Apple’s announced pricing for its iCloud storage service – if you want more than the free 5GB storage, you’ll have to pay £14 a year for an extra 10GB, £28 for 20GB, and £70 for 50GB. (These are translated from US prices.) And it’s worth remembering the free 5GB doesn’t include music and photos.
But how does that stack up against what’s already available? We’ll be taking a look at eight competitors after the jump.
We’ve just go to grips with the BlackBerry Torch 9860 at RIM’s London press event – photos and first impressions, this way please!
The Google+ Android app has received a very welcome update. Rather than bombarding you with notifications, the newly tweaked Google+ app now groups them together in bulk. It also stops the stream jumping back to the top of the screen when you rotate the phone and adds the ability to hide one-on-one huddles.
Another handy change is that mentioned user names are now clickable so you can jump to the person’s profile page. The update also adds clickable links in huddles and vastly improved autocomplete. Sadly the Google+ iPhone app hasn’t benefited from a similar upgrade yet. Click through to see all the Google+ Android app updates detailed on video…
Since the Sony Android tablets were first revealed in April, we’ve had a series of teaser videos starring a cute alabaster couple making their way through curious contraptions. Now we’re up to the forth and we’re still waiting for some real details on specs. All we know so far is that both will run Android Honeycomb and that the Sony S2 will have two 5.5in 1024×480 displays and a Tegra 2 processor while the Sony S1 will be a similarly specced 9.4in slate.
You can see the latest Sony Android tablets teaser video, which Sony says is the penultimate episode, after the break. This time the characters move through a mechanism with marbles whizzing above them and bubbles floating around them to seemingly promote the tablets ability to fling videos and photos onto your HD TV. Watch it for yourself after the break and let us know if you can spot any more clues about what to expect from the Sony tablets…
The newly released iCloud web beta includes document synching for Apple’s iWork apps between OS X and iOS devices but it looks like the company could have bigger plans in store. An Apple job listing has popped up seeking a software engineer to “build the front and/or back end of scaleable web applications” as part of the iWork team. Interestingly, it also asks for experience of “building web application user interfaces”.
While the vacancy could simply be for someone to work on the currently announced iWork features which allow you to sync documents and view them in the web interface, the details suggest Apple could actually be planning full browser-based versions of Pages, Numbers and Keynote to sit beside Mail, Contacts and Calendar. Adding editing functions to the web interface would allow iCloud to compete directly with Google Docs and Microsoft’s Office365 web apps.
Out TBC | £TBC | Apple (via AppleInsider)
We’re live at RIM’s BlackBerry launch event in London this morning, where Rob Orr, vice-president for EMEA product management, just made a curious comparison. Bigging up BlackBerry’s data efficiency compared to other smartphones, he said that unlimited data tariffs from networks were as unfeasible as “unlimited petrol”. Say what?
Slashing the price of a product doesn’t usually require an apology but the Nintendo 3DS price cut is a little different. Despite offering a bundle of games as compensation to early adopters – Nintendo is trying to style them as “3DS Ambassadors” – CEO Satoru Iwata has penned an apology note to fans who feel let down.
In the slightly over-dramatic letter, he tells Nintendo 3DS owners “there is nothing we can do to completely make up for the feeling that you are being punished for buying the system early” and assures them that they’re “extremely important”. Read on for more of Iwata’s mea culpa including some Mario news to further sugar the pill…
We noted that the BlackBerry Torch 9860 was nearing release last week, but now RIM has made the handset official at last. At a London event this morning, Patrick Spence, the managing director for global sales and regional marketing revealed the handset, which comes with a sorely needed spec bump – and BlackBerry 7. Is that enough?
