Think of Space WX – available through iTunes now – as Patrick Moore’s head on Siân Lloyd’s body. It is the first real-time weather app that tracks the weather in space, predicting severe ‘near-earth’ events such as solar flares (high-energy particles from the sun). Of course, if you’re standing on the ground, you wouldn’t ‘feel’ the odd solar event. But exposure to such events whilst in a plane increases the risk of an unwanted dose of radiation – rather worrying if you’re a frequent flyer…
May, 2011
Yes indeed, Android lovers. It’s time for the best Android Apps of the week rundown, and what a selection of sizzlers we have for you this time around.
As always, we’ve been burning the midnight oil to concoct a collection of must-have downloads for your pleasure. Here you’ll find the greatest apps and games from the past seven days, lovingly explained and accompanied by links to the relevant download locations.
The HTC Flyer Android tablet stole the show at Mobile World Congress back in February, and now it’s landed on shop shelves so you can get to grips with its magical stylus for yourself. If you’d rather not pay for one though, that’s cool too: HTC is giving them away! All you have to do is let the company have a stab at sketching your mug.
It’s been all tablet talk this morning: see what slate gossip you missed right here in our lunchtime lowdown news roundup.
Like gadgets? Like cars? What are you doing next week then? Electricpig’s got two tickets to give-away to an exclusive event, Start More Live, taking place in London on the evening of 25 May. There you can see the brand new, super smart Ford Focus in the flesh, as well as loads of new fangled tech, including Minority Report style “stealth screens“. Read on and find out how to enter.
Details of HTC’s second Android tablet have seeped out online. The curiously named HTC Puccini would HTC’s first Android Honeycomb tablet and pack 4G in the US. According to 911HTC, it’ll arrive with a 1280×800 WXGA display and a Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8660 1.5GHz dual-core processor lurking inside.
For folk intrigued after our HTC Flyer review but slightly bothered by its behind-the-curve specs list, the HTC Puccini should be exciting as we’re promised it’ll rock a similar build of HTC Sense and take the Magic Pen stylus to the next level. Previous rumours suggested that the first HTC Android Honeycomb would arrive in June so we’ll hopefully see the HTC Puccini sooner rather than later.
LA Noire is a remarkable gear change for Rockstar, which for some years has relied on its Grand Theft Auto franchise and shoot-in-face-then-steal-car/horse gameplay mechanics. It’s languid, it’s smart and it doesn’t resort to flapping genitalia for laughs. But does a slow burning mystery make for a fun weekend when you could be killing people in Black Ops instead? We’ve been playing the game ahead of release: read on for our LA Noire review and our findings.
I love Apple rumours. I’ve written about roughly forty thousand half-baked suggestions about what might come out of Cupertino. But at some point, they just get too ridiculous. Some days, the Apple rumour mill just breaks entirely.
Yesterday was one of those days. Amid plausible talk of a larger screen for the iPhone 5 and the usual blurry photos from Chinese case makers, one story stood out like a idiotically hammered sore thumb: the iPhone 5 release date has been revealed by…a guy who works in the Phones 4U store in St Albans…