By Zeus! A mysterious gamer has risked the wrath of the gods — well, Sony Ericsson — with a video showing the much-anticipated PlayStation phone in action, and naming it the Sony Ericsson Zeus Z1. The phone, based on the Sony PSP Go portable games console, is set to be the first serious attempt to …
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Looking for a cheap pint and the chance of a decent conversation without having to shout over dreadful hits of the day? There’s an app for that. The Wetherspoon Pub Finder, spotted by Frackulous, seeks out your nearest Wetherspoon’s on your iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Cheers. The primary function of the app is to search for nearby Wetherspoon and …
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The 3D bandwagon rumbles on, with Cowon the latest to leap aboard. It’s just announced the Cowon 3D portable media player, a 4.8-inch thingummyjig for watching videos in three dimensions without glasses. The glasses-free 3D plays 1080p high-definition video — though we don’t know the screen resolution — as well as serving up a diet of music, ebooks and photo …
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Apple has banned an app from the iTunes App Store, not because of violence or pornography, but because it was about Android. The publisher of Danish magazine Android Magasinet claims it was refused a place on the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad because the bi-monthly title is all about phones and tablets using Google’s rival operating system. Apple even owned …
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Tron: Legacy blasts into cinemas on 17 December, and it’s fair to say we’re a bit excited. The eye-popping, ground-breaking CGI effects of Tron made a lasting impression on Crave: the famous light cycle topped our list of movie tech we want now, and we’ve planned a team outing to see the new film. But before we do that, we …
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Crave’s dear old mum once warned us not to spend too much time hanging out by the docks, but we don’t think she’d mind the Altec Lansing Octiv 450. It’s an audio dock that lets you use your Apple iPad any which-way up. The Octiv 450 allows the iPad to be viewed in both portrait and landscape positions, by docking …
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Apple has unleashed a day of Black Friday discounts. Today you can save £81 on an Apple computer or £35 on an iPad, with free delivery. Huh. That’s not so much Black Friday as drizzly-grey Friday. This week is popularly quoted as the busiest week of the year for online shopping as shoppers buy presents in time for delivery before …
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It’s all fun and games bickering about whether Mac is better than PC, or Nokia is better than Android, but it’s easy to forget that here in Blighty we have it pretty good when it comes to technology. In northern India, religious leaders have banned unmarried women from using mobile phones, while large cameras have been banned in Kuwait. The …
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Acer has uncoiled the Iconia, a dual-screen contraption that looks like a laptop made out of two tablets, for the whopping price of about two and a half tablets. The Iconia looks like a laptop, but is in fact two 14-inch capacitive touchscreens bolted together in the familiar clamshell format. Either screen can be the virtual keyboard. The Iconia has …
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Morning is broken with the Pure Twilight, a digital radio that simulates the soft caress of natural morning light, easing you from the land of nod back to life, ready to face the day. Nothing to do with pasty emo vampires, the Twilight is a radio alarm clock with a big light-up dome on the top. There are assorted choices …
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