Have you been thinking about taking AirPlay outside the confines of Apple’s ecosystem of products? Developer Thomas Pleasance and yesterday, albeit unofficially, released a Windows Media Center add-in which brings AirPlay support to Windows Media Center. Once enabled, your iPhone 4 will be able to output directly to your PC, making for a luscious gaming experience.
May, 2011
The HTC Sensation almost has a clear run. With no new iPhone in sight, Motorola’s Atrix stuck on one network and LG shooting itself in the same foot time and again, HTC’s super-phone has the limelight. Its only real competition? The awesome, dual-core Samsung Galaxy S 2 – Electricpig’s favourite gadget of the year so far.
That leaves upgraders with something of a dilemma. We’ve been testing out HTC’s new blower to rescue you from your quandary, so read on and find out what we made of it in our full HTC Sensation review.
If you are not one of the more than 4.5 million Facebook users who has ‘Liked’ Sony Ericsson’s fan page, today is the day. The company has announced a worldwide Facebook competition to find the best reviewer of one of its two new unreleased feature phones. All you need to do is answer a simple question and explain why they should give you a chance to be the first to review to get started.
The BlackBerry PlayBook goes on sale next month in the UK, but for one lucky reader, that launch date will soon mean nothing: we’re going to put one in the hands of our competition winner well before then. All you need to do is tell us why you deserve RIM’s enterprise-worthy slate: hit the link below to enter. Good luck!
Apple doesn’t own the idea of using aluminium in gadget designs or creating a phone where the touchscreen is the focus of all your attentions but there’s a certain Cupertino touch that other manufacturers relentlessly attempt to mimic.
We’ve seen it this morning with the unveiling of the Dell XPS 15z which cops a lot of moves from the MacBook Pro – from its aluminium/magnesium alloy shell to the placement of its speakers, the arrows on its backlit keyboard and the positioning of its ports and slot-loading DVD drive. Is it asking to much to expect designers to do something a little different?
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 is official, and there’s a brand spanking new launch trailer to prove it. Ready to see commandos take down Big Ben, and shoot up the London Underground? Read on to see the video.
Could Rovio be the new Disney? In 11 months it’s built Angry Birds into a license to print money – and spawned a satellite industry in virals. From Electricpig’s very own Playable Angry Birds Cake (5 million views and counting) to a life-size outdoor level, the bangwagon shows no sign of braking.
Check out this latest Angry Birds parody – an inspired spoof of Adele’s ubiquitous ‘wrist-slitter’ Rolling In The Deep (We Could Have Had It All), in which the moody popstar becomes obsessed with beaks, catapults and golden eggs…
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Tiny Wings is one our favourite iPhone games. So we were delighted when we heard it had arrived on Android. Only, the Tiny Wings currently flying on the Android Market has nothing to do with the creators of the original game. The Android game is a poorly implemented take by a developer called Androfications rather than Tiny Wings creator Andreas Illiger. Uh oh…