It was announced this week that Tesco Mobile is to sell the iPhone. Reactions ranged from amused disdain to utter joy: is this the end of the MessiahPhone‘s premium cachet, or is it just the start of a price revolution that will put the world’s favourite mobile Web-browsing device in the hands of the masses? …
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If you just can’t fill your face with enough Come Dine With Me, despite it being on all the blinkin’ time, there’s an app for that. Channel 4’s tasty casserole of middle-class obsessions — cooking and nosing around other people’s houses — now brings culinary combat to your Apple iPhone or iPod touch. What’s on the menu in the app? …
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…And that was Bruce Hornsby and the Range, with the classic That’s Just the Way It Is… “some things will never change”. Speaking of things that never change, tune into North Norfolk Digital radio for new show Mid-Morning Matters, presented by broadcasting legend Alan Partridge. Alan’s living up to his catchphrase, “Back of the net” — the Inter-net that is! …
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The Apple iPhone 4 may be a contender for the Greatest Gadget of the 21st Century, but you can’t eat your dinner off it. That’s where Table Connect comes in, a convergence of furniture and phone that lets you control your apps and games on its surface — if it’s really real, that is. Cynics suggested the iPad was a …
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James Cameron’s 3D epic Avatar is finally landing in living rooms in glorious three-dimensional high definition — it’ll cost you a few grand, but you’ll get a free Panasonic 3D TV thrown in. Nearly one year after first exploding into cinemas, James Cameron’s digital opus is finally arriving in 3D for your home. But if you’ve laid down your hard-earned …
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Facebook is holding a mobile-themed press conference this Wednesday. Journalists have been invited to the social network’s command centre in California, for what could be the announcement of a Facebook-branded mobile phone. The invitation shows a string and cup phone, suggesting a phone-related announcement. Could it be the Facebook phone that set the Web’s rumour mill spinning like a Catherine …
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Bing-bong! Attention shoppers: you can now scan products with your iPhone and have them delivered straight to your door. Tesco has added a barcode reader to its iPhone app that allows you to build a shopping list by scanning real items. As you drain the last of the milk, develop a taste for a fruity Sauvignon served up by a …
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Mind the WAP! Glasgow Subway is to be the first underground transport system to let you browse the Web as The Cloud and Arqiva install Wi-Fi. The new wireless Web connection will be free to all users for the first 15 minutes, then charged on a pay as you go basis. O2 offers access to The Cloud’s public hotspots as …
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The next generations of phone network haven’t made a big enough advance to qualify as 4G, according to a global telecoms standards body. The International Telecommunication Union Radiocommunication Sector (ITU-R) has ruled that neither WiMax or LTE, the technologies currently loosely marketed as 4G, aren’t sufficiently faster than 3G to be worthy of the extra digit. The ITU has decided …
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Three new Walkman MP3 players from Sony — the NWZ-W252, NWZ-A845 and NWZ-B150 range — offer waterproof fun, iPlayer high-jinks and all manner of musical tomfoolery. The NWZ-W252, pictured above, holds 2GB of music and runs for up to 11 hours. It’s water-resistant, designed for the gym, and even the shower afterwards (where do you put it?). It comes in …
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