A Dark Knight edition of the Windows Phone-powered Nokia Lumia 900 is going on sale this week, tying in with the Batman movie hitting silver screens this summer. The bat-powered blower is available exclusively from Phones 4u from 1 June, and has the iconic Batman logo etched into its matte-black rear. Not the most subtle …
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Nokia Lumia 610 out in the UK in June for £15 per month
The wallet-friendly Nokia Lumia 610 will be out in the UK in early June, the Finnish phone-maker has confirmed. If you want to pick up this budget slice of Windows Phone, expect to find it lurking in UK shops in the first week of June, available to snap up on a £15 per month contract. The Lumia 610 is Nokia’s …
Read More »Samsung Galaxy Ace 2 getting Ice Cream Sandwich, promo says
The mid-range Samsung Galaxy Ace 2 is in line for a scoop of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, if a Samsung promo video is to be believed. The clip, spotted by Sammyhub, shows the Android-powered Ace 2 swirling around to some uptempo, accessible music. At the 14-second mark the Ice Cream Sandwich logo is shown on screen, along with the words, …
Read More »Facebook Camera iOS app arrives with filters, bulk upload
Facebook’s new Camera app for iOS lets you upload snaps straight to your profile, as well as adding tags and Instagram-esque retro filters. Cropping and rotating is also on board, but perhaps the best news is the ability to upload loads of photos at once. There’s one glaring omission, however — you can’t create new albums or upload new snaps …
Read More »Toshiba AT300 tablet is quad
Toshiba is bringing a new tablet to the UK. The snappily named AT300 is a 10.1-inch slate powered by a quad-core Tegra 3 processor, and running on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The AT300 is a follow-up to the AT200 from earlier this year, a tablet that didn’t particularly impress us. Can the AT300 fare better? Toshiba promises a brushed …
Read More »iPhone 5 tipped to have 4
Apple’s next iPhone will have a taller display for widescreen movie viewing, according to reports. 9to5Mac reckons the Californian company is testing a glossy new blower that sports a 3.999-inch screen (but let’s just go ahead and call it 4 shall we?), and packs more pixels than the current 3.5-inch display. The iPhone 4S has a 640×960-pixel resolution. The horizontal …
Read More »Apple’s Jony Ive knighted, discusses ‘quest for simplicity’
Apple’s design guru Jonathan Ive has received a knighthood, with the 45-year-old British designer behind the iPod, iPhone and iPad opening up about Apple’s design philosophy in an interview with the Telegraph. “We try to develop products that seem somehow inevitable,” Sir Jony told the paper. “That leave you with the sense that that’s the only possible solution that makes …
Read More »Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 gets stylus slot, thank goodness
Samsung’s given its upcoming Galaxy Note 10.1 a makeover, with the wannabe iPad-troubler now reportedly rocking a quad-core processor, and — joy of joys — somewhere to store the stylus. Tablet Community (translate link) has snapped a shot of the newly designed Note 10.1, which looks to address a massive design flaw that became apparent several months ago. The Note 10.1 …
Read More »HTC Android 4.0 plans revealed, no update for low
What could be better than a lovely big list? How about one that details when HTC mobiles will get Ice Cream Sandwich? HTC’s made a bumper compilation of its smart phones, detailing when each blower will be blessed with a bite of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The Taiwanese company says that the majority of its phones will be receiving …
Read More »3G FaceTime calls incoming, iOS warning hints
Your iPhone or iPad may be on the cusp on getting FaceTime calling over a 3G connection, an iOS warning pop-up suggests. The warning message, originally snapped by Romanian site iDevice, apparently pops up when you try to turn off 3G while on a FaceTime call. The missive reads, “Disabling 3G will end FaceTime. Are you sure you want to …
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