Entered our competition to win a Livescribe Echo smartpen? There’s still plenty of time, with the closing date more than a week out. If you caught our original review of the biro with a brain, you’ll know it’s one you’ll want to enter. However, you’ll have to dazzle us with a digital ode that tops these ones we’ve received so far. Read on for the best picks, and to find out how to submit your own…
October, 2010
Tried the Galaxy Tab yet? Electricpig readers have. Today we went beyond a mere Samsung Galaxy Tab review and put the Android tablet in the paws of a bunch of eager Electricpig fans so they could tell us what they think. Is it the right size? What about the price? How does the Galaxy Tab go down with the man on the street? Check out the discussion in full below.
The latest PC/Mac expansion pack for the Sims, Sims 3 Late Night, hits the shops this Friday, so if you prefer your Friday nights to be lived vicariously in a virtual world of dive bars and vampire infested streets, then you’ll be wanting to get your hands on this quicksharp. If you thought Sims 3 Late Night was just the expansion pack with the cringiest of taglines: “the Sims just got sexy”, then you were wrong. It’s also the most musically obscene, and comes rammed with My Chemical Romance tracks sung in Simlish.
Out 29 Oct | £30 | EA Games
Apple has launched an iPad engraving service in time for Christmas, and here at Electricpig towers it got us thinking about what we’d be stamping on our top of the range Apple devices if we had the chance. Here’s a couple of things we came up with to get you started, drop your line in the comments and tell us what you’d get engraved on your iPad…
We finally got our hands on a Samsung Galaxy Tab, to put it through its paces. But after we’ve had some time with the Samsung Galaxy Tab, how do we find it stack ups next to the tablet that set the bar for all future tablets, the iPad? Read on for a stat clash between the most hotly anticipated Android tablet of recent months, and the ruling device everyone else wants to overthrow, the all-conquering, first to the table iPad.
An iPhone and iPod Touch version of the versatile media player VLC has just appeared in the iTunes App Store, bringing conversion-free video playback to the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and 3rd and 4th generation iPod touch models.
Virgin Media has signed a deal with US TV network NBC, bringing a host of shows from across the pond to the company’s Virgin Media Player on demand service.
Today Adobe showed off a neat new tool currently in prototype, codenamed Edge. It’s a tool to build HTML 5 web pages, which means it’s in competition with Adobe Flash. If Adobe is offering tools to build Flash and HTML 5, is it getting into competition with itself, and dealing Flash a fatal blow in the process?