Sony officially announced its long awaited Android tablet, Sony tablet S. Sony first revealed details of this on April 26 and officially launched the products Aug. 31 at the 2011 IFA conference in Berlin. The Sony Tablet S will feature a 9.4-inch touchscreen display backed by Nvidia’s Tegra 2 SoC and Android 3.1. Also included will be a front and rear-facing camera,...

Samsung is all set to launch a new mobile messaging service called ChatON. The service is scheduled to debut at the IFA consumer electronics trade show in Berlin, Germany, the first week of September. The app is essentially a group chat app that combines texts, images and video messaging from Samsung’s Bada OS,  iOS, Android and BlackBerry. So, through this move Samsung...

Skype announced about its plan to acquire GroupMe, a group messaging smartphone app for Android, iPhone, Blackberry, and Windows Phone 7 that lets you create group texts, make conference calls, and share photos and your location. GroupMe is just about a year old, started by Steve Martocci and Jared Hecht. While Skype did not say how much it is going to pay. But the...

Sprint’s first sub-$100 4G smartphone, the Samsung Conquer 4G, is all set for sale. Sprint and Samsung called the device an “affordable 4G smartphone.” The Conquer 4G runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread and is powered by a 1-GHz Snapdragon processor. It features a 3.5-inch 320-by-480 touch screen, 3.2-megapixel rear-facing camera with flash and zoom, and 1.3-megapixel...

Lenovo officially announced about its first three tablet PCs slated for the U.S. market. IdeaPad K1, The IdeaPad P1 and ThinkPad tablets are intended to cover the consumer-to-business markets. IdeaPad K1 IdeaPad K1 is geared toward the consumer market. With its Android 3.1 operating system, it features a 1GHz Nvidia Tegra 2 dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor, 10.1-inch...

HTC will begin releasing unlocked version of its Android smartphones’ bootloader code next month. The first phone to get the update will be the dual-core HTC Sensation, which will get a “software update to support bootloader unlocking… in August”, HTC said. Android fans rejoiced on hearing the company’s promise to re-grant them access to device...

The Samsung Infuse 4G is the latest powerhouse Android smartphone from Samsung. The Infuse is the first phone to have a massive 4.5-inch Super AMOLED Plus touchscreen display, which is also great for browsing and videos and AT&T claims it is the thinnest “4G” phone currently on the market. It was during a press conference at CES in Las Vegas that AT&T...

Google Inc is set to launch an online music locker service called Music Beta to allow users to store and access their songs wherever they are. Users of the service are expected to be able to listen to songs they have uploaded to the service in a so-called streaming mode but won’t be able to download the files themselves. This is similar to one launched by Amazon.com...

Microsoft has acquired Internet phone service Skype for $8.5 billion with 170 million active users from an investor group led by Silver Lake. Skype is Microsoft’s latest bid to diversify its business. The acquisition is Microsoft’s largest, surpassing the purchase of AQuantive Inc. for about $6 billion in 2007. During a news conference in San Francisco, Microsoft...