Windows Phone fans — hi there Steve Ballmer! Howdy Stephen Elop! — hoping to get their mitts on the freshly announced ZTE Tania should expect to shell out £250 for a SIM-free handset, when it lands in the UK next month. Mobile blog Recombu spotted listings for the ZTE Tania on online retailers Clove and …
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24 January
Should I upgrade to the iPhone 4S for Siri?
Apple’s voice-activated, personal assistant, Siri, is a cool app to show off at parties, but is it useful enough for me to upgrade to the iPhone 4S? And how can I make sure that I don’t get socked with a surprise $1,000 bill when I return from my winter vacation in the Caribbean Islands? These are the questions Ask Maggie …
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24 January
RIM lineup leaked: More Curves, BlackBerry 10, and new PlayBook
Research In Motion is prepping a slimmed-down product lineup for this year, as it puts its resources behind its next-generation BlackBerrys coming in the second half, according to an apparently leaked product lineup. Could another PlayBook be coming? RIM RIM plans to release two BlackBerry Curves in the next few months, Boy Genius Report said in a report today. In …
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24 January
Why my iPad can’t replace my laptop: It’s the trackpad
I’ll let you in on a little secret: I haven’t been thrilled with any iPad keyboard case solution, despite testing and reviewing about half a dozen of them. Sure, some of them are excellent products. Still, I don’t find them essential. This is why I don’t use my iPad during mission-critical trips to trade shows and live-blogged events. This is …
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24 January
Sony Google TV not coming to the UK until September
Now playing: Watch this: Sony Google TV hands-on 1:26 Sony’s Google TV, which crams Google goodness into your tellybox, may not be arriving in the UK until September, but you can hit play on the video above for a sneak preview. At a Sony event today we learned that Brits hoping to download Android apps to a telly will have …
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23 January
Wall Street’s reaction to RIM’s new CEO: Who cares?
Investors are certainly a fickle bunch. Research in Motion’s headquarters. RIM They’ve spent the last few months trying to dislodge co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie from their leadership roles at Research in Motion. So now that the CEOs have stepped down, what does the stock do? Drop another 2.7 percent to $16.53 in pre-market trading. The collective shrug by …
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23 January
Sony Walkman Z review: Does audio quality still matter?
One of the quickest ways to make me nostalgic is to talk about the pre-iPhone days–the days when MP3 players still mattered. While today’s biggest forum battles all seem to revolve around Android versus iOS, there was a time when the mere mention of iPod earbuds would send us all into frothy fits of anger. Everyone, it seemed, cared deeply …
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23 January
Apple uses ‘slide to unlock’ patent in lawsuit against Galaxy Nexus
In October 2011, Apple won a patent detailing the method of sliding an onscreen mark to unlock the iOS operating system on a mobile device. Now, just four months later, Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus is coming under fire for violating that patent. As Samsung and Apple have been going head-to-head in court lately, this should come as little surprise. The latest …
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23 January
Telstra testing ICS update for HTC Velocity
Telstra is in the testing phase for a major firmware update for the HTC Velocity, which will upgrade the Android platform on the handset to the latest version of Android, known as Ice Cream Sandwich. (Credit: HTC) Telstra Director of Device Management Andrew Volard confirmed last night that the telco is testing the Ice Cream Sandwich update on the new …
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23 January
Fujitsu ponders Lifebook laptop
Trade in all that tech cluttering your desk, filling your pockets, spilling out of your bag in an unseemly scramble of silicon, because Fujitsu’s new concept gives your gadgetry a group hug in the form of a four-in-one mega-laptop-tablet-camera-phone-zord. This latest Fujitsu Lifebook design slots all four devices together into one powerful planet-defending piece of mega-tech, a bit like Voltron. …
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