Android is coming to your telly. Crave chatted to to manufacturers working on televisions powered by Google mobile operating system at technology trade show IFA this week. As all the big names showed off their Internet-connected tellies, less well-known names are going ‘Droid. The amazingly-named Swedish company People of Lava is the first to develop …
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Apple is holding a musical extravaganza on Wednesday 1 September. A typically close-mouthed invitation has gone out to the press, including your humble Crave, to see Apple bandleader Steve Jobs strike a chord with a music-related announcement. The press conference will begin at 10am US time at the Novellus Theater at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in Californ-aye-ay. …
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Comes With Music is gone with music. Nokia’s music download service will be rebranded as Ovi Music Unlimited, part of the Ovi package of mobile phone software services. Comes With Music launched in 2007 and offers unlimited music when you pay a subscription fee. It has limped along with poor sales, probably due to the digital rights management restrictions and limited …
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The Star Wars films are set to become more powerful than you can possibly imagine — by finally arriving on Blu-ray. A bonanza of extras will join the original trilogy Star Wars: A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi with prequels The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith. Galactic emperor …
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You’ll soon be able to pick up a new iPhone, iPad or iMac in London’s tourist-choked Covent Garden. A new Apple Store opens next weekend on the former site of the downmarket Rock Garden. It will reportedly be the biggest in Europe, set over three floors and housing Apple’s European corporate office. The store will open its doors at 10am …
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Perhaps it’s a reaction to the prosaic minimalism of names like HTC Smart or iPhone 4, but Samsung has turned to the classics and the gods of mythology when christening its newest phone. The Samsung Galaxy Apollo i5801 is coming soon, sporting Android and an 81mm (3.2-inch) touchscreen. The Apollo is an Orange exclusive, according to adverts seen online, but …
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If you want a magic torch in your pocket, BlackBerry has you covered. The BlackBerry Torch 9800 won’t take you to a magical land, but it is a smart phone packed with BlackBerry firsts. The slide-out keyboard and 82mm (3.2-inch) screen make this the first BlackBerry with both Qwerty keypad and touchscreen. It packs GPS, 802.11n Wi-Fi and a 624MHz …
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Yoko Ono and the surviving Beatles have yet again ruled out the band’s arrival on iTunes. In better news, Apple has introduced a section of the iTunes App Store that kind of, sort of, lets you try out apps for free before you buy them. It collects together ‘lite’ versions of apps — that is, free sample versions of paid-for …
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Absent-minded staff of the BBC and its subsidiaries lost 146 laptops, 65 mobile phones and 17 BlackBerrys in the last two years. The losses were revealed in a Freedom of Information request by the curious Georges at IT security firm Absolute Software. The Beeb’s bean-counters valued the laptops at £219,000 (that’s £1,500 each, amazingly), the mobile phones at £12,913 and …
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BlackBerry’s latest interface is coming to a lucky few existing customers. The brand-new BlackBerry 6 operating system, first seen on the new BlackBerry Torch 9800 handset, will also be rolled out to the BlackBerry Bold 9700 and BlackBerry Pearl 3G 9105. BlackBerry 6 offers a newly design homepage with customisable icons. A new Webkit-based, multi-touch browser and multi-touch media player …
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