After the best media streamer to plug into your telly? We can tell you right now that it shouldn’t be the new Apple TV, but there’s a myriad of other options to cater for all tastes. Want to know what they are? Check out our Best media streamer Top 5, to the right of the full post.
December, 2010
Want a HTC Android Gingerbread phone – other than the Nexus One? While we don’t know yet which HTC Sense phones will be getting the treatment, we’ve just had word from the company about its plans for Android 2.3. Read on for the full statement.
Just call us the gadget Santa: Our Advent Calendar has so far doled out digital photo frames, laptops, and an Advent Vega and PC accessories, and we’ve also announced winners of the Motorola Milestone 2 and a copy of Call of Duty: Black Ops. Now we’ve got something else to give a bunch of lucky winners: Brand new Mi-Fi portable Wi-Fi hotspots from 3!
To put an end to Wi-Fi Notspot woe, we’ve got five PAYG Mi-Fis with 12GB of pre-paid data from Three. Want to get your hands on one? Click through for the competition details.
Microsoft Windows Phone 7 boss Joe Belfiore rocked up to the D: Dive Into Mobile conference yesterday to face a grilling about Windows Phone 7 vs iPhone, Android and all the other smartphone OS fighters like webOS and Blackberry PlayBook OS. Talking about Windows Phone 7’s battle with iPhone and Android he admitted it’ll take some time to catch up…
A Google Latitude iPhone app was out in the wild last night but only briefly and only if you happened to be searching the Japanese iTunes Store. TechCrunch spotted the rogue location aware app standing on Apple’s street corner begging to be bought (yes, we just made an app as hooker analogy) but by the time it posted a story, the Google Latitude iPhone app had gone…
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek rocked up to the D: Dive Into Mobile conference (it’s what all the cool kids are doing) and told the crowd that Spotify US is still on track but couldn’t say when it will launch. What he did confirm though is that Spotify US will come in at $10 a month which would make it marginally cheaper than the current standard Spotify subscription in the UK. Why’s Spotify US stalled right now? Ek says it’s all down to the record industry and the “complex deals” it requires rather than Spotify losses problems. We’re not so sure…
Spotify now has over 750,000 paying subscribers. Shakil Khan, head of special projects for Spotify, just announced the numbers via Twitter. Back in March this year that figure sat at 320,000, meaning the number of people paying for premium Spotify services has almost doubled in the last nine months. With news that Spotify US could be just around the corner, it could be all change for Spotify in the months to come.
The Blackberry PlayBook hasn’t been released yet but RIM head-honcho Mike Lazaridis is talking big. He says the Blackberry PlayBook OS is the future direction for ALL Blackberry smartphones and is the magic bullet that will bounce Blackberry into the next stage of its development. He predicts that the QNX-based Blackberry PlayBook OS will migrate to multi-core Blackberry smartphones and other tablets in the next few years…
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