So you want a smartphone and you would like to see how the Samsung Galaxy S shapes up against the competition? Well, let’s have a look at it then. Design This phone has a lovely screen; big, clear and extremely detailed. It really is the best feature of the model and more than makes up for a slightly insipid casing and button design. It weighs not much more than 100...
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Do you find it difficult to get to sleep at night? If counting sheep, listening to low volume music and drinking a cup of hot milk don’t do it for you then you might want to try the Lightsleeper. Design A stylish, white lamp type of modern design means that it will look quite nice on your bedside table. It is small enough to be unobtrusive as well and may even prove...
We’ve all been there. Rummaging a through a stack of cheap, tacky postcards with images of the Eiffel Tower / paella / Tower Bridge etc. Quite often the problem with these generic postcards is that the image is far removed from what you are actually doing. Not any more, jetsetters. A new, personalised postcard service has been launched by our internet neighbours...
Those who like their machines and gadgets to be different from all the rest may be tempted by the soon to be released Halo Reach limited edition version of the slim Xbox 360. It comes out of the shadows on the 14th September and our US friends will need to stump up 400 bucks to be able to enjoy its futuristic controller, metallic look and a copy of said game. The UK price...
They say that good things come in threes. Whether you consider three snippets of Facebook related information to be good probably depends upon whether you are a fan of the “social networking phenomenon” (copyright:anyone who has ever written an article about Facebook). Anyway, let’s get on with the show. Facebook news shocker#1. After around 6 years of...
An interesting survey around British holidaymakers gadget use tells us that 44% of British holidaymakers have missed great photo opportunities because they didn’t know how to operate their fancy camera. Another nice stat reveals that a clumsy 22% have either lost or broken their gadgets while on holiday. More light heartedly (at least for those of you who like to...
Our first story is of the “bungling burglar” type which we all relish. You know the ones I mean; hapless thief dials police by mistake, crook locks himself in bathroom etc. This time a rascal stole an iPhone from someone called Jordan Sturm. Nothing unsual there. Except the fact that canny old Sturmers was testing a live GPS tracking app, called Alert &...
Did any of our readers find the cunningly hidden Wifi tethering app which a naughty 15 year old managed to get onto the Apple apps store disguised as an app to turn your iPhone into a multicoloured flashlight? The app cost 99c and was on the site the best part of the day yesterday, having managed to wriggle past Apple’s security people, rigourous checking and a line...
We love a good pie chart. Anyone else who shares our peculiar fetish will be delighted to see this ravishing little beauty, which quite simply tells us which versions of Android are used by what percentage of users, if you follow me. Dragging its behind along the ground in last place is the predictable “other”, a popular backmarker in all pie charts. In this...
The market for ebooks and e-readers is one which has great potential. The amount of people preferring to ditch the old paper books and pick up their electronic readers is seeing the sales of both books and readers increase daily, so it is no surprise to see those crafty electronic giants Sharp muscle their way into the market with their own model. Sharp tell us that the...