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- Asda phone deal: £9 mobile with £10 credit on sale tomorrow
- iPad won’t beat netbooks says Asus
- Currys World Cup deal: cash back for England goals
- Alan Wake free DLC plans revealed
- Apple plans invisible Macbook buttons
- Call of Duty: Black Ops revealed and dated
- Apple closing LaLa: iTunes streaming incoming?
- Lunchtime Lowdown: Steam for Mac dated, iPad rivals killed off and a new Loewe TV
- HP Slate Windows 7 ditched for webOS?
- Humax Freeview PVR faults: apology and upgrade incoming!
| Asda phone deal: £9 mobile with £10 credit on sale tomorrow Posted: 30 Apr 2010 08:00 AM PDT
Well, in the case of the Asda phone deal, it's the Alcatel OT222 which the supermarket dubs "ultra-modern". We wouldn't go that far but if you're after a cheap phone to fling in your rucksack when you head on holiday or to a summer festival, the £9 phone will ably handle texts and calls. The £9 Asda phone deal will give you an average of 50 texts or 33.5 minutes of calls on the Alcatel OT222 but you can always top up if you need more. It's hardly an HTC Desire or an iPhone 3GS but if you're prone to losing or breaking your phone it could be perfect. There's 35,000 Alcatel OT222 flip phones up for grabs in the Asda phone deal. They go on sale from tomorrow through direct.asda.com and Asda store. Out tomorrow | £9 | Asda Related posts:
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| iPad won’t beat netbooks says Asus Posted: 30 Apr 2010 07:30 AM PDT
During Asus's earnings call today, Jerry Shen took aim at the iPad, perhaps in revenge for the frequently dismissive comments Steve Jobs has made about netbooks. He said: "The tablet PC is a cloud computing device. If it weren't for Apple, this market would develop a lot more slowly. Web-based applications for devices like the iPad tend to store their data in the cloud, whereas netbook users tend to store their applications and data on the device." Despite its continuing love for netbooks, Asus plans to unveil the Eee Pad at Computex in June and has confirmed that it will come in several versions. One of them will run Windows 7 which, with the HP Slate seemingly set to be killed off, is good news for Microsoft. Asus shifted 1.6m Eee PCs in the last quarter but is Shen's faith in the future of netbooks foolish? Will people still gobble up models like the two O2 3G laptops we saw yesterday or is the future tablet shaped? Out now | £varies | Asus (via PC World) Related posts:
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| Currys World Cup deal: cash back for England goals Posted: 30 Apr 2010 07:00 AM PDT
Currys World Cup deal differs from the raft of other World Cup gadget deals we've seen because it'll reward you for the goals England score. Currys promises to pay back a £10 for every goal if you go into a store, buy an HD TV worth £599 or more and register online. You need to buy a new telly from a Currys store between now and June 11 and hop online within 3 days of buying your new set to print out a certificate. Currys World Cup cashback offer excludes penalties and own goals so you won’t profit from poor defending or even perfect penalty scoring. Once the World Cup is over, you'll just need to note down how many goals England have slotted in the back of the net and send your claim to Currys along with your receipt. That all needs to arrive no later than 7 August. If the Currys World Cup cashback offer had run during the tournament in 2006, you'd have netted £60 so don’t expect a huge windfall. Out now | from £599 | Currys Related posts:
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| Alan Wake free DLC plans revealed Posted: 30 Apr 2010 06:30 AM PDT
Buy either the standard or limited edition of Alan Wake and you'll get a token card to download the first Alan Wake DLC from Xbox Live. Remedy, the game's developers, have previously described the as-yet-untiled Alan Wake DLC as like a "Christmas special" which will act as bridge between the first two instalments. While grabbing Alan Wake will guarantee you get the Alan Wake DLC for free, there's no definitive date for its arrival. It's currently just due "later this year". The makers previously revealed that they haven't actually worked out a definitive Alan Wake ending yet but hopefully the DLC will offer up some answers. As well as announcing the free Alan Wake DLC, a new Alan Wake trailer which you can feast your eyes on above. There's plenty of wandering through dark woods and Alan Wake waving his torch. Incidentally, the official Alan Wake store has just opened and, you guessed it, you can buy an official Alan Wake torch there! Out May 14 | £40 | Alan Wake Related posts:
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| Apple plans invisible Macbook buttons Posted: 30 Apr 2010 06:00 AM PDT
The Apple patent application details making laser-cut, micro-perforated holes in the body of a device. That would allow for controls which would only become visible when you touched them. That would allow for entirely invisible Macbook controls and Apple details applications including indicators built into the laptop's lid and an invisible scroll wheel. Apple brings up the example of the Magic Mouse in the patent application saying that the invisible Macbook controls would work a conventional track pad to detect how fast your finger is moving over it and would recognise multitouch gestures. Apple has already implemented design features similar to the patent application's invisible Macbook buttons in the current Macbook generation where the standby lights glow through the aluminium. Jonathan Ive has previously said: "You should only see an indicator when it's indicating." Due TBC | £TBC | Apple (via Patently Apple) Related posts:
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| Call of Duty: Black Ops revealed and dated Posted: 30 Apr 2010 05:30 AM PDT
While we wait for the Call of Duty 7 trailer to be unveiled in the early hours of tomorrow morning, Treyarch has gone and thrown up an official website for the next instalment of the epic franchise. It will be called Call of Duty: Black Ops as previously rumoured but there's few other details on offer yet. We do know that Call of Duty: Black Ops will be released on November 9 and that Treyarch promises updates will be posted on Twitter by it's community manager Justin Olin (@JD_2020) and on its official Twitter feed (@Treyarch). The Call of Duty: Black Ops teaser trailer should give us an early glimpse of the gameplay but it's already been suggested that we'll see appearances by the Call of Duty: World at War zombies and the SAS as well as a 1980 Iranian Embassy Siege level. Let us know what battles, weapons or innovations you're hoping for in Call of Duty: Black Ops. Due November 9 | £TBC | Call of Duty: Black Ops Related posts:
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| Apple closing LaLa: iTunes streaming incoming? Posted: 30 Apr 2010 05:00 AM PDT
An iTunes Replay service to stream music and video from the cloud was reportedly demoed to labels and studios back in March and Apple also snaffled up a major new cloud data centre last year. Closing LaLa looks very much like the final move before it unveiling iTunes streaming from the cloud. Apple is giving iTunes credit to LaLa users who've built up online libraries and converting unused LaLa giftcards into iTunes Store credit. Until May 21, LaLa users will still be able to stream tunes from the service but then Apple is pulling the plug. With the LaLa shutdown so close to WWDC, we’re really hoping that Apple is getting ready to unleash the iTunes streaming service. It could be the perfect "one more thing" in the wake of the iPhone 4.0 leak and would put Apple in a much stronger position versus young upstarts like Spotify. Due TBC | £TBC | Apple Related posts:
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| Lunchtime Lowdown: Steam for Mac dated, iPad rivals killed off and a new Loewe TV Posted: 30 Apr 2010 04:30 AM PDT
Lots of tablet talk up first, and it's not all good. Microsoft's Courier project, which leaked out last year, has been officially killed off, so we may never see the finished product in the flesh, while HP has also reportedly canned its slate, which runs Windows 7. But could we now get a webOS alternative? In home entertainment meanwhile, we got a good look at Loewe's new super skinny LED Loewe Individual Slim HDTV, while Humax 'fessed up to a few PVR faults, but has a fix on the way. Over in mobile, the person who found the iPhone 4.0 prototype at a bar has been tracked down and named, while we took a look at all the next gen Google phones that will be going head to head with it over at our Android hub. Finally, in computing, Valve finally gave an exact release date for Steam for Mac, and we showed you how to set up a simple wireless network using Q-waves' easy USB streaming gear. Find out more about Q-waves. Still want more news? Head on over to the homepage and help yourself! Check out our Android Invasion, starting with our first robot romance video below! Related posts:
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| HP Slate Windows 7 ditched for webOS? Posted: 30 Apr 2010 04:00 AM PDT
HP Slate specs leaked only a few back and HP even released an HP Slate video promoting its Flash support. But now Techcrunch is reporting that HP sources say it's planning to drop the HP Slate altogether. We first saw the HP Slate in the hands of Microsoft boss, Steve Ballmer, at CES but it seems HP may have gone off Windows 7 in the meantime. After buying Palm, it's now being suggested that we might see webOS tablets coming from HP instead. Palm boss, Jon Rubenstein, recently predicted webOS tablets were on the way so it could be that Palm already has some tantilising tech in its labs that HP has now got its hands on. Perhaps the HP Slate just couldn't compete. If the HP Slate is canned, it'll be another tablet scratched off the list of iPad rivals. But we've still got the Asus Eee Pad waiting in the wings and can expect a raft of other touchscreen foes for Apple to fend off if ARM's prediction of 50 tablets this year is even remotely right. Do you think HP would be right to write off the HP Slate? Or are you gagging for a Flash-friendly tablet? Due TBC | £TBC | HP (via Techcrunch) Related posts:
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| Humax Freeview PVR faults: apology and upgrade incoming! Posted: 30 Apr 2010 03:30 AM PDT
Humax accepts that owners of several of its Freeview PVR models (the Humax PVR-9150T, Humax PVR-9300T and Humax PVR-9200T) have had problems for "several months". Though its technical team has been working on a fix, it claims the issues are so complex that it has taken longer than expected. Humax says: "Significant performance issues became particularly apparent through the digital switchover." Thankfully if your Humax Freeview PVR has been struggling, a fix is now on the way. Humax says it will be delivering an automatic over-the-air software upgrade in the next fews weeks and will announce it on its website. Has your Humax Freeview PVR been giving your trouble? Let us know what problems you’ve been having and if you're happy with the solution Humax has offered. Out now | £various | Humax Related posts:
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