Can you build a tablet for £30? The Aakash tablet transforming education in India says you can, and it’s coming to Britain soon. For £30, the 7-inch Aakash tablet is claimed to be as powerful as the original iPad, and the next model set to be on a par with the current iPad. Running an …
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Sky has announced its latest results, emphasising that there’s more to Sky than a dish — but highlighting the growth of online services like Sky Go suggests Sky is rattled by rivals like the fast-growing YouView. Sky hit a quarterly operating profit of £285m this summer, during which time 50,000 customers a week were unlocking On Demand services. The total …
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Amazon is primed to release as many as three smart phones, with some help from HTC. But before they’re ready for prime time, reports suggest you’ll only be able to buy them if you’re a member of Amazon Prime. Bloomberg reports the HTC-built, Amazon-branded phones will be exclusively available to those who pay for Amazon Prime, which gets you perks …
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Now hear this: the Sky Now TV Box is in shops now, bringing with it Sky Sports and Sky Movies at a knock-down price. The Now TV box is on shelves at Argos, Currys and PC World from today, and in John Lewis in coming weeks. The Now TV box now comes with a choice of Sky Sports or Sky …
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Everybody dance now! The Google Nexus 5 and Android KitKat could hit the dancefloor on Friday, according to a house music hint. As spotted by Android Community, the above image was posted on the official Google+ page for the chocolatey variety of KitKat with the tagline “Everybody Dance Now”. It’s a blatant clue, innit? Because house chart-topper ‘Gonna Make You …
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If you want a Samsung Galaxy Round, the first curved phone, then turn round: it’s only a prototype and won’t be around for long. The Round is now on sale in Samsung’s home country of South Korea, but according to SamMobile it will only be produced in limited numbers. It’s a proof-of-concept of the curved screen, which will presumably find …
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The 5-inch LG G2 may be an Android-powered powerhouse, but thanks to TalkTalk you can get it for free — which hasn’t stopped LG having a pop at Apple, Samsung and HTC. The G2 is yours for no money up front on contracts starting at just £25 per month. That monthly pony gets you 100 minutes of chat, 250 texts, …
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Stand by your beds: Apple has officially confirmed a 22 October announcement. Invitations have been delivered to press for the launch event, expected to reveal a new iPad, with the cryptic tag line, “We still have a lot to cover.” The next generation of iPad tablet will join the new iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C smart phones, recently hitting shop shelves. …
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Fresh from the pages of the laminated book of dreams, the new Argos MyTablet is a £100 rival to the Tesco Hudl tablet. Under the metal MyTablet’s 7-inch, 1,024×600 LCD glass screen is a dual-core 1.6GHz processor, with 8GB of storage. It has a microSD memory card slot, HDMI connection, a 2-megapixel camera on the back and a low-resolution camera …
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Nokia and HTC could be about to make life easier for adulterers, bigamists and superheroes with dual-SIM smart phones. Both companies are rumoured to be working on Windows Phone devices that include not one but two SIM cards. Chinese site WPDang claims that Nokia and HTC are set to make Windows Phone devices that use two SIM cards so you …
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