T’is nearly Christmas but the work goes on. To help you with your slacking off, here’s this week’s Sites We Like. In this instalment we’ve got a great way to find the best Android apps without having to scull around in the irritating stacks of the Android Market, a glorious selection of ultra cool magazine covers, a great little Christmas-themed game and BBC news headlines like you’ve never seen them before. Read on for Sites We Like in all its glory…
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December, 2010
We’ve got a HTC HD7 Windows Phone 7 handset to give away, courtesy of O2, and all you have to do to be in with a chance of winning it is mix your tech love with some Tony Hart skills: we want you to show us your best home made imitation of a well known gadget. The rules are here, and to serve you up with some inspiration, take a peek here at one of the best entries so far: an edible Nintendo DS made of marzipan. Om.
The Official PlayStation iPhone app has just been outed. It’s not the PlayStation Phone but it’s still pretty interesting. The PlayStation iPhone app will let you get at your PlayStation Network trophies and check your friends’ statuses. From within the app, you’ll also get news about games and hardware for the PS3 and PSP, there’ll also be a feed from the European PlayStation Blog and the ability to share updates with your friends on Twitter and Facebook. Sony says the PlayStation app is hitting the iPhone, iPod touch and Android “very soon”.
Out “very soon” | £TBC | Sony
The Flipboard iPad app caused quite a storm when it was released earlier this year and has even nabbed Apple’s approval as App of the Year for 2010. Now the Flipboard iPad app has had a serious upgrade too with the addition of Google Reader support, Flickr integration and the ability to fling status updates, photos and Flipboard pages straight from the app to Twitter and Facebook. Flipboard says: “Google Reader was by far our most requested feature.” Google Reader entries are shown in Flipboard the same way as links shared via Twitter and Facebook with a headline and a brief summary plus a relevant photo. You can download the latest version of the Flipboard iPad app from the iTunes App Store now.Out now | £free | Flipboard
The Google Nexus S has only just been released and already a Google Nexus S jailbreak is with us. The Google Nexus S has been rooted by a clever XDA Developers member who goes by the name of Koush. He created a custom version of the Clockwork recovery tool and then booted the Google Nexus S using Superuser, an Android app developed by another XDA member. The Google Nexus S jailbreak instructions aren’t quite finished yet with no ROM support sorted but more detailed instructions should hit XDA Developers imminently. Get ready for an avalanche of excellent Google Nexus S hacks. We’ll be keeping you posted on all the Google Nexus S news!Out now | £free | Google/XDA Developers
Best BlackBerry apps of the month time? Yup, it’s come round again once more. But it’s a whole lot more pleasant than those regular trips to the dentist. Here, we’re not going to chide you for drinking fizzy water or not subsisting on a diet with absolutely no sugar in. Nope, we’re only going to chide you if you have a BlackBerry and don’t install these pronto.
The iPad 2 could beat the already-announced Blackberry Playbook to the punch. During recent earnings calls, RIM executives suggested that the much-vaunted tablet won’t break cover until March. If the Blackberry Playbook doesn’t launch until March (RIM earnings statements suggest that’s the case as RIM isn’t expecting revenue from the Playbook until after February) then it could find itself eclipsed by the iPad 2 which is expected to break cover in January.
Once the iPad 2 is announced, RIM could struggle to get press attention as the Apple hype juggernaut pushes it right off the road. Click the headline and let us know: do you think the Blackberry Playbook will be able to compete with the iPad 2? Check out what we know about iPad 2 features here.
We’re over the hump and the week is flying by in the world of tech news. Today in the US Update we run you through the latest and greatest from LG, including their new 84-inch polarized 3D LCD panel, a new NEO GEO controller for your PS3, Facebook’s facial recognition feature and so much more.