June, 2011

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Oh Nokia. Just when the N9 gave us hope that Nokia had turned over a new design leaf, some leaked photos of the Nokia N5 make us realise that it is business as usual over in Espoo.

The new phone is ugly as sin, leading us to suspect that Nokia might be doing this deliberately. Is it some kind of scam, like in The Producers?

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Android owners who find that Google Maps’ navigation skills aren’t quite up to snuff have no choice but to shell out for an expensive commercial GPS app. CoPilot Premium is one such – usually retailing for about £30 on the Android Market.

As special offer, developer ALK Technologies is dropping the price to just £15. Grab it quick, though – this is valid for one week only.

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The HTC Evo 3D, an Android smartphone with a similar form factor to the epic Sensation, and a stereoscopic screen, is coming to the UK, we can reveal, despite a tepid consumer reception to glasses-free 3D devices so far.

The good news? It’ll be the first HTC phone in the UK running Android 2.3.4, an update that brings video chat to Google Talk. Read on to find out what else to expect.

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The HTC Evo 3D is coming to the UK, and to go with it, the HTC Watch movie rental app will begin serving up 3D movies. You’ll even be able to output these to a 3D TV, we’ve confirmed: is this the end for big ol’ standalone 3D Blu-ray players?

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Earlier this month, we reported that Nokia Maps services would be made available to all Windows Phone devices, not just those straight out of Espoo. Today, we’ve found more evidence to support this: existing Nokia Maps APIs third party developers can use in their Symbian apps will work on Windows Phone too.

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If you are planning on buying the 3DS remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time then the good news is that the developers have made sure that the port is extremely faithful to the original (apart from being in full 3D). The bad news? The developers have made sure that the port is extremely faithful to the original – including some of the bugs.

That’s right – they’re not bugs at all. They are features.

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Singer, songwriter, model and DJ Sophie Ellis-Bextor may have another string to her already very twangy bow. In an interview with the Daily Mail the star made the rather bold claim that she was partly responsible for bringing the original iPod to market.

Does Sophie have previously-unmentioned electronics skills, or did she knock it up using her Blue Peter presenting mum’s supply of sticky-backed plastic & loo rolls? Find out after the jump.

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Those happy-go-lucky jokers LulzSec seem to have called it a day on the hacking front, at least until the heat has died down a bit. Before they crawled back under whatever it was they crawled out from, however, the LulzSec crew may have left us all a little gift.

Among the last payload of hacked documents and vandalism LulzSec released before shutting down was a cache of stolen AT&T internal documents. These appear to have spec details of both the iPhone 5 and the iPad 3.

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