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Mini Gold Nokia N97

Nokia didn't grace us with any new phone announcements this year at MWC, but is now all set to ship an N97 mini Gold Edition. Under the 18-karat gold plated exterior is the good old N97 mini. There's absolutely no difference, except cosmetically, between the two versions. The phone will include: * 3.2 inch TFT LCD with a 360 x 640 pixel resolution * 3G, EDGE/GPRS * GPS with A-GPS Support * Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, USB 2.0 * 5 megapixel camera * 8GB of on-board storage...

Serious Sam HD The First Encounter

Serious Sam: The First Encounter was originally released in 2001 by the now defunct publishers Gathering of Developers. The game was a runaway success due in part to its wicked sense of humor and partly due to developer’s fresh take on what had become a tired genre. This game was released in a time when a game’s engine seemed to matter more than the game itself. Serious Sam was intended to be a tech demo of Croteam’s Serious Engine technology and it was released at a relatively low...

Disappointments of 2009

As another year comes to an end it’s time to conduct our Game of the Year ceremony in which we honor the best of the best. But before we reminisce about the games that impressed our socks off, let’s take a look at some of the stuff that ended up disappointing us. Brutal Legend Brutal Legend was going to be the perfect game. By mixing heavy metal, free roaming and Jack Black, Tim Schaefer was gonna give us the game of the century. Unfortunately the game while entertaining to a...

iPhone 4th Generation to Have 5MP Camera

We haven’t even seen the 3GS in India and already there are reports of a 4th Generation  iPhone in the works. Reports say that the same company responsible for the 3GS’ 3.2 megapixel camera , OmniVision Technologies, is working on a 5 megapixel lens for the next handset. The company is expected to ship 0-45 million image sensors for the new handset next year, and that’s a lot. There’s also been word on Apple revealing a larger touchscreen device next year which could mean that...

Sony Ericsson Aino Mobile Handset

If you’re wondering what the name Aino(no apparent model number) means, your guess is as good as mine. It means different thing in diffrent Languages. In Finnish it can be a person’s name that means ‘The Only One’,in Japanese it’s the native name of ‘Man’ and a race of people that came before the earliest Japanese settlers. The handset is obviously neither. Sony Ericsson has stepped out of usual conformity of using model numbers for mobile handset and gone with just a name....