Got Virgin Media TV at home? Then you might also want to invest in a Nokia N8 mobile phone. The cable provider-come-phone network’s on-demand TV service, Virgin Media Player, just landed on the Nokia N8. Best of all, you don’t have to be a Virgin Mobile customer to use it.
October, 2010
UPDATE: Our Samsung Galaxy Tab review is now live! Go check it out for all your answers.
The Samsung Galaxy Tab doesn’t go on sale until next month, but when have we ever let a little thing like a release date get in the way of a good gadget? We’ve got one right now, here in the UK, and we’re throwing the floor open for questions right now. Read on, see the first video and tell us what you want to know for our Samsung Galaxy Tab review!
Multi-touch monitors? We all know Steve Jobs’ opinion on them: “touch surfaces don’t want to be vertical,” he said when previewing OS X Lion earlier this week. “It doesn’t work, it’s ergonomically terrible. Touch surfaces want to be horizontal.” Well, screw you, Jobs! Viewsonic has gone and created a doozy of a multi-touch monitor anyway!
Available soon | £tbc | Babysitting Mama (via 
The Nintendo Wii is the home of crazy add-ons, with Wiimote sleeves available in the shape of almost every weapon,. instrument and hand tool imaginable. The new game Babysitting Mama comes with the weirdest one yet – a baby.
We’re creeping ever closer towards the weekend, but the tech news is flooding on in still. Get the best of it rounded up right here in the lunchtime lowdown.
iOS coders have created the first third-party app that runs on the new Apple TV – a handy weather widget. Don’t expect to see this one in the App Store for a while, though.
If you listen carefully you may make out a faint squawking noise, getting ever closer and more annoyed. That would be the sound of an incoming Angry Birds plush toy, ready to smash its way through the Christmas stocking-filler market. What we want to know is – where are the pigs?
The Samsung Omnia 7 seemed like a winning idea from the offset: how could the company’s beautiful Super AMOLED screen and Microsoft’s charming new OS fail to mix well? If you’ve checked our Samsung Omnia 7 review, you’ll know that they haven’t of course, and consequently, it’s crashed straight into our Best Samsung phone Top 5.