We already knew that the BlackBerry PlayBook price point was going to be set at “under $500″, but now there’s more specific details on the RIM tablet, and the cheapest version has a rumoured price point well below that $500 (£310) mark.
November, 2010
The wave of Android tablets is breaking, with a new budget Android tablet launched almost every week. We’ve seen offerings from Advent, Binatone, Creative, Archos, Hannspree and more, all for under £300, and many for around the £100. Some of them were better than others, and the Advent Vega has trumped the rest in the attention it’s received. The question is, will you be investing in an Android tablet this Christmas? Click and tell, and drop us a line in the comments to tell us who you’re buying for, yourself or someone else?
Last week we asked you who would win the iPad publishing wars, after news broke that Branson would also be producing an iPad-only publication to challenge The Daily, the iPad only newspaper Rupert Murdoch will be launching. 44 per cent of you said that Branson would win, and 40 per cent said that there was no winner here except Steve Jobs. There was little faith in Murdoch, who only snagged seven per cent of the vote.
Last week we asked you what you would change about iTunes to make it better. Lots of the votes and suggestions in the open section of the poll involved adding streaming of some sort, either through native Last.fm style functions, which would allow streaming with a strong emphasis on recommendations, and others wanted Cloud services, to access music and stream it to whichever device they wanted.
The week has just begun and winter is very much upon us, but there have bee plenty of tech news nuggets to warm the cockles of your gadget-fancying heart. See what they are in our lunchtime lowdown roundup.
With more Super Street Fighter 4 on the cards, rumours about the veteran beat-em-up’s latest incarnation are flying across the internet like fireballs. A new list of Super Street Fighter 4 achievements includes images of new characters including an Evil Ryu (red-eyed and mean looking). There’s also another new character, a purple guy apparently called Oni Akuma (Ogre Demon in Japanese). Nothing official on this right now but we do want to get fighting with Evil Ryu. Hadouken! Combo combo combo. Hadouken!
Out TBC | £TBC | Super Street Fighter (via Destructoid)
Listen up – we have a top 5 list of the best Android music apps that will bring sweet, sweet tunes to your ears. Read on and check them after the jump: they’re all in the list to the right of the page in our full pos
Adidas Superstars are classic trainers and celebrated their 30th anniversary in 2006. The milestone got Gerry McKay thinking and now the designer has kicked out two concept designs: the Adidas Twitter Superstars and the Adidas Facebook Superstars. There’s no plans to get them made yet but we’re a bit tempted. Twitter kicks? Yeah, count us in. We’re glad the Adidas MySpace Superstars didn’t make it off the drawing board.
Out TBC | £TBC | Gerry McKay (via Buzzfeed)