The Pantech Pocket for AT&T is no Skinny Minny of a smartphone. Instead, its Big Bertha design is one of the Android smartphone’s standout traits. Pantech’s Pocket has a 4-inch screen with dimensions that are rarely seen: a 600×800-pixel configuration known as super-VGA (or SVGA). That translates into a 3:4 aspect ratio that’s both shorter …
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December, 2011
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19 December
Fusion Garage is no more, Grid10 cancelled
Bad news if you were one of the few holding out for a Grid10 tablet — the company behind it, Fusion Garage, seems to have called it a day, The Verge reports. Head to the company’s website and you’ll be faced with a message reading ‘Error establishing a database connection.’ Not only that, the US arm of its PR company …
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19 December
Prince Harry reports BlackBerry mugging
Picture the scene: you’re on the phone to a friend when you hear a scuffle and realise someone’s trying to rob them. Well this happened to Prince Harry at the end of last month, when his pal Thomas van Straubenzee had his BlackBerry stolen, the Daily Mail reports. At least it proves someone still wants a BlackBerry. Harry was speaking …
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19 December
Airplay tricks for your iPhone camera
Now playing: Watch this: Tip of the Day: Airplay tricks for iPhone 0:50 Did you know that iPhone 4S + Apple TV + Airplay = camera fun? The iPhone 4S comes with a great new screen-sharing feature, allowing you to send everything on your iPhone screen to another device wirelessly. It’s called Airplay, and, if you have an Apple TV, …
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19 December
iPhone makes up a third of all smart phone sales
2011 was the year of the smart phone, and one smart phone outsells all others: the iPhone. Apple’s smart phone owns a third of the smart phone market — while Nokia’s new Windows Phone is doing less well. The new iPhone 4S was the best-selling phone in the last month, with nearly a quarter of all smart phones flying off …
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19 December
50 years of Four Corners now available on iPad
As part of the celebrations surrounding the 50th anniversary of the ABC’s flagship current affairs program, Four Corners, the corporation has released a tablet app featuring classic reports and behind-the-scenes videos. The free app is currently only available for Apple’s iPad. It contains 70 reports from the TV show, covering topics ranging from Vietnam and Hiroshima to police corruption, to …
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19 December
Apple TV: Apple discussing Siri, motion controls
Apple TV could be closer than we thought. The Cupertino company is discussing its future vision for TV with media execs at several large companies, The Wall Street Journal reports. And the big news? It looks like it will have Siri for voice recognition, as well as respond to motion controls. Minority Report-style viewing could be just months away… Senior …
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19 December
BBC Red Button services head to Virgin Media TiVo
The BBC Red Button is coming to TiVo. Bonus news and sport content can be yours at the touch of a button on your Virgin Media TiVo box some time next year. The BBC Sport app and BBC News app will offer interactive extras from the 2012 Olympics in London, Wimbledon, Euro 2012 and the BBC’s truncated line-up of Formula …
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18 December
Homeland to debut on T
Telstra and Network Ten have signed a deal for the US drama Homeland to debut on the Telstra T-Box before airing on free-to-air television. The 200,000 T-Box subscribers will be allowed to stream the premiere episode of the series, starring Claire Danes and Damian Lewis, for free, and in advance of its first showing on Ten. How far in advance …
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17 December
The 10 worst tablets of 2011
It takes a special kind of alchemy to make a great tablet. Even mediocre tablets require a certain finesse of software and aesthetic. The screen, the right Android OS, the placement of the buttons, the cameras, and the connections all have to come together in the right way, and at the right price. Sometimes, though, things go terribly wrong. You …
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