by Matthew on August 6, 2010
Apple [AAPL] is opening the Apple Covent Garden Store tomorrow at 10am. The store will become the worlds largest Apple store and will be looked after by 300 staff members.
Other interesting facts about the store include it's two glass staircases, the largest Genius bar of any Apple store, and it will hold the most stock of any store in the world.
The Covent Garden store covers three floors and has a Start Up room where Apple employees can help you configure your newly purchased gadgets. [click to continue…]
by Matthew on August 6, 2010
The CopyCat is a portable scanner that allows you to easily capture documents whilst on the move. The device costs £79.99 over at Firebox and is capable of scanner in colour.
The device has an SD card slot built in that allows 2GB of images to be stored although the memory card isn't provided with the portable scanner. A 2GB SD card costs around £7.99 although many homes have spare SD cards available in older cameras that could be used. [click to continue…]
by Matthew on August 6, 2010
Not much information is known about the picture above, but from what PocketNow say, it looks to be an ASUS smartphone running the Windows Phone 7 operating system.
The picture was captured in Pakistan and shows the three physical button setup below the screen as well as what looks to be a forward facing camera on the top right of the bezel. It appears that the device is either a prototype, or perhaps a developers model due to the serial number printed on the top of the phone just above the screen. [click to continue…]
by Matthew on August 6, 2010
The ASUS Eee Tablet was introduced at the end of May this year. We now hear that it will launch in October of this year with a price tag under $599.
Originally we heard that the price tag would be $199 - $299 with a September launch. These lower prices of course could be related to subsidised prices though which would fall inline with about how much we'd expect to pay for a tablet with a carrier contract. [click to continue…]
by Matthew on August 6, 2010
Droid-Life is reporting that Adobe Flash will be available to Motorola Droid users as of August 18 in the Android Market.
For those wanting to grab Adobe Flash 10.1 for the Droid on August 18th, you just need to make sure you are running the latest Android 2.2 Froyo update. [click to continue…]
by Matthew on August 6, 2010
There's around 1 day and 13 hours left for you to get your hands on a 3rd gen iPod touch with a built in camera on the back.
It is believed that the actual product is real, in that Apple [AAPL] created it. However, the specific model with a camera was never launched last year. Rumours about the lack of camera on the 3rd gen model include the blame on a shortage of cameras which meant it had to hit the shelves camera-less.
The details in the auction, found here, indicate that the camera doesn't actually work due to a lack of software although the seller does say that when the next gen iPod touch 4 is launched in a few weeks time, the software should allow this camera to start working. [click to continue…]
by Matthew on August 6, 2010
Saudi Arabia has carried through with it's promise and has forced the three network providers to block access to BlackBerry Messaging. Yahoo! News is reporting today that a number of users over that way have confirmed that they are now unable to access the service that their smartphones were primarily designed to use.
The reasons the BlackBerry messaging service has been shut down was related to "security concerns". Any of the three carriers now blocking the service would have been given a $1.3M fine. [click to continue…]
by Matthew on August 6, 2010
The Samsung Epic 4G is rumoured to be arriving at Sprint as early as August 11. The information is found in what BGR refer to as the "Sprint playbook" where other information also indicates that stores will be opening up at 8am that day.
The launch of the Samsung Epic 4G jumps in just before the BlackBerry Torch 9800 and the DROID 2.
The phone it's self is a dual-mode 3G/4G device that can work on either 3G or 4G networks depending on what coverage the user has. [click to continue…]
by Matthew on August 6, 2010
Earlier this week the iPhone 4 jailbreak was released. The new jailbreak for iPhone doesn't require that you tether your phone to your computer to run it. Instead, you just load up a website in Safari on the iPhone and slide a button that jailbreaks the iPhone from the browser (thanks to a PDF exploit).
To show how easy it is to perform the jailbreak, someone managed to capture a video of himself jailbreaking an iPhone 4 demo model in an Apple [AAPL] store. [click to continue…]
by Matthew on August 6, 2010
CrackBerry managed to get hold of a BlackBerry Torch 9800 early to take a look at. Instead of just looking at what the OS is like and what the smartphone looks like on the outside, they also took it apart to see what actually makes it run on the inside.
The phone is due to be launched on August 12 in the US with a currently unknown UK launch date although we do know it's headed to Vodafone and Orange at the moment.
The phone it's self is the first to run BlackBerry OS 6 and has a slide-down QWERTY keyboard for text input. [click to continue…]
by Matthew on August 6, 2010
AT&T [T] could be getting the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 towards the end of this month. The information comes from details emailed to Engadget that reveal the dealers price on the X10 as well as a few other phones.
The Sony Ericsson X10 is a fairly decent smartphone although it does lack in that it runs Android 1.6 and now 2.1 or above, and the battery lasts just a few hours rather than over a day unless you manually tweak and remove software that automatically runs. [click to continue…]
by Matthew on August 6, 2010
PayPal has updated it's Android PayPal app to include the popular Bump service. What the PayPal/Bump integration does is allows users to bump phones together to send money to each other.
The feature has been available on the iPhone for a few months now and provided iPhone users a simple way to PayPal money to each other without having to enter email addresses to send the cash to. [click to continue…]
by Matthew on August 6, 2010
MacRumors recently was sent some images of what the source claims to be the front LCD and bezel of the upcoming iPod touch 4.
The parts look similar in design to the iPhone 4 although the speaker gap is missing. What we do notice is that a small hole is cut out on the top side right in the middle which could indicate that FaceTime for the iPod touch is incoming. This goes in-line with what we heard recently when some screen grabs of FaceTime being configured by email address was spotted which indicated a slightly different method is needed to activate a FaceTime call on the iPod or iPad. [click to continue…]
by Matthew on August 6, 2010
The Motorola Droid X Android 2.2 update is coming in September. This information comes thanks to a post over on the Motorola forums where one of the staff members responded to a long thread about problems with notifications for corporate email.
His response said that a fix was incoming and would be part of the Android 2.2 update scheduled for the Droid X in September.
Some Droid X users are experiencing an issue using Exchange 2003 email. Though the email is arriving on the Droid X, no notifications are appearing. A fix for this will be included in the upgrade to Android 2.2 scheduled for deployment by early September.
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by Matthew on August 6, 2010
Apple [AAPL] has added a new section to the iPhone app store called "Try Before You Buy". The title of it makes you think that apps will come free for maybe a couple of hours or couple of days at which point you can choose not to purchase them, or choose to purchase them.
However, it's nothing like that at all unfortunately. Instead, what you get is just a list of "Lite" apps that give you a taster of what an app is about. These types of Lite apps have been around for a while now and simply provide a single level of a game, or limited functionality allowing you to test and then upgrade to the full version if you wish to keep it.
With that in mine, the "Try Before You Buy" section is merely a way to group all the free "Lite" apps under one list. [click to continue…]
