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What Do Gadgety People of the UK Want From the iTablet?

by Jay Garrett on January 26, 2010

Top shopping website VoucherCodes.co.uk commissioned a survey of 3,000 people across the nation, which lays bare what Britons want from Apple’s latest creation and what they might be prepared to pay for it.

Worryingly for Apple CEO Steve Jobs, price is a key concern for British shoppers.

The OnePoll survey of 3,000 people from across the UK revealed that 54% of British consumers would consider buying the Apple iTablet, however, 25% would only buy it if it was the right price.

46% of British consumers indicated that they would only be prepared to spend £250 on the Apple iTablet a long way off what the most recent rumour has it as.

More encouragingly if the new device has strong gaming functionality then there would appear to be a huge opportunity for Apple to take the lucrative gaming industry by storm. 49% of British shoppers indicated that they would find an Apple iTablet a more desirable gaming device than the Nintendo DS or a Sony PSP if it could play games.

Do People Want It?

  • 54% in total would consider buying an Apple iTablet
  • 25% would buy it at the right price
  • 8% would buy it with the right features
  • 14% will wait for Apple to iron out any bugs
  • 2% would buy it immediately
  • 40% see no use for or have no interest in it

What Would People Pay?

  • 46% of British consumers would only be prepared to spend £250 on the Apple iTablet
  • 25% would pay £500
  • 21% would pay less than £100

What Do People Most Want It To Do?

  • Web browser
  • Download and read books, magazines and newspapers on the go
  • Download and view movies on a high resolution screen
  • Download, manage and play music
  • Writing slate that converts handwriting to text

What Do People Want to Read on the Apple iTablet?

  • Books (54%)
  • Newspapers (48%)
  • Work or Study Documents (26%)
  • Blogs (20%)
  • Adult material (7%)

What Would People Pay for a Weekly Newspaper Subscription on the iTablet?

  • Nothing (Free) (35%)
  • Less than £1 (17%)
  • £1 (12%)
  • £2 (16%)
  • £3 (5%)

Gaming

  • 49% of British shoppers would prefer an Apple iTablet to a Nintendo DS or a Sony PSP if it could play games.

Most Popular Names for the Apple iTablet

  • iTablet (27%)
  • iPad (25%)
  • iSlate (12%)

Least Popular Names for the Apple iTablet

  • iBrick (1.43%)
  • iChunk (1.87%)
  • iSlab (2.13%)

 

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4G Comes to Stockholm, Oslo and… Slough!

by Jay Garrett on December 16, 2009

4g_jpgYou know how it is.

We were happy with 3G when it came out but that was like ages ago!

We need 4G now!

You may have heard that those lucky TeliaSonera customers over in Sweden and Norway have got access to the speedy service and, as not to be left out, so has Slough!

Where the 4G is ticking over (Stockholm and Oslo) the users will require special Samsung modems – well, there aren’t any 4G phones yet.

TeliaSonera wants to bring the 4G lovin to 25 Swedish cities and three Norwegian cities by this time next year as well as having a licence to roll it out to Finland.

So, Slough.

The O2 HQ happens to be based in Slough and this is where the UK 4G is being tested and they seem quite happy with it and it may even cover that patchy 3G coverage of theirs ;)

But don’t go slinging the 3G dongles in the trash just yet as 4G modems aren’t backwards-compatible to 3G at the mo. Take a leaf out of the Scandinavian’s books and keep hold until at least the second half of next year.

OK then – what is this 4G and why is it so special?

4G refers to Long Term Evolution, a tweaked version of High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA), which makes your 3G phones and dongles work.

To be considered 4G the connection must have a downlink rate of at least 100Mbps and an uplink rate of at least 50Mbps – or up to 10 times faster than the 7.5Mbps of current HSDPA. Nice :)

In the tropics of Slough, O2 reckons it’s hit 150Mbps so with data rates like that, high-quality video, music and games could be streamed to your phone effortlessly and, more importantly, quickly!

No real sign of when we can expect 4G in Blighty but at least it looks like O2 is having a play with it.

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Sega Megadrive Console Returns To Shops in a ‘Blaze’ of Glory

March 13, 2009 Click to read more →

Blaze.
Remember the name?
It’s those folks that shoved a Sega Mega Drive into a handheld with 20 games built-in for £30.
Now the very same company is releasing a slim profile home console to plug into your TV in that old skool Megadrive stylee.
It will have 15 games built-in including Altered Beast, Golden Axe and Sonic & Knuckles as [...]

3G iPhone – Haves and Have Nots

June 9, 2008 Click to read more →

Ok people – here’s a quick once over of the latest iPhone:

It’s tri-band 3G. This same phone will ship worldwide.
WiFi is still 802.11b/g, no support for n yet.
The GPS is A-GPS
Geotagging photos is a yes.
The screen looks exactly the same
The camera is identical to the first – yup, that puny 2 megapixels. No front-facing camera [...]