We were surprised by the Advent Vega budget Android tablet we saw at the beginning of the week, which only costs £250. It runs Froyo, has a good 10.1″ screen, and is quick and responsive. We asked Adam Lockyer, the category manager to talk us through the Advent Vega. Click through for the video…
October, 2010
Your iPhone is a germ magnet according to a study published in the Journal of Applied Microbiology. Apple’s beauty isn’t alone in its bacteria friendly status though, mobile phones in general are apparently right little germ factories. The researchers found that mobile phones can harbour 18x more bacteria than the flush on a loo in public toilet…
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Want the best Android games for your Google phone? You’ve come to the right place. The Android Market isn’t exactly a welcome virtual mall for browsing and discovering rather than buying what you want, so we’ve made things easier by picking out the finest time wasters for your commute. See the full Best Android games Top 5 to the right of this full post.
The iRobot Packbot is a military robot from the makers of the robot vacuum Roomba. It’s currently deployed in Afghanistan doing dirty and dangerous jobs that would previously needed human beings to put themselves in harm’s way. Electricpig got up close and personal with a Packbot at the iRobot Engineering Awesome event in New York and found out how and off-the-shelf Xbox 360 controller is part of a modern soldier’s tool kit…
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Ah Lexmark. Where do we begin with this one? It’s not that having apps inside a printer is necessarily a bad idea – we’re quite taken with your web connected printers’ Evernote syncing skills – but we’d really loved to have been in the boardroom when this one was greenlit. Facebook and Twitter on your printer? Why?
A Nintendo DS patent that’s cropped up today describes an “in-store wireless shopping network using hand-held devices”. Translated out of legal talk, that seems to indicate a nifty add on for the Nintendo DS which will map out your route around a supermarket using your list, and tell you where and how many of each item you want can be found, via some sort of (hopefully) fun Nintendo DS interface.
Would you offer to do the supermarket run more often if Nintendo got this from patent into your DS? Drop us a line and let us know!
Wow! Angry Birds Android is now available for free. It’s not in the Android Marketplace though. Rovio has put an ad-supported but full version of Angry Birds up on GetJar for £0. The free version of Angry Birds Android is apparently thanks to Rovio’s desire to get as many eyeballs looking at their game as possible. That chimes well with those Angry Bird movie plans. If you’ve got an Android phone running Android 1.6 of later, you can grab it right now. There’s one up on those iPhone owners who had to stump up cash for the game!
Out now | £free | Angry Birds
After we put the Nokia E7 head to head with the HTC Desire HD last week, we also got requests to put the E7 up against the HTC Desire Z, the HTC Desire HD’s QWERTY keyboard sister device. So here we have it, the clash of the QWERTYs! Read on to see who came out tops, the HTC Desire Z or Nokia’s big screen bad boy with flip out keyboard, the Nokia E7.