of the Surface make it look amazing with panning, zooming and flick scrolling. The way videos are handled on the Surface with...