August, 2011

Apple iPhone 5 will launch in October, not SeptemberAccording to John Paczkowski of the Wall Street Journal blog AllThingsD, At&t’s late September employee vacation blackout has nothing to do with the iPhone 5 launch. In fact, the iPhone 5 is not coming in September, it will arrive in October. A bold prediction, but will the rumor pan out?

Predicting the iPhone 5 launch is becoming a bit like the Verizon iPhone rumors. If you keep throwing out dates, eventually one will stick. AllThingsD joins the list of major publications citing inside sources who claim to know Apple’s big day. In this case, the inside source said, “I don’t know why AT&T’s calling for all hands on deck those weeks, but it’s not for an iPhone launch.”

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Nokia 500 Symbian Anna smartphone delivers power on a budgetImpressive spec sheets and affordable pricing rarely coexist. The Nokia 500 Symbian Anna smartphone announced today breaks that tradition. Powered by a blazing-fast 1 GHz processor, Nokia 500 will cost just £132 before taxes and subsidies when it launches in the third quarter this year. Ready to meet the Nokia 500?

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HTC Desire Android Gingerbread update arrives, finallyFollowing severe outcry from HTC Desire owners, the company has come forward with an official Android Gingerbread update. The barebones update loses several HTC apps, the official Facebook app and almost all of the wallpapers. For those daring enough to proceed, HTC has advised the update is for “expert users” only.

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Diablo III details emerge: real money, online only and no game modsBlizzard has revealed several major changes coming to the third installment of Diablo, Diablo III. The franchise which began way back in 1996 will skip the fake currency and instead allow the buying and selling of in-game items for cold hard cash. If you think that’s crazy, check out the other changes headed our way.

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Best Buy TVs arrive with TiVo interface, but where’s the DVR?TiVo without a DVR, are you serious? Yes my friends, this is exactly what Best Buy created with its Insignia Connected TV line powered by the familiar TiVo interface. The new sets launched today and come in two sizes: 32 and 42-inch. The partnership between Best Buy and TiVo is a software-only affair, designed to add search for Internet-based content to your living room.

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MacBook Air review

The white plastic MacBook didn’t die. Turns out it was just an ugly duckling, then one day it lost its bum fluff and woke up with a beautiful plumage of unibody aluminium, a better processor, and a waif like profile. In other words, as the new MacBook Air.

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The PlayStation Vita will be out in October in the UK, according to a leak from Blockbuster this morning. Exciting stuff indeed, but what do we know about it so far? And what are we hoping for the extra skills it’ll come packing?

Read on for 14 reasons to save up for October 28th.

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The Asus Eee Pad Slider has been among the most anticipated Android tablets for ages. The Android Honeycomb tablet with its slideout QWERTY-keyboard charmed us during our first hands on during CES in January and we gave it a thorough going over in our Asus Eee Pad Slider preview in March but there’s been scant news on it since. An Asus Eee Pad Slider listing popped up on Amazon Germany in June but without a release date.

After such a lot of delays, it’s good to hear from tablet watchers in the Netherlands that the Asus Eee Pad Slider will be with us by September. Tablet Magazine says the original 16GB model has been ditched in favour of a single 32GB model priced at €499 (£437) with the 3G-enabled version following it in early 2012. When the Asus Eee Pad Slider finally ships, it’ll come packing Android Honeycomb 3.1 and you can see it being put through its paces with that version of the OS onboard after the break…

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