Beauty and the Large Mobile Screen

by Satish on May 5, 2013

lumia-920-back

When the Mayans predicted that the world will end, they didn’t really mean total annihilation.  What they were really worried about was phone screen sizes as big as their soldiers’ shields. Phones becoming tablets and tablets becoming phones. I have to admit, I wouldn’t have cared until it affected me (we are all shallow like that). In this case, it unfortunately does. [read the rest of the story..]

{ 1 comment }

The curious case of the Micromax Canvas HD

[This post by AndroGuru Nikhil Daphale aims to unravel the mystery behind the wildly popular Micromax Canvas series] Let’s look at what Micromax calls themselves, first. “Micromax is an Indian consumer electronics manufacturer located at Gurgaon, Haryana,India. It focuses on the manufacturing of mobile telephones and LED Televisions. It has 23 domestic offices across the country and international offices in Hong Kong, USA [...]

Know More →

Ubuntu Mobile, the seriously cool new kid on the block

OSes have come, OSes have gone. Some flourish, most fade away. But there is something exciting about new platforms that promise the moon. Say hello to the latest kid on the block, Ubuntu for mobile. I must add, it isn’t easy to excite me about consumer technology anymore. Yes, I might have grown up or [...]

Know More →

Facebook Mobile App too slow? Try Fastbook.

It all started when mizzer Zuckerberg said that ‘HTML5 isn’t ready’ or something similar. The dudes at Sencha didn’t like the statement. Sencha are a cool bunch of people who build tools to build HTML5 apps with. So they went the whole hog and built a facebook app for mobile and cheekily called it ‘Fastbook. [...]

Know More →

Screener.in – India’s answer to Google Finance

The time was 2007 when I first discovered the beauty that Google Finance was. It was a moment between ZOMG-BACON and ZOMG-DONUTS to know that they had Indian stocks. What more, the graphs were utterly sexy and I could zoom in and out on the price-time graphs all day long.  They even had graphical descriptions [...]

Know More →

← Previous Entries