The HTC Desire S, like the Incredible S before it, feels like a bit of a rush job – it’s using HTC’s cookie cutter Android smartphone specs in a slightly different shell, and the company’s clearly got something massive up its sleeve for next week. So is it worthy of your attention? Its metal unibody shell certainly begs for it – get the lowdown right here in our HTC Desire S review.
There’s less than an hour of today’s official work day left and that means it’s time for us to deploy our weekly burst of timewasting – Sites We Like. In this week’s episode we’ve got a way of streaming your tunes whatever the office IT bod tells you, a means of generating a novelty hit featuring your own name, a Calvin & Hobbes search engine and much more. Read on to start messing about…
Virtua Tennis 4 is the latest edition in the legendary gaming franchise, now sporting PlayStation Move and Microsoft Kinect motion controls and an overhauled World Tour mode just in time for Wimbledon 2011. Could the new features make Virtua Tennis 4 the best in the series yet? We took a swing at it ahead of release later this month: check out our preview to find out what we made of it.
The BlackBerry PlayBook was announced last year and it feels like we’ve been waiting ages for it to hit the shelves. Now Digitimes, purveyor of variable quality tech rumours, suggests that Apple is to blame. The iPad and iPad 2 gave the Cupertino gang such a stranglehold of the supply of touch panels that BlackBerry had to hold fire on getting the screens required for its debut tablet.
Proving that Digitimes is on the money is difficult but it sounds very plausible. Apple has made life similarly difficult for firms after NAND Flash memory, gobbling it up for the iPhone, the iPod touch and, of course, the PlayBook-bothering iPad 2.
We thought Angry Birds was everywhere but no! It’s colonised another platform with Angry Birds Rio rolling onto webOS. The game packs the same 60 levels available on other platforms and Rovio is promising lots of updates later this year.
Angry Birds Rio is available for Palm Pre, Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pre 2 as long as you’re rocking webOS 1.4.5 or later. Nab it now and join the armies of Angry Birds fanatics. Resistance is futile!
Out now | $1.99 | Angry Birds webOS
The HP TouchPad is due to drop this summer and a nice tasty batch of webOS 3.0 screenshots have spilled out of the HP leak machine to give us a hint of what to expect. The screenshots which you can see above reveal the HP TouchPad web browser, Maps (which seems to be rocking Bing Maps rather than Google Maps), Messaging and Music apps. The whole look is pretty minimalist but we like it, especially the simplicity of the Messaging and Music app designs.
Microsoft’s big problem is an obsession with Windows. So say a raft of insiders and former Microsoft employees who’ve been spilling the beans to Fortune and bashing Steve Ballmer while they’re at it.
In a wide-ranging analysis of how most of Microsoft lost its way (Xbox group, we’re letting you off for that and the Kinect), Ballmer gets a battering, and the company’s continued focus on Windows is highlighted as its biggest problem. Microsoft insiders told Fortune that if you threw Microsoft onto the analyst’s couch you’d find it’s stuck in an unhealthy co-dependent relationship with Windows…
There’s been lots of unsubstantiated iPhone 5 delay chatter but not much talk about what iPhone 5 features we might see. Now a new Apple patent has teased a potentially game changing innovation that could arrive in iPhone 5. The Apple smart bezel patent reveals a way of adding a cool secondary display with controls appearing when required in the bezel of the device. Here’s why that matters…
