Flipboard for iPhone arrives, introduces new Cover Stories feature

Flipboard, popular social magazine app is now available for iPhone. This includes new feature Cover Stories, that uses a vertical flip to quickly catch up on some of the most interesting news, updates and photos being shared with you. You can also mute anyone you’d rather not hear from, and connecting to your social networks.

Features of Flipboard for iPhone

• Cover Stories: Get a quick update on interesting stories and photos from all your social networks and favorite Flipboard content.
  
• Social Networks: Enjoy everything in one place from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Instagram, Google Reader, Flickr and 500px.
• Flipboard Accounts: Access to all the favorite content and social networks you saved on the iPad edition of Flipboard with a Flipboard Account.
• Content Guide: Browse recommended reading. Use + to add to your Flipboard.
• Search Bar: Find social conversations, posts and feeds from any person or publication and on any topic from Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, RSS and Instagram.
• Share Everywhere: Just one tap to share, like or comment to add to the conversation on the socialnetwork an item was posted to.
• Fast Flip: Scan through pages as quickly as you can with just a flick of a thumb.
• Read later: Use Instapaper or Read It Later to mark stories you want to save.

Cover Stories feature would be available for iPad in the near future. Download Flipboard for iPhone from the Apple iTunes store (iOS 4.0 or later) for free.

Motorola announces DROID XYBOARD 8.2 and 10.1 4G LTE tablets, coming to Verizon this month

Motorola and Verizon Wireless has announced 2 new DROID XYBOARD tablets. They have also announced DROID RAZR in white color. Both these tablets support Verizon’s 4G LTE network and is powered by dual-core 1.2 GHz processors and runs on Android 3.2 Honeycomb (upgradable to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich).It comes with scratch-resistant corning gorilla glass displays with water-repellent nanoparticles makes them resistant to accidental spills and splashes, 1 GB of RAM, MotoCast for remote access to non DRM-protected music, pictures, videos and documents stored on work or home computers.

These tablets come with 10.1-inch and 8.2-inch high-definition In-Plane Switching (IPS) displays and features 5MP HD camera with digital zoom, autofocus and LED flash and a 1.3MP front facing camera, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n.

It also comes with enterprise-grade security and apps such as Quickoffice HD for document editing and creation, Citrix GoToMeeting for productivity and collaboration and Google Talk for video conferencing.

DROID XYBOARD 10.1 is priced at $529.99 for 16 GB , $629.99 for 32 GB and $729.99 for 64 GB with a new two-year customer agreement. DROID XYBOARD 8.2 is priced at $429.99 for 16 GB , $529.99 for 32 GB with a new two-year customer agreement. White DROID RAZR is priced at $299.99 with a new two-year customer agreement.

Both these DROID XYBOARD tablets and the white DROID RAZR would be available from Verizon Wireless Communications Stores and online this month. As a special promitional offer customers would get $100 off a DROID XYBOARD tablet and $50 off select Motorola accessories for a limited time on purchase of a DROID RAZR by Motorola with a new two-year customer agreement.

Vodafone 3G now in Karur, Erode and Hosur in Tamil Nadu

Vodafone has launched their 3G services in Hosur, Karur and Erode in Tamil Nadu. This would let the Vodafone customers experience various exciting 3G services such as faster downloading, video streaming, multimedia gaming, digital TV and much more from their 3G devices. Vodafone 3G is now available in 22 towns in Tamil Nadu.

Press Release

Hosur, Dec 7, 2011: Vodafone India, one of India’s leading telecom service providers, today announced the launch of its 3G services in Hosur, Karur and Erode.

Vodafone customers in Karur and Erode can now experience various exciting 3G services such as faster downloading, video streaming, multimedia gaming, digital TV and much more at the comfort of their handset. 3G Services will change the way Vodafone customers communicate and experience the advantage of adding power of mobility to the internet.

Currently, Vodafone has launched 3G services in 22 towns in Tamil Nadu including Chennai, Ariyalur, Coimbatore, Cuddalore, Kodaikanal, Madurai, Ooty, Palladam, Ranipet, Sivagangai, Sriperumbadur, Trichy, Pondicherry, Salem, Tiruppur, Sivakasi, Vellore, Pondicherry, Villipuram, Karur, Erode and Hosur.

BlackBerry 10 announced at DevCon Asia in Singapore

Today at BlackBerry DevCon Asia in Singapore , RIM announced it’s next major platform version-BlackBerry 10 . RIM is calling it the single , converged , next-generation BlackBerry platform. We guess its just BBX in it’s consumer / marketing form. BlackBerry 10 will be the next major BlackBerry OS update after BlackBerry 7. RIM had literally flooded the market with an army of BlackBerry 7 devices and next year we can expect BlackBerry 10 devices. More on this soon. The real reason behind the change from BBX to BlackBerry is due to a ruling by a US  District Judge which prevents RIM from using the BBX brand at the conference.

BlackBerry 10 is essentially BBX. BBX certainly sounded better than BlackBerry 10 but RIM is facing legal issues for the same and might be forced to adopt the BlackBerry 10 branding.

BlackBerry DevCon Asia Live Blog

RIM is holding its BlackBerry DevCon Asia event here in Singapore.The event was shifted from Thailand due to the recent floods in that region. The company held it’s previous DevCon in  San Francicso whereBBX was announced.  We expect to hear more about BBX and hope to see a few new un-announced devices. We are also going to try to sit down with some RIM executives and get an idea of the mood within the company.The keynote is about to start in a few minutes and you can follow the updates from the event below

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Android Market clocks 10 billion app downloads, offers premium apps at $0.10

Google has announced that Android market has exceeded 10 billion app downloads. They have also posted a graph that shows the Android Market Growth. The Android Market saw 1 billion downloads in July 2010 and reached 6 billion in a year in July 2011. To celebrate this milestone they offer premiumapps every day for the next 10 days at $0.10 each.

List of Apps at $0.10 for today include, Asphalt 6 HD, Color & Draw for Kids, Endomondo Sports Tracker Pro, Fieldrunners HD, Great Little War Game, Minecraft,Paper Camera, Sketchbook Mobile, Soundhound Infinity & Swiftkey X. More premium apps would be offered at $0.10 each every day for the next 10 days.