Nokia will soon launch a new touchscreen phone called the 6208 Classic phone in China. The candy bar phone is powered by Symbian S40 interface and work effectively on touchscreen functionality.

The Nokia 6208c phone features an alphanumeric keypad and is integrated with stylus and handwriting recognition features. An MP3 player and FM radio has also been wrapped up in this Nokia phone. Tri-band GSM is supported and Bluetooth connectivity is also on board. The touchscreen phone sports a 2.4 QVGA touchscreen display. It is a user friendly phone, so the users will find it very easy to operate and smoothly perform its functions.

The Classic phone incorporates a 3.2 megapixel camera with auto focus and dual LED flash that will enable the users to click clear and bright images even in dark. The 860mAh battery provides 3.5 hours of talk time and standby time upto 12.5 days. The internal memory is of 13MB and can be expanded upto 8GB.

There are no details on its availability and price. The phone is expected to release only in China.

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For the last few weeks, rumors have been spreading all around about the release of the mysterious Sony subnotebook and this time more details have come to light revealing the specifications of the mysterious subnotebook which is being called as Sony Vaio P.

With just 5 days remaining before the announcement of new Sony Vaio P at the CES 2009, we are getting details that the new notebook will have Z520 Intel Atom processor running at 1.33 GHZ, 2GB RAM, GPS, UMTS and the option of having normal Hard Drive or SSD.

The sources indicate the new Sony Vaio P will be priced around 700 Euros (970$).

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The nonprofit foundation that runs the online encyclopedia Wikipedia announced on Friday that it has met its $6 million fundraising goal, enough to cover operating expenses for the current fiscal year, ending June 30, 2009.

The foundation operates the site without advertising as a matter of principle, making donations critical.

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said more than 125,000 people had donated a total of four million dollars since he made an appeal for funds on July 1.

"In addition, we've received major gifts and foundation support totaling two million dollars," Wales said in a thank you letter on the website of his non-profit Wikimedia Foundation.

Wales said any further donations beyond the six-million-dollar goal would be placed in a "reserve fund, which will help us to offset operating costs beyond the current fiscal year."

In his donation appeal, Wales said that over the past eight years, more than 150,000 volunteers have contributed over 11 million articles in 265 languages to wikipedia.org.

Wales's online encyclopedia allows anyone with an Internet connection to make entries and edit content.

In a thank-you note posted on the site Friday, Wales told donors, “You have proven that Wikipedia matters to you, and that you support our mission: to bring free knowledge to the planet, free of charge and free of advertising.”

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If you’ve got the Google Mobile app with Voice Search already installed on your iPhone, then try this to give your app a new look and feel for the new year. Google has unveiled some hidden option as a new year special. Many are not aware about this hidden feature until now.

The Bells and Whistles option can be found if you continuously slide upwards until you get past the About option which is usually the last item in the Settings page.

With this option you can try out some alternate sounds made by Google instead of these standard beeps and boops during speech recognition. This enhancement feature allows you to try different color themes too.

Who knows, Google might suprise similar Easter Eggs to us subsequently the next time. Lets wait till that.

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Many people use their mobiles to see time but now the technology has made us to a point where we can use as our wrist watches as mobile phones with all the latest specifications. Yes, Phenom Communications Inc. made it possible by announcing the release of its Phenom Watch Phone on 29th Dec'08.

The Phenom Watch Phone is an unlocked GSM cell phone, an MP3 and MP4 player, a digital and video camera – all in one cool and compact watch.

The phone watch has 2GB of internal memory and uses a touchscreen that can be navigated with an included stylus. Other features include Bluetooth, USB port, and a speakerphone. The watch has a SIM card slot and will work with almost any carrier in the world.

This might be the best rival of the LG GD910 after its launch at CES 2009. In this technical era, lets see how much people prefer using their watch to a multi purpose phone. This Watch phone can be bought at $395.00. For more specification details visit Phenom Watch Phone website.

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Windows 7 Beta 1 got leaked onto BitTorrent sites like wildfire around Christmas and many people got it as Christmas present from BitTorrent sites to see how the successor of Windows Vista will look like but the timing of the leak looks like it has been deliberately leaked by Microsoft itself?

The reasons which indicates Microsoft's hand in the leak are:

The leaked build hit BitTorrent sites right after Christmas when the Windows geeks had nothing better to do and bloggers and journalists had nothing better to write about.

The official Windows 7 Beta 1 will be released some time in January but this trial version will give people a good idea about what they’ll be getting because the leaked build is designated "7000," which strongly suggests that the code could be same as forthcoming Beta 1, or close to it.

This leak lets Microsoft to get ahead of Apple since Microsoft knows that Apple is preparing to release Snow Leopard at Macworld. Microsoft might have decided that an early leak might make its potential customers happy because they will get a good taste of Windows 7 few weeks earlier before the release.

This leak will give immeasurable marketing benefits because Google news search is already showing hundreds of stories related to Windows 7 Beta 1.

This time Microsoft has turned blind eye to the leak which looks very inconsistent if we look at Microsoft's past history in cases of piracy.

If you are already trying out Windows 7 Beta 1, then let us know how its different from Windows Vista?

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As the world stepped into 2009, I wish you all a very Happy New Year. Lets just check out some of the new gadgets and gizmos of 2009.

For a Gizmos lover, every year would start with so many puzzles like as which is gonna be the best gadget of the year, which is gonna be more thinner, sleeker, faster and what are all the new technologies that are gonna rock this year etc.,

Here this article might help to answer out few of the questions about few new gadgets that are awaited in 2009.

Nokia Aeon is the most awaiting release from Nokia since its been announced an year ago. This full surface screen concept mobile may be the Nokia's next blockbuster.

B-Membrane Computer is a unique take on a laptop/desktop computer. Korean designer Won-Seok Lee created his B-Membrane computer to look like no other. Though we may not see the B-Membrane concept computer in early 2009, but it's certainly worth mentioning it.

The release of Nokia N97 Touch Series might be in first half of 2009. This is Nokia's First Touch Screen N Series Slider with QWERTY Keyboard, hence making an skyrocketing expectations.

Napkin PC, the touch interface concept allows multiple users to collaborate on brainstorming projects, make notes or play noughts and crosses or, as it will henceforth be known, Futuristic Noughts and iCrosses. This year its gonna be a Napkin PC time.

Nintendo DS 2009 which is about to release in few weeks has announced their new games for the first quarter of 2009. With over 100 new games, Nintendo looks like it will provide a good balance between the casual player and hardcore gamers.

Though the release of gadgets or improvement of technology of the year can never be measured in the start day, we have just seen the sample gadgets and technological updates for 2009.

Lots of things are yet to come and we will keep you posted on every release. Keep us posted with your feedback.

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