Archive for September, 2010
Meh. I don’t know what universe Lazaridis inhabits with phrases like [the tablet is] “an amplified view of what’s already on your BlackBerry”. Has he actually used those busted,crappy java apps? It’s good that they have built the OS from scratch though, rather than port over the smartphone OS. Have to wait until 2011 to […]
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Tags: Blackberry, tablet
This is clearly going to be terrible no doubt it’s made by the lowest bidder, don’t be tempted by the £180 price tag kids! Next don’t have much info other than: • 10″ WXGA LCD touchscreen display • Google android operating system • 8GB storage + cardreader • Arm 11 processor • WiFi, 2 x […]
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Tags: Android, next, tablet
I’ve always been obsessed with the idea of a consumer camera that could take a 360 degree picturebut retaining depth information so that after taking an image you could focus on any part, or even use it to build a 3D model with photogeometry. I think Adobe have just built the most important element, plenoptic lenses, […]
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Tags: Adobe, depht of field, lenses, photos, plenoptic
If anyone cares at this point. Anyone that was in the market for a smartphone this year probably already has av iPhone so you’ve missed another generation MS.
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Tags: network, UK, windows phone 7
According to BGR this brings priority inbox and changes to the messages actions menu. I’m hoping they’ve made copy and paste a bit better but I’ll update once I’ve installed. UPDATE: *sigh* no, copy and paste is still ridiculous.
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Tags: Android, Gmail, new
*Get to Google Chrome Dev Build’s experimental features quicker: Normally you have to add flags to your Chrome shortcut to enable things like hardware acceleration in the dev build, now Google let you get to these experimental features by typing the following in the address bar about:labs *Add sound notifications to Google Calendar: Go to the […]
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Tags: Chrome, dev build, Gmail, google calendar, Google chrome, google labs, labs, notifications, sound, video chat
That’s £128m worldwide to you and me, a phenominal amount of money to make in one day (Halo 3 made $170m on it’s first day) I’d love to see what the final production and marketting budget were and how much it would need to take to be considered a success internally, Microsoft never release production […]
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Tags: budget, halo, halo reach, Microsoft
We’re see this more and more, telcos changing contracts to the detriment of the consumer and trying to spin their way out of it. Hot on the heels of dropping their “unlimited” data allowance to 500MB on iPhone contracts, O2 have have dropped their 3GB/Month contract to 2GB/Month and 500GB/Dayto 200GB/Day. The real problem is […]
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Tags: allowance, data, iPad, O2
Interesting developments from HTC press conference in London: Desire HD and Desire Z announced
HTC are currently having a launch event in London. They’ve just announced the HTC Desire Z and HD which Modaco have put details of here. Both units are coming to Vodafone worldwide in October. They have also announced htcsense.com (it’s not up yet) allowing users to manage their phones from the web, as well as […]
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Tags: Android, conference, Google, htc desire hd, htc desire z, htc sense, london, Sense UI
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