Amazon Instant is the latest site to get a dose of the Google Instant juice. After the brilliance of iTunes Instant and YouTube Instant, the shopping site now has it’s own super-speedy version. As with all the other incarnations of Instant, Amazon Instant throws up suggestions as you type your query. It could be the perfect way of getting present inspiration and brings the experience of randomly browsing the shops to the web. Amazon Instant isn’t nearly as polished as Google Instant or the other incarnations of Instant but it’s still fun to tinker with. Anyone fancy building Electricpig Instant for us?
Out now | £free | Amazon Instant
September, 2010
The HTC Desire HD was unleashed upon the world yesterday, so we thought it only fair to size it up against its biggest Android rival and mac daddy of Google smartphones right now: the Samsung Galaxy S. Fiiiiight!
A Google Music service is rumoured to be touching down in time for Christmas and more details about the search giant’s iTunes-battler have popped up in music industry bible Billboard. While we twiddle our thumbs and look pleadingly at Steve Jobs for an iTunes streaming service, it seems Google Music will arrive with an online locker to stash your tracks…
Google’s edging into the social networking space, with plans afoot to launch its own service, Google Me, a renewed focus on instant search to rival Twitter, and now it seems CEO Eric Schmidt has plans to plunder your data direct from Facebook pages.
The Asus Eee PC 1015PN is a rumoured new netbook with a slick USP: it’s a 10.1-inch model, with Nvidia’s Ion graphics for blazing through HD video, just like the bigger, badder 1201N series.
Morning all! We’d like to say it’s a fine Thursday outside, but considering the number of jumpers we’ve got on right now, we’re not going to lie. What will warm your cockles however, is a roundup of all the latest gadget news – which can be found, er, right here! Read on and catch up on everything you missed overnight.
A Spotify Sonos update rolls out later this month, letting Premium users with the multi-room audio set up stream any song they like from the Swedish start up’s huge online library. Has it been worth the wait, and does it justify the high price of a Sonos system now that Apple’s AirPlay promises to do much the same for much less, with many more devices? We got early access to the update and have been testing it out all week: find out what we made of it here in our Spotify Sonos update full preview.
The Nokia N8 has touched down at Electricpig towers, and we’re proud to unveil our new Hardcore Guide to all its talents. Stick with us, and before long you’ll have all your questions answered, and be on the way to becoming a bonafide N8 ninja.
Each week we’ll highlight one of the special skills tucked away inside the Nokia N8. From its awesome 12 megapixel camera, to the smart social abilities which come included.