Thinking of buying a PSP Go? Well cool your jets until the 1st November, pilgrim – because that’s the day when Sony is giving its handheld console an official price cut.
October, 2010
In striking distance of London’s West End? Come along at lunch and you could try out the Samsung Galaxy Tab today, a week ahead of launch, at our very first Reader Inquisition. If you can make it in for 1pm today, drop us a line at editor@electricpig.co.uk with your full name and phone number for a chance to play with the brand spanking new Android tablet first. While we can’t guarantee entry, we’ll do our best to accommodate everyone, so drop us a line and see you there!
Flash 10.1 is already available on Android 2.2 and headed to webOS 2.0 on Palm Pre phones, but the web video streaming plug in is set to get much wider support, with big hitters like Windows Phone and BlackBerry getting in on the action. Adobe’s just announced its latest hitlist at its Adobe MAX conference in LA – can you guess which popular smartphone isn’t on there?
Think electric cars, and your mind will doubtless flit between the G-Whizz, outlandish concept cars that’ll never hit British roads, and finally, a milk float. But the Nissan Leaf is about to change that. It’s the first all-electric plug in family car to hit the tarmac, and we’ve had an early turn behind the wheel to see if it can shake off the ‘leccy car’s dowdy image.
Morning all! It’s been one hectic night in tech, so start the day catching up on all you missed while you were kipping. It’s all stuffed into one post right here in techie breakie.
The Android App Market count has hit the 100,000 mark this morning, with the Android Dev Team tweeting: “One hundred thousand apps in Android Market”. The last head count we got from Google was back at the beginning of September, when Google’s Director of Mobile Hugo Barra told us there were 80,000 apps in the Android Market.
We’ve thrown down a challenge to carve the geekiest Halloween pumpkin. You’ve got just under a week left to show us your efforts, so should be buying your big orange beauty any day now. Not sure how to approach the project? Our buddies at Activedad have some great advice. Read through their tutorial on picking the perfect Halloween pumpkin, see the video after the break, then enter our creepy compo!
Set 50 years after the events of its immensely popular predecessor, Fable 3 charts the player’s meteoric rise and struggle to overthrow a tyrant king, before being thrown into the majestic hot seat themselves. Its creator, Peter Molyneux reckons it’s an experience like no other. Is he right? Read our Fable 3 review to find out.