Morning all! We’re about to kick off another day of action packed gadget news, but before we do, give yourself a quick reminder of the current gizmo status quo with our news roundup. Everything you missed overnight is ready and waiting here in your techie breakie!
June, 2010
Want to know what we’re up to this week? The all-new Electricpig Tech Radar is here to spill the beans on our schedule from now until Friday. We want to give you the heads-up on the tech announcements right around the corner, and if there’s anything you want to know from any of the appointments on our schedule, just drop us a line in the comments section, and we’ll do our best to find out for you.
You’ll usually see the Tech Radar first thing on a Monday morning, plotting our week in full, but we couldn’t wait a whole six days to share our calendar, so here are our movements from today until Friday!
Today’s the last day to send us your iPhone 4 video review. To be in with a chance of winning a full fifty quid’s worth of iTunes vouchers, all you have to do is shoot your opinion on celluloid (or you know, one of those new fangled memory cards), stick it online and follow a few simple rules. Worth a shot, right? Check out the easy steps to enter right here.
The iPhone 4 order pages were our source of iWork for iPhone speculation this morning and now photos of a petite version of Apple’s productivity apps have popped up online. Caught in the classic blurry cam style, the screens could be the work of pranksters but with Apple looking more and more likely to bring iWork to iPhone 4 and iOS 4, it’s worth taking a closer look.
After we saw the first iPhone 4 FaceTime sex line yesterday, it’s good to hear that iTunes U, the educational bit of iTunes, is going strong too. The Open University has said today that t has hit a milestone, reaching 20 million downloads.
This morning Electricpig had a pootle around London in Smart’s electric vehicle, the Fortwo. The car hasn’t been launched yet, but there’s a handful being trialled out on the roads. After Driving a G-Wiz last year, I must say, I wasn’t that excited. The G-wiz felt like driving round in a crap trainer. Thankfully, Smart’s take is much more like driving a normal car. Quentin Wilson, car journo and compere for today’s test drives, said as much, stating: “Nobody has done as much damage to the EV cause”. In this case then, he’d be right.
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The MSI Wind U135DX may look a little familiar if you’ve been keeping track of Lilliputian laptops this year. It takes its styling from the similarly named MSI Wind U135 which emerged way back at CES in January. But within that virtually identical shell, the MSI Wind U145DX conceals the latest Intel Atom chip with turbo-charging tech that MSI promises will deliver gigantic battery life and more power. But is overclocking the best way to get a nippy netbook?
The wait for Android 2.2 Froyo is nearly over for UK Nexus One owners. If you snapped up the Google-built blower, Android 2.2 Froyo should be winging its way to you as an over-the-air update imminently. But if you’re packing another Android handset like the HTC Desire, you’ll have to wait a while longer and gnash your teeth as we recap the Android 2.2 features after the break…