In a world riddled with dual-core wonder phones touting qHD displays and megapixels upon megapixels of imaging wits, sometimes you just need a dependable feature phone. As the self described ‘either day wonder’, the emporia RL1 from Vodafone has the battery life to get you through the day whether you’re a pay monthly or commitment-phobe using pay as you go.
May, 2011
The Nokia Oro 18-carat gold plated phone is a bit of a blast from the past, reminding us that to some people, smartphone software isn’t everything: it’s adorned with a sapphire crystal and leather from some of Scotland’s finest cows. The thing is, no amount of gold plating is going to make up for Symbian.
Let’s talk tech. Let’s talk all this morning’s headlines, from 4G to animal tablet antics. Let’s talk lunchtime lowdown. Tuck in!
Cats are beguiled by the iPad screen but batting at Angry Birds with their paw won’t get them very far. But pet food maker Friskies has created a set of three HTML5 iPad games built specifically for feline Apple fans: Cat Fishing, Party Mix Up and Tasty Treasures Hunt.
All three games feature bright shapes moving around in just the right way to lure a moggy’s attention and graphics that respond to paw touches. You can see tech kitties at play in the video after the break and get the link to the games there too. We’d love to see what your cat makes of them.
UPDATE: Mojang has confirmed that Minecraft Pocket Edition will hit the the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play before any other phone, taking advantage of its controls. No release date just yet, sadly.
Sony Ericsson has sent out an invite to its Xperia Play party at E3 and it seems to be riffing heavily on imagery from Minecraft. There’s a blocky background and a small pick mining pixellated minerals plus a rather heavy-handed Minecraft reference in the headline: “Stay in the light and take refuge with Sony Ericsson to keep the creepers at bay”…
Straight from the file marked “Barking Mad Plans” comes this tale of Sony considering a PlayStation Move dock for the PSP. A recently uncovered patent, filed back in November 2009, shows a peripheral for the PSP with a built-in camera to use PlayStation Move controllers with the docked device. Do these plans still have any life in them?
4G networks are already up and running in the US, chucking data around without wires like there was no tomorrow, or tomorrow is today at any rate. But if you want to be the first Joe Public to try it in the UK, you’ll be able to this year – so long as you live in rural Cornwall.
Apple has slowly left older iPhone owners behind as new iOS updates arrive. The original iPhone is off in the mists of time now and the iPhone 3G lost its pass to new features when Apple dropped it off the list of devices supported by the iOS 4.3 update.
Now a rumour suggests that the iPhone 3GS (which is still on sale remember), could miss out on iOS 5…