• Google Mobile: The original Google.com already has quite a good support for iPhone browser but this Apps get features like search as you type & quick call, etc.
• Remote: This is a wonderful app which is used for controlling your Apple or iTunes right from from your iPhone.
• Facebook: The socializing app from from Facebook. It let you set your status, watch others feed, manage your friends, chat with them, check your inbox, etc.
• Exposure: The flickr app in your pocket. Capable of browsing photos on flickr, create or read comments on pictures, see recently uploaded pictures fromyour contacts, etc.
• AIM: The IM client from AOL for your iPhone.
• Twittereffic: The twitter client for your iPhone. Do everything on Twitter from your Phone.
• NYTimes: Is there any thing better than reading NYTimes on your iPhone.
• MySpace Mobile: Another social networking app for iPhone.
• Typepad: The new way to blog, right from your iPhone.
• eReader: Read PDF eBooks on iPhone.
• Light: Turns your iPhone into a Flash light.
• To Do: For managing your tasks & notes.
• Voice Notes: Audible way of managing your tasks from your Phone.

Not just the phone is too stylish and good-looking but also its internal animations stuck my eyes on it. So a total user friendly phone is soon coming up in June in Europe.

In the Gallery at HTC site, I also saw an Youtube App shortcut on Diamond which is uncommon Windows Mobile platform. As it runs on Windows Mobile 6, there are many softwares in the market to power it up. The animations were just too good to resist & a very friendly user interface is found within.

Loaded with tons of features, this phone is ready to be a geek’s first choice. 3.5G, Wi-fi, Bluetooth, mini-USB will never let you go out of connectivity. It comes with an internal space of 4GB which is OK. Also featuring a 3.2 Mega-Pixel camera with auto-focus on backside & a front VGA color camera. Full specifications of this phone can be found out here.

HTC claims a battery Talk time up to 270 minutes for WCDMA & up to 330 minutes for GSM and Standby time Up to 396 hours for WCDMA & Up to 285 hours for GSM which will be not actually accurate but still its not bad.

Price maybe a factor which will determine that how successful this beautiful technology will be, when it finally touches the market. Hope it should not be as much of its name “Diamond”.

[via jkontherun]

Its the time when you are beating your head because you haven’t created any backup of your files on it. You connect it to a PC or a mac but iTunes is requesting to restore your iPod which means loss of your important data. Well, before restoring or formatting your iPod, do consider reading this article. This method will not erase any data on your iPod.

Difference between a Corrupted iPod & a Hanged iPod:
Before we get started, it is very important to know th difference between a Hanged iPod & a Corrupted iPod. An iPod gets hanged up when it has been working since hours or it has not been safely ejected from a computer or a corrupted mp3 file has been played on it. While iPod corruption is mainly caused by a corrupted mp3 file or not ejecting the iPod safely from computer.

How would I know that my iPod is corrupted or hanged up?
Its simple, if your iPod is hanged it will just not react, not even switching it on or off is possible. But if your iPod is corrupted it will be not be totally frozen up but it be will continuously restarting itself or it may act very unusual. However, if you connect either a hanged or corrupted iPod to a mac or a PC, iTunes will always show it as a corrupted iPod & will ask you to restore it.

How to repair a hanged iPod?
Well repairing a hanged iPod is very simple & easy. Its just a one step process. Unplug the iPod from a PC, mac or an iPod charger. Then just press the Center & the Menu button simultaneously for 10 seconds. Yes that’s it The magic combination key. Well there is no magic here, its just a simple trick to restart an iPod.

Well a hanged iPod can be repaired by this way but if your iPod is corrupted, then you are in trouble! But don’t worry there is still some hope!

How to repair a corrupted iPod?
Note: Chances are very low that your iPod data can be safely recovered from a corrupted iPod!
In this case, first try connecting your iPod to a Mac or PC. If windows or Mac OS is able to detect & read data from your drive (It will be available in My Computer & windows will show it as a Removable Drive). Then simply copy all folders & files into a folder on your PC hard drive (Remember: Don’t forget to copy all hidden files & folders).

Now restore your iPod using iTunes & also if an upgrade is available for your iPod so upgrade it. Now when your iPod has been restored or formatted. Copy the hidden folder back to iPod (Note: Do not copy the corrupted files back to your iPod as it may again corrupt your iPod) & your iPod is ready.

But if the drive is not detected, take your iPod to a your nearest recovery center.

UPDATE: If you don’t have any important data on your ipod & your ipod is corrupted then simply format your ipod with Windows Format utility & then connect it to latest version of iTunes. Let the iTunes restore or update your iPod. Your ipod will be ready by this time with new firmware files.

Sometimes, iTunes cannot restore or update the iPod. In this condition you should opt for the following measures:

1. Update iTunes to the latest version and attempt to restore your iPod.
2. Try connecting your iPod to a different USB port and restore.
3. Remove any third-party USB devices you have connected to your computer (it is not necessary to remove your keyboard or mouse).
4. If you use Windows, re-register .dll files as described in article #304996.
5. For Windows users, update or reinstall your Windows USB drivers.
6. Try connecting your iPod to another computer and then try restoring or formating your iPod.

Note: If you have an iPod shuffle you may need to use the iPod Reset Utility to restore the iPod. © Yogtec’s Digital Technology

Just a few minutes after Google killed the GPhone rumor on Google Blog, a splash hit the blogsphere. Every technology blog finally ended the hope of GPhone except the washingtonpost. They are still insisting that Google might launch a GPhone next year.

Google has tied up with HTC, Sprint, T-Mobile, Intel, NVIDIA, Motorola, Qualcom, eBay & the list goes on and on. To be exact there are 30 companies including Google in this Open Handset Alliance Project. These companies will try to launch new handsets bundled with Android in the mid of year 2008. However, the SDK (Software Development Kit) kit for developers is expected to arrive on 12 November 2007.

A nice step from Google to beat the Microsoft & other popular leaders in the mobile industry. The mobiles consisting of Android will be cheaper than other as these companies will not have to pay any amount for the OS. Google’s step in Mobile market is going to help a lot of users & companies.

Well for sure, Android will be arriving with the Google Services. Well Google has hinted about integrating Google Maps, Gmail, Google Reader, & why not their main soul – The Search. They have also tied up with Nuance (the maker of Dragon Naturally Speaking Software) to include voice recognition in their upcoming OS. The other surprise is Android will be capable of performing Voice Based Search.

OK i read about this news on blogsphere, what’s special here?
Well, Google’s Android & Mozilla Firefox Mobile browser is arriving nearly at the same time. As of the current Google-Firefox deals, there is a very strong probability that Android will surely be bundled up with the Mozilla Firefox Mobile Version. Now thats really amazing! isn’t it?

Hey hey but wait, don’t get too excited. If you are planning for a expensive long time investment phone & if you are keen fan of Google products, you will have to wait till Mid 2008 as Google will not be leaking out its new software for old Mobiles. By doing this Google will be able to keep a track on actual space of Android in the market. However Android will be free, but will not support old handsets.

Check out this video which was found floating on Open Handset Alliance website:

The stock being sent to India is mainly the iPod’s & specially the newly launched iPod Touch. The construction is running on high speeds as most of the sales for Diwali will be made on Dhanteras. The other products will also be there but the main strategy for them is to sell out iPod’s. According to an reliance employee we may have our eyes on the most wanted iPhone by the end of third quarter of 2008!

This will surely bring down the prices of Apple products as no middle person will be making money. So its a good news for we all but grey market vendors have started counting their days!
© Yogtec | Digital Technology

The gadgets added to my list is the iPod Nano Blue 4GB! (thanx Dalal Street) & Hauppage TV tuner from Hp (coming soon…. at last they replied to my claimed offer with my new tablet hp tx1000)

Also would like to thank my friends who attended the party at pizza hut & also those pizza hut guys who did a special arrangement for me! Cheers!

The guys on net who wished me were many (mostly on orkut) but some of them on net were Goutam, Narendra, etc. Narendra sent me a beautiful e-card have a look at it!

• Number of USB ports are reduced to 2 compared to existing models having 4
• Hard Disk size is expected around 40GB
• No new features have been added
• Also card reader has been taken off through this model.

A recent FCC filing by Sony may have revealed several new details about an upcoming PlayStation 3 model. Although the majority of technical details and photographs have been blocked from the public’s view at Sony’s request, the information available is able to confirm that the upcoming model – designated CECHG01 – is indeed a PlayStation 3 at the core.(via)

The above model is priced at 399.99$ USD & is expected around first week of December 2007.
© Yogtec | Digital Technology

Sony’s XWL-1 TV will be available in Japan this December for around 1220€ (approx 1734$). However it will take time for this technology to reach to other continents.(via)
© Yogtec | Digital Technology

Nokia reports that the battery gets over-heated while charging or even during a call, causing the battery to dislodge. But few users report explosions of the batteries. Nokia claims that no damage to property or any person have been caused till now.

There are more than 300 million pieces of BL5C Battery manufactured by different companies, but only 46 million manufactured by Matsushita Battery Industrial Co. Ltd. are defected.

The following phone’s have this type of battery:
Nokia 1100, Nokia 1100c, Nokia 1101, Nokia 1108, Nokia 1110, Nokia 1112, Nokia 1255, Nokia 1315, Nokia 1600, Nokia 2112, Nokia 2118, Nokia 2255, Nokia 2272, Nokia 2275, Nokia 2300, Nokia 2300c, Nokia 2310, Nokia 2355, Nokia 2600, Nokia 2610, Nokia 2610b, Nokia 2626, Nokia 3100, Nokia 3105, Nokia 3120, Nokia 3125, Nokia 6030, Nokia 6085, Nokia 6086, Nokia 6108, Nokia 6175i, Nokia 6178i, Nokia 6230, Nokia 6230i, Nokia 6270, Nokia 6600, Nokia 6620, Nokia 6630, Nokia 6631, Nokia 6670, Nokia 6680, Nokia 6681, Nokia 6682, Nokia 6820, Nokia 6822, Nokia 7610, Nokia N70, Nokia N71, Nokia N72, Nokia N91, Nokia E50, Nokia E60.

Nokia has decided to change the batteries for free. Only those batteries manufactured by Matsushita Battery Industrial Co. Ltd. of Japan between December 2005 and November 2006 will be replaced.

To know if your battery is defective or not visit http://www.nokia.com/batteryreplacement/en/

© Yogtec | Digital Technology

Dell is trying to create some excitement in the market before launching their new Latitude series. This is the second sparkling video leaked by Dell, which proves my previous sentence.