It’s midday plus thirty minutes, which means it’s time for you to take five, grab a sarnie and digest this morning’s top stories. Yep, it’s the Lunchtime Lowdown again!
Top of the tech bill today for most people will be our de-boxing of BlackBerry’s iPhone-slaying Storm. Yep, Vodafone sent us a Storm, but it wasn’t in a teacup. It was in a box, but not for long – we ripped the packaging asunder and prodded its magnificent touchscreen with our trembling sweaty hands.
And today’s the day when your Xbox 360 goes all next level with the New Xbox Experience – an humungous dashboard update that completely revamps the console’s user interface. It’s live now, so get downloading it and create your own avatar. We have, and it looks just like us, monocle, protruding fangs and all.
Last but not least, HP has got one over on multi-touch maestros Apple by launching what they claim is the first laptop to have a true multi-touch screen. The TouchSmart tx2 is a notebook-cum-tablet PC with a 12.1-inch touchscreen that can be used to write notes, drag around boxes and the like – and it’ll be on sale next January.
