There may be 40,000 apps on the iPhone app store, but few are as headsmackingly innovative as Tube Exits, launched today. Anyone stuck in the capital’s commuter crush will go crazy for this one: it’s a simple program that works out where you should stand on an Underground platform to drop you by the stairs at your destination, so you can beat the rush every time.
June, 2009
TomTom knows a thing or two about making map reading fun. The satnav maker has already tried the lick of white paint and soundalike celebrity voices, but now it’s turning to something new: fictional characters reading your route, starting with everyone’s favourite Springfieldian, Homer Simpson. Woo hoo!
The BlackBerry Tour is to launch in the United States in the ‘late summer’ on the Sprint and Verizon networks.
Gordon Brown has said that the government must help the roll out of the next generation broadband, as the final Digital Britain is published today.
Other functions of the laptop do make it appealing toward the business user. It has an in-built 1.3-megapixel webcam, very useful for video-conferencing and video-calling. I tried this with a few of my friends, and found that even in lower light conditions the webcam performed surprisingly well. The Asus N80 also includes a fingerprint reader, which provides an extra level of security – a must nowadays with the amount of password bypassing programs available to hackers and the like.
E3 might be over, but the PSP rumours haven’t stopped. Not by a long shot. The latest gossip from PSP land says that the next step for Sony’s PlayStation Network is to open up the handheld platform to “non-game apps”, which would put the console on a collision course with Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch, and go one up on Nintendo’s DSi Ware.
Palm Pre owners who don’t fancy trusting all their data to the ‘Cloud’ will be able to get their sync on using old favourite The Missing Sync which has just announced a Palm Pre edition.
Not content to let the Sony Walkman X-Series sit for a while, Sony’s outed another new model, the tiny clip-on Sony Walkman Zappin, and it comes packing tons of features the iPod shuffle doesn’t. Like, say, a screen, buttons and a decent battery life.