Step aside Tegra 2, there’s a new challenger headed your way — introducing the TI OMAP4400. This dual-core Cortex-A9 processor runs at a clock speed of 1.5 GHz and promises to raise the bar for smartphone and tablet performance, up to 200 percent. Are you ready for the next generation of mobile processors?
December, 2010
The end of the working day is nigh, but we work around the clock since the gadget news never, ever stops. Still, now’s a good a time as any to take a quick breather and catch up with all the biggest stories from the afternoon, broken down into bitesized chunks. Read on for your Teatime Tech!
Disney’s Epic Mickey for Wii was the talk of E3, thanks to the family entertainment giant’s surprising move to cede creative control of its most famous character over to Warren Spector, a man better known for dark, adult games like System Shock and Deus Ex. Could this really be the same company who pumps out cross platform cash-ins for all its new movies?
The game’s now on sale and the first verdicts are out, so see what the gaming gurus made of this bold move in our Epic Mickey review roundup.
You’ve seen our guide to the Sony Ericsson LiveView, but if you fancy snapping one up before Christmas you can save 20% with our exclusive discount code. Read on, and see how to save money on Sony Ericsson’s Android accessory.
Do a good deed from your desk today, and send a tweet to Twitter Knitter. Twitter Knitter is a group of volunteers who are sewing your tweets into scarves for the homeless of Camden to keep them warm this Christmas. To tweet, go to the Twitter Knitter site, or tweet with the hashtag #WarmUpCamden. You don’t have to donate anything, except your witty and warm yuletide tweets. There’s no reason not to.
Better get your skates on, there’s only three days left to tweet!
News of the first Chrome OS netbooks has arrived this week, and if it delivers what it promises then we could be looking at a completely different OS experience in the future, counter to what we get from Windows now. What do you think, could Chrome OS catch on, forcing Windows to make a paradigm shift in its make up to save being killed outright? Or is Microsoft’s move into the cloud already pushing it in a similar direction to Chrome OS?
Click and tell, and drop us a line in the comments to tell us what you think…
If you got chucked out of X Factor auditions before getting a glimpse of Cowell’s leathery face, then Ovi has updated its X Factor app so you can indulge your wildest dreams digitally. The Ovi X Factoriser does a nifty digital gimmick where it puts your faces in the mags, on the billboards, and in the winning spot, so that for a short time, (and if you squint a bit so it looks genuine), you can imagine that you’re the one destined for a popular Christmas hit before sinking quickly into obscurity, Steve Brookstein style. Watch the video here.
Out now | Free | Ovi
The tizi mobile TV hotspot is a little shiny black box about the same size as a small feature phone. Out of the top pops a spindly aerial, which catches the TV signal where you are and pushes it straight to your iPad or iPhone via the tizi app.