As expected, the new Google Chromebook – the Samsung Series 5 – is going to hit a damn tempting price point.
The Wi-Fi only version will cost just £349 form PC World, while the Wi-Fi & 3G model will cost just £399.
Both models will be available from 24th June, from both PC World and Amazon.co.uk.
And just incase you’d like to start dreaming now, here’s those specs in full…
Wondering what’s so special about the Samsung Series 5 Chromebook? And what exactly Google’s Chome OS is all about? Well, allow us to present this achingly trendy – and rather idiot-proof – video which neatly makes sense of Google’s Windows-buster…
At some point, Rovio are going to run out of seasons and treatments for Angry Birds. So we’ve helpfully come up with five new editions…
Bill Buxton, a Principal Researcher at Microsoft, has put his collection of gadgets – amassed over the last 35 years – on display in Vancouver, Canada.
LG is cock-a-hoop – it has just announced that the wildly popular (and soon to be made into a film) Angry Birds Rio will come pre-loaded on all LG phones.
The roll-out starts with the Canadian version of the Optimus 2X. Yong-seok Jang, VP of Business Strategy at LG’s mobile arm, said: “Angry Birds Rio will help showcase the power, smoothness and speed of LG’s Optimus series of Android smartphones to our customers.”
As a 33-year-old programmer from Pakistan becomes a Twitter scion by inadvertently tweeting Osama’s death live, we look at five other people plucked from obscurity by virtue of their Twitter feeds.
Well, to be fair, one of them’s a cat (1.4million followers and counting). ‘Mr Sockington’ is currently negotiating a six-figure book deal… Seriously.
Read on – perhaps Twitter is about to change your life…
Wasteful, moronic, sickening… and yet hugely satisfying to watch. That’s our verdict on the bizarre video below, which shows three leading smartphones grilled like common hamburgers (or ‘patties’ if you are American and slightly twee). We particularly like the bit where the iPhone pleads for its life by flashing up a hazard sign with the word ‘Temperature’ written ominously below. As you’ll note, it doesn’t hold out nearly as long as the eventual winner – the HTC Windows Phone 7 device. Read more
When Jaguar announced the C-X75 concept car last year, most scoffed at the idea it would ever go into production. On the face of it, the C-X75 looked like an expensive piece of show-boating. After all, the C-X75 promised to combine a small-capacity petrol engine with two gas turbines and four electric motors to develop enough performance to burst both your kidneys: 0-60 in three seconds and a top speed of over 200mph. Read more
