I got Rs. 20000, what phone can I buy? 20K is a great budget for a smartphone. In fact, it is the best budget. 20K is such a figure that you won’t have way too many options which makes your choice very difficult and it doesn’t have too few options which makes you settle for […] Read more
![iPad for Rs. 19900 from Seventymm [deal]](https://thegadgetfan.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/image_thumb.png)
iPad 1 is available from Seventymm for Rs. 19900. There is a ‘few units available’ caveat so rush to it if you want one. iPad 1’s last retail price was around Rs. 24K. iPad 1 on sale is a 16 GB version, WiFi, 9.7-inch screen and is powered by 1GHz A4 processor. Seventymm is also […] Read more
![Sentinel : A must-have app for Women [review]](https://thegadgetfan.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/logo1-300x101.png){kind=logo}
Mindhelix, which brought us the Tuk Tuk meter has now brought another useful app aimed for women’s security. The app is called Sentinel and is available for Android, Symbian(Java) and Blackberry. Sentinel sends text messages to 3 numbers and an emergency email to 1 recipient with just one click during emergency situations. Sentinel has to […] Read more
News of Facebook tablet app coming first to HP TouchPad is doing the rounds on the Internet for the past 10 hours or so. Turns out, that app after all is built by HP itself for its own tablet. Facebook hasn’t yet built an app for any tablet yet. There are rumors that Facebook is […] Read more
Facetime the default video chat app on iPad is great. You can switch back and forth between the front camera and rear camera and get a near real time video experience. But it is a one to one chat and works only with iDevices. Fring an independent messaging app is bringing 4-way group video chat […] Read more
More than newspapers it is comics which should adapt to the tablet and smartphone paradigm. Comics are also best suited for consumption on tablets. Disney has realized this and has launched Disney Comics for iPad and iPhone. The app is free with in-app purchases enabled for individual comics. Individual comics are priced from $0.99 to […] Read more
![Digitize your stuff with UseItorLoseIt [iphone app]](https://thegadgetfan.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/useitloseit.jpg)
Use It or Lose it, the popular web interface for keeping your stuff in order now has an iPhone app. There is a strong movement going on around the world in terms of losing clutter, organizing stuff and stuff in general. The things that weigh us down for the most part is our stuff. How […] Read more
![Pimp it : Making your phone standout [infographic]](https://thegadgetfan.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/8-million-dollar-iPhone4-thumb-550xauto-49364.jpg)
$8 million for an iPhone, $100,000 for a iPhone case and $13000 for an iPhone app – sounds crazy? Phone pimping is a million dollar industry. A whopping $497 million is spent on phone accessories just in the US in the last 9 months. When people buy phone they just don’t buy a phone. They […] Read more
Recent developments should put a stop to ‘Android is eating iPhone market share’ shenanigans. As discussed earlier on this blog, Android isn’t necessarily eating in to iOS’s market share. For the most part Android has created new markets. In addition, it was riding on the anti-incumbency factor that goes with someone using iPhone for 2-3 […] Read more
Apple and Microsoft go long way back. Both of them define what we call as computing – computers, smartphones and everything in between. While Microsoft still holds a tight grip on the desktop OS market, Apple rules the mobile operating system. Though Microsoft and Apple share the same beginnings in the desktop PC market, it […] Read more
Nokia N9 is a beast of a phone. There’s no question about it. Critics haven’t fully appreciated Nokia N9 as it runs a dead-end operating system of Meego. That shouldn’t take anything away from N9’s amazing photo capturing capabilities and the fastest way it captures images. Nokia N9’s latency is 2.6 seconds which beats the […] Read more
Call it the Android affect or Apple being vigilant, a cheaper iPhone is definitely on the cards. iPhone 5 which is due for September of 2011 might have a poorer cousin, iPhone Mini. It might cost $300. Emerging markets and especially Asia is a hotbed for smarphone market. Android has almost swept away the emerging […] Read more
![China the second largest iPhone app market, Japan the most lucrative in Asia [Distimo]](https://thegadgetfan.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/distimo4_thumb.jpg)
Asia is the new center of the world and the tech reports are focusing on that as well. Distimo has released a report on iPhone app usage across Asia. China is the second biggest market for iPhone apps after the US. Distimo has mapped the download volumes of the top 300 applications across the world […] Read more
While having a gorilla glass or a dual core processor always excites me, it is the apps that really keep the blood flowing. Apps are the blood of smartphone market. Is that an exaggeration? I hardly think so. Once we thought we had enough of these apps, another new, exciting and refreshing one pops up. […] Read more
![Now there’s this [video]](https://thegadgetfan.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/notifications2.jpg)
Apple has released a new iPad 2 ad which is nothing short of scintillating. It talks about the possibilities of having an iPad 2 in hand. Watch a newspaper, listen to a magazine, curl up with a movie, see a phone call. Take a class from anywhere, hold an entire bookstore and touch the stars. […] Read more
Yahoo has introduced AppSpot to help you discover new apps for iPhone and Android. AppSpot also has a web presence which can then be used to send the app directly to the phone. AppSpot fills in a very important void in the app discovery phase. Smartphone market is in a gestation period just like what […] Read more
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