This weekend there’ll be ghouls, ghosts and geeks roaming the nation’s streets as Halloween kicks into full gear. To celebrate in high tech style, we want you to carve a geeked out pumpkin, and send us photos for your chance to win Amazon or iTunes vouchers and an exclusive Electricpig mug! Read on for some inspiration, and then get carving!
RIP Sony Walkman, we hardly knew ye. Actually, that’s a lie – the cassette playing Sony Walkman is one of the world’s best known gadgets, a consumer tech legend that pretty much everybody owned at one time, or has at least heard of. And now it’s gone, with Sony announcing that the last tape-based Walkman rolled off the assembly line on 22 October.
The Sony A33 is a neat entry level DSLR, with its compact body down to Sony translucent mirror technology. Sony was pretty proud of this: when it launched the Alpha A33 and its sister sister camera, the Sony A55, the Japanese gadget giant proclaimed it had “vastly exceeded anything available on the market”. Has it? Read on for our full Sony A33 review, and our verdict of whether Sony has come through on its promise.
BlackBerry Tablet OS, the new look software running atop the seriously slick looking BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, certainly looks intriguing. It’s unlike anything we’re used to in BlackBerry OS, but you don’t have to wait until April to see for yourself – RIM has just opened up the SDK beta for it, so developers can start making BlackBerry Tablet OS apps for it using Adobe AIR.
Right, let’s get started. A barrage of gadget news is headed your way shortly, so before it hits, get a quick catchup on everything you missed over the weekend, right here in techie breakie!
The Samsung Galaxy Tab is the first slate since the iPad that really made us sit up and take note on launch. In between all the cruddy, cheap Android tablets with resistive touchscreens and no core Google apps, the Samsung Galaxy Tab stuck out like, well, an Android tablet that had core Google apps, a responsive capacitive touchscreen, and that most definitely wasn’t cheap.
Google itself has said that Android still isn’t ready for tablets, and yet Samsung begs to differ. Who’s right? We’ve been testing the Samsung Galaxy Tab to find out whether we’ve got a worthy rival to the iPad at last. Read on for our findings here in our Samsung Galaxy Tab review.
Want to know what the Electricpig staff think about the latest tech issues and products? This is that time of the week where we roundup their thoughts, opinion pieces and review verdicts. Mobile phones, cameras, games, it’s all here.
Earlier in the week we paid a visit to the folks at 7digital, who along with its native 7digital music downloads app for the Samsung Galaxy Tab, showed off its image recognition skills letting you scan in album covers and promo materials including posters. Read on to see it in action.
