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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 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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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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10 Billion iTunes Downloads! Bands Missing in Mass Music Market.

February 25, 2010 Click to read more →
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It’s happened!
10,000,000,000 songs have been sold through iTunes.
So, who’s top of the iPops then?
Guitarists, look away now as there’s not much evidence of axe-weilding amongst the 20 most-downloaded iTunes songs of all time.
The only ‘real’ bands spotted in the charts are Coldplay (in at 5 with Vida la Vida) and Plain White Ts (in [...]

Apple iPad Lowdown – Would I Buy One?

January 29, 2010 Click to read more →
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Ok, if it hadn’t been for the site borkage I would’ve posted a breaking news item about the new Apple iPad.
As it is, now the excitement of the event has ebbed away, I shall write up a breakdown of the new handheld and try to look at the new tablet a bit more……. evenly.
Righty, this [...]

Apple Tablet Price Slips out as does Other Product(s)

January 26, 2010 Click to read more →
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Not long now.
Apple’s ‘latest creation’ should appear in a few short hours and the loose lips have started.
A German electronics retailer apparently Tweeted the European launch date and pricing for the Apple iSlate.
Ooopsy!
Media Markt let slip that the iSlate would cost 499 Euros on a T-Mobile contract, or 899 Euros without which, if all things [...]

INQ 3G Socially Active Phone Now Available in UK – Loves iTunes

December 12, 2009 Click to read more →
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The INQ Chat 3G handset, remember – the ‘BlackBerry for the Facebook generation’?
Well it’s now on sale for the stocking-filler price of £100.
The social butterfly’s blower looks like it shares parentage with some of RIM’s most loved offers up widgets for Twitter and Facebook right there on the homescreen.
There’s great news for those that get [...]

Free iTunes Christmas Album – iTunes Holiday Sampler

December 10, 2009 Click to read more →
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Ho-ho-ho!
As well as doing their 12 Days of Christmas freebies again starting on Boxing Day to help load up your new Apple tune slinger they’re giving away a free album right now!
They’re offering quite a selection of holiday tracks that includes the likes of O Come All Ye Faithful by Amy Grant, We Wish You [...]

iTunes Moving to The Cloud – Freeing up Your Hard-Drive

December 6, 2009 Click to read more →
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Apple is looking to acquire audio streaming company Lala – if they get the deal then this could free up all of that prime real-estate on your various hard-drives if, like me, you have 50 days or more’s worth of constant music sat in digital audio form.
The move could also improve your music’s [...]

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 [...]

Would You Pay for Online Magazines? iTunes for Glossy Mags

November 26, 2009 Click to read more →
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Time Inc, Condé Nast and Hearst are the big hitting publisher that are planning to create “iTunes for magazines” – an online store where you’d be able to buy and download digital editions of their biggest magazine titles.
The obvious hope is that the online store would provide a bolster to the endangered and often overpriced [...]

EOps i24R3 Portable – Single Unit Wireless Surround Sound Speaker

November 4, 2009 Click to read more →
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Why have I got a picture of a broken table/giant spinning-top/dartboard/archery target?
This is none-of-the-above as you can well imagine.
What that happens to be is the EOps i24R3 Portable.
The real, working, funkiness is a wireless, waterproof, single-speaker surround sound system that has just been announced by Hong Kong designer Michael Young.
The system is a single sealed [...]

Want Windows 7 and Own an iPhone or iPod Touch? You’d Better Hang on!

November 2, 2009 Click to read more →
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No-one (apart from my BlackBerry owning friends) would argue that the iPhone is pretty much one of the most popular handsets out there at the moment.
After the disaster that was Vista, Windows is hoping that 7 will be the most popular OS.
Now, if I was Microsoft I’d be making sure that Windows 7 plays nicely [...]

NASA iPhone App – Check Out What’s Happening in Outerspace and Watch Space Junk Orbit Earth

October 27, 2009 Click to read more →
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Anyone with the slightest interest in what happens in the area above our atmosphere *must* get this new free iPhone app from NASA!
Yup – if the boring commute gets too much you can flip through the universe. How many other apps can do that?
You get to access NASA’s actual countdown clocks, view the NASA [...]

Google Audio – Search, Stream and Buy Music – One Box

October 21, 2009 Click to read more →
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It sounds as though Google will definitely be parading out a new rival to Spotify, Napster and the like.
Word on the web is that Google is in talks to shore up content from major music labels ahead of launch.
Nothing has been confirmed, but one tipster has called the service Google Audio, and it will launch [...]

Layar – The Mobile Augmented Reality App For Android and iPhone

October 15, 2009 Click to read more →
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Layar is another Augmented Reality app but, because it allows third-party developers to contribute ‘layers’ to their platform, it stands out from the rest such as Kooaba.
You see – most other AR apps pull their data from search engines, Wikipedia or review-based sites.
Layar’s intuative interface has four clear sections that list layers by name [...]

iPhone and iPod Touch to Get FM Radio – iTunes In

October 14, 2009 Click to read more →
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Radio…….Live transmission…
Well; radio may be coming to iPhone’s and iPod Touches if the word on the street is to be believed.
Apple is apparently developing an FM radio app for the pokable handhelds.
They’re already fitted with FM radio chips it’s just that Apple hasn’t switched them on yet.
9to5Mac, which has a reliable track record for [...]

iTunes LP Lets the Indie Labels in

October 13, 2009 Click to read more →
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iTunes LP ruffled plenty many feathers when US Indie label, Chocolate Lab, claimed Apple was keeping the new album artwork format for the majors only citing an incredible $10,000 production fee for iTunes LP.
An Apple spokesperson has announced that it’s “releasing the open specs for iTunes LP soon, allowing both major and indie labels to [...]

iPhone OS 3.1.2 Wakes Up Your Apple Handset From Coma

October 9, 2009 Click to read more →
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I know that my 3Gesus phone and those of my two bandmates have all been hit by the coma so we’re pretty happy that this minor update to the iPhone OS should fix some that and the other annoying issues that some users have been having.
Also it will stop Rom from being so smug with [...]

7digital Takes The Fight to iTunes on American and Canadian Soil

October 7, 2009 Click to read more →
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7digital will be a known name to those who legally download tunes here in the UK.
That will soon be changing – but in a good way.
The Great British MP3 download site has just thrown open its doors to the US of A taking on the might of iTunes.
Not only is 7digital taking on the huge [...]

Yell.com iPhone app – Let Your UK Fingers Do The Walking to Find Take-Aways, Pubs, Mini Cabs, etc

October 7, 2009 Click to read more →
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Most of us will have used the Yellow Pages.
A lot of us now use Yell.com.
Now, if you’re the owner of an iPhone or iPod Touch….. yup….. there’s an app for that.
The app allows its users to quickly and easily locate the more than two million UK local businesses that are available on Yell.com.
iPhone users can [...]