Gareth and James are back this week discussing the ZTE Stake that Matt had a play with over the weekend. There is a bit of a special Tablet Bargain Basement this week with a bunch of exciting savings.
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Samsung Electronics Co. UK Ltd, the UK’s number one TV brand with the most awarded TV range today announces the digital movie service, blinkbox, as the latest partner for its Smart TV App store, Samsung Apps.
The new blinkbox App, will give Smart TV viewers access to a wide range of movies and TV shows online for free or to rent or buy. Offering over 9,000 movies, TV titles and with new releases available the same day as the DVD release, movie fans can watch their favourite films immediately with no post, subscription or download required.
With more content than any other UK movie streaming service, blinkbox’s growing library of classic titles as well as popular television shows such as Luther and Doctor Who, will ensure Smart TV viewers are able to watch their favourite content at just the click of a button on the biggest and brightest screen in the house.
Guy Kinnell, Marketing Director for TV, Samsung UK said: “By adding more partners to our Samsung Apps store, we are opening the door to thousands of hours of top-quality entertainment for viewers. Our partnership with blinkbox will ensure Smart TV users can quickly and easily view more of their favourite films, TV shows and movie trailers enhanced by the true-to-life picture quality and revolutionary product design of their Smart TV.
A while ago we did a short video of the Eye Scope from find me a gift.com and I said we would give it away. Well we forgot to be honest, so now is your chance.
If you are an iPhone 4 owner then you get a double prize as we also have the iPhone Microscope to include in your prize.
So how do you win you may ask. Details are below:
The Sony Ericsson Xperia ray is a brilliant multimedia Android smartphone with a super-slim 9.4mm body and aluminium frame.
Available in a gold coloured finish from Vodafone, the Xperia ray is free on £26, 24 month price plans, including 300 minutes, unlimited texts, 500MB of data and 1GB of BT Openzone WiFi allowance when purchased through Vodafone’s online shop.
The 3.3″ state-of-the-art Reality Display with Mobile BRAVIA Engine delivers sharp, bright, vivid pictures. With Exmor R for mobile image sensor, also used in
Sony’s Cyber-shot cameras and Handycams, you can shoot stills and HD videos on the 8.1 megapixel camera, even in low light. And with Facebook inside Xperia you can share photos, status, likes, recommendations and more.
Specifications:
For more information on pricing, visit the Vodafone online shop.
Posted by: James
I’m not sure what this new video from T-Mobile is all about that I found on YouTube today. It is clearly a teaser and tells people to visit YouTube.com/lifesforsharing this Friday, 9.15pm on Channel 5 or , for the premiere of their new video.
By now we know that T-Mobile do some great TV adverts. I can only guess that the parking ticket being given out are some kind of winning voucher or similar and the people who receive them will have their expressions filmed, first upset with getting a ticket and then joy at maybe winning something.
I could be totally wrong though.
You can see the teaser video below:
Those lovely people at Vodafone have only gone and rejigged their pricing tariffs. What does this mean? Well, for all of you who have been on a contract since before Feb 2011, you will have to pay more for you calls. Well, that is if you don’t leave Vodafone.
Vodafone have made it very easy to see the differences, as in the table below. Questionably referred to as ‘simplifying tariffs,’ Vodafone have rounded some rates up to the nearest 50p. Making it, I guess, simpler to count up. However, if paying more is simpler then I guess we are all wanting the wrong thing.
If you like to meet new people via BlackBerry Messenger then I have just the application for you. Pinbook is a social networking app for BlackBerry where you can search for other BlackBerry users that have registered with Pinbook.
Pinbook is currently is in private beta but will be going public soon.
The Pinbook is a brand new BlackBerry application designed to find new BBM friends. Get in touch with 50 million BBM users all over the world and share your thoughts & interests.
Not sure about the person at the other side of the line? Thanks to the built-in chat feature you can introduce yourself without adding a new contact.
Keep an eye on thepinbook.com for updates.
More details and screenshots below:
Evernote is the notes application that the Blackberry PlayBook has been waiting for. The notes application that is free, has the ability to add media to notes, has a double-paned layout, has the ability to sync notes to a cloud and most importantly a well known name behind it.
I shall begin with the layout of the Evernote application for the Blackberry PlayBook. Evernote initially requests that you sign in with an account, but if you don’t have one, it lets you sign up. After this process is finished, you are greeted with a rather simple display of greens, blacks and whites. You have two main panes, the left pane is your list of notes in date order and the right pane shows the note that you have selected. In the top left you have the option to create a new note and a button that brings down the option to either look at all notes, select a different Notebook or to look at tags. Also you have a search button if you have a lot of notes and wish to search for a specific one. Finally, on the right of the application main screen, you have a delete button, an edit button (for the current note you have selected) and a refresh button. Also you are given the option to see the note in a bigger preview without having to edit it by clicking on the top arrows just on the top left of the note preview. I like the layout as it is simple to use and the scrolling through the note is very smooth, however, the scrolling through the note titles is not so smooth.
Various sites have posted pictures over the last week of a BlackBerry that is unknown it is real or a knock off. Rumors have been going around that it is a specially designed device by Porsche but it could well just be a home made shell.
The handset has now been caught on video and as you will see it is clearly based on the Bold 9900 but with a very different keyboard and back cover.
To be honest i think it looks disgusting. It doesn’t even have an optical track pad. Clearly running BlackBerry 7 I don’t think we will see this one in the shops. Thank god!
You can see the video below.
The ZTE Skate was announced way back in February and has been on sale for a short time as the Monte Carlo on Orange here in the UK and it’s proven to be really popular.
The ZTE Skate is the SIM-free version of the same handset and goes on sale shortly. Our review model is pre-retails and unboxed but we think we have the final hardware and final ROM, albeit that ours seems to be Portuguese.
There has been some confusion over the CPU speed of the Skate though. At ZTE’s press event at the Ice Bar in London some weeks ago a ZTE representative stated that the SIM-free version would have a 1GHz CPU where the Orange Monte Carlo has 800MHz. However upon closer inspection of our review model reveals the same 800MHz CPU. Not sure if this is going to be updated of if that was just duff information!
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