Last night The Gadget Show in the UK revealed a unique simulator that allows users to be fully immersed in the first person shooter game Battlefield 3.
The Gadget Show Battlefield 3 FPS Gaming Simulator Demonstration
October 25, 2011 by Leave a Comment
ViewSonic ViewPad 7e Android Tablet Rolls Out for $200
October 25, 2011 by Leave a Comment
ViewSonic has announced that it will be releasing the ViewPad 7e Android tablet at the end of this month. When launched, it will cost $200.
The technical specs show it has a 7 inch capacitive touchscreen. It runs a 1GHz ARM A8 processor and has 4GB of storage built in. A microSD card slot is included to further boost the amount of data you can save.
Dropbox Upgrade to 5GB Extended to ALL HTC Android Users
October 25, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Recently, Dropbox and HTC announced that all new HTC Android smartphones sold would have access to a free 5GB Dropbox account. When we first reported it, the deal was for new customers only and particularly those that were buying HTC Sense 3.5 devices. It seems that this isn’t a restriction any more though.
TouchFire Screen top Keyboard for iPad
October 25, 2011 by Leave a Comment
TouchFire is an iPad attachment that aims to make typing on your iPad feel like typing on a real keyboard. It attaches over the top of the landscape keyboard on either the original iPad or the iPad 2 and allows typists to feel where the keys are with the result of making it easier to type quickly.
Five Generations of iPhone Cameras Compared
October 25, 2011 by Leave a Comment
If you want to know how the camera in the iPhone has changed since launching in 2007, take a look at the comparison shots below. What we see here are five generations of iPhone cameras which start at the original iPhone and then on to the iPhone 3G, 3GS, 4 and finally the new 4S. It’s quite amazing to see how Apple has managed to improve the quality as much as it has in just a few years.
Siri Ported to the iPad – Doesn’t Connect to Apple Yet
October 24, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Although the Apple iPad 2 and iPhone 4S have a lot of similar technical specs, ie the A5 processor, same amount of RAM etc…, it was only the iPhone 4S that got Siri.
We now see that some jailbreakers have managed to port Siri over to the iPad. The downside (and it’s a large downside) is that Apple isn’t authenticating requests which basically means it doesn’t really work. All the options are available and work the same way as they do on the iPhone 4S, but when it comes to processing speech it stops dead.
The Apple Smart TV Will be a Game-Changer
October 24, 2011 by Leave a Comment
In the Steve Jobs biography a specific mention about a smart TV is made. Steve said “It would be seamlessly synced with all of your devices and with iCloud. It will have the simplest user interface you could imagine. I finally cracked it”.
Although we wont know for sure that Apple [AAPL] is making a smart TV, this reference from the book along with other bits of information found over the past few months is strongly hinting that Apple could be preparing to introduce the device.
Tremendous Demand for the AT&T iPhone 3GS
October 24, 2011 by Leave a Comment
The iPhone 3GS launched in various countries around the world in June 2009. Although the smartphone is over 2 years old now, AT&T has reported that it is seeing a tremendous demand for the device and that it has actually sold out because of the demand.
O2 Confirm a November Launch for Galaxy Nexus
October 24, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Here in the UK, the O2 network has confirmed that the Samsung Galaxy Nexus will be launching in November. We have known this from other details posted previously, but now that a landing page has arrived it all seems a little more official.
Android 4.0 Has Game Controller Support
October 24, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Now that the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich SDK is available for download, various developers around the world have started to look more in depth at what can be found in the new operating system. Last week it was revealed that ICS has stylus support built in. This week we learn that ICS has Game Controller support as standard.
BlackBerry PlayBook Running Android Apps Demonstrated
October 24, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Last week RIM launched the developer beta of BBX OS 2.0. What this allows developers to do is run Android apps on the BlackBerry PlayBook. We’ve seen demonstrations of this before that have been created by RIM, but now we see a demonstration of some Android apps running by an external person to RIM.
Nokia 800 Windows Phone Spotted on TV Ads
October 24, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Several ads were run over the weekend in the UK which each revealed a quick glimpse of what is believed to be the first Nokia Windows Phone. At the moment it goes by the name of Nokia 800 although this hasn’t been confirmed yet.
