Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) is starting to turn what was once an ugly duckling into something quite pretty, thanks largely to Google’s new Holo design language. The latest app to take this on board? Spotify. And it looks all the better for it… Read more
We’ve been here before. Ever since the original iPad launched in 2010, rumours of a smaller, 7 or 8-inch model have filled every corner of the web. It wasn’t true then, but is it true now? The market’s completely different now, which is exactly why fresh gossip has arisen from China. Is the iPad Mini just around the corner? Read more
The seven-inch tablet market is getting crowded now. Samsung’s launching the Galaxy Tab 2 7.0, the Amazon Kindle Fire is still selling well in the US, we’re trying to save the PlayBook and there are a load more besides. But a lot of what sells this smaller breed of tab is price, which is where the Xtex My Tablet comes in. Under 100 notes for Android 4.0? Yeah, go on then… Read more
Looking at tablets but don’t want to veer down the Apple path? You could check out our mission to save the BlackBerry PlayBook, or you could hold off for Samsung’s newest line of slates: the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 and Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 have just been priced. Read on for the full details. Read more
Calm down. We’re not reviewing the year-old BlackBerry PlayBook for the first time. In case you’ve missed the first couple of rounds, I’m revisting the 7-inch slate to see if using it more, pimping it with apps and coming at it from new angles will stop me from wanting to spend £400 on the new iPad.
Today’s piece in the series is a look at how the PlayBook can act as your best business buddy. Read more
Can you trust the judgement of a man who’s been listed as one of the world’s worst ever CEOs? You can certainly hear him out when the company he used to head up was Apple. John Sculley has been giving his take on his old workplace, and has some pretty interesting views on the current tablet market. Does he have his facts straight? Read on to find out. Read more
After the new iPad announcement we felt compelled to explain, in no uncertain terms, that its 4G powers are meaningless in this country. Why did we have to do that? Because Apple’s made a pig’s ear of doing so itself. So much so, in fact, that Australian Apple stores have had to begin accepting refunds over the 4G confusion… Read more
