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- HTC Wildfire review: Ultimate buyer’s guide
- Apple tiny screen leaked: iPod touch nano, new iPod shuffle or iWatch planned?!
- iPad: a pointless toy driving e-readers into obsolescence?
- Ebay: finally, an iPhone app for selling
- iPhone 4 jailbreak: Apple delaying iOS 4.1 update to plug holes?
- Facebook video: David Cameron friends Mark Zuckerberg – who looks most awkward?
- The Pirate Bay: ‘sad’ to have leaked 4 million user details
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- Lunchtime Lowdown: iPhone 4 Fring video calling, HTC Windows Phone 7 plans and Red Dead Redemption DLC
- UK 4G rollout: HTC EVO 4G not so far away?
HTC Wildfire review: Ultimate buyer’s guide Posted: 09 Jul 2010 09:44 AM PDT
Read the rest of our HTC Wildfire review now While we like the HTC Wildfire, we weren’t bowled over by its speed or low resolution screen. As such, we can’t recommend the HTC Wildfire at the £20 per month or above over two years starting price three networks offer on their official pages (Vodafone, T-Mobile and Three). If you’re prepared to pay that much, you really, really should consider the HTC Legend. But if you want to get the HTC Wildfire for cheaper than that, here’s how: Best for early adopters Prices for the HTC Wildfire are pretty similar across the board, at around £229.99 (Amazon, Play), or £226.53 on Handtec, but with differences like that, go with your favourite shopping site instead. There’s no need to fiddle about with micro SIMs like the iPhone 4, and when you’re done, just resell the phone on eBay. Best 18 month deal Our top picks of the year and a half contracts for the HTC Wildfire are on T-Mobile and Orange. A deal through buymobilephones.net with data, 100 minutes and 100 texts works out a £16.39 per month when cashback is taken into account, so for moderate users it’s a good shout. For heavier users, we’d suggest the HTC Wildfire on Orange through Mobiles.co.uk: 400 minutes, and unlimited texts plus data for £19.44 per month. If you’re going over 400 minutes per month, we suggest you check out another phone, as the HTC Wildfire’s weak battery will likely leave you stranded. Best 24 month deal Our pick of the 24 month HTC Wildfire deals can be found on mobilephonesdirect.co.uk: 300 minutes, 300 texts and data for £15 per month – and four months half price rental thrown in, saving you another £30. If you’re a heavy texter, we’d also take a look at an Orange HTC Wildfire deal over on Mobiles.co.uk, with 200 minutes, unlimited texts, and 11 months free line rental, which works out at £10.83 for each page of the calendar. By the time you’ve factored in data, on top, you’ve still got a deal way cheaper than any of the networks are offering if you come in through the front door. Read the rest of our HTC Wildfire review now Related posts:
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Apple tiny screen leaked: iPod touch nano, new iPod shuffle or iWatch planned?! Posted: 09 Jul 2010 08:05 AM PDT
The Apple.pro pictures show a screen branded as an Apple part but besides the display there's no other elements on show. That means it could just be a small LCD display or part of a touchscreen. The current iPod nano has a 2.2in screen and there are already suggestions that the display could be destined for an iPod Touch Nano or a gesture-controlled iPod Shuffle. The wildest speculation doing the rounds is that the leaked Apple display is destined for a wrist-mounted iWatch. That's the result of imaginations running wild as much as we'd like to see Apple's take on a Dick Tracey-style wrist computer. Even the idea of creating such a small touchscreen iPod is a little crazy but after Apple killed the iPod Shuffle screen off, it's not impossible. Peering at such a tiny component and trying to predict what Apple may do with it (if anything) is clearly a little barmy. Still, we'd feel remiss if we didn't ask you: will this screen turn up in one of Apple's next creations alongside the new iPod touch? Out TBC | £TBC | Apple (via Apple.pro) Related posts:
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iPad: a pointless toy driving e-readers into obsolescence? Posted: 09 Jul 2010 07:20 AM PDT
Unsurprisingly though, it showed that e-readers are on their way down, with prices slashed and half of survey respondents saying they would be least likely to buy an e-reader after buying an iPad. More research out today, by Jakob Nielsen from the Nielsen Norman Group, also found that reading on the Kindle was almost 11 per cent slower than reading a printed book. iPad owner? Was it your gateway Apple drug or were you a dedicated Apple fanboy already? Related posts:
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Ebay: finally, an iPhone app for selling Posted: 09 Jul 2010 07:00 AM PDT
The iPhone app uses barcode scanning to fill out a listing form, and to push the app, is offering free listings till 29th July. Many of your listing details can also be transferred from other sellers with similar items, which means things like DVDs and electronics will be simple to list, but clothes and furniture and the like might take quite a lot longer. It also sets up custom selling preferences, links to other Ebay and PayPal apps, and your social networking sites. The original Ebay app has now been downloaded by seven million people, and one item is purchased every 12 seconds in the UK. Interestingly though, only 40 per cent of Ebay's listings are auctions. How effective the barcode scanning is we have yet to see, but if it works not only will it mean that users can sell through their iPhone, but it'll also make listing and selling an item a whole lot easier. To take a closer look, and meet a frighteningly generic man named John, take a look at the video here. Related posts: |
iPhone 4 jailbreak: Apple delaying iOS 4.1 update to plug holes? Posted: 09 Jul 2010 06:32 AM PDT
Previous iOS updates have been used to block iPhone jailbreak exploits. Planetbeing, the brains behind Linux on iPhone, reported in a tweet earlier this week that Apple had added code in iOS 4 specifically to deal with known unlocking methods: "Apple added an anti-blacksn0w trick this time around…" Twitter is also the source of reports that Apple may be delaying the iOS 4.1 update to add extra measures to combat the iPhone 4 jailbreak. A tweet from @MaxdMerc says an Apple employee at its oh-so-glamorous Lakeside store told him that was why the update has yet to emerge. Others have received the same advice. There's also speculation that Apple is holding fire in the hope that the iPhone 4 jailbreak will be released before the iOS 4.1 update giving it the opportunity to counteract the coders efforts. With the folks beavering away on the iPhone 4 jailbreak waiting for Apple's next move, we could have a Mexican standoff on our hands. Of course, there's every chance that the rumours of Apple keeping the iOS 4.1 update under wraps in the hope of heading off the iPhone 4 jailbreak are just idle chit chat. Apple can slip out a OS update whenever it chooses and often does. Let us know: are you planning on using the iPhone 4 jailbreak when it arrives? Are you impatiently waiting for Apple to release the iOS 4.1 update? Related posts:
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Facebook video: David Cameron friends Mark Zuckerberg – who looks most awkward? Posted: 09 Jul 2010 06:05 AM PDT
While the PM was sat in his office in his suit and tie, Zuckerberg was a little more laid back. In fact, it looks like he's sat in his bedroom. We're dubious about the Government's plan to get Facebook fans to work out policy but the real question is: who looks more uncomfortable Dave or Mark? Watch the video below and cast your vote!
David Cameron sounds a little like our Gran talking about Twitter whenever he says the word ‘Facebook‘ and Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t seem nearly as excited about the whole enterprise. Watch carefully and you can see him turn the volume up on his Mac at one point. He also looks pretty nonplussed about the Prime Minister’s invite to pop in next time he's in town. Cast you vote below: who was more awkward? DC or the big Z? Do the smiles in this clip complete with the oddness of the infamous Gordon Brown grin? Out now | £free | Facebook Related posts:
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The Pirate Bay: ‘sad’ to have leaked 4 million user details Posted: 09 Jul 2010 05:20 AM PDT
The Pirate Bay blog carries a statement saying: "We encourage all our users to change passwords as soon as possible – and if you have the same password on the bay as other places, you should update them as well. Sorry for the mess, but we are all human and we miss something sometimes." Luckily, Ch Russo exposed the information to show people their information might not be as well protected as they think, not to exploit it. The Pirate Bay did not contact Ch Russo, but say they know who he is, and patched the holes in the blog quickly, bringing the site down temporarily with the message: "Upgrading some stuff, database is in use for backups, soon back again.. Btw, it’s nice weather outside I think." I wonder what the reaction would be if Steve Jobs came out and said he was saddened by the signal problem his company had inflicted on the company? Perhaps we'd all be so baffled as to sympathise with the man, rather than filing a stack of lawsuits against him. Related posts:
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Posted: 09 Jul 2010 04:37 AM PDT
First up, on the Apple front, Fring beat Apple to video chat on the iPhone 4 over 3G, with its own app now ready to go, and we got word of Apple’s plans for streaming rentals of TV shows on iTunes – do they herald the revamped Apple TV? Rival smartphone maker HTC meanwhile suffered another leak, with more details on its first Windows Phone 7 handsets emerging. Over in gaming meanwhile, Rockstar served up the details on the next Red Dead Redemption DLC pack – and wouldn’t you know it, it includes zombies. Finally, in him audio, we reviewed the Pure Oasis Flow, so be sure to check out or verdict on the rugged DAB. Still want more news? Head on through to the homepage and help yourself to it all as it breaks! Electricpig.co.uk is on the look out for a new Commercial Director. Could it be you? Click to find out how to apply. Related posts:
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UK 4G rollout: HTC EVO 4G not so far away? Posted: 09 Jul 2010 04:01 AM PDT
Vaizey replied: "The coalition Government are committed to releasing spectrum to support the next generation of mobile services. A decision on the approach will be made before the summer recess." Summer recess is just a few weeks away on 29th July, which means that news of 4G spectrum release for the UK is just around the corner. So far, O2 are the only network testing 4G, tests which are taking place in Slough with help from Huawei. Tests have reached a peak downlink rate of 150Mbs. However, there's no news yet about a full commercial 4G rollout, and no other UK networks have committed to 4G networks. Related posts:
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