Sam Kieldsen

THX speaker bar comes with eight sweet spots

The audio mavens at THX have come up with the Steerable Line Array, a speaker system that ensures you’ll hear perfect sound, no matter where you sit. Traditional speakers and home cinema speaker arrays typically offer only one ‘sweet spot’ — the position in which you seat yourself to hear the system at its very …

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Samsung Galaxy S3 pic could be the real deal

There’s hardly a day goes by where we don’t see a ‘leaked photo’ of the Samsung Galaxy S3, but the latest shot looks far more convincing than most. Posted over at Reddit and reportedly leaked by somebody at public relations company Weber Shandwick (which handles PR for Samsung in several countries) the shot shows a very skinny, very Samsung-esque looking …

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Samsung Galaxy Nexus not getting Flash… yet

Those who’ve managed to get their hands on the just-launched Samsung Galaxy Nexus may have spotted that it doesn’t come with the Adobe Flash Player installed — and that it can’t even be downloaded from the Android Market. Don’t worry though, because that’s the way it’s meant to be — at least for now. Google has informed SlashGear that Adobe …

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We’re not exactly short of affordable Android phones at the moment, but thrifty smart phone fans might be interested to hear there’s another option incoming. T-Mobile has just announced the imminent launch of a smart phone called the Vivacity on its UK site, and it certainly looks like it’s going to be leaning towards the budget end of the Android …

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Nokia Lumia 601 rumours and pictures squeak forth

The Lumia 800 is out, the Lumia 710 is coming early next year — and the Lumia 601 could be Nokia’s third Windows Phone handset, according to the online rumour mill. Pocketnow has got its mitts on some pictures of a new Nokia Windows Phone (via what it describes as “a pretty reliable source”), supposedly called the Lumia 601. The …

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Amazon Kindle Phone coming late 2012, says analyst

The Kindle Fire is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Amazon’s mobile device ambitions. We reported last week that the Internet giant is currently thought to be developing a Kindle Fire smart phone, and now one analyst has now said that the company working on the phone expects it to be launched in the fourth quarter …

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Biographer: Steve Jobs reinventing TV, cameras and textbooks

Walter Isaacson, writer of the recently released biography of Steve Jobs, has revealed that the late Apple supremo was working on ‘reinventing’ three key areas of technology: television, photography and textbooks. And despite the famed secrecy surrounding the development of Apple products, it seems Jobs may have been uncharacteristically candid with Isaacson — although we shouldn’t expect the writer to …

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Orange San Francisco II confirmed by leaked support page

The cheap-as-chips Orange San Francisco is getting a second coming, according to a now-you-see-me-now-you-don’t support page on the Orange UK website. The accidental leak, as reported by So Mobile, revealed the Orange San Francisco 2 will run Android 2.3 Gingerbread and sport an 800MHz ARMII processor. It’ll feature the same 3.5-inch, 480×800-pixel resolution touchscreen as its predecessor, but the inclusion …

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Samsung Galaxy Note coming to O2 this month

The Samsung Galaxy Note is already on sale SIM-free here in the UK, but now O2 has emerged as the first operator featuring the phone on its website. As spotted by Engadget, the Galaxy Note has popped up on the network’s website in the ‘Coming Soon’ section, with November listed as the release date. Clicking the link sadly doesn’t reveal …

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Samsung ChatON to tussle with BBM and iMessage

BlackBerry Messenger has been in the news for all the wrong reasons recently, but when it isn’t being used as a “looting facilitator” it makes headlines for being a hugely successful mobile IM service. Samsung is taking it on with ChatON, a similar service that isn’t restricted to a single platform. And it’s free too. Samsung says ChatON works across …

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