The Nokia X2 music phone has just been announced, quietly landing on the same week as the Nokia N8 monster flagship phone. Unlike the N8, it’s a budget phone aimed at those who want easy controls for their tunes and nothing more, but it costs a whole lot less too. Read on for the details.
April, 2010
HP has bought Palm: the Silicon Valley giant has snapped up the struggling smartphone company for $1.2bn (£789m). It spells potentially fantastic news for fans of Palm’s webOS operating system, and potentially devastating news for the huge tech companies with many divisions to back up their own mobile efforts – players like Apple and Microsoft. With HP behind it, webOS isn’t going anywhere: read on to find out why.
Morning all! It’s the start of another fine day for gadget obsessives, with plenty of news set to come pouring in, but before it does, catch up with what you might have missed overnight in our roundup right here. Read on for your techie breakie!
The Vodafone 247 quietly slipped out into officialdom today, while the budget Vodafone 845 Android phone was grabbing all the attention. The ultra cheap candybar’s not exactly sporting top end connectivity, but the solar charging panel on the back means this could be the ideal phone for long trips abroad.
A Suma mouse, using the same squeezable smart skin shown on a game controller late last year, has been demoed on video. Thought Apple’s Magic Mouse was clever? You’ve not seen a thing yet.
The iPhone 4.0 may have been well and truly outed already courtesy of one major leak, but we still don’t know when Apple will make it official. But Apple’s WWDC event for Mac and iPhone developers has just been announced, which gives us a very good idea as to when that might be. Grab your calendar and read on.
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Got the Spotify update yet? You know, the one adding Spotify social features and letting you peep other users most-played tunes?
No? Tough. Spotify has been forced to yank the update from its website after massive demand. If you want the new features now, you’ll have to wait for the automatic update to work its way to you.