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Pre-order the ZTE Skate from Clove

James Richardson | July 21, 2011 |

It was only last week that Matt and I attended a press event in London hosted by ZTE where they announced that ZTE branded devices will be on sale here in the UK in the near future. The chaps at Clove already have the Skate available for pre-order and at only £249.99 (inc VAT) this […]

OS X Lion goes on sale along with a new MacBook Air and Mac Mini

Matt | July 20, 2011 |

I guess the post title here steals it but this afternoon, after what seems like a long delay, Apple released OS X Lion through the App Store for all to download. The great thing about what Apple have done here is that they are offering Lion for a little over £20 and furthermore you can […]

Carphone Warehouse to target business customers

James Richardson | July 20, 2011 |

The Carphone Warehouse are having a purge on signing up business users by targeting local sole traders and SME customers with what it claims is the widest range of phones, tablets, networks and tariffs available. As well as the networks standard business tariffs, CPW will also offer there own business tariffs which will either be […]

Mobile Tech Addicts Podcast 128: Knees up mother Brown

Matt | July 20, 2011 |

On this weeks show we talk about the our Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo review, the excellent BlackBerry Bold 9900 video that James recorded last week, and the surprise ‘leak’ of Nokia See Ray. Oh, and Matt has a rant about the Apple vs HTC story. We also have a special guest, Dan Carter from Coolsmartphone. […]

Lion launch tomorrow (Maybe)

Matt | July 19, 2011 |

First everyone thought it would be last week, then the weekend but now the rumours suggest that OS X Lion will go on sale tomorrow afternoon here in the UK. According to tweets we received from individuals claiming to work for Apple retail stores there will be a temporary scheduled closure of stores at 4:30pm […]

Google+ app for the iPhone available

James Richardson | July 19, 2011 |

Many of us have now got acquainted with Google’s new social network, Google+, but I am sure I am not alone in finding it slightly frustrating that it is only Android users that get a proper G+ app. Well not any longer as the iOS app has been given the go ahead from Apple and […]

BlackBerry PlayBook gets an update

James Richardson | July 19, 2011 |

The BlackBerry PlayBook gets a software update pretty often but this one has some nice new features I thought are worthy of a mention. This new version, OS v1.0.7, brings us BBC News and BBC iPlayer web icon (shortcuts) which will be pre-installed. Sure it would be nice to see proper BBC apps one day […]

Google to stand with HTC against Apple patent claims

Matt | July 19, 2011 |

As it has been widely reported, HTC’s share price has fallen considerably following the ITC’s preliminary decision to uphold Apple’s claims that HTC have violated a number of it patents with technology used in several HTC smartphones currently on sale. However, for HTC it would seem help is at hand from Google. During Google’s Mobile […]

Star Front Collision review on Android

Gareth | July 19, 2011 |

When it comes to games on the Android platform there isn’t too much of large, lavish and ambitious titles. Especially when compared to the iPhone. Its getting there but the platform still has a bit way to go before it can be considered a gaming platform. So, it takes a large company like Gameloft to […]

Acer announce the Aspire 5755 Notebook

James Richardson | July 19, 2011 |

Blimey, yet another product announced from Acer. This time a Notebook with some pretty impressive specs. Users’ needs evolve and computers must adapt to them. Work is only a fraction of all the activities we carry out with our laptops; multimedia watching and creation, entertainment and gaming make up the other big part. Acer, always […]