Another day in the bay area, another day of driving. Ubisoft’s latest racing title, Driver San Francisco, looks poised to battle it out with Need for Speed: The Run for your racing dollar. We’ve got your in-game footage to get you pumped for the August 30th release date.
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According to AllThingsD, the world of tablets will weather a storm up next week. The iPad 2 will be announced on March 2nd in San Francisco. This is not the first time we’ve heard iPad 2 predictions, but apparently “several sources close to the situation” are in accord.
Apple’s WWDC date looks like it’s been set. A mysterious listing for a “corporate meeting” has been added for June 5 until June 9 at San Francisco’s Moscone West, the usual home for Apple’s annual Worldwide Developer’s Conference. The convention center shows the days blocked out for an unnamed meeting labeled “convention/tradeshow”.
WWDC usually takes place in June and the calendar for the second half of June shows Moscone is booked out for other events. Those dates do look right but the big questions: what will iPhone 5 look like? And will we see Mac OS X Lion in full at WWDC?
Out June 5 | £TBC | Apple (via AppleInsider)
The San Francisco riots are stupid (“Hooray, our team just won! Let’s trash the joint…”) but they just got even stupider. Rioters are actually checking in on Foursquare in a bid to become mayor of the riot. People have obviously been hashtagging themselves silly with riot tweets on Twitter (#sfriot) but Foursquare is where all the hip idiots are boasting about their criminal damage. The question we’re asking is: will virtual confessions on Foursquare lead to real world arrests? Jump through to vote…
The end of October draws nigh, so it’s time for our mobile review roundup, pulling together all the phones we’ve checked out during the last lunar rotation. What have we seen? Plenty of mammoth touchscreen blowers, some Top 5 award winners, and some seriously promising cheap smartphones too. Read on for them all.
The Orange San Francisco is one of the cheapest Android phones on the market. Android may be the seen as the biggest rival to Apple’s iPhone, but phones like this prove it’s a different kettle of piranhas altogether. An ancient battered first-gen iPhone will fetch more than a hundred quid on eBay, but the Orange San Francisco costs just a ton new. How can it possibly be any good? Find out in our Orange San Francisco review.
UPDATE: The Orange San Francisco has a 3.5-inch capacitive touchscreen with 800×480 resolution, Orange has confirmed to us. That’s pretty jawdropping for a £99 phone, we’re sure you’ll agree – stay tuned for a full Orange San Francisco review as soon as we can.
Presenting the Orange San Francisco, the network’s take on an own brand Android phone priced under £100 on Pay As You Go, just like the T-Mobile Pulse Mini. This little fella runs Android 2.1 and squeezes in a 3MP camera, plus your usual connectivity bobbins.
It’s been a hectic morning in tech, so catch up with everything you might have missed here in our round up. Read on for your lunchtime lowdown!