BlackBerry phones are getting a fistful of new features. They’re updating to BlackBerry 7.1, which brings with it new NFC features, unlocks your FM radio and adds new goodies to BlackBerry Messenger. BlackBerry maker Research In Motion has unveiled the new BlackBerry 7.1 operating system at CES this week, alongside updates to the BlackBerry Messenger, …
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Chinese OEM Huawei is claiming that its Ascend P1 S smartphone is the “world’s slimmest”, slinking past Motorola’s super-slim Razr, with a chassis of 6.68mm at its slimmest point. The Huawei Ascend P1 S should be the thinnest phone in Australia when it launches in April. (Credit: Huawei) Huawei isn’t content with this impressive feat of design and engineering, however. …
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Another major new smart phone is facing claims of a broken battery. Owners of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus report that the phone is failing to charge. CNET UK readers Vikram Shankar and Andrew Lee contacted us separately with concerns about the battery in their Galaxy Nexuses (Nexii?). At Google’s support forum, other Galaxy Nexus owners report the problem too. When …
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If neither of these handsets sound familiar, then don’t worry. The Xperia S seems to be the Xperia Arc HD (or LT26i ‘Nozomi’) handset that leaked a while ago, while the Xperia Ion is a new one on us too. Both are rumoured to be making an appearance at CES, Pocketnow reports. They may come under the Sony name too, …
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Grab some popcorn: Netflix is live in the UK and Ireland. You can now stream on-demand films and TV programmes to your computer, phone or tablet — even over 3G — with a month’s free trial available now. Netflix is massive in the US, and its launch in Blighty will be a huge boost for online streaming of movies and …
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Internet TVs are all the rage these days and that trend is set to continue well into 2012. This year, we’ll see a host of web-ready idiot boxes from Lenovo, Samsung, Toshiba and — if rumours are to be believed — even Apple. Many more are expected to join the fray, including UK firm Canonical’s Ubuntu TV offering, which looks …
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Now playing: Watch this: Tip of the Day: do more with Apple TV 1:02 Want to increase the flexibility of your Apple TV? The little black Apple TV is a very clever device. The tiny box lets you watch movies and TV shows from the iTunes Store, lets you display your photo libraries as fabulous slideshows while listening to your …
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Lenovo may be best known for its humble laptops, but it’s now striding confidently into the TV world with the K91 Smart TV, an ambitious 55-inch 3D LED TV running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Ice Cream Sandwich is the latest version of Google’s Android operating system, designed to provide a unified experience across mobile phones, tablets and now, apparently, …
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What do you call the remote control in your house? The remote, the clicker, the hoofer-doofer — or the iPhone? Sky has teamed up with telly-watching app Zeebox to turn your smart phone or tablet into a remote control for your Sky box. Remote-control features will be built into Sky apps so you can take charge of your viewing with …
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While 3D might be struggling to win the nation’s favour, here’s a cool feature that will help make for a more immersive experience. LG is due to announce a new surround sound system at CES, and it comes packing a feature called 3D Sound Zooming. Now this is rather clever. It syncs sound with the location and movement of the …
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Sick of your boring old, non-Android TV? We bet you are. Luckily for you, Samsung has developed inTouch, a TV webcam that brings Skype video-calling and other Androidy goodness to your existing TV. inTouch may look identical to Microsoft’s Kinect system for the Xbox 360, but rather than make you look daft by waving your arms around, inTouch acts primarily …
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The curtain is yet to lift on CES 2012, but already news is starting to drip through. Now the sleuths over at OLED-Display.net have spotted a Samsung banner hinting the Korean company will be showcasing a large glasses-free 3D OLED TV. Exciting stuff indeed. And surely a sign of things to come in the week ahead in Vegas. The banner …
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Yesterday, Tech Republic published a great editorial making the case that Android tablets are a failure. I don’t entirely agree, but as we head into CES 2012, one thing is certain: there will be no more talk of Android 3.0 (aka Honeycomb) as anything other than a disappointment. The future of Android, for tablet and smartphone alike, is Android 4.0, …
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We already knew Sony Ericsson was updating all of its 2011 Xperia phones to Ice Cream Sandwich, but now the company has detailed exactly which will get it when. The rollout starts at the “end March/early April 2012” according to a post on Sony Ericsson’s official product blog, Engadget reports. The first to get Android 4.0 are the Xperia Arc …
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Call me old-fashioned, but I still like newspapers. Not the papers themselves, mind you, and all their environmental unfriendliness (paper, ink, landfill, etc.), but the layout and design. The big headlines and splashy photos. Even the ads. Newspaper apps may serve you the same news, but they just aren’t the same. That’s one reason I continue to be a fan …
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