Smartphones with quad-core processors seem to be presently the most desired handsets while the ones with single core processors are almost obsolete. As a result of this changing scenario, manufacturers bringing newer dual-core models have to make...

Tablets with voice-calling capabilities seem to be the order of the day. As ridiculous as the concept may be, this new trend has already caught on like wild fire in India and it’s not uncommon to see hipsters talking on their tablet instead of

In the now rather vast array of tablet devices to be found in the Indian market, manufacturers need to be sure that what they’ve got to offer isn’t identical to what’s already out there. They’ve also got to struggle to keep...

Windows 8-powered laptops equipped with touchscreens are becoming increasingly common by the day. One such model is the recently launched

Lenovo’s focus might be still on notebooks, but the company does have some interesting mobile solutions that have gone unnoticed by many. We first brought to you the

The Asus Transformer Prime TF201 was a fine example of how a premium Android tablet should be done. It came clad in a s

The thing about the Windows Phone platform is that if you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all. This is good since you get the true feel of the OS no matter which phone you pick. However, this can also be viewed as a negative, since the...

Be it a small business or a large enterprise, a printer is an absolute necessity in any office. There are also quite a few individuals who find the need for printers at home. This segment includes those who work from home, have a small/part time...

Two lakhs is a lot of money for a 55" TV. This is especially true when you can buy a decent 55" LED-backlit LCD TV for 1.5 lakh rupees and thereabouts. The Samsung UA55F7500BR (let's just call it F7500 for brevity), isn't an ordinary 55"...

Small time mobile phone manufacturers are bringing super cheap Chinese handsets into the market by the week and bigger brands are looking to beat them at their own game. Bigwigs like HTC, Sony and Samsung have been releasing inexpensive handsets to...

In its endeavour to expand products and services across the globe, Google began selling its highly anticipated Nexus 7 tablet in India towards the end of March. A few days later, Asus officially announced the availability of the 32GB and 3G variant...

Many of you will already be familiar with the phrase 'It's so bad, it's good.' Consider Facebook Home to be something like that.   Sure, it's a brave effort and not many companies will be willing to take the risk that

It’s been an interesting few weeks for graphics and gaming hardware enthusiasts. First, we heard that new-generation GPUs from both AMD and Nvidia would be delayed till much later this year, breaking a traditional annual refresh cycle....

The Lumia 620 could easily be regarded as one of the cutest smartphones on the shelf. It’s small, colourful, lightweight and looks a little bit like a little toy. It’s got a lot going for it, including a very reasonable price, Rs 14,600.

The Xperia ZL is the non-amphibious cousin of the Xperia Z and is currently sitting comfortably without much worry fro

The original StarCraft is well known in gaming circles. That game was one of the biggest factors in making eSports mainstream, and is still counted as one of the most finely balanced games ever created, to the extent that it is still played in a lot

The 42" TV category hits the sweet spot for most people in the market for a reasonably large primary display without breaking the bank. If you have Rs 52,000 to spare, you have a reasonably large choice between popular brands such as Samsung, LG,...

Zync has launched a new budget tablet that is sure to turn heads. The Quad 9.7 has a very impressive feature-set boasting of being equipped with an IPS display with a resolution of 2048 x 1536 pixels – almost equivalent to Apple’s latest

I'm not a big fan of wireless speakers, which is what the cool kids call battery-powered boomboxes these days. Nevertheless, there's a market for these Bluetooth-friendly gadgets that can play music streamed from your smartphone and hold...

The value of critical data is much more than the price of the hardware. You cannot afford to lose personal data or critical information, or let it fall into the wrong hands. Hence, like they say, “Prevention is better than cure&rd

The cold war in the smartphone arena is in full swing to determine the fastest phone on a budget price. Manufacturers currently seem busy trying to flaunt their quad-core Android handsets with the best spec sheet possible to impress the Indian...

The next gen HTC One model is called just that, no ‘X’, no ‘+’ or 'S', just a simple number denomination. So far, the Taiwanese company hasn’t been faring all too well with devices like the

A long time ago, all you needed was a keyboard and mouse to shoot people in the face. The trusty numpad was what you relied on to deliver Hadoukens and Bullet Kicks. While the kids on the consoles tapped away at their gamepads, even as the rest of...

The latest Android smartphone with "Intel Inside" comes in the form of the slick looking XOLO X1000. This is XOLO's third handset to feature Intel’s mobile processor and we were curious to see just how fast this device was in comparison...

If you look at the mid-range graphics card market today, you’ll see two distinct clusters of products priced around Rs 8,000 and Rs 18,000, with nearly nothing in between. Nvidia’s GT 640 and GTX 650 are positioned slightly lower than...

Today’s smartphones are tablets make great media consumption devices and with the integration of cloud services, you always have your music or photo collection with you wherever you are. Traditionally, if you wish to share these on the big...

The smartphone market now is more like a battlefield as most small time handset manufacturers are seen showing off their powerful multi-core Android handsets. Moreover, the success of Micromax’s Canvas 2 a

While it might seem like LG is losing a little traction on the mobile front, it hasn’t stopped the company from launching new devices. The latest to hit India is the Optimus L9 smartphone and this is the P765 variant. It’s a neat looking

Although I love movies, I'm not a big fan of 5.1 home theatre systems. The trade off between quality of a stereo system and the ability to pan audio across multiple channels in the same budget is just too difficult for me to condone. That is,...

Olympus recently refreshed its digital camera line-up by adding eight new models

There are many manufacturers releasing dual-core tablets on a low budget; most of them differ in terms of display sizes and types, processor speeds and internal storage space. Here is another entrant in the market, the Destiny D90T from EAFT...

After Google Play Books, Google Play Movies is the latest to enter the

Like most things in the PC and gadget world, graphics cards usually get a refresh once every year. We’re used to seeing both AMD and Nvidia launch the highest-end single-GPU models of each new generation in or around March each year, based on...

Much to the joy of the bibliophiles, the Google Play Books is finally available in India. Available for download from the Play Store, the app presents a great alternative to the Kindle app. When the app was first launched, it didn’t quite...

PowerPoint might be the de facto standard for making presentations, but there isn’t a version for tablets yet. Haiku Deck not only fills that void but brings a new approach to the art of making good presentations. Haiku Deck lays a strong...

Quad-core phones seem to be all the rage these days with almost all mobile phone manufacturers bumping up the specs and releasing quad-core handsets. HTC, Samsung and Sony are competing with each other with the fastest and smartest phone yet. Not...

As kids we tend to be indoctrinated into believing that success follows excellence. However, it is only when you grow up into a cynical reviewer that you realise the two virtues are, in fact, mutually exclusive. The truth is, when a manufacturer has

Not long after Micromax announced the Canvas HD, Karbonn stepped up to the plate with the S1 Titanium. The handset boasted

If your PC or laptop has been working in an erratic manner, or has slowed down after you last reinstalled Windows, here’s what you can do: Install TuneUp Utilities and solve your problems with just a few clicks. It may sound gimmicky to you,...

Feature phones are almost out of the market and budget Android phones are now slowly ruling this space. Though feature phones can support Internet, music, chat and social networking, users seem to prefer Androids over JAVA. Samsung has recently...

Back when Sony parted ways with Ericsson, the company promised they would be doubling their smartphone efforts and we caught the first glimpse of it with the launch of the

WickedLeak could be just one of those Johnny-come-lately mobile companies that simply use OEMs from China to dish out their devices here in India, but so far, it has managed to get our serious attention with a couple of real winners. One of its...

The increasing trend and demand for large-screen and multi-core Android smartphones is causing a stir in the market. Most of these budget Androids are manufactured in China and are usually replicas of well-known brands. The Galaxy S3 and Note are...

What developer Epic Games did with Gears of War 3 (GOW) is something that would be unthinkable for any Japanese video game company—it ended the story. As you already know, Marcus and company have finally rid the planet Sera of its hostile...

Intel’s first foray into smartphone SoCs debuted with the XOLO X900. This reference ph

Some of the year’s first few AAA releases were spectacle action games with the likes of DmC Devil May Cry in January and Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance in February. Not to be outdone, Sony released God of War: Ascension, thus completing the...

Lara Croft is one of the few strong female leads in a patriarchal industry that generally doesn't take too well to the concept of making a "kitchen-residing sammich maker" as the protagonist. In reality, that's what the mainstream...

A simple Google search, or hell, even a quick search here on tech2 will indicate that both Electronic Arts and Maxis have been holding the Idiot Ball with SimCity. The requirement to be online all the time more-or-less ruined any chance this...

Raiden has always been the black sheep in the Metal Gear character roster. He was more-or-less hated when he first made his debut back in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, but he did manage to get some fans with his reappearance in Metal Gear...