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Apple is reportedly looking at the possibility of adding projectors into its iPhones and iPads. According to a blog, Patently Apple, the company has filed for a patent to integrate Pico like projectors in its iOS devices. The level of detail reported in the patent filing is surprising, as Apple looks to have sufficiently advanced on the project, including advanced gestures that would work, or be recognised, in dark rooms.

The Acer Iconia Smart, which runs on Android Gingerbread, is expected to hit the market in September. It has a comparatively bigger display and comes with Qualcomm manufactured 1 GHz Snapdragon processor.

Samsung Wave III is likely to support improved graphics and multimedia, and will run the latest version of Bada operating system.

The Reliance 3G tablet comes with Android 2.3, 512 RAM, 7 inch capacitive display and a 2 MP front and rear camera. It is priced at Rs 12,999 and comes with bundled data offers with up to 33 per cent discount.

The latest beta build of iOS 5 seeded to developers has a speech to text transcriber. A similar feature already exists in Google Android devices and requires an active data connection to run.

The Amazon tablets are likely to be innovative due to the pointers already out there in the market — Amazon Cloud driver is already there in place, and so is the Amazon App Store.

Sony's new generation handheld gaming console might arrive in countries including India much before than what was being expected as a year ending launch.

Dell unveiled its first 10 inch tablet in China as a first. However, other countries like India will have to wait sometime more to get hands on.

BBM connected apps integrate the popular functionality of the BBM service and offer users the ability to interact with their friends from within the app itself.

Windows Phone Mango has been officially signed off as the release to manufacturing build which is a clear indicator that the devices are not far behind.