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(See here complete price for Xperia U, Xperia P and Xperia Sola's price for US, UK & India)  Sony's Xperia NXT generation smartphone series are finally here! The first ever Sony Ericsson I even owned was the SOny Ericsson Z500i which in my opinion will always remain one of the best "early" phones before the company phased out the 'flip' (calm shell) design and shifted to the touchscreen and androids market. Myriads of phone models later, Sony (no more 'Ericsson' now) has now launched the top-of-the-line Xperia NXT smartphones: Xperia U and Xperia P, and the Xperia Sola. One of 2012's most-anticipated top-line smartphones have also been released in India.  If you are a tech-geek I have no doubt you'll love Sony's new smartphones - as much for the packed top-line features as for their prices. I'm pleasantly surprised because even Dell's Windows phone, the Pro Venue series, are being sold somewhere from $ (Rs.) to $ (Rs.) Image

Priced at £199 (US price $ 311 approx and India price Rs. 17,278 approx), the much-awaited LG Optimus L7 has now gone on sale in the UK with online retailer Clove taking orders to ship the mobile device. The pre-orders for the phone began this week after LG announced this month that it would start rolling out the Optimus L7 in major European markets in May. The electronics giant has also released the Optimus L7 along with other 'L' series this February. I haven't yet fully gone through the specifications and features of the new LG but here are some basic specs of the LG Optimus L7. The phone comes with a 4.3 inch (480 x 800 pixels) display; it runs on Android Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0 and powered by 1GHz Cortex A5 processor. For camera fanatics, the Optimus L7 comes with a big 5Megapixle auto-focus camera - with LED flash! This is definitely a phone I want to buy now. The internal memory for the phone is 4GB with 32GB expandable memory (MicroSD).   UK Price: £ 199 (GBP) US

I bought my Samsung Wave 525 (GT-S5253) in February this year. The first thing that struck me was its looks: Man, that mobile was the plainest, most-average-looking device I’d ever seen. I mean its façade almost borders on ugly. I mean if you are one with a fetish for Windows phones or any of Apple’s iPhones, you’ll know what exterior ‘specs’ I’m ranting about here. But then looks are simply a matter of taste, isn’t it? And boy, talking of tastes, months later, I’m pleasantly surprised at the Samsung 525’s performance. In fact, I haven’t encountered any major issue with this mid-segment Smartphone. The display is great; the interface is user-friendly and almost basic even for first-time touch screen user; the phone cam isn’t too miserly for an entry-level Smartphone either (3.2 Megapixels); the features are useful and consistent with the more business-minded user’s needs; the battery life seems to go on forever. And it comes with a very nice package of in-built apps (when I say “in-bu

The tech world is still all a-shake by tremors from rumors about what is understood to be the ‘iPhone 5,’ Apple’s possible latest mobile phone to be succeeding the incredible iPhone 4. Everyone is talking about the iPhone 5 and purportedly ‘leaked’ photos of the possible iPhone are all over the web. That’s the problem with rumors – heard but not seen.  The possible iPhone 5   (Note: Image is from www.iphone.pandaapp.com and creation/art credit is as given in the image. This blog and its author is not the creator or owner of the image)   Ever since the rumors picked up momentum the past few months I have been rummaging through major “tech gossip sites” and asking around tech blog forums for details (being a Journalist helps!). For all I can perceive, there is a truth: the rumored iPhone is well, definitely in design production and well, there are some details – such as iPhone 5’s possible specification and features – that are very consistent with what a number of “credible” tech pe

During a train stop on way to Guwahati in India once, a "high-tech" gadget peddler peddling “latest technology” to travelers boarded our compartment – his cart was full of pen drives and even a number of data cables. His best-selling product happened to be a – hold your gasp – a “40GB” USB flash drive! The flash drive’s price the seller cited? Rs. 50 ($ 0.90 approximately)! My girlfriend was beyond curious: A “40GB” pen drive that costs barely $1? And how on earth did anyone manage to create a “40GB” pen drive? And when? And would you trust that thing? Anyhow, bitten by curiosity, my girlfriend went ahead and bought the “latest technology” guy’s pen drive. Sure enough, once she plugged it into her laptop she got a nice little pop-up that said: “Unrecognized device.” She couldn’t even click open the disk. In fact, her laptop promptly hung up before a warning about possible damage from the "unrecognized devise" started popping up. Man. so much affordable technology