Friday has rolled around once more, and while we’re gearing up for another day full of headlines to see us through to the weekend, you’d do well to catch up with everything you might have missed overnight. It’s all rounded up for you right here in techie breakie!
October, 2010
UPDATE: Unsurprisingly, ViewSonic has been overwhelmed with interest. If you’re not getting any response from their website, keep checking and make sure you scope out retailers’ websites too, since they’ll have details too. The trade-in offer is valid for 30 days from a ViewPad purchase too, so no rush.
Considering an Android tablet but put off by the price tag weilded by the likes of the Samsung Galaxy Tab? Your luck’s in. ViewSonic just unveiled a terrific trade-in deal to shave £100 off the price of their new ViewPad tablets. Swap any old laptop or netbook and you’ll save a ton, literally.
In the incoming wave of tablet devices the BlackBerry PlayBook and the Samsung Galaxy Tab are the closest of competitors in terms of their form factor – the curious 7″ screen size. But underneath the exterior, there’s a number of key areas where the two square up quite differently. Click through for our full BlackBerry PlayBook Samsung Galaxy Tab stat clash…
Watch out, Amazon Kindle – another eReader has turned up looking for a piece of your eBook wrangling action. The Sagem Binder is a compact 152 x 123 x 10.7mm and less than 240g in weight, but comes with both Wi-Fi and 3G for downloading new eBooks in slick cable-free fashion.
Apple is holding some secret iOS developer events next week in California, and while details are scarce, it looks like it might be part of a push to raise the standards of iOS apps in time for iOS 4.2, to make sure that Apple stays ahead of the competition, Android. The event starts next Tuesday, and runs for three days.
The Orange San Francisco is one of the cheapest Android phones on the market. Android may be the seen as the biggest rival to Apple’s iPhone, but phones like this prove it’s a different kettle of piranhas altogether. An ancient battered first-gen iPhone will fetch more than a hundred quid on eBay, but the Orange San Francisco costs just a ton new. How can it possibly be any good? Find out in our Orange San Francisco review.
Yesterday, news broke that the white iPhone 4 had been delayed yet again, but this morning it we awake to find that was the death rattle of the notorious white iPhone 4, as the white version of the iPhone 4 has been removed from all Apple online stores, when previously it was listed, but not available for order.
