September, 2010

BlackBerry Torch 9800 unboxed: photos BlackBerry Torch 9800 unboxed: photos

BlackBerry Torch 9800 unboxed: photos

The BlackBerry Torch 9800 is already out in the US, but the QWERTY sliding revamped smartphone still isn’t quite on sale here in United Kingdom of GB just yet. That doesn’t stop us though: here’s our own BlackBerry Torch 9800 coming out of its (weirdly ribbed) box, right now!

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Been eyeing our Spotify Sonos preview but can’t justify the outlay for a full-blown multi-room audio set up? Help is at hand from your fellow Electricpig readers, or rather one dilligent reader Geoff Miles, who’s set up Spotify to send its sounds to a Pure Sensia internet radio.

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PlayStation Move is out tomorrow: Everything you need to know

The PlayStation Move has been a long time coming: we’ve been tracking it since its first reveal way back in June 2009. But now the super sensitive motion controller for the PS3 is almost upon us: it goes on sale tomorrow in fact. So should you buy it?

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The Project Canvas YouView box was announced this morning with some scant details about its functionality, but now news has emerged that YouView will not have a web browser, according to the newly appointed CEO of YouView Richard Halton. He said: “The question that often gets asked is, ‘Will this thing have a browser?’… if, in time, the British public decides that’s what it wants, we will be able to do it. But, for now, we’ve essentially built a TV experience.”

[via PaidContentUK]

YouView, the progeny of Project Canvas, has been announced today, combining on demand, live and interactive TV in one box. The prospect of making my TV multifunction with very little extra cost is convincing me to hook back up to the world of live TV and shell out for the license fee.

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Love Twitter but wish you had more celebrity friends to read your wise musings? Well worry no longer you rampant egotistic. TwitChange, a Twitter charity auction in aid of Haiti and fronted by our third favourite Desperate Housewife, Eva Longoria, lets you bid for the attention of celebrities. It’s for a good cause but is paying for a celebrity follow the future?

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Left 4 Dead for Mac has been on the cards since Valve unveiled Steam for Mac and pushed Portal and Half Life 2 into the eager hands of Mac gamers. Until now we’d not had any clues about when the zombie-stuffed series might actually hit the Mac but Valve seems to have dropped a hint over on the official Left 4 Dead blog…

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The Social Network, the upcoming Facebook film based on a book by Ben Mezrich, is out next month. In the meantime, its trailer has been given some added info, in interactive additional facts scattered through it. Some if the facts, and titbits, caught us by surprise. Click through for ten things we didn’t know about Facebook

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