Latest Gadgets, Tablets and Smartphones
Halfords in the UK currently has some deals going on for a variety of sat navs. Every single sat nav has received a discount of up to 50%. The offer is running till midnight on the 24th December.
No voucher codes are available at the moment (that we can find), but as they are all discounted anyway you can still pick up a good deal. [Read more…]
If you are looking for an alternative to the iPad this christmas then Expansys in the UK have a voucher code available for the Huawei S7 Android tablet that knocks £20 off the price tag.
Full price for the Android tablet is normally £299.99 but drops to £279.99 with the voucher code below. [Read more…]
Samsung has announced that the Samsung App store just passed 1 million downloads. At the moment there are just over 200 apps in the store which isn’t really anything when compared to the likes of the Apple store, but when 200 apps have achieved over a million downloads, that’s quite impressive. Also note that we are talking about TV’s downloading the apps here. [Read more…]
The Xbox Live Rewards program has now launched. The service was first tested a year ago and has now been available to all in the UK and the US.
Joystiq describes it as being like Club Nintendo although you get Microsoft points in return for various things like extending your membership, activating netflix as well as getting points for doing surveys. [Read more…]
Canon has announced a service that allows you to purchase a Canon EOS 5D Mark II or EOS 7D with a lockable dial. What this does is allows you to push a button down and lock the dial in place to prevent you knocking it in the middle of a photo shoot.
The service is an optional extra that has a price tag of $100. [Read more…]
The BBC will be launching a subscription based iPlayer service for those out of the UK. The service will initially be made available to those using the Apple iPad and will then expand out after that.
Shows expected to be made available include the likes of Doctor Who and other popular shows. [Read more…]
The latest numbers at Android Developers reveal that Android 2.x is still growing strong on Android smartphones. The numbers now reveal that Android 2.1 accounts for 39.6 percent while Android 2.2 has risen to 43.4 percent.
As expected, Android 1.5 and 1.6 continues to die down with 1.5 taking 6.3% and 1.6 taking 10.6 percent. [Read more…]
The boss of Polyphony Digital has mentioned on Twitter that an update is being made available, early in December, for Gran Turismo 5 on the PlayStation 3.
The new update is for damage control and will allow users to control in the options menu the amount of mechanical damage caused by crashes.
‘Mechanical damage options will be implemented in a new update for GT5 coming “early December”‘.
YouTube has added a new feature today that allows you to skip past the TrueView ads that show on some content.
This may seem a little odd and you might expect the advertisers to hate this, but it’s actually the opposite as advertisers at the moment are all for it. Basically, when you start viewing a video that has an ad playing before it, you have a countdown timer that counts from 5 to zero. Once at zero you can click to skip the ad, or not click to view it. [Read more…]
Evernote has launched the Evernote 2.0 beta for Mac. The new version has a number of new features such as in-app notebook sharing as well as Notebooks Stacks.
One thing to note before you run off and grab the new version is that it is still in beta and could therefor, crash a little and now work as you would expect. [Read more…]
Google [GOOG] has launched a new Google Reader app for Android. Previously users had to rely on the web based version on their smartphone, but now a full app, self-contained, is now available.
Features included in the app include volume-key navigation, multiple accounts as well as the ability to share with others. [Read more…]
Dell is now taking orders for the Dell Venue Pro. The Dell Venue Pro is a Windows Phone 7 smartphone that has been well sought after, and finally it looks to be here.. again. It was originally pulled due to some problems with WiFi and mislabeled batteries.
The phone costs $99.99 when signing up for a two year contract. Off contract, it’s priced at $449.99 ($499 for the 16GB model).
A larger 16GB model is available for an extra $50 taking the price up to $149. [Read more…]
