Apple’s latest uber-gadget has emerged in the USA and over in the UK every tech site and gadget-loving celebrity has been getting their hands on some import models. When the iPad launched on Saturday, new owners were not just handed their device and shoved out the door. At Apple’s retail outlets they were helped to customise their iPad experience by staff. Particularly keen consumers could even take a seminar as to how to unlock the iPad’s potential. There had been doubts that Apple could sell the iPad in the same numbers...
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iPhone users will be used to getting their apps free of charge or for a small fee, but those looking to pick up Apple’s iPad next month will find that the average app cost will be far higher. Since the iPad is a brand new device, experts believe that the cost of the apps could fall after it has been on the shelves for a month or two and the developers will no doubt be keeping an eye as to how much consumers are willing to pay in order to gauge the costs of their future releases. Back when the iPhone’s App Store first opened...
Nintendo has been upgrading the DS incrementally by making it slimmer and giving it a couple of cameras, but now it is set to launch a completely new handheld that will jump on the 3D bandwagon. This next DS is definitely coming, but for the moment the media is being forced to speculate as to how it will look, what technology will be inside and even what it will be called. Since Nintendo has never gone in for numbering its console sequels, many expect that it will be called the 3DS, although Nintendo will probably work on something catchier...
Samsung is planning a brand new tablet computer that will be built to compete directly with the Apple iPad. According to reports, Samsung is looking to trump the iPad in terms of technological clout, with a faster processor and a slicker operating system. Samsung has so far said that it will be using Microsoft’s Windows 7 platform as the base operating system for its tablet computer. However, new rumours suggest that it will be ditching this in favour of Google’s Android. Tech site Tweakers has reported that Samsung is dissatisfied...
The BAFTA Video Game awards ceremony was held last week and the critics’ choice for best game was taken home by developer Rocksteady for Batman: Arkham Asylum. Batman’s gritty action adventure title may have taken the most significant gong of the night, but it has had stiff competition from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. MW2 was a winner in one category: the GAME award for top title, which was voted for by members of the gaming public. MW2 launched in November and went on to become the largest gaming release of all time, selling...
The PSP is, in our opinion, the closest you can get to next-gen gaming in a hand-held device. In the same way that the Xbox 360 and PS3 are designed for hardcore gamers while the Nintendo Wii is aimed more at the pick up and play type market, we firmly believe that the PSP is the handheld of choice for serious gaming and the DS is designed for more innovative and even quirky gaming. With that said, we were also slightly disappointed by the “upgrade” that the PSP got with the release of the latest version, the PSP 3000. Well, as is...
Good news for anyone who has been waiting for the latest games console release, the handheld Nintendo DSi is now available and advance orders of the games console are stacking up. There is a whole wealth of new features packed into the much slimmer dimensions of the Nintendo DSi games console, including the dual built in cameras that allow for taking of pictures using any of the 11 different lenses, video chat function, an internal memory for storage of images as well as the additional benefits of being able to use an external SD memory...
The onset of portable gaming heralded a revolution in gaming, and started the portable gaming evolution that continues to this day. Although handheld games were available from 1977, with Mattel’s Auto Race, the first true handheld console would have to be the Microvision, which followed in 1979. They really took off in the 1980s though, with the iconic release of the Game Boy, which to this day is almost synonymous with the whole concept of handheld gaming. The Game Boy was phenomenally popular, and in 2005 Nintendo claimed they...