Its time for lunch, so unpack your sandwiches or fire up the portable rotisserie as we take you through some of the stories you missed this morning. Mmm, tasty, tasty news.
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July, 2010
Steve Jobs said the signal drop shown by the iPhone 4 is a problem shared by plenty of other phones during the iPhone 4 press conference on Friday night. As well as showing videos featuring phones from RIM, HTC and Samsung, Jobs also took a swing at Nokia.
Jobs said: “You can go on the web and look at pictures of Nokia phones that ship with stickers on the back that say ‘Don’t touch here’.” ??We’ve been scouring the web to find photos or videos of these stickered up Nokia phones and have drawn a blank. Read on for Nokia’s response and hit the comments with any links that might help us in our hunt for the Nokia signal stickers…
A Plants vs Zombies announcement is due next month with rumours staggering around and moaning that we’ll see Plants vs Zombies 2 unveiled. Now a list of achievements uncovered by the incredibly focused folk at Xbox360 Achievements seems to have revealed that multiplayer modes are coming to long-awaited Xbox Live Arcade version of Plants vs Zombies. Could the iPad and iPhone incarnations be getting the same treatment?
The iPhone 4 jailbreak has been hanging by a thread for what seems like weeks now. Every titbit is leapt upon like jackals to scrap meat. So last week we asked you, our readers, whether you’d be getting the jailbreak for your iPhone 4. You answered enormously, almost unanimously, in the affirmative.
If our iPhone 4 antenna controversy coverage hasn’t been enough for you, try this video from the frankly barmy animators at Taiwanese news outfit NMANews. Rather than a realistic retelling of the iPhone 4 press conference, it offers up Steve Jobs in a lightsaber duel with Bill Gates, Apple responding to the iPhone 4 leak by getting Gizmodo’s Jason Chen in a real death grip and the reality distortion field visualised. Click through for some mind-bending Monday morning viewing…
The Parrot AR Drone pretty much stole the show at this year’s CES expo in Las Vegas, simply by taking off. Just look at the thing. It’s got four blades! The iPod touch controlled quadricopter is finally going on sale in the UK next month though, and we got to put it through a thorough test flight well ahead of schedule. Just how thorough? We pushed its skills and industrial design to the limit, and er, actually broke it. Don’t worry though – read our full Parrot AR Drone review right here and you’ll see that it’s far from delicate.
Electricpig this week will be keeping our ear to the ground about the iPhone 4 jailbreak, getting demos of earphones, 2D to 3D conversion, and some nifty gadgets. Ben Sillis is away this week and next, so watch out for Toby Knight who’ll be testing the latest gadgets and games in his place. Got an idea, or a tip? Let us know. Read on for more details about what’s coming up in the tech world this week…