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2 out of 5 Blackberry Owners Tempted by Forbidden Fruit

by Jay Garrett on March 20, 2010

Could it be that even the most ardent of Blackberry owners are preparing to turn their backs on their QWERTY machines once the iPhone 4G or iPhone HD is released?

This seems to be the case according to a survey conducted by Crowd Science. It revealed that a staggering 2 out of 5 Blackberry users said that they would to move over to the Appley handset once their contract comes up for renewal.

It appears that the major hang-up that the RIM phone lovers have is the lack of security features on the iPhone – you know, the backdoors that allow people to jailbreak the iPhone OS.

Are you a Blackberry user? Are you tempted to defect over and join us on the Apple side of the street?

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Sony PSP Phone and Tablet may Become Reality

by Jay Garrett on March 8, 2010

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 Service having iTunes firmly in its sights and add that to a bunch of new mobile gadgets to use SOS – it sounds like plots are forming.

The report claims a source says that there will be a PSP-phone and an iPad style tablet that “blurs distinctions among a netbook, an e-reader and a PSP.”

These new devices will join the PSP Go and get access to SOS which will enable them access to games, music, movies and, more-than-likely, e-books.

I’m just hoping that Sony has looked at and taken on-board the feedback received after the lower-than-expected sales that the PSP Go has had thus far ;)

I’m interested to see what Sony come up with and must admit – I’m more than a little excited by the prospect :)

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Assassin’s Creed II Multiplayer – Download FREE For 48 Hours

March 1, 2010 Click to read more →
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Yup – I’m downloading as I type.
Ubisoft has released the multiplayer edition of Assassin’s Creed II for iPhone, and it’s completely free to download for the first two days! Beautiful!
Don’t be expecting a friend frenzy version of the original Assassin’s Creed II iPhone game though.
This is a birds-eye view sneak fest and not the [...]

Nintendo Zii Trademarked – New Console, Handheld or What?

December 15, 2009 Click to read more →
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Nintendo has just trademarked the title “Zii” in Japan which is to be used for computer games and electronic devices, according to the paperwork released today.
The company actually filed for the trademark on October 30, but this was only just released on the trademark database.
This means that Nintendo has protected the word [...]

Nokia N900 Delayed by Success

November 26, 2009 Click to read more →
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Have you been patiently awaiting the arrival of your Nokia N900 after loyally preordering it earlier this month?
It appears that the new Nokia has been hit by its own success and now you’ll have to add another week to your wait.
If you don’t quite remember what makes this handset so enticing the N900 runs on [...]

3 in 1 Ghostbusting Paranormal Tracking Instrument

November 17, 2009 Click to read more →
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If you’ve seen the film ‘Paranormal Activity’ you will have noticed that having a video camera isn’t the only thing you really need.
Any budding ghost-hunters will need an array of scientific instruments in order to prove and find the gad-about ghosts.
Thankfully, the folk over at Scientifics Online have just the very thing.
This spectre-finder has the [...]

DSi Gets Larger Screen and Becomes DSi LL – How Does it Compare With the Rest of the DS Family?

October 29, 2009 Click to read more →
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It was whispered about earlier this week and in a quick turn around the larger screened DSi is confirmed as being real.

Enter the Nintendo DSi LL.
Launched at a Nintendo press event in Tokyo, the Nintendo DSi LL will instantly be applauded by the eye-strained and Brain Training lovers that, by all accounts, tend to be [...]

Electrolux Can of Fire – Pack Away Fireplace

October 20, 2009 Click to read more →
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“Hang on – I just need to dive into the store and get four cans of fire.”
Sounds daft but if designer Camillo Vanacore gets their way this could be a quote from the future.
The capsule fireplace concept involves some sort of future-ceramic that apparently becomes transparent when exposed to heat.
It looks like this fireplace [...]

Sony PSP Go Goes Down in UK – Again!

October 5, 2009 Click to read more →
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Sony’s new “premium” handheld gaming and multi-media device, AKA PSPGo has been dropped in price by another source here in the UK.
Yup, following Tesco’s preorder price point, none other than Amazon have done the deed and dropped the Sony PSP Go! Console to £199.
So – is that it for the “aspirational” pricing as several UK [...]

Archos 9 Gets Release Date and UK Pricing – Windows 7 Tablet

July 6, 2009 Click to read more →
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There’s been a few different prices and release dates for the Archos 9 tablet since it was introduced early last month, but it looks like Archos has now come out and finally clarified things a bit for us all in the UK.
Apparently, we’ll be getting both the 80GB and 160GB versions of the Windows 7 [...]

Retro Mini Handheld NES – Retro Gaming With Actual NES Cartridges

May 14, 2009 Click to read more →
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I’m really loving this $50 Retro Mini Handheld NES System available from ThinkGeek.
The difference from those other portable emulation machines that you have to order from far away lands – this handheld ships right from the states and plays actual NES cartridges.
It’s powered by 4 AA batteries and apparently runs for over eight hours.
There’s also [...]

Pandora – Forum Designed Open Source Portable Gaming Machine

April 29, 2009 Click to read more →
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Say hello to Pandora – that’s not the name of the lovely lady, I’m talking about what she has in her hands.
The handheld is roughly the same size as the Nintendo DS (actual dimensions: 140×83×27mm (5.51×3.27×1.06 in)) and it kinda resembles the Nintendo DS lite.
Pandora is an open end platform that will specialise in homebrew applications [...]

Does iPhone 3.0 Point to 2.1 Hardware Upgrades?

March 18, 2009 Click to read more →

After the excitement of the iPhone OS 3.0 announcement there’s a few people taking the improvements as hints of what the next iPhone will be capable of – whether or not it will look like the 4G iPhone concept pic who knows!
So, what could we expect the iPhone 2.1 to be packing?
Let’s have a guess……
The obvious [...]

Asus R50A – Handheld Netbook (UMPC)

November 15, 2008 Click to read more →

When Asus mentioned that they were gonna produce an Ultra Mobile PC that was going to be priced somewhere around the €500 mark I thought to myself, “well it had better be good”
Well, they’ve  done it and the Asus R50A is actually shipping at €1,475!
It’s up to whether you think that a pocket PC that [...]

Sega Mega Drive Hand Held – Pocket Sonic

July 18, 2008 Click to read more →

Those clever people at Blaze have announced that they’ve crammed the 16-bit Mega Drive into a handheld console.
The Blaze portable game player offers classics such as Sonic and Knuckles, Golden Axe, Shinobi and Ecco the Dolphin that can all be re-lived in true Nineties style.
Other games on the list include Alex Kidd – Enchanted Castle, Alien [...]

Star Wars Nintendo DS Stylus

July 2, 2008 Click to read more →

Light Saber Styluses? How Cool?!!?
Officially licensed by Star Wars these Nintendo DS styluses are just the ticket to cut open random people in that operating game and generally poke things in Brain Training.
Available in 2 packs:

A three-pack of standard plastic ones for $7.99
A two-pack of glowing ones for $16.99

They are unleashed on July 31 and then we [...]

Google For PSP – Firmware 4.00

June 17, 2008 Click to read more →

News is out that the PSP will be getting a boost to firmware version 4.00 “soon.”
The update includes the addition of Google search directly form the XMB interface, which Sony says “replicates the Google Internet search experience.” OooOooo!
That sounds the main thing, one of the other additions will be the ability to change the viewing speed during [...]

New Sony LJ – Tiny Keyboard

May 19, 2008 Click to read more →

Sony Korea has unveiled its latest LJ Series laptop, the VGC-LJ25L.
It has a 15.4-inch LCD screen, a built-in camera, microphone and speakers.  
It’s powered by a Core 2 Duo T8100 processor and offers 2GB of RAM and a 200GB HDD and a tiny half-size keyboard.
The board is what they describe as a “holding” keyboard.  It is apparently designed for more efficient [...]