Looking for a Windows tablet or notebook ?

Meet the Acer Iconia Tab W500. It has a slight personality disorder and can be a Tablet or a notebook. It has an AMD C50 Dual-core 1GHz CPU, 10.1″ 1280×800 pixel WXGA screen, 2GB DDR3 RAM, WiFi, Bluetooth 3.0 and oh.. Windows 7. There’s also a 32GB SSD …

Google Docs in action

Google have released a Google Docs app for Android users. It’ll let you create, edit and upload documents on the go and everything gets stored in your Google cloud. You can also take snaps of documents and use OCR (optical character recognition) to turn photos into text. Heck, …

Official VNC Viewer now just £2.99

Remember the official VNC Viewer we reviewed? It’s now even cheaper. You can buy the app for just £2.99 but be quick, it’s for a limited period. The official app is normally £5.99 and is available for both iOS and Android. Links – Earlier story – Official VNC …

White iPhone Now At Vodafone

The White iPhone is now in stock with Vodafone online and in stores to be sold as of 12:01am today. It seems like both 16GB and 32GB models are available, although from looking at the site this morning there is no option to buy the White model on …

Tesco now selling the Dell Streak for just £199

If you need some milk, pop down to Tesco. While you’re there, check out the Dell Streak. The unlocked version is now available for just £199, which is a big drop on the initial £399 and then £319.20 price-tags. We’ve not had chance to test this particular device …

Microsoft speaks out on location tracking

So, we know that Apple have been storing data to help determine your location quicker. What of Microsoft? Well, it sounds like their approach is pretty similar… Microsoft says that it collects location information only if users allow an application to access location data and when that particular …

Apple not logging location data, building a database instead

With Apple clearly storing location data, we’ve had to wait until today for a response from the company themselves. An online Q&A states that it isn’t tracking the location of your iPhone and it isn’t logging the location. Yes, you read that right. They call these logs “databases” …

Nokia to cut 7000 jobs

Nokia has unveiled plans to cut 7000 staff following their tie-up with Microsoft. Here in the UK 700 jobs will be lost with 4000 positions removed across the world. 3000 more jobs will transfer to Accenture – the company charged with providing a future for Symbian. Links – …

Confirmed – White iPhone 4 available from Three tomorrow

The white iPhone 4 will be available from Three stores tomorrow morning. Pricing will remain the same and, if you’re quick, you can bag one online or in any of their stores. More as we get it, but do send us pictures of the thing if you intend …

TweetDeck 2.0 for iOS: First Look

The iOS version of Tweetdeck, the hugely popular social networking desktop app, has been somewhat forgotten recently, and desperately needed an update. Tweetdeck 2.0 for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad was recently released with a complete overhaul. In short, it’s fantastic. Last year, Tweetdeck released their Android app, …

Sony Ericsson Xperia Play Review

This device has been highly anticipated for a while now, with the PSP being a great gaming device for on the move and Android being such a great OS for mobile devices it was pretty obvous that a Playstation Phone was going to come sooner than later and …

Sony Announce S1 & S2 Tablets

Sony have just announced two new Android tablets, one looking like a traditional tablet and the other looking very much like a Nintendo DS with dual screen design.  The full press release with images has been released and can be found below. Sony Announces Optimally Designed “Sony Tablet” …

CyanogenMod… What’s all the fuss?

In the New Year, I decided to take a nose dive into custom ROMs for my Desire.  Oh we had been getting along just great for a while, but I realised I needed more… Wanted more.  It needed to be faster, and easier to use and not as …

Dropin for Android – automatically sync your photos to your Dropbox

I’ve been meaning to give Dropin a mention for a while now. It’s a great little app which provides some much needed functionality that I’ve always thought the native Dropbox app should have had from the start. Dropin automatically syncs all your photos and videos from your phone …

LG G2X to get Gingerbread ‘soon’

T-Mobile USA tweeted that G2X owners won’t have long to wait for Gingerbread to be released for the phone. This significance of this is that the G2x is the American version of the LG Optimus 2X and is pretty well an identical phone, meaning the euro market should …

Android Tablet App: Tweetcomb

As more and more developers get their hands on an Android tablet running Honeycomb, we will see, and are starting to see more tablet-dedicated applications. Tweetcomb is one such application, which focuses on the social medium, Twitter. Tweetcomb is the brainchild of Chris Stewart (Check out his Twitter …

LG Optimus 2X first impression.

So, after much deliberation I finally made the jump and bought a replacement for my much loved and trusty Nexus one – An LG Optimus 2X. The decision was actually quite easy, it had to be ‘next generation’ dual core powered, have an unlockable bootloader and ideally the developers and …

Evidence That Your Incredible S Will Get Gingerbread

When phone companies say they will release a particular software upgrade, particularly with Android, there are a few occasions when it simply doesn’t happen, or is terribly delayed. Recently, the US-only Samsung Fascinate just received an upgrade to Android 2.2 Froyo, many months late. The recently unveiled HTC …

QFS (Quick File Share) – First Look

For this week I have been sent QFS or Quick File Share. It’s a very basic application for sharing your files on your phone with anyone. Here is the first look video, the full review will be along next week. Also I would like to mention that the …

My view of Google’s step to gain control of Android skinning.

Since the start, Android has always been on the forefront of becoming the largest open source OS. This was to give manufacturers the chance to skin the platform. But, now it seems to be changing. During the last month, sources have provided us information that all is about …