Author Archive: Gareth

Seasoned tech blogger. Host of the Tech Addicts podcast.

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By January 7, 2012 Read More →

A Google Nexus Tablet?

194036-google-tablet_originalThis is an interesting rumour, in which Google’s own Eric Schmidt let slip the possibility of a Google branded Nexus-style tablet. According to this latest rumour, Google really is working on some form of a Nexus-Style Google branded tablet, and it may be coming to market as early as the end of Q1 2012. The tablet will be a 7-inch product and is actually designed to offer up an alternative to the Amazon Kindle Fire instead of compete directly with Apple’s iPad series. The rumour-mill further suggests that the pricing will be competitive with Amazon’s product as well, and should retail for around $199.99 in American Dollars, from America.

Right now, this Intel is highly speculative, and in fact, Google Taiwan already released a statement indirectly refuting it. They indicated that Google Taiwan has "never heard about plans of launching an own-brand tablet PC". Of course, this isn’t an outright denial, but we should still take this "news" with extra seasoning. If Google does go this route, they will likely be selling the device at an even greater loss than Amazon, since they would probably make the specs more competitive. It’ll be interesting to see how this pans out.

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By January 4, 2012 Read More →

Mobile Tech Addicts Podcast 150: The Wonder-filled Samsung Galaxy

Web bannerIt’s just James and Gareth this week due to Matt’s untimely arrest (again.) This week the Samsung Galaxy Wonder is inspected and there are some superb bargains to be had all over the show.

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By January 2, 2012 Read More →

The Mobile Tech Addicts Podcast on Facebook

ScreenClipFor years you have been asking when it was going to happen. We have had telegrams, tweets, calls, emails, carrier pigeons and even a cannonball with a sticker requesting a Facebook fan page for your favourite UK phone Podcast. So here it here it is.

Unwrapped on New Years Eve and already the subject of abuse from James and his creative silliness The Mobile Tech Addicts Podcast page is here for you to play with, submit stuff and interact with the panel.

Hope you enjoy it and we manage to get some fun chitter chatter going.

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By December 23, 2011 Read More →

Blackberry Playbook dirt cheap

ScreenClipIt seems the sales season is starting early! Both Carphone Warehouse and Currys are selling the Blackberry Playbook 16GB for an insane £169.00. In addition to the Sale-O-Rama Currys are giving anyone who picks it up £50 off voucher.

The 64GB version is £329 on the site, so if you were to buy the 16Gb for your granny then you could get a 64GB version for £280 and be a happy Elf.

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By December 23, 2011 Read More →

Mobile Tech Addicts Podcast 149: Rounding out the year

Web bannerGareth, Tracy and Matt are in for the last podcast of the year. This week there are reviews of the HTC Sensation XL and the Huawei S7 Slim. Your hosts also name their favourite phones, tablets, apps and events of the year and give a couple of predictions of what to expect next year. As per usual, listen to Gareth, he’s always right. The others are wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong!

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By December 22, 2011 Read More →

Huawei Ideos S7 Slim review

Huawei Ideos S7Huawei have been making devices for years however their name hasn’t quite hit the big time yet. If you own a 3G dongle then there is a good chance it was made by Huawei. We’ve seen a few of their phones over the years and I have even reviewed one of their tablets before, the predecessor to the Ideos S7 Slim, the S7. The S7 Slim comes to us 10 months after I attended the launch event. Should we even bother looking at this dated tablet. Well, oddly, yes!

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By December 22, 2011 Read More →

Samsungs to get Ice Cream Sandwich

imgresSamsung today announced that they will be updating a slew of Galaxy devices to Android 4.0/Ice Cream Sandwich early next year. The ICS update is scheduled for Q1 of 2012 for the following devices:

  • GALAXY S II
  • GALAXY S II LTE
  • GALAXY Note
  • GALAXY R
  • GALAXY Tab 10.1
  • GALAXY Tab 8.9
  • GALAXY Tab 7.7
  • GALAXY Tab 7.0 Plus

Samsung indicated that the Galaxy S II and Galaxy Note will get the update first, then the others will follow at some time within that quarter. They made no specific announcement of which territory will receive the update first. Considering that it is just a software update, you would think they could release them simultaneously, although that could stretch their servers thin.

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By December 15, 2011 Read More →

Mobile Tech Addicts Podcast 148: Xperia Pro

Web bannerIt’s Gareth and James this week looking at the Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro. The Orange San Francisco II gets unboxed by Matt, HP are making webOS open source and O2 announce plans to lease phones!

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By December 11, 2011 Read More →

Droid Deals Day 4

ScreenClipWell it’s Day 4 into Google’s 10 day celebration of 10 billion downloads from the Android Market and there is a whole new selection of titles available for a measly ten pee. Yesterday’s selection wasn’t too bad but today’s list of available games and app for 10p is pretty stellar (12p including VAT!)

So without further delay, here are today’s 10p games and apps. .

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By December 9, 2011 Read More →

Tegra 3 Shadowgun amazes

b_500_274_16777215_0___images_stories_reviews_shadowgun_shadowgun-android-game-reviewThe Tegra 3 version of Shadowfun seems to be making waves. The difference in detail and how the water looked alone was impressive. nVidia has released a new preview via Twitter showing more of what to expect. As you will see in the video is the Tegra 3 revamped version, the graphics and detail are incredible and have been improved upon on just about every facet when it comes to the game itself. Aside from the improvements, it’s a pretty bad ass trailer to watch anyways.

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