May, 2011

Categories: Computers & Accessories    Tags: , , ,

NVIDIA boss, Jen-Hsun Huang, has been speaking out about the current state of Android tablets. He says Android tablet sales have struggled for a number of reasons:

“It’s a point of sales problem. It’s an expertise at retail problem. It’s a marketing problem to consumers. It is a price point proglem. Tablets should have a Wi-Fi configuration and be more affordable. Those that did sold more rapidly than the 3G and fully configured ones.”

Huang also criticised the lack of apps available for Android Honeycomb tablets. However, he had some positive things to say about the future…

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Coming straight out of left field, Patently Apple, home to the most committed Apple patent watchers out there, has pulled together some patents and come to an intriguing conclusion: Apple’s toying with creating a iMac/iPad hybrid. It’s a wacky idea but at least there’s some patent drawings to ponder…

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We see a lot of cool Kinect hacks but not many you can easily make yourself. This one is different. Lanny Lin put together the Kinect Kung Fu Tetris hack with a combination of open source software and cheap hardware.

In the video after the break you can see Kung Fu Tetris in action with front kicks to rotate pieces, side kicks to move pieces left or right and jumps to fast drop a piece.

To create your own Kung Fu Tetris set up you just need Kinect, a PC, a TV monitor, three open source drivers and a small configuration file. Check out the video after the break then hit the link for Lanny’s step by step instructions.

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We know there’s been false alarms on this before but Samsung has confirmed that the Samsung Galaxy S family is getting its taste of Android Gingerbread finally. The UK and the Nordic countries are named as the first lucky recipients with the update set to arrive here from the middle of this month.

The rest of the globe will have to wait a little longer but every Samsung Galaxy is getting some love. As well as suping up the Samsung Galaxy S and Samsung Galaxy Tab, Samsung’s constellation of budget Galaxy devices (including the Ace, Glo, Fit and mini) will get some Gingerbread love.

Out now | £free | Samsung

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After 25 days offline the PlayStation Network was restored in the UK and the US late last night with the rest of Europe coming back online as we speak. To get back onto the PlayStation Network, you’ll need to download firmware 3.61 and change your PSN password. You’ll then get access to online matchmaking again, video playback, friends lists, chat and trophies.

Other features including the PlayStation Store are still offline and Sony has said it will take until the end of the month for all services to come back online. The big question though is: does the PlayStation Network downtime and those worries about lost personal data mean Sony has lost you for good? Hit the headline and head for the comments to share your thoughts.

Out now | From £free | Sony

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Top five reasons Apple will survive without an iPhone 5 in 2011Sometimes it’s just too easy to get caught up in the ongoing spec war currently underway in the Android community. Talks of quad-core processors and 15-megapixel cameras with 3D recording and playback sound great on paper, but at Electricpig we prefer to evaluate technology based on real-world performance. With the iPhone 5 reportedly on the back burner for late 2011 or early 2012, here’s your top five reasons Apple will survive without a refresh to the iPhone 4 this year.

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So remember back when the iPad first launched, and everyone had a good old a moan about the the lack of a camera? Yeah, this is today’s Flickr current daily average user stats for Apple devices with cameras. Just 22 Flickr users out of more than 40 million use their iPad 2 camera sensors to grab snaps, making it 200 times less popular than the iPhone 4. Just sayin’. Read on to see the high-res infographic.

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Some ingenious so-and-so has put together a website, LikeFight, that lets you compare how many ‘likes’ Facebook Pages for different organisations, entities and people have accrued – and pit them head to head. Rather worryingly, more people claim to like Hitler than like Steve Jobs. But then, more people like Hitler than either Steve Ballmer or Nick Clegg (OK, we saw that last one coming). Read more

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