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UK Gets Very Own Kindles in Grey Business Suits

by Jay Garrett on July 29, 2010

The Kindle is coming to the UK – it’s official!

Amazon is treating us with brand spanking new versions of the ebook reader.

The pair of Kindles aren’t that scary pricewise either. If you opt for the one loaded with 3G and Wi-Fi it’ll cost you £149 and the Wi-Fi only version will hit you for a reasonable £109.

The free 3G connection taken care of by Vodafone and should you take your Brit Kindle (UKindle?) on a trip to foreign parts you’ll be able to instantly browse and download ebooks as long as they have 3G. I reckon that it’s worth that extra £40 compared to the Wi-Fi only version.

Especially as the Amazon Web site for pre-ordering states that the new Wi-Fi browsing is “experimental”!

Both of these new Kindles wear stylish graphite coloured suits and sport a higher contrast eInk screen, 4GB of memory which is said to equate to “up to 3,500″ eBooks and a claimed battery life of up to one month even when frequently used.

For you social networkers – you’ll love that you can highlight sentences and passages and then bounce them off to Facebook and Twitter to share with all :)

Click here to pre-order the Kindle with Free 3G + Wi-Fi or here for the Kindle Wi-Fi only version.

Both will ship on 27 August along with a UK specific ebook store featuring over 400,000 titles, newspapers, magazines and over 1 million free books.

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All iPhone Models Racing Against Each Other – iPhone 4 Not Fastest at Everything

by Jay Garrett on July 28, 2010

This is a question that’s raised quite often by people considering upgrading their iPhones – is the new one actually any faster?

Well here’s some video proof.

As you can see in the vid below – all four models are put through a variety of tests.

The iPhone 4 manages to launch Plants vs Zombies in 8.5 seconds and, at the other end of the scale, the original iPhone 2G took a total of 26 seconds to get its game on.

Don’t think that iPhone 4 got its own way throughout the tasks though. In fact, the iPhone 2G was the fastest to shut down at 8.2 seconds and the 3GS was the fastest to boot up.

The other thing I couldn’t help noticing is how the iPhone 4′s screen pops with colour :)

But it does look like the iPhone 4 is speediest where it counts.

Four Generations of the iPhone from Chris Pinnock on Vimeo.

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iOS 4 on the iPhone 3G – What Do You Get and is it Worth it?

June 22, 2010 Click to read more →
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OK my gadgety friends. A bunch of you have asked me how my old faithful iPhone 3G got along with the iOS 4 update and what it actually brings to these venerable handsets. Well, to start, nothing untoward or scary happened.  True I just updated and didn’t backup which is just how I roll sometimes. [...]

3G Mobile TV Being Tested in London and Slough

June 22, 2010 Click to read more →
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TV on your mobile is a regular thing over in Japan and a few years ago T-Mobile tried it and so did Virgin Mobile with its Lobster. Three brave operators by the names of Orange, O2 and Vodafone are set to start a three month trial in the exotic environs of Slough and West London. [...]

Evolution of the iPhone 2007-2010 – Model Comparison and History

June 10, 2010 Click to read more →
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Ok! Class in session! Today in Gadgety History for the Fanboy/Fangirl we are going to witness evolution. How, in a small matter of three years, something that was a mere oddity became one of the most talked about devices for a long time. I am, of course, referring to the Apple iPhone. A mobile phone [...]

AT&T Offer iPhone 4G Upgrade Deals Even Before Officially Announced

June 7, 2010 Click to read more →
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Well, the WWDC hasn’t even started yet and the new iPhone hasn’t been formally introduced but AT&T has started offering some of its customers the option to upgrade their iPhone ahead of the expected announcement later today. AT&T customers who purchased the 3Gs last year had to sign up, as did most people, to an [...]

iPhone 3G Left to Die Alone

May 25, 2010 Click to read more →
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Listen to those coffin nails being slammed into the 3G’s pine box. Apple’s UK online store shows that Orange has a few 8GB iPhone 3G’s left whereas O2 are completely out. Ooooo – but look at all those iPhone 3GS’s smugly parading around. As if leaving the 3G out of most the iPhone OS 4 [...]

Sony PSP2 Already Lurking Around the UK

May 17, 2010 Click to read more →
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It seems that Sony’s not prepared to take the battle of the handheld gaming rig lying down! There was a few whispers last week from publishers hinting that there was rumblings of publicity prep happening for a Sony portable. So – let the leakage commence!! It seems that specs for the PSP2 have started seeping [...]

Apples and Oranges: Orange UK iPad Tariff and MicroSIM

May 9, 2010 Click to read more →
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More flat Apple news. You will have read that the iPad comes to Blighty on May 28 and now Orange has let the news out that they have special tariffs for the new Apple. First thing first – you’ll need a MicroSIM to get your iPad hooked up and Orange will give those away for [...]

iPad UK Release and Pricing – Brit Tax Bumps the Apple Prices Again!

May 9, 2010 Click to read more →
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If you’re here in the UK and have been patiently awaiting news of when you can grab your iPad – the official day is 28 May. That’s the good news. Now, brace yourself for the not-so-good-news. Apple says the 16GB, 32GB and 64GB Wi-Fi models will sell for £429, £499 and £599 respectively. The 16GB, [...]

Apple iPad 28 Days Later: 1 Million Sold

May 4, 2010 Click to read more →
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That’s right my gadgety friends. A mere 28 days after its initial release Apple have announced that the iPad has crushed the iPhones sales figures which took a long (in comparison) stroll of 74 days to hit the magic million. I’m pretty sure Mr Jobs and his team are all having a chuckle at those [...]

Apple iPhone 4 – Canadian Carriers Confirmation

April 16, 2010 Click to read more →
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It seems that Saskatchewan-based SaskTel has some very exciting news – so exciting that the company’s CEO, Robert Watson, let something quite important slip. As Watson was chatting enthusiastically about how his relatively small company will be going live with their own 3G network in July he got a little carried away. He blurted out: [...]

Recommend and Grab iPhone Apps via Facebook Page

March 30, 2010 Click to read more →
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There’s plenty of ways to waste time on Facebook and we all know how popular iPhone apps are – what would happen if you brought the two together? Yup – there’s now a Facebook app for your Apple apps and, let’s face it, it can only help sales of apps even further – not like [...]

iPad Preorders Start on Thursday

February 23, 2010 Click to read more →
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Love it or question its point – you can’t ignore the Apple iPad. No matter which side of the fence you stand you can’t argue the fact that it will sell millions. If you are jonesing for some fruity tablet time the joyous day may almost be at hand! Rumours have surfaced that the Apple [...]

Brave Arms Social Shooter – 3D First Person Shooter Coming to Facebook

February 5, 2010 Click to read more →
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Do you need more than Mafia, Vampire and Farming games? If you have a Facebook account you may have noticed that these ‘casual games’ are becoming increasingly (annoyingly) popular. Personally I welcome ‘Brave Arms’ with open….err… arms as it becomes Facebook’s first ever 3D first person shooter. Some may stand-up and say that FPS games [...]

iTablet – Like an iPad but runs Windows, has USB ports, Flash, HDMI…..

February 5, 2010 Click to read more →
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Whether you’re wowed by the iPad or not you can’t deny that it will sell – loads. UK company, X2, can obviously see the potential as well as hearing what a lot of comments have cited as the iPad’s short-comings. They’ve even named it the iTablet! In its own words “hot on the heels of [...]

Apple Tablet will be Subsidised by UK Phone Networks

January 21, 2010 Click to read more →
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Well, lovers of all that is shiny and gadgety! Looks like the UK will be getting some Apple-styled Tablet love as it appears that the fruity tech maker is chatting with UK operators over network partnerships for its much talked-about tablet PC. Orange, O2 and Vodafone are all claimed to be drooling in anticipation of [...]

8GB Apple iPhone 3GS Coming Soon

December 29, 2009 Click to read more →
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To me this is very plausible. It seems that Apple may be dropping the 8gb iPhone 3G in favour of a similarly memoried 3Gs. A forum user on the German ‘apfeltalk‘ ordered a regular refurbed 8GB iPhone 3G and that’s exactly what he got. But – the interesting thing was that the packaging was for [...]

4G Comes to Stockholm, Oslo and… Slough!

December 16, 2009 Click to read more →
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You know how it is. We were happy with 3G when it came out but that was like ages ago! We need 4G now! You may have heard that those lucky TeliaSonera customers over in Sweden and Norway have got access to the speedy service and, as not to be left out, so has Slough! [...]

Record Video on Your Non-Jailbroken iPhones! iVideoCamera

December 15, 2009 Click to read more →
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That’s right my gadgety iPhone owners! Whether you have the 2G or 3G Appley handheld you can now do the same as what those iPhone 3GS owners can do and record videos! The most important feature of iVideoCamera app is that you can export those flicks to the camera roll of the Photo’s app. This [...]

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