Forget video cameras, Sony’s new line of digital binoculars are the Swiss army knives of tech. The Sony DEV-3 and DEV-5 are fitted with the renowned Exmor R CMOS sensor. The sensors are supported by BIONZ image processors and fitted behind a pair of precision G Lens optics. Not only will you be able to spy on your neighbors, but you’ll be able to capture the footage in full HD.
August, 2011
Samsung has made the push into the world of high-end gaming laptops. Announced today, the Samsung Series 7 gaming laptop (model 700G7A) packs a quad-core Intel i7 processor, AMD Radeon HD 6970M GPU with 2GB of DDR5 memory and support for up to 16GB of RAM. If Epic Meal Time built a laptop, this would be it.
In addition to its graphics and processing chops, the Series 7 laptop features a full HD LED 17.3-inch display with a brightness of 400nits. The massive display allows for a full-sized keyboard with number pad, chicklet-style keys and backlighting. Other highlights include Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 3.0 + HS, HD webcam, Blu-ray drive, HDMI-out, USB 3.0, VGA port and a 7-in-1 card reader.
September 12th | Samsung | £1564
Remember those rumors last year suggesting Yahoo! was hard at at work on an Android smartphone? Well, they’ve materialized in the form of the Sharp Aquos 009SH, better known as the Yahoo Aquos 009SH or Yahoo! Phone. As the first official smartphone released by the search giant, the device will debut on SoftBank in Japan.
It’s only fitting that SoftBank, the owner and operator of Yahoo! in Japan, launches the world’s first Yahoo! Phone in partnership with Sharp. So how exactly does the Yahoo Aquos 009SH differentiate itself from the hundreds of other Android smartphones on the market? It starts with 13 pre-installed applications from Yahoo! Japan covering everything from Yahoo! Calendar to Yahoo! Dictionary.
Vodafone is rolling out carrier billing for the Android Market. That means Android owners on the network will be able to charge app purchases to their phone bills and pay for them alongside calls, texts and data. Initially the new feature is only available to Android owners who bough their phone directly from Vodafone through its online or retail stores.
Billing has always been one of the biggest Android Market bugbears thanks to the eccentricities of Google Checkout. Vodafone is the first European carrier to launch operator billing but Google is said to be negotiating deals with other networks. Click the headline and head to the comments to tell us: will carrier billing make you buy more Android apps from the Android Market?
Out now | £free | Vodafone (via Mobile-Ent.Biz)
Id Software has used the Facebook Like button for good. It promised to make Rage and Rage HD free if it reached 100,000 Likes on its Facebook page and it’s done just that. For the next week, you can grab the game for free from the iTunes App Store.
That’s a great deal as the on-rails shooter set at a mutant-hunting gameshow is still one of the best iPhone games out there and has had some nice updates since we first raved about it back in November last year. If you’ve got an iPhone 4, the original iPad or the iPad 2, grab Rage HD to enjoy high quality mutant mauling.
For the last couple of days, I’ve been testing the HP Pre 3, putting it through the usual rigorous treadmill of testing we do here. Then last night, HP canned the platform it runs, webOS, essentially pulling the plug on a phone that was barely on sale: for while I’ve always said you should never buy a phone based on what it might do in the future, there’s no point buying a smartphone with no future.
Getting caught in a YouTube vortex need no longer be a lonely experience. Google+ Hangouts, the social network’s video chat feature, have migrated to YouTube. Watching YouTube videos in Hangouts has been an option since Google+ launched but YouTube has now added a button to begin chats directly from videos.
Click the Share menu beneath any YouTube clip and you’ll now find an option encouraging you to watch the clip with friends on Google+. Click the link and a new window opens allowing you to choose which Google+ Circles you want to share the clip with. In the case of the classic Baby Monkey (Going Backwards Of A Pig), we chose all of them.
Out now | £free | YouTube
The Grand Theft Auto Trilogy (Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas) hit the Mac last year but it’s now got even easier to grab the games.
RockStar has started bringing Grand Theft Auto to the Mac App Store with Grand Theft Auto III now available to download. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City will follow on August 25 with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas dropping on September 1. They’ll set you back £10.49 each and you’ll need a Mac running OS X 10.6.6 to relive the classic car jacking capers.
Out now | £10.49 | Mac App Store