Last week over on Nokia Sweden the company’s first MeeGo flagship, the N9, was featured with a countdown timer leading up to its launch. Today that clock should have read 45 days, but instead Nokia has pulled the timer altogether leading to speculation the N9 may be delayed. Will the Nokia N9 launch in Sweden on September 23rd?
August, 2011
The next of LG’s 2011 flagship smartphones, the LG Prada K2, has landed itself 10 seconds of Mr. Blurrycam footage. The video, while painfully short, does confirm the device’s ultra-slim form factor and matches up with a render we saw back in July. Let’s recap what we know about the LG Prada K2, shall we?
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Enjoying that fresh new MacBook Air or upgraded an existing Mac to OS X Lion, but in desperate need of a recovery disc for a fresh installation? Fear not, Apple has just published support documentation which includes the “Lion Recovery Disk Assistant”. All you’ll need is an external hard drive or a USB thumb drive with 1GB of free space.
The BlackBerry Colt leaked out this morning, promising to be the first of RIM’s handsets to use the QNX OS, as found on the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. It doesn’t look set to hit until 2012, but what does it need to do to succeed?
Click through for five things we don’t think it can do without.
It’s been such a long wait for Final Fantasy Versus 13 that it almost feels mythical now. The game has been on the cards since 2006 and we heard in August last year that the Final Fantasy Versus 13 release date was unlikely to fall in 2011. Now, game director and Final Fantasy character artist, Tetsuya Nomura, has raised the game in an interview.
Speaking to Dengeki PlayStation in Japan, Nomura says Final Fantasy Versus 13 will not be shown at this year’s Tokyo Game Show in September which is disappointing. However, he confirms that a date has been set to show the game in public, once again raising the prospect of a release. Thankfully with Square Enix celebrating Final Fantasy’s 25th birthday this year, we can still expect plenty of announcements at the Tokyo Game Show to distract us.
Out TBC | £TBC | Square Enix (via Adriasang)
Despite showing a Chrome OS tablet concept early last year and evidence that a prototype codenamed Seaboard was being tested, Google played down the idea of Chrome OS tablets at I/O in June. That hasn’t stopped the open source types working on the Chromium project from toying with the idea.
Chromium (the browser rather than the OS) has been tarted up with a touch-friendly UI and captured on video. It includes far larger icons, widgets and a virtual keyboard which could all be used on a future Chrome OS tablet.
Though the Chromium implementation is experimental, it definitely hints at how Chrome OS could make the jump to touchscreens and is worth a look. See for yourself after the break and let us know what you make of it…
The prospect of iTunes Replay, an iCloud-based movie streaming service which would allow you to re-download previous purchases for free, was revived in a string of rumours last week. However, reports from the US have now doused those claims with the cold, cold water of reality.
While the latest Apple TV update gave US owners the ability to stream any previously purchased TV show from the cloud, it seems arguments over rights have stopped the iTunes Replay plans in their tracks. Apple is reportedly struggling to get all the major movie studios on board and that doesn’t bode well for the UK…
The expansion of Google+ continues apace. After oddly choosing not to make its Google+ iOS app universal when it was released last month, it has now updated it to include iPad and iPod touch users. It’s a fairly rough update though with the iPad basically getting a blown up version of the iPhone interface rather than a dedicated redesign. Still, Google+ Android app users rocking Android Honeycomb tablets have the same issue so it’s not discrimination!
Like the recent Google+ Android update, the new version of the iOS app features improved Huddle settings and aggregated notifications to make the whole experience a lot less noisy. It also promises the kind of performance and stability improvements you’d expect from a service that’s still in its teething period. You can grab the updated Google+ iOS app at the link below. Hit the headline and jump into the comments to let us know what you think of it.
Out now | £free | iTunes