Remember this? The original, laser-disk arcade game first appeared in 1983, the same year as the first Star Wars arcade game and as Nintendo produced the 8-bit Nintendo Famicom. It was about the same time that I fell in love with arcade games; shortly after I got a …
Panasonic once made phones for Europe quite a while ago, some of you might remember the GD87 which was at the time quite an advanced phone so to speak. Well Panasonic are coming back with a bang and with Android now available for manufacturers to use gives them a chance …
Yes I know this was released yesterday before you say anything. OnLive appeared a few months ago and it is a service that basically allows you to play the latest pc or xbox games over the internet. All that was previously needed was one of their tiny consoles …
The other week I bought the new T-Mobile branded Vivacity. It is a repacked ZTE Crescent and also a variant of the Orange San Francisco 2. I have been using it as my main device since then. My main problem with it is that my normal phone is …
Installation: this is just a matter of going to the marketplace and downloading the app as normal but once installed you won’t find it listed as initially you have to access it via the Xbox Live tile, but once there you can pin it to your start screen. …
Last night Google introduced another new service that is only available to Americans. This time it is a magazine reader that has more than 150 different publishers on board. Google are certainly building up a decent range of products (for Americans) to rival Amazon and Apple. This also …
In an incredibly vague announcement on HTC UK’s Facebook page it looks like the Desire HD and the Incredible S are about to get an update. It looks like an update to Sense 3.0. As usual real life people will probably not see this update for months. The …
Twitter look to be giving their site a new look at the moment so it’s good to see that both the iPhone and Android apps have had a facelift too. The new look is clean, fresh and simplistic. Everything is now easier to use and it’s better at …
Hey football fans, come close. A few hours ago, and I mean just a few hours ago, Sky Sports added this rather nifty app. It’s the Sky Sports Live Football Score Centre app for Android and it’s really rather good. Whether you have a Sky subscription or not, …
OK, hands up if you use Noseybook? Sorry, I meant Facebook of course. Everyone uses it for keeping in touch with their friends (and by “friends” we generally mean nosing around the lives of people you bumped into and a few dozen people you bumped into over the …
Playscreen have just released a new game for the iPhone. It is called Playscreen Poker and it is a free poker game that has various social elements. To be honest here I don’t play poker and I don’t do social so I can’t really comment on how good …
We’ve seen a few phones with stands around the back. They’re on some of the larger devices and are usually designed to prop your phone up for prolonged video or film watching. What if you want to fit one on your existing phone though? Well, we got sent …
Writepad is a text input method for tablets and phones. Oh great another keyboard app, Android really could do with a few more of those. This one though is different, it uses either your finger or a stylus to capture your handwriting. Yes like you could do in …
OK, story so far. Everything Everywhere are running a 4G trial in Cornwall. Everything seems to be going well, with those on the trial enjoying around 11Mbps. Whilst this isn’t the fastest possible speed, it’s a lot better than the cabled broadband connection through ADSL. There’s some concern …
Hopefully by now you’ve read our HTC Sensation XL review. Today we got sent another one, so we figured it was time for some daring camera angles and zoom-shots 🙂 Inside there’s that clever Beats technology that, when combined with the Dr Dre Beats headphones, provides superior sound …
O2 have now released the Nokua Lumia 800 on their network through the official website and should also be in stores any day now if not in stock already. Pricing below is based on the 500MB allowance but you do have more options such as 100MB and 1GB …
Major Nelson has just announced that the Xbox companion is now available to download for your Windows Phone. Look out for the review shortly. http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/b057fbe2-ceb1-470f-a7fe-09c862ca6dd9?wa=wsignin1.0
Just in the process of downloading an update for the Lumia 800 but can’t find out what the update does but I am assuming this is the improved battery performance. Will let you know how it goes. Update 1: Have run the phone for a day now and …
Have you read our Sensation XE review? We were pretty impressed. The Android handset from HTC adds Beats Audio and has a 1.5Ghz CPU. You can win in a brand new (and network free) HTC Sensation XE from those nice people at The Smartphone Centre. They’re celebrating their …
What will you be opening on Christmas morning ? If it’s another pair of socks and a random DVD then it might be worth buying yourself a gift. The HTC Flyer seems to be getting a swift kick in the price department, with some outlets (which we can’t …
