The Palm Pre will be arriving in Europe slightly earlier than we reported. The first Palm Pre batch should go on sale by the end of September.
June, 2009
Twitter verifying celeb tweets
Want to know if that celebrity you’re following on Twitter really is who they tweet they are? Now you can: Twitter has begun rolling out its verification program, slapping a badge on celebrity feeds it knows are official.
There are just hours to go until the weekend hits, but the tech news is still coming in fast, so we’ve rounded the day’s top stories so far up in to one place for you, just in case they fly by too quickly. Grab them here in the lunchtime lowdown!
Before we take a further look into the specs of the N50 we interrupt our regular broadcast for a question from Karan who wants to know when the new Asus VX5 is going to be released in the UK and where to get one.
Red Faction: Guerrilla, the free-roaming Mars-based action-adventure, has been guerrilla marketed in a particularly inventive way. A car was left in Covent Garden, London, this week, with 100 copies of the game inside and a sledgehammer chained next to the vehicle. What did people do to get the game? Smash and grab, of course.
If you like the Nike+ iPod sensor for jogging, but fancy turning things up to 11 with a bit of extreme sports, here’s a surprise patent from Apple for you: an activity sensor designed to log speed and other data for snowboarders, skiers and mountain bikers.
If you’re in the market for a new phone at the moment, you’re beyond spoiled for choice. No fewer than three major phones debut next week, the Nokia N97, iPhone 3G S and the Nokia N86 cameraphone. Whether by design or not, all are slated for a release on 19 June, meaning a major queue clash outside Nokia and Apple’s flagship London stores (Opposite each other on the same road) is incoming.
But which should you buy? If you’re confused, puzzle no more! We break each phone down for you, what’s hot and what’s not, and which you should buy when the doors open and the stampede dies down.
HTC has seen a lot of interest in its line of Android mobiles, but that doesn’t mean it has abandoned Windows Mobile. Quite the opposite, in fact – HTC France CEO Frédéric Tassy has announced, “We will always have more flagship products on Windows Mobile.”