If World of Goo and Cut the Rope somehow got sucked into a black hole, Contre Jour is what would emerge from the other side. This breathtakingly beautiful and relentlessly addictive puzzler isn’t the most original iOS game ever, but it’s definitely one of the most wonderful. “Contre jour” translates literally to “days against,” but …
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Samsung’s lineup of current and upcoming tablets reads like a modern-day Goldilocks story. The manufacturer seems to trying every conceivable tablet screen size in an effort to find one that will be just right for consumers. Samsung tablet announcements seem to be coming fast and furious these days. To keep track of them all, we’ve created this chart summarizing the …
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Verizon Wireless has announced it will start offering the BlackBerry Torch 9850 starting September 8 in its online store, and in retail stores starting September 15. It is the same phone that was released for Sprint a few weeks ago. The Torch 9850 is BlackBerry’s first full touch-screen phone after the Storm 2. It has a 3.7-inch high-resolution display, a …
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Well looky here. No sooner do we bring you news that a high-street phone retailer is prepping its staff on how to sell the iPhone 5 (as if they’ll need any help shifting them), than a German retailer pops up and starts doling out pre-orders for the handset. Talk about stoking the fire. Hang on, you may well be saying, …
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ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 are about to go HD. The commercial channels have been invited by TV bosses to fill a fifth high-definition slot on Freeview. Television regulator Ofcom is inviting broadcasters to apply for the extra HD slot on Freeview digital terrestrial TV. The fifth slot will go to a commercial public service broadcaster: either an ITV …
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Fed up of fiddling with file formats to get them to play back on your TV? Well BitTorrent could have the answer, with its own TV that will not only download and share media, but play it back too. And if you’re thinking of dialling 999, wait a second. The media BitTorrent is talking about is videos you’ve made yourself, …
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The iPhone 5 may well be on its way to our shelves in the next month, if rumours of Apple Store staff training and reports of Best Buy preparing Apple installations are to be believed. A tipster writing to CNET UK, wanting to remain anonymous, claimed his local unnamed “mobile phone store” (he didn’t want to get them in trouble …
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Ruby Ruby Ruby Ruby — aaa-aaa-aaahhhh, as a wise man once said. The HTC Ruby is a new smart phone that’s been spotted ahead of its official release with rumours of glittering specs. This jewel of a smart phone packs Android 2.3 Gingerbread, the latest version of Google’s software for phones, probably with HTC’s Sense 3.5 front end on top …
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The tale of the lost iPhone 5 has taken a bizarre turn, as SFWeekly reports San Francisco police were present when Apple investigators searched a man’s house in a bid to find the missing mobile. Earlier in the week our sister site CNET News broke the story that a prototype of the much-anticipated iPhone 5 had apparently gone missing in …
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Samsung is kicking some serious rear-end when it comes to churning out tempting tablets and smart phones — the Galaxy S2 could be the best Android mobile out there, while the upcoming Galaxy Tab 7.7 has us slavering like hungry wolves. But that’s not enough for Samsung — it’s thrown another one into the ring, the Samsung Galaxy Note. The …
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Undoubtedly the hottest gadget to emerge from the IFA tech conference in Berlin, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 sprang out at us like a monkey hiding in a kitchen cupboard, clawing at our eyes with its gorgeous Super AMOLED Plus screen. It has the monumentally popular iPad in its sights, but does Samsung have the chops to flummox Apple? Grab …
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AT&T may not have to pay T-Mobile USA’s parent, Deutsche Telekom, the $6 billion break-up fee even if the mega-merger between wireless carriers falls apart, according to Reuters. AT&T may not be on the hook for the fee under certain conditions, a source told Reuters in a story that ran today. Spokesmen for AT&T, T-Mobile, and Deutsche Telekom didn’t immediately …
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Welcome to Smartphones Unlocked, my new monthly column designed to explain the ins and outs of smartphones to help you better understand how they work. The world of smartphones is fast-paced and can sometimes be confusing and difficult to keep track of all the new technology in these devices, particularly if you’re new to them, so if there are any …
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Samsung has yanked the Galaxy Tab 7.7 from demo stands at the IFA tech show in Berlin after Apple administered the legal smackdown to Samsung’s newest tablet, which boasts a 1.4GHz processor and a 7.7-inch Super AMOLED Plus display. Two days ago Apple won an injunction against the Tab 7.7, Bloomberg reports, preventing any sales and marketing of the new …
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It looks as though there was truth to the rumours of an Amazon tablet after all — TechCrunch says it’s seen the device, which is simply called the Amazon Kindle, and that it’s a 7-inch tablet headed for shops at the end of November. The Kindle tablet will apparently be very cheap too — Amazon plans on selling it for …
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