BlackBerry PlayBook price crash: Is the 7-inch tab now cheap enough to clean up?
Computers & Accessories
Following on from a pretty interesting week internally, RIM has decided to completely slash the price of the BlackBerry Playbook for the umpteenth time. At just £169 for the cheapest model, is the QNX-based tablet now cheap enough to finally compete? Read more
Samsung appears to have revealed the existence of the oft-rumoured Samsung Galaxy S3 on its website, throwing open yet more debate on when the Android quad-core monster will actually launch. Read more
This week, Kotaku’s Stephen Totilo published a report claiming that the next Xbox may use a system to prevent used games from being played. It’s a tricky situation in itself: the used games market is huge, and doesn’t directly provide games publishers with any revenue, although the situation is far more complex than the likes of THQ would have you believe.
But it also points to something else further down the line: it’s no longer just Sony who wants to sell and send you console games directly over the internet. Microsoft wants in too. It’s a shame our shoddy broadband network won’t be up to the job.
Android’s Google Voice Actions is hardly the Siri rival that it should be, but a new service in Germany, launched by Deutsche Telekom, has teamed up with Wikipedia to provide a voice tool with more in the way of instant answers. Read more
Remember the Nintendo Wii U unveiling at E3 last year? Remember how confusing it was, and how loads of people thought that the tablet gaming controller was just an add-on for the existing Wii? Nintendo’s got itself into a worried state and may be on the verge of a complete rebranding. Read more
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Categories: Gadgets
Spotify Premium has hit a landmark 3 million paid subscribers, helping it towards the vital turnaround in profits that the company has needed since launch. With more and more unpaid users reaching for their wallets, is it time the music streaming service posted some serious profit? Read more
Last year, we published our Best Android apps of all time list, one hundred of the finest apps you can run on your Google phone or tablet. It’s proved to be one of the most popular posts we’ve ever published, so it’s only natural that we keep it bang up to date. We’ve just given it a spring clean for 2012: click through to see what’s in and what’s out.