RIM Launch “BlackBerry Mini Keyboard” For PlayBook Tablet

       BlackBerry Smartphone maker Research In Motion (RIM) today introduced the BlackBerry Mini Keyboard, a new accessory for the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. 

The BlackBerry Mini Keyboard is ultra portable and comes complete with a stylish convertible case that doubles as a stand for the tablet.

In addition to a full QWERTY keyboard, it offers an integrated touchpad that allows users to navigate and control the BlackBerry PlayBook as easily as using the touch screen on the tablet itself. When the keyboard is active, the PlayBook tablet’s virtual keyboard remains hidden, freeing up 100% of the display for the task at hand.

Features :

Powerful Multi-touch Control – The BlackBerry Mini Keyboard comes equipped with a touchpad that supports BlackBerry PlayBook gestures. The touchpad also offers additional gestures similar to the standard mouse and touchpad controls on a laptop, including a single tap to simulate a mouse click, a two finger tap to right-click, and a two-finger up or down swipe to scroll vertically.

Ultimate Portability – The BlackBerry Mini Keyboard is ultra-portable and lightweight, measuring less than 6mm thick.

Powered and Ready When You Need It – The BlackBerry Mini Keyboard conveniently uses the micro-USB charger that comes with the BlackBerry PlayBook (one less charger to carry), and the keyboard battery lasts up to 30 days on a full charge.

Third Party App Support – The BlackBerry Mini Keyboard is a great productivity enhancer. It works with the new BlackBerry PlayBook 2.0 Messages, Contacts and Calendar apps as well as Documents To Go, and provides an optimal user experience for third party apps such as Citrix Receiver, which allows users to remotely access their Windows desktop and apps from the tablet.

The BlackBerry Mini Keyboard is now available for pre-order internationally at shopblackberry.com for US$119.99 (Approx Rs. 6000)

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5 Best Applications to Partition Hard Disk in Windows PC

        Windows has almost all administration tools built in, but many of them are basic in nature and Hard disk partition tool is one of them. Although the partition tool in Windows offer basic features, they don’t have advanced features like move, resize partitions. In such cases you need to rely on third party tools to partition or manage your hard disk. There are many free partition tools available for both Windows 7 and Windows 8. Here is a list of top partitions tool for Windows.

1. EaseUS Partition Master Home:

EaseUS Partition Master Home Edition is an all-in-one freeware partition and disk management tool for Windows. It allows you to extend partition (especially for system drive), manage disk space easily, settle low disk space problem on MBR and GUID partition table (GPT) disk under both 32 bit and 64 bit versions. It is one of the most popular free tools available for partitioning hard disk.

2. Paragon Partition Manager:

This is yet another free tool to partition hard disk on Windows. It allows you to create and format partitions along with options to move / resize / delete partitions. It also features Paragon Hot Resize technology to enlarge partitions without rebooting Windows.

 

3. Wondershare Disk Manager:

Wondershare Disk Manager Free is a handy free partition manager for all-level users to copy hard disk and manage partitions. With the complete wizards, you can copy disk/partition, create partitions, resize partitions, delete partitions and recover partitions easily.

 

4. MiniTool Partition Wizard:

MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition is a free partition manager software which supports 32/64 bit Windows Operating System including Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7. Home users can perform functions which includes: Resizing partitions, Copying partitions, Create partition, Delete partition, Format partition, Convert partition, Explore partition, Hide partition, Change drive letter, Set active partition, Partition Recovery.

5. Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager:

Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager Home Edition is brand new software and we had even covered their beta version. A suite of operations allow you to create, delete, format, resize, shrink, move, extend dynamic volume without data loss to maximize disk space usage. It brings together a collection of tools including: Dynamic Volumes Management, Disk Converter and Create Volume Wizard.

Comment which one is best for you ....!

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Reliance Introduce CDMA Android Tablet for Rs. 12,999 in India

             Reliance Communications (Rcom) today became the first CDMA operator in India to enter the Tablet space by unveiling its ‘Reliance CDMA Tab’, a fully loaded Android tablet for Rs. 12999.

Reliance CDMA tablet has 7 inch (800 x 480 pixels) capacitive touch screen and runs Android 2.3 (Gingerbread). It has 512 MB RAM and a micro SD card support for external storage and comes with free 4GB SD card.

The CDMA Tab comes with a 2.0 MP rear camera and lot of other key features, catering to both business users as well as the youth segment. It has VGA secondary camera, 800 MHz processor. Other features include Mobile TV, voice calling, GPS and video recording. It comes with 1 year free subscription on McAfee Mobile Security, 2 months free subscription on BigFlix+, and Rs. 250 worth of calling on Reliance Global Call, all together valued at Rs. 2,100.

Reliance CDMA Tab – Monthly and Annual data plans :

Reliance CDMA Tab is also pre-loaded with 15 most popular applications to provide information services (browsing, navigation maps and search), communication services (email, blog, SMS, and MMS), entertainment services (music, video, and games), and social networking services (Facebook) and access to thousands of applications provided through the Android Market.

Reliance Communications (Rcom) has CDMA/ HSD/EVDO Network in over 1000 towns across India.

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Apple iOS 5.1 & iTunes 10.6 now available for download

            Following its media event that just ended, as promised, Apple has just released its iOS 5.1 update. The new update, which has a nice list of features, is now available in a 180MB over the air update.

The most notable features for iOS 5.1 include Siri support for Japanese users, a new camera app for iPad, and a new camera shortcut.

iOS 5.1 is available for the iPad 3, iPad 2, iPad, iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPod touch 4G, and iPod touch 3G. Additionally, Apple released iOS 5.0 for the Apple TV 3, and Apple TV 2.

iOS 5.1′s full change log:

As expected, if you download Apple’s iOS 5.1 you will be losing your jailbreak.

If you’re having trouble downloading OTA, you can download iOS 5.1 directly from our downloads page until it hits iTunes. iOS 5.1 should be available on iTunes soon, with iTunes 10.6 launching around the same time.

Apple releases iTunes 10.6

Apple has just released iTunes 10.6, with the ability to play 1080P video. You can download the update through iTunes!

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Micromax Brings New Data Card - Preloaded with Google Chrome

               Though 3G in India is yet to be popular there is high demand for 3G enabled data cards as people are using these with 2G data services which comes cheap.

Apart from Huawei and ZTE, many Indian companies have already launched own-branded unlocked 3G data cards. Micromax, one of the leading indigenous Indian handset companies has launched a new model under its 3G-HSPA data card portfolio.

The new HSPA data card from Micromax is named as 353G, and supports upto 7.2 Mbps HSDPA & upto 5.76 Mbps HSUPA as per 3GPP Release 6 and backwardly compatible with UMTS, EDGE and GPRS i.e. the data card will work on slower 2G networks as well. The data supports network frequency bands of 850/900/1800/1900/2100 MHz.

The new 353G is powered with Qualcomm MSM6290 chipset, and supports setup mode of plug and auto installation with zero CD installation. 353G also includes pre-loaded Google’s fast Chrome browser to offer best browsing experience to its users. It supports USB 2.0 high speed mode and AT Interface of 3GPP TS 27.005/3GPP TS27.007.

Apart from the data functionality with auto APN management 353G offers complete support of SMS, Contacts/Phonebook, Voice calls and USSD; simultaneous data and sms will work on it.

It also has a microSD slot to be double as maximum 16GB USB drive. This 3G data card supports all versions of Windows while Mac OS support limited to Intet CPU only.Currently it is available at Rs. 2000 as retail price.

Micromax diversifies its operations to South East Asia, Middle East and Latin America. The new 3G dongle is factory unlocked and supports more frequencies to provide seamless roaming in most of the countries.

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Apple iPad 2 gets a Price Cut in India

                         Apple has cut the price of all models of the iPad 2 in India after it announced the new version of the iPad  earlier this week in the US.The entry level iPad 2 WiFi model gets the biggest cut of Rs.5000 whereas other models see cuts between Rs.2000 and Rs.4000. We already told you about the price of the 16GB WiFi only iPad 2 dropping to Rs.24500 , now we have confirmation from Apple that the entire iPad 2 line up will see a discount.

Apple announced during its iPad launch event that the iPad 2 will start at $399 in the US and the price cut is effective in India so fast ! If you don’t need the latest and greatest iPad , the iPad 2 is a great buy at these prices.

But then , if you want the latest iPad , you need to wait for the India launch or bug your cousins or friends abroad to pre-order one for you !

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Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus now available in India at Rs.16275

           The Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus is available for pre-order in India from online retailer Flipkart. Samsung announced the GALAXY Ace Plus in January that comes with 3.65-inch (320 x 480 pixels) TFT display and is powered by 1 GHz Processor. It runs on Android 2.3 (Gingerbread). It has 5MP Auto Focus Camera with LED Flash.

Other features include, 3.5mm Ear Jack, Stereo FM Radio with RDS, 3GB Internal Memory, 512MB RAM and 32GB and microSD slat avilable. The connectivity features include, 3G HSDPA 7.2 Mbps, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth v 3.0, USB 2.0, aGPS. It comes with 1,300 mAh battery.

The Samsung GALAXY Ace Plus is priced at Rs. 16,275 and is available for pre-order from Flipkart. It is expected to ship from 21st March 2012.

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iPad 3 specs revealed

        The new iPad 3 is nothing short of amazing. Of course the star of the show is the beautiful Retina display that brings 4 times more pixels to your screen that its predecessor. All this powered by Apple’s own A5X processor.

But what else is hiding under the hood of Apple’s new tablet? We have the full iPad 3 specs for you, right here…

Models:

• Wi-Fi
• Wi-Fi + 4G

Size and weight:

• Height: 9.50 inches (241.2 mm)
• Width: 7.31 inches (185.7 mm)
• Depth: 0.37 inch (9.4 mm)
• Weight: 1.44 pounds (652 g) – Wi-Fi model
• Weight: 1.46 pounds (662 g) – 4G model

Storage:

• 16GB
• 32GB
• 64GB

Display:

• Retina display
• 9.7-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit glossy widescreen Multi-Touch display with IPS technology
• 2048-by-1536-pixel resolution at 264 pixels per inch (ppi)
• Fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating
• Support for display of multiple languages and characters simultaneously

Chip:

• Dual-core Apple A5X custom-designed, high-performance, low-power system-on-a-chip with quad-core graphics

Wireless and cellular:

• Wi-Fi (802.11a/b/g/n)
• Bluetooth 4.0 technology
• Wi-Fi + 4G for AT&T model: LTE (700, 2100 MHz)³; UMTS/HSPA/HSPA+/DC-HSDPA (850, 900, 1900, 2100 MHz); GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)
• Wi-Fi + 4G for Verizon model: LTE (700 MHz)³; CDMA EV-DO Rev. A (800, 1900 MHz); UMTS/HSPA/HSPA+/DC-HSDPA (850, 900, 1900, 2100 MHz); GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)
• Data only

Carriers:

• AT&T
• Verizon

Cameras:

• 5-megapixel iSight camera
• Autofocus
• Tap to focus
• Face detection in still images
• Video recording, HD (1080p) up to 30 frames per second with audio
• Video stabilization
• FaceTime camera with VGA-quality photos and video at up to 30 frames per second
• Photo and video geotagging

Battery:

• Built-in 42.5-watt-hour rechargeable lithium-polymer battery
• Up to 10 hours of surfing the web on Wi-Fi, watching video, or listening to music
• Up to 9 hours of surfing the web using cellular data network
• Charging via power adapter or USB to computer system

Input/output:

• 30-pin dock connector port
• 3.5-mm stereo headphone minijack
• Built-in speaker
• Microphone
• Micro-SIM card tray

Sensors:

• Accelerometer
• Ambient light sensor
• Gyroscope

Location:

• Wi-Fi
• Digital compass
• Assisted GPS – 4G models only
• Cellular – 4G models only

Audio playback:

• Frequency response: 20Hz to 20,000Hz
• Audio formats supported: HE-AAC (V1 and V2), AAC (8 to 320 Kbps), Protected AAC (from iTunes Store), MP3 (8 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 2, 3, and 4, Audible Enhanced Audio, AAX, and AAX+), Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV
• User-configurable maximum volume limit
• Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound pass-through with Apple Digital AV Adapter (sold separately)

TV and video:

• AirPlay Mirroring to Apple TV (2nd and 3rd generation) at 720p
• AirPlay video streaming to Apple TV (3rd generation) at up to 1080p and Apple TV (2nd generation) at up to 720p
• Video mirroring and video out support: Up to 1080p with Apple Digital AV Adapter or Apple VGA Adapter (adapters sold separately)
• Video out support at 576i and 480i with Apple Composite AV Cable (cable sold separately)
• Video formats supported: H.264 video up to 1080p, 30 frames per second, High Profile level 4.1 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; MPEG-4 video up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps per channel, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) up to 35 Mbps, 1280 by 720 pixels, 30 frames per second, audio in ulaw, PCM stereo audio in .avi file format.

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The new iPad launching on March 16th, pre-orders start today

                 One week folks, that’s all the waiting you’ll have to do before getting your hands on the new iPad.

You can pre-order the new iPad starting today, with availability on March 16th — the same day as the new Apple TV.

Thankfully, the prices for the devices have remained the same as the current generation iPads, with Wi-Fi only flavors going for $499, $599, and $699 for 16, 32, and 64GB respectively. LTE models will go for $629, $729, and $829 for the same amount of storage space.

As with the current generation, there will be both black and white versions, with separate LTE models for both Verizon and AT&T…

The new iPad will be initially available in 10 different countries on March 16th, which include the following: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Australia.

A week later, on March 23rd, the new iPad launch in various other areas including: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macau, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden.

Hopefully your country was included in either the March 16th or 23rd release date. if not, you can still consider importing the new iPad to your place of residence.

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