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Posted in: Computer Hardware, Gaming, Misc gadgets, Mobile Accessories 20 hours ago by Prasad Razer has announced two new products for the gaming populace. The first is a keyboard called DeathStalker that comes with Razer’s Switchblade UI on a touchscreen display placed next to the keyboard. We first saw this UI on Razer’s Switchblade concept and then on the Razer Blade laptop and the Star Wars: The Old Republic gaming keyboard. The DeathStalker keyboard comes with the same basic system that has ten configurable keys on top to which you can assign any function. Each key has a color display within that shows the icon of the function you have assigned to the key. Below the keys is the LCD touchscreen that displays game related information and can also work as a trackpad to control your mouse pointer. Other than this, the DeathStalker comes with chiclet-style backlit keys and anti-ghosting for up to 10 simultaneous key presses, 1000Hz ultrapolling, braided fiber cable, fixed wrist rest ...

Just over a week ago, Nokia Maps on Nokia Lumia smartphones received its latest update. That makes it the third update to Nokia Maps in nine months! There’s been rapid development on the Maps front and we’re going to take you on a walk-through of the latest update, Nokia Maps 2.5. When you’re looking for directions on how to get somewhere, Nokia Maps should be the first place you visit, as it’s full of everything you’ll possibly need for the journey. Does it find your position in super-quick time? Yes. Can it show you a clear and easy to understand map? Yes. What if you want to add a photo of a newly found favourite eatery on Nokia Maps for all to see? Yes, it even has that. Download Nokia Maps now Press the Search button on your Nokia Lumia and then tap VisionScan the barcodeTap on the link when it appears on the screenInstall the application from the Windows Phone Marketplace Nokia Maps provides a lot of functionality while being easy to use, runs smoothly and looks great. Its mo...

Sharp is going prepare to launch its latest Android smartphone for outside Japanese market, the Sharp SH530. New handset isn’t look like a high-end device but brings a 5 inches touchscreen display with resolution of WVGA (800 x 480 pixels). Shipping with Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system, the Sharp SH530 is powered by a 1.0GHz MTK MT6577 dual-core processor, 512MB of RAM, and 16GB of internal storage. For capturing special moments, Sharp dual-core smartphone provides 5 megapixels on the back and a 1.3MP forward-facing for video chats. Besides dual SIM cards capabilities, other features include Wi-Fi, GPS, HSPA, and MicroSD card slot. Dimensions of Sharp SH530 are 140 x 80.9 x 9.9 mm and weight about 177grams. View the original article here

A great logo transcends language and lodges itself firmly into our minds by stealth. They are among the most ubiquitous and instantly recognisable symbols of our times. Not content with taking over our shopping malls, magazines and TV screens, it seems that logos are now taking over our mobile phones. Games where you have to recognise a corporate logo or typeface have become incredibly popular. Perhaps, playing these games make us think about logos and their individual characteristics for the first time. It’s like a memory game, but we didn’t realise we were consciously remembering these things in the first place. Or maybe that’s just me and illustrates how terribly susceptible I am to advertising! Whatever it may be, here’s a round up of our favourite free logo games in the Marketplace for your Nokia Lumia. Logos Quiz A nice feature of Logos Quiz is that you get to learn some nice trivia about the companies involved with the hints. As you progress through the levels, logos can becom...

Virgin Mobile is going prepare to sell the white version of Motorola Motoluxe in Canada. Unfortunately, the carrier didn’t mention anything about how much and exactly release date of the white Motorola Motoluxe. It is likely same price of the black Motoluxe smartphone, cost $229.99 no-contract or $24.99 with a 3-year term. This midrange smartphone is a super-slim handset with 9.8mm and packs a 4-inch edge-to-edge (480 x 854 pixels) display. Running on Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS, the Motorola Motoluxe smartphone has Bluetooth 3.0, 1400mAh battery, and WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, as well as DLNA. View the original article here

How would you like to be able make a postcard right on your phone and have it sent to a family member or friend, through the mail, for a very reasonable price? With the Nokia Lumia family of smartphones and the Nokia 808 PureView having amazing cameras and stunning image quality, an app like Postcard on the Run is a fantastic way send thoughtful wishes to friends and family. To talk about Postcard On The Run, now available for the Nokia Lumia 900 and Lumia 710 and Symbian handsets alike, we had a chat with Josh Brooks, co-founder and CEO of the LA-based company. Tell us about your company and what interested you about producing Postcard On The Run for Nokia. Josh: We’re a seven-person company and we’re located in Los Angeles, California. We’ve been around for less than a year and I met the Nokia Developer Relations team at CES in Las Vegas in January of this year. Nokia hit me as a company that is reaching out to developers for real. They’re building an ecosystem of developers that i...

Listening to the radio on your smartphone is like a technological marriage between the past and the present. I still tend to think of radios as those wooden analogue boxes where you have to jog the dial to find the right frequency, pray for a decent reception and then, somehow, miraculously, you stumble upon the station you were looking for. The sound quality was rubbish and there was always the danger of losing the signal if you moved to another part of the room, but it all seemed part of the experience.  Those were the days when the radio was also called a wireless. Now, being wireless extends to most of our communication and entertainment devices, and the humble radio has also been swept along in the winds of change.  Radio on your Lumia The advantages of listening to the radio now are legion. It sounds better, it’s easier to use, you can listen to stations from all over the world and best of all, of course, you can also do it on your Nokia Lumia smartphone whenever you like and wh...

Posted in: Android, Mobile software 8 hours ago by Vince After being in a beta for a while, RealPlayer is finally available for Android in both free and premium forms. Offering quite a lot of features, RealPlayer comes with a nice-looking, easy to use interface allowing you to browse not only videos, but also music and photos on your Android device. The premium version of the app will set you back $4.99 and for that it’ll give you an audio equalizer, metadata discovery, couple of widgets and further customization options. Moreover, the player comes with support for simplified and traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese. Follow the source link below to give the free version of RealPlayer a test run and stop by the comments section and say which one is your favorite media player for Android. Source | Via View the original article here

Posted in: Android, Tablets 19 hours ago by Prasad We first saw the Acer Iconia Tab A110 couple of months ago in June. Back then it seemed like a really good tablet for the $200 price tag but we haven’t heard from it since, especially after the launch of the Nexus 7. Now it has surfaced again, this time courtesy of an online UK retailer Ebuyer. What’s more important is that now it seems to be running on Jelly Bean. The images show a striking resemblance to the Nexus 7 UI, down to the placement of the keys below the display and the notification bar on the top, something that you will find only on the Nexus 7 in the Android tablet world. Not that it’s a bad thing. Other specs remain the same as before. You still get a quad-core, 1.2GHz NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor, 7-inch, 1024 x 600 resolution display, 8GB internal memory with microSD card slot and HDMI out. There is no mention of the price this time but hopefully Acer will stick to the sub-$200 price tag that they previously promised. So...