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Ice Cream Sandwich: When is it coming to my Android phone and Android tablet?
Sky Go app coming to Samsung Galaxy S2, HTC Sensation and others next month
Phones 4u launching JUMP contracts: upgrade to a new phone every 6 months
Acer CloudMobile confirmed
3 hours ago | POSTED IN News
We’ve not heard a huge amount from Acer on the phone front of late, but we’re pretty excited about the CloudMobile that’s been just announced. This sleek-looking phone has just been awarded the iF Design Award for 2012 and glancing at the press render we’ve got an idea why. With a depth of less than a centimetre (9.9mm or less, in other words) the Acer CloudMobile is pretty slim. The back of the phone features a textured, rippled cover which Acer is calling a...
In the clouds
Samsung Galaxy mini 2 low-end Android phone leaks
6 hours ago | POSTED IN News
We’ve seen follow ups to the Samsung Galaxy Ace, two follow ups (of sorts) to the Samsung Galaxy S and now there’s the Samsung Galaxy mini 2, a follow up to (you guessed it) last year’s Samsung Galaxy mini. Mooted specs include a 3.3-inch 480x320 (HVGA) display, an 800MHz chip, a 3-megapixel camera (no flash) and 3GB of internal storage. Quite literally an odd number for storage there - we’d expect normally see 2GB, 4GB or 8GB listed - although this could refer to the...
mini Adventure 2
9GB of free Google cloud storage, get it now!
9 hours ago | POSTED IN News
With all this talk of Google Drive ‘coming soon’, we’re not entirely sure what all the fuss is about, after all, Google have been dishing out 9GB of free cloud storage for a while now. What’s more, Google’s cloud storage service offers a host of advantages over Dropbox, Box and others with considerably more data (9GB), a text editor (with spellcheck if you’re on Android 4.0+ or iOS) and native mobile support with no need to install any additional apps. What...
Up in the air.
BioLite Stove: Portable woodburner that charges phones via USB
10 hours ago | POSTED IN News
We’re all for reducing our carbon footprints while feeding our gadget obsession, so naturally we fell in love with the concept of the BioLite Stove as soon as we saw it. It’s a small, portable wood burning stove that charges your phones and other gadgets via a USB port. So as well as keeping warm at night and cooking up a Pot Noodle in the morning you can keep your iPhone, Android phone or MP3 player’s batteries topped up as well. Running entirely off of wood fuel, this...
Give it some stick
Phones 4u launching JUMP contracts: upgrade to a new phone every 6 months
10 hours ago | POSTED IN News
Phones 4u has just announced a bold, potentially game-changing new type of contract called JUMP. Short for ‘Just Upgrade My Phone,’ the idea of JUMP is that you take out a long-term contract which gives you a set amount of voice, messages and data as normal, but you get the flexibility to switch to a new phone every six months, provided that you keep each phone in good nick. This is pretty amazing, we think you’ll agree. If for example you’d got hold of the HTC Sensation...
Van Halen approves
HTC: Ice Cream Sandwich coming to HTC Sensation and XE “by the end of March”, plus more
13 hours ago | POSTED IN News
HTC has posted an update on its Facebook page, saying that the HTC Sensation and the HTC Sensation XE be getting Ice Cream Sandwich “by the end of March.” This update will be “followed soon thereafter” by an update for the HTC Sensation XL, so early April time by the looks of it. “HTC has been working hard to get its Ice Cream Sandwich upgrades ready, and we’re excited to announce that our first round of ICS upgrades will roll out by the end of March for the...
Ice to see you
Rumour: Apple to announce iPad 3 in the first week of March, to be in shops a week later
yesterday | POSTED IN News
Breaking news from the iPad 3 rumour-front, All Things D is saying that Apple won’t be announcing or launching the iPad 3 this month, but will do so at an event in the first week of March with the tablet hitting shelves a week later. Those same sources also appear to confirm much of what we’ve heard already; virtually identical design to the iPad 2, faster processor and a GPU to help power high-end video and games. All Things D is saying that that there’ll be a 2048x1536 Retina...
iPad 3rd of March?
Concepts: the future of mobile phones and tablets
yesterday | POSTED IN News
A concept is defined as ‘as an experimental model to test the viability of new design features.’ Every year thousands of products are designed as concepts, many without any intention of being made. The beauty of a concept is that it can have whatever features the designer wants. A phone that flies? Lets pack in miniature anti-gravity wings. A phone that doesn’t run out of battery, lets create it from solar power. A concept gives designers the chance to experiment with shapes...
Crystal ball
Nokia N9 dual-boots into Ice Cream Sandwich
yesterday | POSTED IN News
The bittersweet story of the Meego running Nokia N9 has just had seen a distinctly sugary twist in the form of an Android 4.0 port. Slashgear have reported that a certain Alexey Roslyakov has managed to dual-boot Ice Cream Sandwich onto his Nokia N9. With Meego's linux kernel sharing more with Android than any other major mobile operating system, coupled with Alexey's experience porting Android onto the Nokia N900, many were hoping a port would find its way onto the N9. Despite having...
Android boots.
Nokia Lumia 910: Amazon vendor suggests existence
yesterday | POSTED IN News
The Nokia Lumia 910 is the suspected European alternative to the Nokia Lumia 900. We say suspected as Nokia have offered no confirmation that Europe and indeed the UK will be getting anything of the sort, with the Nokia Lumia 900 being a US exclusive for AT&T. That said, tweets from the infamous Eldar Murtazin and word of a T-Mobile specced up version of the 900 in the States suggests a strikingly similar device being en route, expected to arrive under by the name: Nokia Lumia 910. This...
Larger than Lumia (800)
iPad 3 case shots hint at bigger battery, bigger camera, may not be quad-core after all
yesterday | POSTED IN News
Pictures of what’s being called case shots for the iPad 3 have surfaced. At a glance they appear to hint at a bit more interior space, while largely looking the same as the iPad 2’s curvy metal externals. This is fuelling speculation that the iPad 3 will either have a bigger battery, a quad-core chip, or a dual-core chip with an advanced GPU for high-end graphics and video. While peering at the innards of a gadget’s case and guessing what’s to be inside is akin to...
Quad-Bore
Google to launch Drive cloud-storage service
yesterday | POSTED IN News
Google could be launching a cloud-storage service, to rival iCloud, Sky Drive and Dropbox. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google’s Cloud-based service will be called Drive and will allow users to store files - such as documents, videos and photographs in the cloud, for free. As reported on Gigaom: ‘The Google service, which is expected to launch in the coming weeks or months, will be free for most consumers and businesses. Google will charge a fee to those who want to...
Drive time
Exclusive: Nokia Asha 201 and Nokia Lumia 710 available on Vodafone now
2 days ago | POSTED IN News
Ahead of any kind of official announcement, we spotted the Nokia Lumia 710 and the Nokia Asha 201 in white loitering about on Vodafone’s Pay Monthly and Pay As You Talk pages. The Nokia Lumia 710 needs no introduction; it’s Nokia’s second Windows Phone phone to hit the UK and is a pretty smart little package. It’s got a 5-megapixel camera, 8GB of internal storage and is poered by a 1.4 GHz processor. Like the Nokia Lumia 800 you get Nokia’s bespoke Nokia Maps, Nokia...
Nok Twice
Samsung Apps giving away free games and apps for Valentine’s Day
2 days ago | POSTED IN News
Say it with flowers, chocolates or some free Samsung Apps; Samsung is feeling the love and has decided to make all of the paid apps available in its store free to download from now until Valentine’s Day. That’s next Tuesday, the 14th of February for those of you who’ve forgotten to book a table and give Interflora a ring. There’s free apps available for a wide number of Samsung Galaxy Android phones like the Galaxy S2, tablets like the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Bada-based...
Appy Valentine’s
Sony PlayStation Vita coming to Vodafone Feb 22nd
2 days ago | POSTED IN News
Vodafone has confirmed Sony’s new handheld gaming console the Sony PlayStation Vita 3G edition will be available to buy from February 22nd for £279, confirming a rumour we first heard last year. The Sony PlayStation Vita is the latest version of Sony’s handheld console, it includes a 5-inch OLED touchscreen with multitouch support, 16 million colours and front and rear touchpad's and is powered by a quadcore ARM Cortex A9 processor. NEAR is an application pre-installed on...
Vita on Voda
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