Electronics manufacturer Sony has just announced that it made nearly £300 million in losses during 2009, but sales of the PlayStation 3 console are finally starting to pick up. To put the figures into context, the year before, Sony’s financial performance was even poorer although prior to 2008 it had not made a loss for nearly a decade and a half. Sony sold more HD TVs and digital cameras than anything else in 2009, but it did see its PS3 sales jump by three million annually to 13 million in total. Sony also saw its PS3 business...
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In recent weeks it has been Sony that has been most public regarding its intentions to bring 3D gaming to the PS3, but now its rivals at Nintendo and Microsoft have revealed 3D plans. Nintendo has indicated that it intends to launch the Nintendo 3DS hand held console with a 3D toggling button, which means that you can flick between two or three dimensional images at the drop of a hat. The Nintendo 3DS will be notable in that it will not require the use of special polarised glasses in order to make the 3D image visible. In addition, after...
Apple has finally committed to an official release date for the iPad for international customers, meaning that UK fans will be able to get their hands on a localised device in just a few weeks. The iPad will be landing in the UK and many other international destinations on May 28th. It is possible to head to Apple’s online store and pre-order the two versions of the iPad from today (May 10th), so keen fans can get their name on the waiting list of what is sure to be one of the most in-demand gadgets of 2010. Sales of the iPad in...
Bungie is known for its groundbreaking, console-selling Halo series, with exclusivity on Microsoft’s Xbox consoles allowing the platform and the games to triumph, but now a new deal with third party distributor Activision will see Bungie’s next project hitting multiple gaming platforms. Activision has broken records recently with the launch of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, which took nearly £250 million in its first day and continues to sell well months after its launch in November 2009. It is clear that Activision and Bungie...
Apple has proved sceptics wrong and has managed to create yet another best selling gadget in the iPad, with one million of the devices flying from the shelves in its first month on sale. The iPad was seen by many as a fairly odd device, offering what looked to be a much larger alternative to the iPhone, but consumers have clearly fallen for Apple’s uniquely beautiful aesthetic touches and user-friendly interface once again. The iPad could well be the device that finally brings the concept of eBooks to a mainstream audience, as Apple...
Microsoft has been in the process of developing its own smartphone range for some time and now the first two handsets have emerged, called the Kin One and Two. Microsoft’s Robbie Bach said that the two mobiles are focused on social networking services, providing the user with complete, unified access to their various online persona’s. Despite the fact that these phones are developed by Microsoft, it is actually shying away from imprinting its name anywhere on the outside of the mobiles. Instead the Kin brand will be used to...
The next iPhone operating system may be bringing partial support for multitasking to the table, but the true king of smartphone multitasking has been revealed as the Samsung i8910HD, which has been recorded running 62 apps at the same time. The Palm Pre is a native multitasker and recently one of these webOS-based mobiles was spotted with 50 apps being handled in one session. However, the i8910HD has already beaten this, despite being equipped with 256MB of RAM, which is half the amount boasted by the Pre. The Samsung i8910HD uses the...
Apple fans around the world will be thrilled to hear that the next version of the iPhone operating system has finally been officially unveiled and multitasking is heading up a wealth of new features. The iPhone has been criticised for some time over its lack of multitasking, meaning that switching between apps was not as swift as some would have liked. Apple has changed all of this with version 4.0 of its smartphone software platform, but there is more going on than multitasking alone. Apple has made sure that the user interface (UI) is...
The Gemini tablet PC from ICD is not going to arrive for a while yet, but on paper it has a specification that could see it wipe the floor with Apple’s new iPad. The most obvious area of superiority is the display, which will be 11.2 inches across and capable of displaying full HD video, which is impressive considering its small size. This also suggests that the Tegra 2 processor that the Gemini houses is a capable powerhouse. 3G connectivity will be included as standard, which will allow for voice calls and data transfer. The Gemini...
Apple’s iPad has only been on sale for a few days in the USA, but already the oversized iPhone has been flying off the shelves. Apple has reported that more than 300,000 iPads were sold in the first 24 hours and since then many thousands more have been picked up. There had been fears that the iPad would not be as big a seller as the iPhone, but the initial pre-orders and launch day sales from Apple’s premiere retail outlets have shown that there is still plenty of love out there amongst gadget-lovers and consumers for Steve...