With HP Veer out in the wild and the HP TouchPad on the horizon, HP is hard at work on its next generation of webOS tablets and phones and the rumours are starting to leak out. And they revolve around an ever more familiar term – NFC.
Businessweek claims two sources have told it that the next generation of webOS devices will follow in the footsteps of the Google Nexus S and Google Wallet by adding NFC. It claims we could see the new devices before the end of this year…
The fact that iCloud will free iPhones and iPads from the tyranny of the USB cable is a nice additional feature for most of us but for a surprising number of iPhone owners, it could also mark the first time they’ve ever synced their device.
David Chartier of AgileBits reports anecdotal evidence from an Apple Store Genius who claims that about 50% of Apple Store customers who bring their iPhone in for attention have never plugged it into iTunes. That’s another reason why Apple Geniuses are ecstatic about iCloud…
The HP TouchPad will be touching down in the UK soon with preorders opening on June 19 and shipments set to drop in mid-July. While we wait for the webOS tablet to make its British debut, HP has been posting HP TouchPad videos. The latest is pretty intriguing showing off a fistful of features from webOS 3.0.
In the clip after the break you can see how the HP TouchPad handles multitasking, the HP Synergy feature pulling information from multiple sources together in one place, the tablet’s gaming abilities and how it handles Flash and HTML5. If you’re tempted by the HP TouchPad, take a gander and hit the comments to let us know what you make of it…
The Amazon Android tablet rumours keep coming. Last month, a report suggested that Amazon has two tablets in the works – a dual-core model codenamed “Coyote” and a quad-core model designated as “Hollywood”.
Now Boston-based analysts Detwiler Fenton claim they’ve heard from a reliable source that the Amazon Android tablets will arrive with free movie streaming to lure people away from the iPad 2 and the growing arsenal of rival Android tablets…
Finally some good news for Nokia. After warning that its profits might not look so rosy this year, Nokia has won out in its long-running patent war with Apple.
That means a whole heap of cash for the struggling Finns and an expensive slice of humble pie for the Apple. Read on to see how humbly Stephen Elop is accepting Apple’s surrender. Spoiler: he’s not being that humble at all…
Ricky Gervais spoke to Electricpig about his graveyard of Macs, why Twitter is the modern equivalent of graffiti on the toilet wall – and why it’s safer to get an assistant to switch the telly on…
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It’s that time for your evening tech jolt, better known as the US Update. Headlining today’s news is a new app which promises to turn your iPad 3G into a 9.7-inch iPhone. We’ve got the scoop on the ultra-affordable Cello 3D TVs arriving later this month and huge news for N8 owners hoping to take their video skills to the next level.
iPhoneIslam, the team behind FaceTime 3G, has released a video showing an iPad 3G making voice calls and sending text messages (SMS). You’ll need to jailbreak your iPad 3G and purchase the £12.29 app, but that’s a small price to pay for a 10-inch iPhone.
Plenty of people have been tipping Rovio, developer of Angry Birds, as the next Nintendo, thanks to it knack for nailing gameplay and cute design. But not so many people have been tipping an Angry Birds and Super Mario mashup, least of all the two gaming legends. But Angry Mario is just that. Play it before it gets pulled!
