Posts Tagged ‘Android’

The Adventures of Simon Pegg: A digital comic for Android, iPhone and the iPad

The Adventures of Simon Pegg: A digital comic for Android, iPhone and the iPad

You’re scared of mice and spiders, but oh-so-much greater is your fear that one day the two species will cross-breed to form an all-powerful race of mice-spiders, who will immobilize human beings in giant webs in order to steal cheese. Lines like that made a generations of young adults fall…

Acer shows off ICONIA and slew of other tablets,

Acer shows off ICONIA and slew of other tablets,

Acer threw their hat back into the race yesterday with a slew of touchscreen releases, a smartphone and an app store. Despite Steve Job’s now infamous declaration that non-iPad-sized tablets DOA (600,000 Galaxy Tab owners might disagree) Acer have brought out a variety of tablets in different shapes and sizes….

HTC Wildfire review: Slow and unsteady loses the smartphone race

HTC Wildfire review: Slow and unsteady loses the smartphone race

I entered my HTC Wildfire experience with an open mind. Android is a noble warrior. It’s battled against the iPhone monopoly, offering perhaps the only other fully-featured smartphone operating system. On a high-end phone, like the HTC Desire, the powerful internal specifications make Android fly. Unfortunately, that’s not true of…

Binatone iHomePhone: Android comes home for the first time

Binatone iHomePhone: Android comes home for the first time

After the excitement of the launch of Windows Phone 7 and the iPad this year, there’s another development about to hit the technology market – and this time there’s nothing mobile about it. Binatone has launched the first Android-powered home phone – the iHomePhone. The device will use the landline…

Blackbelt Smartphone Defence: Keeping your phones safe

Blackbelt Smartphone Defence: Keeping your phones safe

Halloween may have gone, but now that you’re at our door we’ve got some scary statistics to share: a mobile phone is stolen every 12 seconds in the UK, while over 50,000 phones are left in the back of London taxis each year. The real trick, however, is when people…

Kindle apps roundup

Kindle apps roundup

Just as trees are grown for books, Amazon has slowly been growing an eco-system for reading books anywhere – the Kindle software. Now available or planned for eight different devices, Kindle plans to become far more than just hardware for eBook rendering. It wants to be a one-stop shop for…

Latest Gadgets interview: The Gadget Show’s Jason Bradbury on teaming up with eXpansys

Latest Gadgets interview: The Gadget Show’s Jason Bradbury on teaming up with eXpansys

Online tech retailer eXpansys is bored of just selling gadgets. Starting now, they’re going be to talking about them, too. Teaming up with Jason Bradbury, the site will embark on a new eXpanse – weekly video tech previews presented by The Gadget Show’s front-man. We spoke to Jason in the…

ZTE Light: A 7″ Android tablet. Yes another one.

ZTE Light: A 7″ Android tablet. Yes another one.

ZTE have just tried to throw a spanner in the works of the tablet PC world by announcing its 7 inch 3G Android touchscreen, which its hoping will be a bigger success than its somewhat maligned ZTE Racer. Currently on display at the Beijing Exhibition there is little information available…

Not long to wait now – Windows Phone 7 handsets roundup

Not long to wait now – Windows Phone 7 handsets roundup

It’s eight months since Microsoft first revealed its Windows Phone 7 OS, and now the wait is nearly over for you to get your hands on it. October 21 is the UK launch date for several WP7 smartphones from the likes of HTC, Dell, LG and Samsung. “Glance and Go”…

Advent Vega: Dixons retail jumps on to low-cost tablet bandwagon

Advent Vega: Dixons retail jumps on to low-cost tablet bandwagon

With the latest tablet computer retailing for less than a lot of smartphones, it looks like they’re going to make it onto plenty of those Christmas wishlists this year. Latest to bring a bargain tablet to the masses is Dixons Retail, the parent company of both Currys and PC World….

Sony Ericsson LiveView: Keeping you constantly in the loop

Sony Ericsson LiveView: Keeping you constantly in the loop

People carry phones. People wear watches. What if, thought Sony Ericsson, people’s watches could interact with their mobile phones? And so was born the LiveView. The LiveView is a small (3.5 x 3.5x 1.1cm) touchscreen device that slips on the wrist and mirrors the activities of your Android mobile phone….

Nokia World E7, C7 and C6 review roundup

Nokia  World E7, C7 and C6 review roundup

Nokia World – it sounds a bit like a theme park for mobile phone enthusiasts. Which is what it is – just remove the roller-coasters and people selling candy floss, and add in the fun of playing with unreleased mobiles and Nokia representatives touting their wares. At this year’s event,…