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Acer Liquid A1 Now Available in UK – First Snapdragon Android Smartphone

by Jay Garrett on December 9, 2009

Acer_Liquid_A1Cast your gadgety minds back to October and Acer’s announcement of their Liquid A1 Android powered smartphone.

Now, The Acer Liquid A1 is for sale and stands as being the first handset from anyone to run Google’s mobile Andoid OS on Qualcomm’s 1GHz Snapdragon hardware – albeit underclocked to 768MHz. Don’t ask me why – they just have.

But if you do buy this you’ll have the bragging rights to having the only model phone to run this processor for a while as, to my mind, the others wont start to appear til well into 2010.

Now, most companies would’ve created quite the song-and-dance about the release of a world’s first and new product – but not so Acer. I’ve discovered this news quite by accident to be honest.

As a recap: The Liquid A1 features a 3.5in WVGA capacitive touchscreen, WiFi, Bluetooth and a five megapixel camera.

Play.com and Amazon are still listing it for pre-order but eXpansys and others are already retailing for next day delivery.

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Nokia London Flagship Store To Close Before its Second Birthday

by Jay Garrett on December 4, 2009

Nokia-storeThe Finnish flagship presence on Regent Street is due to close after only opening in February 2008.

A familiar trend in these times of the crunch, the store is closing for the same reason most stores are closed: it’s not paying for itself.

A Nokia spokeswomen declared that it’s “not been as efficient or as profitable” as the company hoped it would be.

The Nokia Regent Street store offers various services and phones that are either unlocked, or connected to the major UK carriers (O2, Vodafone, T-Mobile, Orange and 3). Customers were treated as “guests” and could play unhassled with handsets.

The store, in the former Dickins & Jones building near Oxford Circus and just a hop-skip-and-a-jump away from the Apple Store, is likely to close early next year.

About 30 people will become jobless after the 7500 square foot store is closed.

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Yanko Store Opens – Buy Concepts and Gadgety Joy

October 20, 2009 Click to read more →
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Yanko Design has finally answered lots of gadgety prayers.
For too long have we marvelled at items such as the d*light pillow and magnetic spice racks without actually being able to own them.
But now this has changed good people!
Watch your credit card though
Here’s the link you need
Be patient – as you can [...]

Kymera Wand – Magic Control of Your Tech

September 14, 2009 Click to read more →
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Last week I had the good fortune to join in Firebox’s show-and-tell preview of their Christmas line.
Apart from the fizzy vodka, which was rather nice, it was a real magic wand that remained in my mind as I left The Gallery on Charing Cross Road.
The Kymera wand is the product of Chris Barnardo of The Wand [...]

Microsoft Store Plans Leaked – Pictures and Everything!

July 25, 2009 Click to read more →
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If you’re curious as to what Microsoft’s new retail stores are going to look like wonder no more – Gizmodo has been passed a Powerpoint presentation that shows all the plans and designs.
The presentation is by Lippincott, a “design and brand strategy” consultant firm with extensive retail experience that it appears Microsoft has hired to help develop [...]

Modu Modular Mobile Actually On Sale!

July 23, 2009 Click to read more →
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We knew that the clever Modu had hit production lines but now it’s made another bold step.
It has actually been released and is out there in the really-real world!
The carrier to debut this modular mobile is none-other than the Israel company’s local network Cellcom.
To deter any people saying things like “yerright – that’s real!” Mobo [...]

Asus Eee PC Seashell Has UK Price-Tag

May 6, 2009 Click to read more →
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Another Asus Eee PC!
This one is the 1008HA Seashell – the company’s new skinny 10 inch netbook and it’s now on sale in the UK.
It weighs in at 1.1kg and measures less than an inch thick at its fattest.
The netbook offers up the 1.67HGz Intel Atom N280 processor and claims to go for six hours [...]

Carl Zeiss Cinemizers Get iPhone Stamp

March 26, 2009 Click to read more →

Remember the Vuzix iWear?
Well these have got one over on them as they’ve been officially stamped with the ‘Works with iPhone’ tag!
I’m talking about the Carl Zeiss Cinemizer Plus range and as well as that iPhone stamp it also has gained the ‘Made for iPod‘ compliance so you can use these specs with any video-friendly iPod,
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Credit Card with Keypad – Secure Online Shopping +++

November 14, 2008 Click to read more →

I dread to think of the queues that this is going to cause if high-street stores bring this in but if it actually makes my transactions more secure and the threat of fraud lower then chalk me down for one.
This new card from MBNA has a built-in numeric keypad, and when you put in your [...]