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- Motorola Fire available for pre-order, arrives late September for £216
- Motorola Kore is a music fitness device, not a tablet
- Microsoft plays hardball: Windows Phone Mango update now arriving September 1st
- Assassin’s Creed Revelations multiplayer beta is a PS3 exclusive
- Next generation iPhones iPads and iPods to house projectors?
- Nintendo 3DS price cuts begin tomorrow: Get yours for £115
- Samsung new PM830 solid state drives headed to 2012 MacBook Air
- White Samsung Galaxy S2 hits Vodafone UK
- OnLive: 5 steps to success
- Intel’s Ultrabook fund: $300m to fight the MacBook Air
| Motorola Fire available for pre-order, arrives late September for £216 Posted: 11 Aug 2011 11:15 AM PDT
Last week we announced the dual-SIM Motorola Fire XT — think of the Fire as its younger brother. Instead of a 3.5-inch HVGA touchscreen, the Fire includes a 2.8-inch display. Like the Fire XT, the Fire runs Google's latest — Android Gingerbread. A slightly smaller 1420 mAh battery (down from 1540 mAh), front facing camera and 3-megapixel camera (instead of 5-megapixel) round out the highlights. Other standard features include Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 3G connectivity and a 3.5mm headphone jack. The Motorola Fire also includes company's 'Moto Switch' user interface which allows switching between a mode for work and a mode for friends. If you're looking for an affordable Android Gingerbread smartphone with a hardware QWERTY keyboard, it doesn't get much better than this. Coming September | Clove | £216 (inc. VAT) Related posts:
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| Motorola Kore is a music fitness device, not a tablet Posted: 11 Aug 2011 10:45 AM PDT
Remember the Motorola music player leaked last month (pictured above) which looked awfully similar to an iPod Nano? Droid-Life believes that was the Motorola Kore. The Kore will be joined by a second music fitness device, the Motorola Energia. Both devices have secured USPTO filings (trademarks) and domain names, leading many to believe both devices will launch very soon. So what else will the Motorola Kore do besides monitor fitness activity levels? Much like the Nike + iPod trainer, Kore will work with software for monitoring exercise and training plans as part of your training goals. The software (presumably built for Android) will provide feedback and detailed analysis of your results. Coming Soon | Motorola | TBD Related posts:
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| Microsoft plays hardball: Windows Phone Mango update now arriving September 1st Posted: 11 Aug 2011 10:15 AM PDT
This fall Apple is expected to release iOS 5 which many believe will arrive in late September. Android will follow with Ice Cream Sandwich, now rumored to be pulled back to an October launch. The Windows Phone Mango update would sneak right in, securing a late Summer release. With Windows Phone handsets selling better in Europe than in the US, IFA 2011 in Berlin is the perfect launching ground. Additionally, manufacturers would be on hand to unveil new Windows Phone hardware running the update. Though not confirmed, this sounds like a win win situation if you ask us. via PhoneArena Related posts:
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| Assassin’s Creed Revelations multiplayer beta is a PS3 exclusive Posted: 11 Aug 2011 09:45 AM PDT
Here's what we know about the Assassin's Creed Revelations multiplayer beta: The beta will feature nine characters: the sentinel, the vanguard, the guardian, the vizier, the thespian, the deacon, the bombardier, the trickster and the champion. There were four game modes (wanted, manhunt, death-match and artifact assault) and three maps: the Knight's Hospital, Antioch and Constantinople. According to Geeky-Gadgets, eight abilities are available in the beta, but only some of them are usable from the outset. Others must be unlocked by increasing your rank. There's been no word on a PC or Xbox 360 multiplayer beta at this time. It looks like the rest of the gaming community will have to sit this one out and wait for the game's official release on November 15th. via Geeky-Gadgets Related posts:
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| Next generation iPhones iPads and iPods to house projectors? Posted: 11 Aug 2011 09:15 AM PDT
This is not the first time we've heard rumbling of integrated projectors from Apple. As Patently Apple notes, back in 2009 the company first hinted they would one day integrate a projector system into iOS devices. Then in 2010 a broad patent application surfaced concerning networked projection systems and later that year research teams began working on integrating a projector into a MacBook. The pieces to the Apple projector puzzle appear to be aligning. Whether or not the concept comes to market is anyone's guess. We'd say this one is fifty-fifty at best — what do you think? via Patently Apple Related posts:
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| Nintendo 3DS price cuts begin tomorrow: Get yours for £115 Posted: 11 Aug 2011 08:45 AM PDT
The varying price cuts reflect the announcement from Nintendo of Europe which said the amount of savings would be up to the individual companies. Originally that discount was expected to be a third of the 3DS' retail price. As much as we welcome the savings, early adopters are still left with the short end of the stick. Being compensated by Nintendo with 20 free download games is a kind gesture, but nothing tastes as sweet as cold, hard cash. Maybe a refund can be worked out from Satoru Iwata's volunteered 50 percent pay cut? via GamesIndustry Related posts:
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| Samsung new PM830 solid state drives headed to 2012 MacBook Air Posted: 11 Aug 2011 08:15 AM PDT
Select models of 2011 MacBook Air feature Samsung's PM810. The new PM830 decimates this SSD in all aspects, including capacity which has been bumped from 256GB to 512GB. Samsung believes the larger capacity "will help increase market interest in 256GB and higher densities significantly." The 512MB PM830 uses Samsung's most advanced 20 nanometer (nm) class 32 Gigabit multi-level cell (MLC) NAND memory chip incorporating the toggle DDR interface. This proprietary NAND controller delivers exception performance, allowing the drives to take full advantage of the toggle DDR architecture and the SATA 6Gbps interface. At the end of the day you're looking at double the performance and double the capacity. If Apple and Samsung can find a way to settle the increasingly hostile legal disputes, the PM830 should find its way into the next generation MacBook Air — likely due out in 2012. Coming Soon | Samsung | TBD Related posts:
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| White Samsung Galaxy S2 hits Vodafone UK Posted: 11 Aug 2011 03:30 AM PDT
Our Samsung Galaxy S2 review hailed the device with its 1.2GHZ dual-core processor and 4.3in Super AMOLED screen as the “new hotness” and the new paint job only enhances that. If you’ve been itching to get a white Samsung Galaxy S2 to counteract a friend’s white iPhone 4, you can register your interest on the Vodafone site now. Out TBC | £TBC | Vodafone (via Fonehome) Related posts:
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| Posted: 11 Aug 2011 03:17 AM PDT
We've made a five point plan for success – OnLive, heed this and you can't fail.
1 A great broadband tie-in deal BT has announced it's OnLive's exclusive broadband partner in the UK, but as yet there's no word as to what tie-in deals it'll offer. Gaming online requires more bandwidth than just surfing (in the US, OnLive specifies a minimum of 2Mbps to use the service, and recommends 5Mbps), and with some deals being capped to five or 10GB a month, this could prove an issue. At least there's no need to install data-heavy updates, like other games consoles, but still, those not used to online gaming may still find themselves going over their usage allowance unless BT can cut them a nice deal. 2 Pricing No pricing has been announced for the UK launch. In the US, you can chose between renting a game for a set number of days, or unlimited monthly usage for a set fee (like Spotify). Renting a game for three days costs $5.99 (£3.70), while playing one game as much as you want (effectively buying the game, though of course everything is still streamed) costs between $20 (£12.35) and $60 (£37). Monthly subscription is $9.99 (£6.20), while the set-top box and controller – if you want to play on your TV rather than your Mac or PC – costs $99 (£61). Time will tell if it'll manage to keep these prices, or if it'll do an iTunes and crank them up for us UK users. OnLive, say it ain't so. 3 Clear marketing Perhaps the biggest barrier to OnLive's success is making it comprehensible to the average man in the street who's not that tech savvy. Comparisons to Spotify are sure to abound, as it's the most well-known streaming service around, so people are coming round to the idea of not owning media. It needs to be stressed you can play all these amazing games with your existing gear (if you're playing on a Mac or PC), which is quite a pull. 4 Offer more than the competition Apple's Mac App Store is gaining in popularity, with gaming being one of the main draws (especially since Macs have traditionally struggled to compete with PCs in this regard). A lot of the games on offer are Angry Birds-style time wasters, but fully-fledged efforts like Lego Batman are there too, and it's rare for them to cost more than £20. Ok, so you might be restricted to playing it on your Mac only, rather than on your Android tablet as with OnLive, but still, OnLive will have its work cut out to compete. The solution…? 5 A great selection of games For the UK launch, 100 titles are promised, including recent additions like Duke Nukem Forever as well as older titles like Deus Ex. That really needs to grow, especially considering the relatively recent Mac App Store offers 180 in the Top Paid category alone, and that OnLive can draw on the back catalogue of all consoles, Mac and PC. Not to mention plenty of arcade classics, a la Xbox Live Arcade. Get some Streets of Rage on there, and it'll fly, trust us. Related posts:
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| Intel’s Ultrabook fund: $300m to fight the MacBook Air Posted: 11 Aug 2011 03:00 AM PDT
In a statement, Intel said the fund is designed to help companies “building hardware and software technologies focused on enhancing how people interact with Ultrabooks, achieving all-day usage through longer battery life, enabling innovative physical designs and improved storage capacity”. In other words, it’s a big stash of cash to compete with Apple’s research might. It’s a good move and we’re excited to see how that investment encourages laptop makers to get creative with Ultrabooks. After all, there’s more to life than the MacBook Air, right? Out now | £NA | Intel Related posts:
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