Did you see our Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini review last month? We were in two minds about the phone – it is nice and compact and if anything a bit too powerful for the intended market, but we preferred the keypad on the more expensive Pro version. Still, if you fancy giving the Xperia X10 Mini a whirl, you could do worse that check out our Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini review: Ultimate buyer’s guide.
July, 2010
It’s Lunchtime Lowdown time on Electricpig – time for you to pop the lid from your packed lunch while we take you through some of the stories you missed this morning.
Microsoft staff will be all be receiving a Windows Phone 7 device, in a bid to make sure all its staff are dedicated Windows Phone 7 users. This adds up to a whopping 90,000 Windows Phone 7 devices that’ll be handed out in the coming months. That’s more than ten times the number the Kin was reported to have sold.
Google is fond of giving products beta status to iron out any bugs, but just because the Google Chrome browser is officially out of Beta doesn’t mean that the bug hunt is over.
The Motorola Milestone XT720, the 8MP Android phone formerly known as the Motoroi, is now on unlocked from UK sites. If you’ve been itching to get your hands on the hefty Android 2.1 handset, you can slap down your cash now to get it SIM-free but you’ll need pretty deep pockets…
Remember yesterday’s ridiculous Daily Star story about a non-existent GTA: Rothbury game featuring Raoul Moat? It’s been removed from the paper’s website now but the journalist that concocted it has taken to Facebook to attack gamers, sites like Electricpig and pretty much the entirety of Twitter for daring to criticise him…
Flipboard, the iPad app at the centre of a surge of Twitter love yesterday, is instituting invites after the sheer level of demand left its servers struggling to cope. If you nabbed the next-gen magazine app yesterday but haven’t been able to add your Facebook and Twitter feeds, you’ll have to wait. Flipboard has submitted an app update to Apple to add the new invite system but it could be another week before it’s approved. Will Flipboard frenzy fizzle out during the wait?