Switzerland, the nation that gave us army knives and absolutely no popular musicians of note, is bestowing another gift — a glimmer of hope that the Nokia N9 will be heading to the UK. A listing for the MeeGo-powered mobile has popped up on Orange’s official Swiss website, giving an expected launch date of 15 …
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The next iPhone will be launching in October, AllThingsD is reporting, and not September, as just about everyone on the planet previously thought. One recent tidbit hinting at a September release for the iPhone 5 was a Gizmodo report that employees of AT&T (a major American network) had been denied holiday requests for the last two weeks of September, “due …
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HTC has at last issued a Gingerbread update for the HTC Desire. But disappointingly, updating isn’t as simple as a normal Android update — and it could hobble your mobile. The Android 2.3 update has been seriously squeezed — adjusted and with applications removed to work around the Desire’s memory constraints. As such HTC says it’s for development only, and …
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Fancy filling your domicile with eye-melting, brain-exploding, high-definition 3D, but for some reason hate televisions? Then Panasonic’s PT-AT5000E might be for you. It’s an LCD projector that spits out 1080p HD video, but it’s also capable of firing a 3D picture onto your living room wall. That’s three kinds of D! This potent projector offers a 300,000:1 contrast ratio and …
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Apple blog 9to5Mac has found a photo of what could be the iPhone 5 being used in the wild. Snapped in San Francisco, the blurry photo was sent in by a tipster, who spotted someone they reckoned was probably an Apple employee hunched over the mysterious device. The tipster says the person using the phone was covering the Apple logo …
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The iPad is poised to devour games consoles. Apple’s slender slate is the fastest-growing gaming platform, according to Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitello, while consoles now account for just 40 per cent of all gaming. In an interview with IndustryGamers, Riccitello said the entire games industry is changing, with devices like the iPad growing the fastest, despite only having been around …
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The Samsung Galaxy S2 is getting a fresh lick of paint — online retailer Clove will be selling the 4.3-inch smart phone in white from 15 August. That’s not very long to wait, at least in theory. If recent evidence is anything to go on though, releasing a popular phone in white can take roughly a year longer than expected. …
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Love Facebook? Yeah, we’re fond of it too, which is why we’re moderately excited about the Vodafone 555 Blue. It’s built around the social network and will cost under £100 when it lands in Blighty soon. The budget phone sports a massive Qwerty keyboard for speedy status updates, and a 2.4-inch screen. In the corner of the keyboard, there’s a button …
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Sales of the Samsung Galaxy S2 smart phone have passed the mammoth 5 million mark, and the phone hasn’t even gone on sale in the US yet. Samsung reckons it managed to hit the mammoth figure in under three months — 85 days to be exact, according to adorably named Samsung blog Sammy Hub. As the chart to the right …
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Documents that seem to show case schematics for the iPhone 5 have surfaced at MobileFun.co.uk, and show a design radically different from the current iPhone 4. We’ve heard no end of speculation that the fifth coming of the Jesus phone will be the same as the iPhone 4, at least in terms of design. But these computer-generated drawings, reportedly from …
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