Three has Sony Vivaz HD Recording Phone – Spotify Preloaded but no Membership

by Jay Garrett on March 16, 2010

The Sony Ericsson Vivaz has landed at the 3 store and with the promised Spotify.

Three has included the Spotify Symbian app all preloaded for you but Premium membership will come out of your own pocketses.

Yup, a bit of a kick in the teeth if you were expecting a similar deal to the HTC Hero 3 tariff that included Spotify Premium membership – that way you could stream just about any song you liked to your phone on demand. Loverly!

Three has the Sony Ericsson Vivaz on Pay As You Go for £349.99 or, if you sign up for a two year pay £35 monthly deal, you get the 8MP phone for free with unlimited data and texts, and 750 minutes of calls.

Looking to use Spotify on your new Sony Ericsson Vivaz? You’re looking at another £9.99 per month – let’s call it £45 per month all in for cash yeah? Errr. No.

What do you think to Three’s ‘offer’?

Let me know.

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iPhone 4G to Appear as iPhone HD – There’s a Video to Prove it

by Jay Garrett on March 15, 2010

Ok, so I had dubious pics before and now here’s an equally dubious vid that points to the iPhone 4G following the Zune naming method and appearing as the iPhone HD.

According to this ‘leaked commercial’ the next gen iPhone sports a radically new chassis in which to house the higher powered camera and the front facing camera.

Word on the street is that the 4G data chips might not be ready for a Summer release of the iPhone 4G which could cause a delay or perhaps a renaming – iPhone HD?

I think I could get used to the design in the vid but how genuine is it? Is this just the musing of another talented and bored fanboy/girl or could this be a glimpse into what to expect?

Watch the vid and then share your opinions :)

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Netflix Movie Streaming and Xbox Live Gaming on Windows Mobile 7 Series

March 15, 2010 Click to read more →

Exciting times at MIX 10 where Microsoft took the Las Vegas stage in order to show off a lot of the applications that will soon be hitting the streets with Windows Phone 7 Series.
Because Silverlight 4 and the XNA Framework have been baked into the Windows Phone platform this unleashes quite a bit of power [...]

T3 Push Tablet PC Design Forwards with Medion and The Alloy

March 15, 2010 Click to read more →
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It can’t have passed you by that Tablet puters seem to becoming de rigueur recently with the likes of iPad, Courier, Streak and even PSP Tablet, etc
Well, those gadgety lovers over at T3 have had a chat with The Alloy and Medion and together have come up with their own rather nice spin on the [...]

XBox 360 Games on iPhone Before Windows Mobile 7

March 15, 2010 Click to read more →
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Do you get twitchy when you’re away from your Xbox 360 for more than an hour?
Do you happen to own an iPhone?
Well, you could get Xbox 360 games on your iPhone soon – and it may hit the Appley hand-held before landing on Windows Phone 7.
Odd as it may sound but then this isn’t [...]

Fancy Self-Winding Clockwork Phone: CELSIUS X VI II Micro-Mechanical Remontage Papillon Tourbillon Mobile Phone

March 14, 2010 Click to read more →
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I’m not a huge fan of garish, overly expensive mobile phones – I just don’t see the point unless you’re a Z-List ‘celeb’ and lack the imagination as to what to spend your fee for embarrassing yourself on the latest reality TV show.
Thing is, I do love mechanical watches (RADO especially if anyone wants to [...]

O Kitchen – For When you need a Mobile Kitchen or have a ‘The Prisoner’ Themed Loft Appartment

March 12, 2010 Click to read more →
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If you’re a fan of watching Patrick McGoohan being chased by spheres in The Prisoner or you’re looking for a compact kitchen well the “O” might be just for you.
Amazingly running off a single plug (ideal for expos?) the “O” Kitchen has been designed by a Brazilian team.
The seven foot shiny sphere unfolds to [...]

Marvel Fans get Custom Headphones

March 12, 2010 Click to read more →
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Whether you’re a fan of Iron Man, The Hulk, The Punisher, Wolverine, or all of the X-Men The Marvel Coloud Headphones have something for you
It would be too simple to describe these headphones and their frequency sensitivity, db output and the like. So, instead why not read what Coloud says about their [...]

Get Apple iPad in UK Before Anyone else Without Leaving the Country

March 12, 2010 Click to read more →
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If you like the idea of flashing an Apple iPad around Blighty before the rest of the fanboys and girls but would rather not have to fly stateside to make it so then here’s the answer my gadgety faithful.
Slip in your order to www.bundlebox.com from right now because pre-ordering is now on over the pond. [...]

iPhone 4G Leaked Pics or Return to Render?

March 12, 2010 Click to read more →
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Now leaks are one thing and, being the untrusting fellow that I am, even though I want these shots of the iPhone 4G to be real I can’t help but shout ‘render!’.
True; plenty of work has gone into this and the exposed brickwork setting is very tasteful but something isn’t sitting right.
I like the idea [...]

Sony PS3 Move not Arc – Motion Controlling Wand gets Named and Shown off

March 11, 2010 Click to read more →
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Sony has been showing off its Nintendo Wii baiting motion controller. They’ve also officially named it: PlayStation Move.
Sony created a bit of a stir at the PlayStation presentation held at the Games Developer Conference in San Francisco.
The naming of the Move may have lost a number of people money if they’d been betting on [...]

Sharp Aquos Quattron TV Brings in Yellow Fourth Pixel – RGBY

March 10, 2010 Click to read more →
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I was 31 floors up in Centre Point on Tuesday to witness Sharp’s new line of televisions which, for the first time in tele history, is rocking a fourth, yellow, sub pixel joining its red, green, and blue buddies.
Sharp is waiting before joining the possible ‘fad’ of 3D and is instead looking to make large [...]

Sony Ericsson Unboxing Video of Xperia X10 – Weirds me out! Narcissistic Much?

March 10, 2010 Click to read more →
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Now, I’ve already met SE’s new range of phones but I was looking forward to perhaps getting the pleasure of actually unboxing one or more for myself.
But, oh no! Sony Ericsson goes and does it themselves!
Yup. The sparkly new X10 handset gets its first video unboxing by the hands that made it.
This is just wrong!
If [...]

Canon Thermal Travel Mug – Drink Your Brew From an EF 70-200 f/4.0 L IS USM Lens

March 10, 2010 Click to read more →
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Photographers spend a lot of time outdoors capturing nature, human interaction with its environment and such like. It’s a thirsty and sometimes very cold job and/or hobby and Cannon knows this.
This is why Canon handed out a thermal travel mug shaped like a lens to the press at the Vancouver Olympics.
Many of you keen [...]

Dell Mini 5 Streak Tablet comes with Amazon Kindle Love

March 10, 2010 Click to read more →
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Dell’s Mini 5 tablet, or rather the Dell Streak, seems to be squaring up to join Microsoft’s Courier and Apple’s iPad in the ring. With it’s regular tablety form I reckon Apple should be the more concerned.
The Dell Mini 5 leak reveals the ‘Streak’ moniker and as it seems to have been used since [...]

Power Gig: Rise of the Six String! Like Guitar Hero but Better and More Useful!

March 9, 2010 Click to read more →
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If you enjoy a good game of Guitar Hero and/or Rock Band but can’t help that nagging feeling in the back of your mind telling you that playing these is all very well but it’s not actually teaching people to play an instrument – well, my gadgety friends, Seven45 Studios may be our saviours for [...]

LEGO Green Toy Story Mini-Fig Soldiers – Prepare to Want

March 9, 2010 Click to read more →
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You’ve probably seen Toy Story right?
Even if you’ve somehow managed to avoid the computer generated animated flick you may have played with those cheap green plastic soldiers – if you happen to be a certain cousin of mine you probably also set fire to them at some point too!
Well, the genii at LEGO have only [...]

Microsoft Courier more Desirable than Apple iPad?

March 9, 2010 Click to read more →
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Ok, so the iPad isn’t floating everyone’s boat is it?
I’ve actually been interested in Microsoft’s offering for quite some time now and there’s some more info seeping through about the twin screened tablet known as Courier.
So, we all already know that the Courier will react in a nice way to being stroked and poked by [...]

Sony PSP Phone and Tablet may Become Reality

March 8, 2010 Click to read more →
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The mythical PSP Phone as well as an iPad baiting tablet may well slip out from Sony – Well, that’s how the Wall Street Journal sees it.
Sony CEO Howard Stringer is looking towards Apple for inspiration in order to bring success back to Sony’s door.
The Japanese company is already making steps with its Sony Online [...]

Apple iPad UK Release Date Clarified

March 8, 2010 Click to read more →
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Apple has almost come up with a definite UK release date for their iPad.
Where stateside gadgety fans will be able to pounce on the new Wi-Fi tablet on April 3rd and the 3G version later the same month we in the UK will get both by the end of April.
US customers can pre-order the Wi-Fi [...]

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