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You can enter throughout the rest of August the first week of September, the competition will close at midnight on Saturday 11th September. BitDefender will pick a winner at random and will announce who’s won, via Twitter, during the second week of September.
Posted by: Matt
The HTC Desire for Vodafone will finally be getting Android 2.2 Monday, 23rd of August, tomorrow, according to Vodafone. This comes after the carrier was pressured by their users to release the upgrade amidst an arguably “pointless” non-Froyo OTA update that seemingly had no other purpose than to add bloatware beyond belief.
you may or may not get it Monday as they’re employing a staggered upgrade process. The wait will probably be a bit longer for a lot of you, but rest assured that updates will finally be going out. At least Vodafone’s committed to helping you get rid of the Vodafone 360 software (aforementioned bloatware) from your device once you finally do receive the upgrade. I’m sure many will appreciate that just as much as Froyo itself.
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Hopefully you will have seen the cool NokiaBox video that we recorded in central London. We were invited to take part in the #NokiaBox event which took place in 4 cities around the world. This ended up being on of the biggest unboxings that we’ve ever done and the first one we’ve done outside in front of an audience!
So what was in the big box? Two Nokia C6 boxes. So this here is the follow up full unboxing video of the new Nokia C6. You’ll see me take a look at the hardware before doing a little demo of some of the basic features of the handset. Over the next few weeks I will be using the reviewing the Nokia C6 and will have a full written review for you here on site. For now I hope you’ll enjoy the little video below.
Rumour has it that Apple will be addressing the sluggish nature of the iPhone 3G in their next software update. Some say it might come as early as next month, other say that’s too long a wait and it should here today. In the meantime Neowin have offered this quick fix to get things going on the 3G:
To remedy the sluggish performance (or at least one cause of it) go to “Settings->General->Home Button->Spotlight Search-> deselect every option” and this will stop background indexing on the phone. Several users reported that the fix showed immediate results and Neowin has observed improvements on two separate iPhone 3G devices.
Engadget managed to get a sneaky look at a strangely sexy new LG running Windows Phone 7. There isn’t too much information that isn’t already obvious from the pictures. A four row Qwerty keyboard with generous buttons and a three, forward facing, button configuration on the front. More pics after the break:
There are many ways of connecting a monitors to computers, the number of usual ports such as VGA, DVI or HDMI manufacturers can fit to their machines is limited. Whatever is your reason to connect one more display to your computer, a USB-to-DVI display adapter may the only solution.
Read on to find out more!
While 31″ is positively monitor-like in the ever growing world of LCD and Plasma display technology, 31″ in OLED terms is a minor miracle. The forever next-big-thing display technology has, until now, been strictly portable TV sizes – Sony’s 11″ XEL-1 being the most prominent and expensive example, although Samsung has previously displayed a 31″ device a couple of years ago at a trade show. As of yet though, no commercially available model has left the Korean’s factory. AMOLED has of course risen in prominence with its inclusion on HTC’s Legend and Desire handsets as well as the Super AMOLED variant appearing on Samsung’s higher devices, and has noticeably better contrast do to it’s local illumination switching per pixel. For some time OLED screens have been hampered by issues with certain parts of their RGB spectrum expiring before the others but manufacturers believe this is becoming a thing of the past so while LG does not yet have a release date or price, it does show that the technology is viable for larger panels and could be on its way to a front room near you soon.
Posted by: Ian
That’s a big ol’ post title for what is actually a really small and neat networkable HD media player.
When you hear the name LaCie you may not immediately think of media player products, LaCie are perhaps more commonly associated with storage media and external drives. However the LaCinema Mini HD Connect is just one of a range of products from LaCie to fall in to the Media Player category.
I’ve been looking for a product like this for a while. I have a lot of films and TV shows recorded on my Mac and wanted a way to watch them on my large screen TV. I’ve considered Apple TV but that’s quite an expensive solution. The LaCinema Mini HD Connect is about ah third of the cost of the Apple product but can it perform? You’ll have to wait a while for our full review to find out but for now you can check out the brief unboxing video below.
Somebody has sent engadget some rather interesting photos. Yes, it is the forthcoming HTC slider. Known as the T-Mobile G2 in the USA but believed to the the Desire Z here in the UK, this 3.7 inch Android device is what we think we will be introduced to us on September 15th here in London. Known initially as the HTC Vision you can clearly see its glorious 4 row sliding keyboard. I sense this new Android device is going to a huge seller in what is already a massively gowning market.
Looks pretty sweet doesn’t it?
Another photo after the break:
Engadget have posted new pics of the HTC G2 / HTC Vision / HTC Desire Z. This is the phone formerly known as G1 Blaze, and Vanguard. It is going to be T-Mobile’s first HSPA+ enabled phone. It will have a 3.7 inch display and a slide out QWERTY keyboard.
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