Winamp for Android has hit version 1.0 bringing its usual blend of well-interfaced music playing with a nice bonus helping of free music downloads.
March, 2011
With iPhone 5 coming this summer, quite why the white iPhone 4 matters anymore is a bit of a mystery but if you have been craving one, here’s some good news: the white iPhone is arriving this spring. That news doesn’t come from some mad Apple rumour site claiming but rather Apple’s Phil Schiller who confirmed it via Twitter (on his @pschiller account)…
Twitter has angered developers with a post to it’s development mailing list which warns them off creating apps that duplicate the official Twitter client? Why have Twitter bosses said no more clones? Find out after the jump.
The iPhone 5 NFC rumours have been damped down with a report from the Independent claiming mobile industry sources are whispering that contactless payments aren’t on the cards from Apple this year. The story claims that Apple will not include NFC this year because it is “concerned by the lack of a clear standard across the industry”.
More encouragingly, the report reiterates rumours that Apple is working on its own NFC system with the iPhone at the heart of its plans and a new payments system funnelled through iTunes. Click the headline and dive into the comments to answer this question: do you want NFC in iPhone 5?
Out TBC | £TBC | Apple (via The Independent)
Remember when we were all burbling on about Google Me, the near-mythical Google social network (well, besides Orkut)? Well, those rumours are back in force but this time the service has been dubbed Google Circles.
ReadWriteWeb reignited the chatter with a post claiming that Google Circles will let you share photos and video (like Facebook), post status messages (like Facebook and Twitter) and show how closely related you are to each of your contacts. But sadly, it’s not as simple as that…
Inevitably the first iPad 2 jailbreak has broken cover. The iPad 2 was released in the US on Friday and Comex, the guy behind the iPhone 4 jailbreak, has made fast work of cracking his open…
As if you hadn’t already noticed from that headline up there, this week has been a game-filled week here at Electricpig. Among the highlights this week is our review of the Nintendo 3DS two weeks ahead of release. We’ve also got reviews of two of its launch titles and Olympus’ new E-PL2 compact interchangeable lens camera.
Another busy week in techdom has come to a climax. Missed any of it? Then get up to speed with our weekly news roundup. This week we’ve got a review of the Nintendo 3DS, Flash on the iPhone, word on BlackBerry’s 7Digital music partnership and lots more.