Android Honeycomb, the Android 3.0 we’ve been expecting after Christmas, could in fact be 2.4, potentially pushing back the release of the 3.0 to later in the year. As it stands, Android Honeycomb still looks like it’s the first Android build for tablets, but that the Android 3.0 tag is being saved “for something big”.
December, 2010
If you’re not looking forward to a Christmas beset with crappy data connections, we’ve got the competition for you, but there’s only three days left to enter! We’ve got five MiFi hotspots from Three, pre-loaded with a whopping 12GB of data to give away. Click through for full competition details.
We don’t usually get arty farty here at Electricpig towers, but this time, it involves lasers. As of last night, the Tate Liverpool and FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) art galleries were connected by a giant green glowing laser beam. The laser beam travels 800 metres as the crow flies, as part of the exhibition by new media artist Nam June Paik and to mark the 50th anniversary of the laser.
With news of Avatar 3D, and Attenborough’s latest offering, we asked you whether you’d be snuggling up on the sofa with your 3D glasses to watch the raft of Sky 3D TV scheduling this Christmas. Over half of you, 59 per cent, said no, 3D TV was a fad and you would not be investing in it. But 31 per cent were being carried on the wave of hype, and while you didn’t have the 3D gadgetry needed, you wished you were. Ten per cent of you, a bigger proportion that we expected to see, were early adopters, who’d invested in the TV and the glasses and were counting the days down already.
This year has been strong for the big guys: Steve Jobs brought out the iPhone, Steve Ballmer did Kinect and Windows Phone 7 within the space of a few months. Google has launched its second phone, and a raft of other services and improvements, and Zuckerberg was immortalised on the silver screen. But who’s the tech don of 2010? Click and tell us who you think is the most important tech personality of 2010…
The end of the week is so close we can almost taste it, but the tech news is still flowing on in. Keep abreast of it quickly here in our lunchtime lowdown headline roundup.
It’s competition central right now on Electricpig, so if you haven’t managed to land an Advent prize just yet, here’s another great one to try: we’ve teamed up with Gamesbasement.co.uk to give away our best PS3 Move games and a PlayStation Move starter pack. All you have to do is tell us what your most moving gaming moment is – and check the competition rules of course. Good luck!
Day 17 of the Electricpig Advent Calendar commeth! We’ve got Advent laptops, Android tablets, gaming PCs, digital photo frames and PC accessories to be won!
Today we’re asking for Christmas jokes, since you’re all so good at them. All you have to do is log in using your Facebook ID (that’s really important, without it we can’t reliably contact you, or check you’re based in the UK) and tell us one in the comments section will win! Once we have a winner, we’ll reveal the prize they’ve scooped.