Jaguar’s awesome C-X75 concept car is coming to the roads, so look out for it in your local Tesco car park. Which got us thinking (ok, fantasizing) about which other futuristic cars we’d like to see put into production so we could take them for a spin. And so we present our concept car top trumps – print off the page, cut them out and give it a game. Because sadly, it’s the closest any of us are going to get to driving them. Though considering the C-X75 is going to cost £700,000, chances are even if most of them were real we still couldn’t have them in our garage. Well, we can dream.
May, 2011
Google looks set to turn fairy godmother to Modu, the modular phone maker, which has been shutdown by debts. Reports suggest Google plans to pick up its patent portfolio for around $4.8m and help Modu founder Dov Moran out of the hole. With the Android Hardware devision up and running and going great guns with former Danger masterminds in charge, the move looks very interesting.
Could Google be planning to put those Modu modular patents to work in aid of the Android Open Accessory effort? It would make a lot of sense. That said, in the incredibly litigious world of mobile patents, Google could just be adding to its stash in case of future legal battles. Modu was delightfully mad though and we’d love to see some of its eccentric DNA transferred to Android devices.
Out TBC | £NA | Google (via Boy Genius Report)
The Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 has been strutting its stuff in Russia. While we don’t speak Russian, the video after the break gives you a good look at the middle-sized Galaxy Tab. The event also revealed a Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 keyboard dock. Read on for the video and all the latest details…
It’s been exactly 365 days since Google TV was first revealed at the search giant’s I/O 2010 event – and we’ve still no clue as to when we’ll see Android TV in the UK. But in the meantime, we’re starting to see the first Android set top boxes making it to market, from the likes of Eminent, Kogan, Geniatech and even Swedish gadgeteers People of Lava.
The trickle will soon become a flood: read on to find out how and why Android will end up on your telly – with or without Google’s help.
We really like LA Noire (see our LA Noire review to find out why) but an overheating PS3? Not so much. The issue has been heating up (pun intended) this week with claims that the game has been making the console overheat or shutdown.
First, Rockstar blamed PS3 Firmware 3.61 then Sony blamed LA Noire. Now the pair have got together to put out a joint statement that says it’s neither LA Noire nor the PS3 firmware update behind the issue. Hmmm…
If Apple outs an iTunes streaming, a recently published patent application may just reveal how it’s going to work. Rather than simply asking to fling your files up into the cloud and expecting you to wait for songs to buffer, the iTunes snapshot in the patent application shows an option to “Sync partial music”.
The ‘iCloud‘ system would store a snippet of the song on your local device and then be synced with the complete version in the crowd meaning you could start playing songs immediately without waiting. Read on for more details…
It’s time for your daily tech recap where we bring you the top stories headlining today’s news cycle. In today’s US Update we begin with an interview of HTC Europe’s head honcho, Mr. Florian Seiche. New details have emerged suggesting LG, not Motorola, will produce the Nexus 3. We finish up with an iPhone 4 forecast which looks to confirm a late 2011 release of the iPhone 4S.
Well look at that! Industry insider DigiTimes has just received word from its Taiwanese manufacturers that Apple has lowered its second quarter iPhone 4 shipment volume. The move is believed to be due to the release of the fifth generation iPhone, the iPhone 4S, scheduled to land later this year. We’ve explained in detail why Apple will survive without an iPhone 5 in 2011, but cutting back production in May?