November, 2010

Acer Android smartphone unveiled: slick Dell Streak rival

Yup, a new Acer Android smartphone that looks even slicker than the Liquid Metal. Acer just outed the nameless Android handset at its global press conference in New York, and it’s one massive slice of sexy, primed to batter the 5-inch Dell Streak into submission. Read all about it here!

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Advent Vega unboxed: Reader photos! Advent Vega unboxed: Reader photos!

Advent Vega unboxed: Reader photos!

Exclusive: The Advent Vega Android tablet is shipping, even if only to a few people. See the proof: one of our readers has one, and has unboxed it for us on camera. Click through to see the gallery.

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Last week we reported on our tests on Wi-Fi hotspots around central London. We found that 33 per cent of the BT Openzone hotspots we tried were not responsive. We classed something as unresponsive when it either wasn’t there, we couldn’t log in, or couldn’t load the log in page. BT Openzone, while its failure rate wasn’t as bad as The Cloud, had much poorer speeds. Today, BT Openzone has responded to the results.

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It’s “the holidays” Stateside and that means crazy savings everywhere – even on this side of the pond. Casual gaming overlords PopCap have just made a lot of peoples’ days by slashing the price of their PC and Mac titles by a fulsome 50 percent.

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After we reported last week that 40 per cent of The Cloud hotspots we tested did not work or were not present, The Cloud has responded, and set up an email address for Electricpig readers who’ve had trouble with hotspots from The Cloud. Read on for the full response.

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The Motorola Olympus will be Motorola’s big phone of 2011, and it seems it might come rocking Android 2.3 or later. New spy shots of the device seem to reveal a front-facing camera, suggesting integrated video chat, suggesting in turn… Android 2.3.

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EA Sports Active 2 review roundup

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We’ve gone in depth on EA Sports Active 2 in our preview, but the game hits stores this week, and the first reviews for the cross platform fitness game are now trickling in. Want to know what the experts made of the final cut? Save yourself a sweat and find out all their views here in our EA Sports Active 2 review roundup.

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Demand for the Advent Vega surprised even Advent itself, and the 10.1 inch tablet was available for just a couple of hours on Friday. Lots of you missed out on the Advent Vega, but Expansys has an equivalent tablet available for pre-order now.

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