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HTC Legend – Apple Flavoured Android?

by Jay Garrett on February 16, 2010

HTC have been busy and have unveiled a number of new mobiles at the MWC.

Thing is that, in my opinion, none of them look as lovely as the HTC Legend.

The body is carved from a single piece of aluminum – Mmmmm….. unibody….. I hope Apple are watching! ;)

Under that gorgeous hood purrs Android 2.1 wrapped up in HTC Sense.

It’s fitted with a 3.2 inch capacitive AMOLED screen with a res of 320 x 480 pixels.

The Legend sports a 5.0 megapixel snapper that’s paired up with autofocus and flash.

This is all pushed along by a 600 MHz processor and 512MB ROM and 384MB of RAM.

There’s a microSD slot to increase it’s capacity as well as the now expected Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS.

I’m particularly digging this “helicopter view”. Perhaps another inspiration from Apple – think Mac OS X’s exposé.

With Helicopter you get to be able to pinch the screen to view all the five Android homescreens which helps you jump from widget to widget with ease.

Social Networked butterflies will get plenty use out of the new FriendStream. This pulls together all status updates, photos and links from your various social networking sites (Twitter, Facebook and Flickr are the ones supported at the mo), but you can still use the individual widgets and apps if that’s how you roll.

It’s out in Europe late March/early April – go on; admit it. It’s nice :)

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Were you thinking that the televisual future was in the hands of OLED screens?

Sony thinks not and is halting its OLED TV production in Japan and will be ending sales once its existing stock runs out.

Sales will continue, however, in America and Europe.

Apparently the Sony XEL-1 11in OLED TV just wasn’t popular enough in Japan even with a monthly production capacity of just 2000 units.

Sony spokesperson, Shinji Obana, said: “We see the demand for the model has run its course in Japan but we will continue sales overseas and research and development activities in OLED.”

So, is it that Europeans and Americans are more easily pleased or more susceptible to the pull of new tech?

Have Sony got something bigger, better and brighter hidden up their sleeves?

Could the goggleboxes future be shaped by things like the CellTV?

Let me know below :)

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The New Apple Will be Unveiled – Here’s the Invite

January 19, 2010 Click to read more →
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Apple has sent invitations to lucky members of the US press for a bit of a do on 27 January.
It takes place at 6pm GMT (10am local time), at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater as we already knew
Could this be the much talked about coming of the [...]

Google Nexus One is Here and so is the Google Store to Sell it!

January 5, 2010 Click to read more →
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When Google decided to sell their own Android blower, the Nexus One, almost as many column inches were given to how they’d do this as were given to the actual handset.
Well, they’ve opened a new store, from which they plan to sell Android phones from a variety of carriers and manufacturers.
This will be a one-stop-shop [...]

Mewbox – On the Go Music Downloads on Android

December 4, 2009 Click to read more →
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Mewbox – not a new dry cat food or a mash-up of Robbie Williams’ failed 2006 album and a Danish alternative rock band.
Mewbox is actually a new music download service that originally launched with the Archos 5 Android slate but has now gone live for all Android phones.
This means that whether you’re going to [...]

Moto Milestone / Droid Will Be Available in UK from Next Week

November 30, 2009 Click to read more →
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The Motorola Milestone, or Droid as it’s known Stateside, has been confirmed to land in Blighty from December 7.
The Milestone will be the first handset powered by Android 2.0 (or Eclair) and it will come with a 60 day free trial of MOTONAV.
Expansys has now confirmed that it’s expecting shipment of the handsets on [...]

The First Else – A Linux Smartphone That’s Better Than Everything errrr Else?

November 25, 2009 Click to read more →
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Else is an Israeli company that has designs on the European and British smartphone markets.
They’ve taken quite the novel approach with the First Else which they’ve started from scratch with a Linux-based user interface with some equally novel innovations.
You get a honeycomb-shaped options menu which is accessed by a button along the side of [...]

Sony Help Forest Guard to Become Reality – Wildfire

October 29, 2009 Click to read more →
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Sony Europe is helping a young team in its bid to stop the devasting effects of wildfires.
The team of six, whose ‘Forest Guard’ idea won the recent Climate Actions contest, were invited to Sony’s headquarters in Basingstoke to work with Sony engineers on making their idea come alive for the first time.
The team [...]

Foursquare Social Gaming Comes to London – Earn Points and Badges by Eating, Drinking and Partying Round the Capital

October 8, 2009 Click to read more →
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Foursquare has announced that it’s bringing its location-based social networking game here to London.
The service that started in March awards points and badges for experiencing things in certain locations and is apparently quite the hit over in the USA but remains pretty much unknown on this side of the pond.
Foursquare is a location service-based social network/game.
It’s [...]

Microsoft Stopping Zune HD Coming to the UK, Europe, Anywhere Outside the States

September 11, 2009 Click to read more →
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There had word on the street that Microsoft had no plans bring the Zune HD to France.
That has escalated to the point that the Zune wont even break the US borders!
Ars Technica went direct to Redmond to find out if it’s true:
“For the time being the Zune HD device will remain US only,” a [...]

Twitter Interview With Sony Europe TV – Twinterview @timpage @sonyeurope

August 14, 2009 Click to read more →
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For those of you that follow me on Twitter you will have seen my twinterview with Sony’s Tim Page, Senior Technology Marketing Manager for TV’s.
For you guys that missed it we managed to cover what Sony is doing for people with disabilities, their plans for 3D televisions (possibly without needing 3D glasses) and whether there’s [...]

Sony Walkman S-Series Specs and Prices Revealed

August 10, 2009 Click to read more →
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We all shared the leaked pictures of Sony’s S-Series Walkman and could only guess as to what the all important specs could be.
Well – guess no more!
Thanks to French retailer Material the actual specs have been outed.
So, as well as those stereo speakers on the front the new Walkman has a 2.4-inch (QVGA) screen [...]

Sky 3D Channel Coming Next Year

July 30, 2009 Click to read more →
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Well, as most of us rushed to get on the HD tele bandwagon and bragged about the definition to our less kitted out buddies – praps they’re gonna be the ones that have the last laugh as HD is going to appear old hat next year.
3D is where all the cool kids are going to [...]

Netbooks Helping Credit Crunched Tech!

April 16, 2009 Click to read more →
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Ok, so I’ve come back home after a busy day and, amongst other things, performing an acoustic set and meeting my cousin for “a few drinks” in South Kensington – I still think that Crave have a valid point and a great graph to illustrate this!
The lovely people over at Crave have pointed out that [...]

EU Directive Makes ISP’s Store Your Web Habits

April 7, 2009 Click to read more →
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Can you smell that?
That’s the distinct whiff of 1984 in the air.
A new EU directive means that from today all Internet service providers are required to keep data on your user habits and usage.
It states that all ISPs in the Union have to, by law, keep records for a year of online communications.
Thankfully, your emails and Internet phone calls will [...]

Sony RHT-G950 and G550 TV Stands With Hidden Cinema Surround Sound

March 19, 2009 Click to read more →

I have brought you speaker-loaded stands from Onei and Evesham already but if you want something a little more….how should I say it?
Subtle.
Then have a butchers at what Sony are bringing to the party.
The Sony RHT-G Series will give you home cinema surround audio and somewhere to shove that Bravia of yours.
You get a choice [...]

Sony PSP to get Own Comic Store

March 17, 2009 Click to read more →

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has been asking PSP users what they reckon about having a comic book store.
The store would be accessible from the PSP and be able to be downloaded to the Playstation Portable.
Sony seems most concerned with how it’d price the comics—a la carte, or subscription-based?
What would you go for?
Personally I’d prefer to [...]

iPod / iPhone Metal Gear Solid Touch Update

March 13, 2009 Click to read more →

Konami has announced that Metal Gear Solid Touch which, incidentally, known as, Time Crisis: The Revent of Solid Snake will be available for download next week for $10.
The source only mentions a Japanese release, but Kotaku has it from Konami that there’ll be a simultaneous US release.
UK anyone?
Let me know if you’ve heard anything about a [...]

Sky’s 3D Television Service Available By Christmas 2009

March 10, 2009 Click to read more →

Sky is pushing their eagerly anticipated 3D TV service to be hitting a telebox near you by Christmas!
That’s what chief engineer, Chris Johns is hoping after recent trials of the 3D broadcasting service.
“Our aim is to refine 3D techniques and TV production and build a content library over the coming year,” Johns told the Digital TV [...]

Microsoft Surface Ready To Buy in UK! TV Dinners Will Be Great!

March 2, 2009 Click to read more →

Your other half wants you to get a new coffee table.
Boooh!
But then you realise what has just been released to buy in the UK.
Hoorah!!
The Microsoft Surface has now been officially launched in the UK, as well as in 11 other European markets.
Just don’t tell that partner of yours that the account and credit card will [...]