The iPad 2 is just a couple of weeks away from going on sale in the UK. Junaio is an augmented reality browser, and boy is it incredible. This is one step beyond Layar, using image recognition on newspapers, posters and adverts. Read on for more info, and click through for the full video showing off the Junaio AR browser.
March, 2011
Bing bong, it’s 12.30 o’clock. You should know by now that that means it’s time to stop what you’re doing and tune into our roundup of all the morning’s latest news and reviews, right here in the lunchtime lowdown.
The iPhone 4 Personal Hotspot is one of the best new features rolled out in last week’s iOS 4.3 update. If you’re running an iPhone 4, you can simply turn it on, and share that 3G connection with other devices in your immediate vicinity, by way of the smartphone’s built in Wi-Fi. It’s seriously useful if you want to hop online with your laptop on the go, or let someone with an iPad jump online with you.
Swell, right? Unfortunately, the extra charges for tethering in this way are not, and more confusingly, not every network charges for it – or even offers Personal Hotspot at all. Read on, and we’ll breakdown where you get the best deal, where you definitely do not, and your other smartphone options for sharing the data you’ve already paid for, for free.
Last week we showed you “The Poking Inventor” action figure, aka a Mark Zuckerberg figurine, created by the same folks who brought us the Steve Jobs action figure a while back. Now, unsurprisingly, Facebook’s lawyers are trying to shut down the model which lets you pen your own speech bubbles for Zuckerberg, such as: “I invented POKING!”
The company who makes the Poking Inventor action figure, MIC Gadget, has posted a blog on its site about the legal demands it’s been sent, and says: “Everyone likes the social network, but we never thought Mr. Mark Zuckerberg would be unhappy with the friendly toy, until we received an email from a Beijing law firm representing Facebook.Inc.”
Sadly, this means there’ll no longer be a Mark ‘Poking Inventor’ Zuckerberg action figure available to buy.
[via MIC Gadget]
Google has redesigned its Google Streetview website to show off some more of the highlights from its camera cars world travels with ski slopes, World Heritage sites and a selection of the coolest views from seven continents.
The coolest part of the new site though is the page which shows the Google Streetview snowmobile used for getting mountain shots. Google also shows off the Google Trike for navigating less hospital places and the Google Streetview Trolley it’s using for capturing footage from inside museums and historic buildings. You can see all three in the gallery above.
Out now | £free | Google LatLong blog
The first Nokia Windows Phone 7 device won’t arrive until 2012. Nokia India boss D Shivakumar says the Nokia/Windows Phone 7 deal is following a 12 month timeline. That will mean the first Nokia Windows Phone 7 product will arrive with the latest version of Windows Phone 7 (Mango) which is due to break cover at the end of 2011, complete with third party app multitasking.
Given that we’ll get hold of plenty of exciting phones in the meantime (including iPhone 5 and the HP Pre 3), let’s hope Nokia really delivers something really jawdropping when its Windows Phone 7 project kicks out its first effort.
The HP TouchPad will arrive in June alongside the HP Pre 3 and the HP Veer. HP’s Leo Apotheker confirmed its ETA and promised some further interesting webOS products this year.
Apotheker declared that webOS PCs are on the cards for later this year with a full rollout in 2012. Click the headlne and head for the comments to tell us: would you buy a webOS PC? And is the HP TouchPad on your wishlist?
Out June | £TBC | HP
We’re all familiar with what LG and Sharp make nowadays, but did you know they used to make tractors and pencils, respectively? Or that Samsung started exporting fish, and Apple used to make digital cameras? Not to mention the seedy blemish on Nintendo’s past that would make Mario’s hat spin. Read on, and all will be revealed.