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Dell Mini 5 Streak Tablet comes with Amazon Kindle Love

by Jay Garrett on March 10, 2010

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 October chances are that it’s more than a codename.

So, the Android loving Streak features a 5″ WVGA (800 x 480) touchscreen, capacitive buttons on the front as well as a front-facing VGA camera for video chat with a 5MP camera with autofocus on flash round back.

The leaked presentation also reveals that the device will come in an array of colours and offer the opportunity for custom skins through Dell Design Studio.

Now, Apple should be taking note that this Dell Mini 5 Streak presentation also shows that Dell has buddied up with Amazon. That means the Dell Streak will have Kindle ebook reader integration as well as Amazon MP3 and Amazon video. This makes it even with the iPad and with it’s cameras may just nudge the Streak/Mini 5 into the lead.

Are a pair of cameras enough to pull you from Apple’s iPad?

Let me know below :)

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Google Nexus One – Kinda Like a Motorola Droid

by Jay Garrett on January 4, 2010

Google Nexus One - Engadget.com

Uh-oh!

Could this be moistening the touchpaper ahead of Google’s big Nexus One reveal tomorrow?

According to the Gadgety crew of Engadget the gPhone aint all that! Hang on – Isn’t it supposed to be the latest iPhone killer?

Engadget have got their mits on the new Google Phone and seem to find it hard not to liken it to a slightly faster Motorola Droid (Milestone over here) albeit nicer to hold. They also say that the HTC design is handsome but wont really blow you away with its good looks.

I’m guessing not the kind of thing that Google want to hear before the Californian press conference.

By all accounts the Nexus One is running Android 2.1 and sports a 3.7 inch touchscreen and a 5MP camera – This is the phone that Google is proudly holding aloft as their first foray into producing and selling a smartphone instead of just the Android OS.

Whether there’ll be different versions or this is it I wont know ’til tomorrow.

Thing is; would you fork out $500 (£308) for an unlocked, prettier Motorola Droid even if it had Spotify on it for free?

It’s going to be an interesting day in Google-land tomorrow methinks.

Nip over and read Engadget’s full hands-on review and watch the vid :)

Tell me if you think that it is an Android-based iPhone killer in the comments below.

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New iPhone Packing 5mp Camera in June?

December 23, 2009 Click to read more →
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As soon as I posted the news that Apple has booked the venue for the next WWDC I wondered about fresh iPhone rumours.
As if by magic Digitimes has some news passed to them via some source or another.
Apparently OmniVision Technologies, those that currently manufacturer the iPhone 3GS‘ 3.2-megapixel CMOS image sensor, has been awarded with [...]

Happy 5th Birthday Firefox! Mozilla Browser Keeps Growing

November 10, 2009 Click to read more →
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It’s hard to believe that 5 years has flown by.
But it was back in 2004 when the not-for-profit Mozilla, then with 12 employees and a handful of volunteers decided to take on Microsoft in the battle of the browsers.
Flash-forward to now and that same company has a 23% worldwide market share and has even [...]

Watch Google Eclair in Video Action – Android 2.0

October 28, 2009 Click to read more →
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We all know about Donut and most of us will have heard about Eclair (Google could hardly hide the huge Eclair you see in the picture could they?).
Nah – I haven’t changed GadgetyNews into a bakery blog: I’m chatting bout Google’s Android versions of course!
Android 2.0 (Eclair) has been flashed on a video so that [...]

Gear4 Video Buddy – From iPod Nano to Widescreen TV

September 29, 2009 Click to read more →
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After last week’s reports that a US gym has banned the new iPod Nano due to fears that it could be used for catching scenes of sweaty, lycra clad folk on the treadmill and an actual arrest in Kobe, Japan, after some bloke hid the Nano in his shoe, and somehow filmed up an 18 [...]

Gran Turismo 5 Comes Alive in London Thanks to a Real GTbyCITROËN

June 24, 2009 Click to read more →
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Most of us know that the French have style.
Even the singer in my band, Subset, has a certain je ne sais quoi.
But this concept car created by Citroën for the famous driving sim, Gran Turismo 5, has made that leap from fantasy to reality and was cruising the London streets just like the GT5 version [...]

Archos TV Snap-On – Mobile Digital Tele and Recording

March 15, 2009 Click to read more →

Archos has launched a TV Snap-on add-on or their already handy Archos 5 portable media player.
The Archos TV Snap-on will enable you to turn that capable PMP into a PVR without any hassle what-so-ever.
All you have to do is plug, or rather snap-on, the Archos TV Snap-on in to your Archos 5, turn on and [...]

Archos Android Powered HD Media Playing Mobile Phone

February 9, 2009 Click to read more →

An Android powered Archos Tablet that also rocks as a phone?
Well, not much in the way of details but everyone’s expecting a big reveal at the MWC.
No real pictures yet, but the specs are pretty good – A five inch screen, up to a 500GB hard drive, a battery capable of 7 seven hours of [...]

Top 5 London iPhone Apps

August 28, 2008 Click to read more →

TheElectricPig have a very cool article and listed their favourite 5 iPhone applications for all you Londoners.
Some I’ve already mentioned before but there’s some other great gems.
They cover all from helping you select a restaurant, GPS tagging your ride so that you can find it again through to weather reports (how very British).
TubeStatus (£free)
Urban Spoon [...]

£5 to Return To UK ATMs

August 11, 2008 Click to read more →

Can you remember when you could get a fiver out of the ATM?
Well that feeling is due to return as the UK continues to feel the credit crunch and that’s the only note that they’ll dispense!
Bank Machine have started their roll-out in Roman Road, Tower Hamlets, London and wants to continue through to the rest [...]

Square Photos From Classic 5mp Rolleiflex

June 6, 2008 Click to read more →

If you like your snappers to have that shrunken retro chic then get a load of this because Minox have done it again!
Like something straight out of one of those moving pictures that are all the rage at the present the Rolleiflex AF 5.0 is a “fully functioning, high precision replica of the world famous Rolleiflex 6×6 camera (scale 1:2)”
It [...]

Gran Turismo 5: Prologue Tops Charts

April 2, 2008 Click to read more →

Sony’s Gran Turismo 5: Prologue budget racer has stormed to the top of the latest all-formats games chart.
The racing prequel, a taste of what is to come in the full Gran Turismo 5 release, is now the fastest-selling PS3 title after seven days on sale, beating the previous holder Resistance: Fall of Man, a PS3 [...]