The Android Froyo update for the HTC Legend has started rolling out to Vodafone customers today. While we can’t see the Froyo rollout on our HTC Legend quite yet, there’s first hand reports elsewhere that rollout has started.
November, 2010
Facebook Email, which may or may not be unleashed later today, already has a raft of ‘experts’ blathering on about why it’ll be a failure, how Facebook privacy issues will make it a lame duck, and that it’ll never be a competitor to Gmail. It’s a burbling cloud of utter idiocy, and they’re all missing the point.
We set our Nokia N8 review live this morning, so naturally we’ve rejigged our Best Nokia phone Top 5 to take account of it. Unsurprisingly, it came in top, but is laying claim to being just the best Nokia phone enough any more?
It’s been a hectic morning stuffed full of tech news, and we were on the frontline relaying it all to you. See what you missed over the last few hours here in our lunchtime lowdown roundup.
The Advent Vega will not be on the shelves at Dixons today, as was planned. Instead, it will be arriving later in the week, and should be on the shelves by the weekend.
There’s no doubt the Nokia N8 marks the beginning of a sea change for Espoo. Nokia is slowly, surely, starting to gather up all the mojo it’s slopped all over the floor in the years since the Nokia N95, and that fightback begins with the combination of Symbian 3 and the Nokia N8, the company’s highest spec smartphone yet. How does it handle? We’ve been putting it through its paces and have the answers for you, here in our Nokia N8 review.
Another Kinect hack has come along to blow our minds with the open source wonder of Microsoft’s motion-detecting peripheral. UC David researcher Oliver Kreylos created a Kinect hack that turns it into a 3D video camera by feeding the streams from the infrared and colour cameras into a custom programme that processes the results to create a 3D environment. It looks a little rough and ready but hell, we are impressed. Jump to the other side to see the Kinect 3D capture tool in action…
Finding the best ebook to stick on your Kindle/iPad/[insert other ebook reader here] can actually be pretty tricky. That’s why we’ve been burrowing through the virtual stacks to bring you five contenders for the crown of best ebook of the week. Today we have Keith Richards on Mick Jagger’s allegedly microscopic wiener, the brilliance of Chris Morris, a treatise on why you shouldn’t be so obsessed with gadgets (madness!) and a brilliant unpicking of comedy theory by the utterly ace, Stewart Lee. Read on to discover the best ebook for you this week…
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