Big news in the world of sat-nav voices! Nokia’s Ovi Maps now puts your own voice in charge of directions, while TomTom is using the force to guide you with the voice of Darth Vader and others from the Star Wars series. Be your own navigator: Own Voice for Ovi Maps To get your phone …
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Terminator 2 could be back… in 3D. Fresh from reinventing 3D filmmaking with Avatar, James Cameron wants to go back in time to target his own back catalogue and convert Aliens and the Terminator films into 3D — once he’s finished adding an extra dimension to Titanic. Cameron is currently working on converting his 1997 Oscar-snatcher to three dimensions. He’s …
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Apple claims to have shifted 300,000 units of the Apple iPad on the first day of sales. That includes pre-orders and deliveries to third-party retailers — including massive operations such as Best Buy — but it still means a very minimum of $150m arriving in Steve Jobs’ snug Levi’s back pocket. There’s more to come when the much-hyped multimedia tablet …
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LG is allying itself with Iron Man 2 to promote the Android-powered Ally phone, which is confirmed for lift-off this month. The Ally boasts an 81mm (3.2-inch) touchscreen, covering a slide-out, full-Qwerty keyboard. It packs a 3.2-megapixel camera, Wi-Fi and GPS. LG came late to the Android party, starting with the InTouch Max GW620 earlier this year. That was recently …
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Some media players are all Blu-ray this, Freeview that, and hard drive the other. But the new JVC CU-VS100 media player only plays back content from SD cards. It’s so free of flab that tawdry gossip rags could put it on the cover, point at it with arrows, and scream ‘Too thin?’. The CU-VS100 has not one but two SD card slots. …
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If you’ve been struggling with your Humax PVR of late, there’s good news: an update is on its way to fix the problems caused by digital switchover. Humax has issued a statement on its Facebook page, where you can stay posted on the dates of the fix. Users have reported that the PVR-9150T, PVR-9300T and in particular the PVR-9200T Freeview …
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Activate the electro-wetting lenses! Fire the parallax barriers! Soon, the galaxy will cower before Ming! The Motorola Ming MT820, that is: a 3D mobile phone spied in China. Like the Flash Gordon villain, this Ming doesn’t require glasses — or an evil goatee or unnecessarily pointy collar. The Ming is a clam-shell phone with a 2D screen in each half …
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3 is offering free Spotify on the go if you sing along with the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 or Sony Ericsson Vivaz on a two-tier contract. Spotify Premium costs a tenner a month for advert-free streaming and use of a mobile app. Sign up for a 24-month contract, then text Spotify to 39000 for your two free months. If a …
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In a move that could see Steve Jobs choke on his organic breakfast, some chap off the Internet has only gone and got Android working on the iPhone. iPhone jailbreaker David Wong, better known as planetbeing, shows off what he described as an alpha version of dual-booting software in a post on the Linux on the iPhone blog. The OpeniBoot …
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Android versions of Adobe Flash and AIR are a step closer. Adobe has revealed Flash Player 10.1 is being tested, and will join Adobe AIR 2.0 in beta release for testing by developers for Google’s open mobile platform. Flash is a platform usually used in Web pages to run video, animation and interactivity. Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) is a platform …
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