Sony Xperia S comes to Three from £30 per month

The Sony Xperia S impressed us when we had a hands-on back at CES in January. Good news — the upscale Android phone will be available on Three on Friday. When the network gets round to updating its website, the Xperia S will available on contracts from £30 per month, or on pay as you …

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Sprint to offer Gingerbread on the cheap with ZTE Fury

Sprint is just days away from announcing its next Android smartphone, according to details picked up by SprintFeed. According to the blog, the ZTE Fury is set to arrive on March 11 with a wallet-friendly $19.99 price tag and a two-year commitment. If you hear the price and expect low-end hardware then you’d be right; this ain’t no superphone. The …

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New iPad UK price and hands

Now playing: Watch this: New iPad hands-on 2:24 The new iPad has just been announced and I had the chance to play with one before it goes in sale in just over a week. Design-wise, it’s very similar to the iPad 2, but the main upgrade is the screen. Have a look at the video above to get a sense …

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iMovie adds trailers and more: Hands

iMovie started out on the Mac, and the desktop is still the best place to create movies, but the slimmed-down iOS version of iMovie ($4.99) keeps getting better with added features that bring something more to your clips. The big new addition to the app is the capability to make fun trailers for your movies. While you might wonder why …

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How to get maximum resale value for your new iPad

Getting ready to order an iPad 3? (Sorry, a “new iPad”?) For some, the answer is a resounding, “Hell, yes!” I’m fairly tempted myself, what with that lovely Retina display, blazing A5X processor, and sweet, sweet 4G LTE. Of course, if history repeats itself, a year from now we’ll all be getting ready to order an iPad 4 (or “Newer …

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Poll: why do you download TV shows?

Last week we asked you, our dear readers, where you obtained TV content from and a large proportion of respondents sourced at least some of their TV viewing from illegal sources. This naturally begs the question: why? There are plenty of reasons that one could use — at least to yourself and friends, if not a judge or jury — …

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Poll: how do you watch or procure TV shows?

It used to be so simple, to watch TV you flicked on a, well, TV. Maybe if you knew you weren’t going to be home, or two must-watch shows were on at once, you’d use a VCR. Simple. Oh so simple. But here in the year that will, supposedly, be our last as custodians of planet Earth, there are so …

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Nine to broadcast Olympics in HD on GEM

At the launch for its 2012 Olympics coverage yesterday, the Nine Network announced that it will be simulcasting its Olympics coverage on high-definition digital channel GEM. According to Nine, the network will broadcast over 300 hours of Olympics coverage from London during the two-week event, beginning with the opening ceremony at 6am (AEST) on 28 July and finishing with the …

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Jumbo smartphones: Is bigger really better?

In this edition of Ask Maggie, I offer some advice for buying a new smartphone that doesn’t require a crane to hoist it up to your ear. And I explain why Nokia’s new 41-megapixel technology is on such a lame OS. Dear Maggie, I’ve been using the iPhone since it first came out and have not looked back until recently. …

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Four things I’m hoping to see in the Jelly Bean release of Android

If the last few releases of Android are any indication, chances are good that we’ll see Jelly Bean unveiled at Google I/O in June. But even if Google makes that deadline, we’ll likely end up waiting a few more months before Jelly Bean is actually released, perhaps with a Nexus device. So with that in mind, I thought it would …

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The ‘new iPad’: What’s in a name?

Add this to the list of things that we didn’t get with the next-gen iPad: a fancy new name. During today’s hour-plus-long launch event in San Francisco, Apple CEO Tim Cook and team unveiled details about the company’s new tablet, simply calling it the “new iPad” throughout. Given that we got an iPad 2 and iPhone 4/4S, I thought for …

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iPad 3 rumours: Release date, specs and more

Now playing: Watch this: iPad 3 rumours: Release date, specs and more 8:14 Update: Well, that was unexpected. It wasn’t the iPad 3 after all! Read our new Apple iPad preview here for all the price, availability and specs info, as well as our hands-on impressions and photos. The original iPad 3 rumour article follows. Not since Moses ambled down …

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Nokia Prodigy and AC/DC are Windows Phone prototypes

Hell’s bells! Nokia is on the highway to hell with two prototype Windows Phones, codenamed the AC/DC and the Prodigy. Nokia’s two rockin’ Windows Phone devices are expected to go on tour later in the year when Windows Phone 8 arrives on stage. The Prodigy is reported to be a high-end Windows Phone — perhaps capable of taking your brain …

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New Google Search app released for Windows Phone

According to All About Windows Phone, the Windows Phone marketplace has more than 70,000 apps available, as of February 26, 2012. And recently, Google just added one more to the mix. For those of you who own a device running Windows Phone and aren’t a big fan of Microsoft’s Bing, Google recently released its own search app for the operating …

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Gingerbread is the man: Just 1.6% of Android phones have ICS

Just 1.6 per cent of Android devices are running Ice Cream Sandwich, the latest version of Google’s mobile operating system. Meanwhile Gingerbread is still ruling the roost, running on a whopping 62 per cent of Android devices. The stats come courtesy of Android’s developer site, which monitors devices that have accessed the Android Market Google Play (this time in a …

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