Archive for 2012

Have HTC teamed up with Sharp?

Could The HTC J Butterfly phone be the next offering from the Taiwanese company? The word on the street is that HTC have teamed up with Sharp to offer a device with a 5 inch display with an industry-leading 440 pixels per inch – blimey! The Android device is allegedly going on sale in Japan in December this year.

HTC’s 440ppi – pixels per inch – resolution offers a performance-boost over rival flagship devices including Samsung’s similarly-sized Galaxy Note 2 with a 267ppi screen. Apple’s iPhone 5 offers 326ppi, Nokia’s upcoming Lumia 920 332ppi and LG’s Optimus G 318ppi. To support the facility, HTC has included Qualcomm’s top-end Snapdragon S4 Pro processor.

Clearly we have no news regarding the device from HTC UK so whether it will grace our shores is still yet to be announced.

Source: BBC

Posted by: James

Pre-Order the new HTC Windows Phones from Expansys

If you are eyeing up the forthcoming HTC Windows Phone 8 devices that will be with us imminently then you may want to consider getting a pre-order in from Expansys. They have the HTC 8X and 8S in a selection of colours to choose from.

The HTC 8X will set you back £399.00 SIM free and the 8S will be £239.99 – both prices inclusive if V.A.T.

Posted by: James

Microsoft Surface has a price and pre-order

Earlier today Microsoft announced pricing, market availability and pre-order for their “Surface” – the tablet PC designed to be the ultimate stage for Windows. Announced some months ago there has been much speculation regarding the price and specs. Speculate no more, as all is made clear. This pricing is for the Surface with Windows RT, coming pre-installed with Office Home and Student 2013 RT Preview.

Surface with Windows 8 Pro pricing is still a mystery at this stage however, it’ll likely be more than the Windows RT version as the specifications have been beefed up to run the full version of Windows 8. The specs are quoted after the break.

Highlights:

· Originally unveiled in June, Surface with Windows RT will be available starting at £399.

· Touch Cover will be available in three colours-black, white and cyan- priced at £99.99 so customers can express their personal style. Customers will also have the option to purchase a Type Cover in black for £109.99, which adds moving keys for a more traditional typing feel.

· Customers can visit www.Surface.com to pre-order now in eight markets across the world: Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, the United Kingdom and the United States. Pricing varies by geography.

Check out the Google homepage today

For a bit of lighthearted fun have a look at the Google homepage today. I won’t give too much away but it isn’t the normal pretty picture. This time we get some animated action! Enjoy.

That is all.

Posted by: James

Archos GamePad video debut

We have recently been treated to an exciting collection of videos for Archos’ new GamePad, a 7" tablet that favours gaming over all else. Running Ice Cream Sandwich and a fairly ingenious method of binding hardware keys to on screen functions Archos are taking steps into untested waters with this device that is likely to shift a good few units, especially at the proposed price of less than ?150! The idea of having hardware buttons rather than relying on Touchscreen will obviously be attractive to many.

It’s got a 1024×600 capacitive touch screen but more importantly for gaming, it’s got game controller buttons on each side of the screen. This device runs on the Rockchip RK3066 dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor with the quad-core Mali-400MP4 GPU.

Of course No. 1 Archos Fanboy Charbax got a bit of time with it. You can see the videos below:

O2 apologize for UK outage

Around 10% of the firm’s 23 million customers are believed to have been affected by the yesterday’s outage problem, with O2 admitting people in some areas had been unable to make or receive calls, texts or access data services.

Last night, an O2 spokesperson told Sky News: "Further to our previous update where some customers in some areas were unable to make or receive calls, send texts or use data, service has been fully restored for all remaining impacted customers.

"Once again we’re are sorry for any inconvenience this has caused."

Asked about whether any compensation would be offered, the spokesperson said: ”Our first priority was to get customers back up and in service. We’ll now need to conduct a full investigation into the cause of the problem.”