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If you're a passionate advocate of either Google's Android mobile phone OS or Apple's iPhone you probably read reports of how the sales of each stack up against each other. Inevitably such articles are followed by vein-popping rows between so-called 'haters' and 'fanbois' while moderate voices are lost in the hysteria. What also gets lost is this rather important fact: comparing sales of lots of devices from a … [Read more...]
Ice Road Truckers returns to HISTORY for a fourth series this evening with the daredevil drivers journeying across Alaska to Prudhoe Bay, hauling huge loads over the most dangerous of terrain imaginable. Trucker favourites Hugh ‘Polar Bear’ Rowland and Alex Debogorski return to continue their rivalry. Also returning are Jack Jessee and Lisa Kelly alongside new drivers Greg Boadwine and Ray Vellieux. As the … [Read more...]
When I first saw the Dell Streak 'tablet' the first thing which struck me was how small the screen was going to look compared to the iPad which, like it or not, is what most buyers are going to compare it with. At 5" the screen is the same size as my old Ameo which was usable but not exactly desirable for long periods of time. Still Android is pretty popular so I figured the Streak would have a potentially large … [Read more...]
Smartphones are great devices but - no matter how much manufacturers say otherwise - their smallish screens aren't ideal for prolonged web browsing of the sort many people do when reading news. So of course it makes sense to develop apps where they can make the maximum use of the device's screen and any native software capabilities and here in the UK The Guardian, Telegraph and Sky have built some excellent … [Read more...]
In case you missed it, O2 yesterday confirmed that they’ll soon be shipping Palm’s Pre Plus and Pixi Plus handsets. The handsets “start from free” but unless you want to £35 a month on a 24 month tariff or £40 per month on an 18 month tariff you’ll have to shell out for a Pre Plus, those figures drop to £30 and £35 respectively for the Pixi Plus. As has been reported elsewhere, Palm has owned up to … [Read more...]
Oops, it seems Google has fessed up to another miscalculation in its approach to selling the Nexus One superphone. Having been found wanting by consumers expecting a little more support than email and a user to user forum, it seems the search engine giant has realised expecting potential buyers to stump up several hundred quid for a phone they've not had the chance to play with was a touch optimistic. We can … [Read more...]
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