The days of highly priced, unaffordable tablets may well and  truly be numbered. The Acer Iconica Tab A500 has landed in the US market with prices starting at $450 for the WiFi model running Android 3.0 exclusively through BestBuy online.  This affordable price makes it more attractive to the budget conscious tablet buyer who may be looking at alternatives to the more expensive Motorola Xoom (WiFi only model) which has the equivalent hardware specifications. Sean Hollister from Engadget has written up a comprehensive review of the Icon Tab A500 and provided a picture gallery.  […]

I was in the UK last week. If I had seen this offer I probably would have jumped at it. A 5″ tablet with Google apps, reasonable cam, Cortex cpu and a nice build that runs Android 2.2 now. Tesco, the biggest retailer in the UK are offering the Dell Streak at £199. Now I realise that some of you may not be too happy buying from Tesco (Hello Bristol) but this is a great deal if you’re looking to go for the ‘pub phone’ + tablet combo or, if […]

Sony has caused a buzz in the Android tablet market by announcing not one, but two Sony Tablets which will be available globally come Q3, 2011. Both of the Sony Tablets are designed to deliver  “an entertainment experience where users can enjoy cloud-based services on-the-go at any time”, with Sony aiming to “create a new lifestyle by integrating consumer hardware, including ‘Sony Tablet’ with content and network inch. Here’s a quick video showing the tablets during Sony’s announcement: Sony has yet to announce official names for the two tablets and […]

When i met Vodafone at Cebit this year they were recording video response to the question ‘What’s The Cloud for you?’ I repeated a statement that I’ve made on the podcast a few times now – The Cloud isn’t mobile. There are few places in the world where you can rely on the connection between you and the Cloud to be stable and fast. In most parts of the world the Cloud is either unstable, slow or very expensive. You can’t build any sort of quality process on something that […]

As I was researching new ways to manage documents on my Galaxy Tab yesterday I stumbled across a Google Docs application which I hadn’t seen before. It turns out it was released yesterday! As someone who uses Google applications heavily, both on the desktop and on my mobile devices, I was of course interested to see how far it extends into the realms of true productivity. It turns out that it is no match for the real deal in a real browser with a real mouse and keyboard but it […]

Remember when Apple released the iPhone 4 in June of 2010? First they said they were going to release a white version of it. Then they said they weren’t. Now, almost a year later, they say they are. And for some reason this is spreading around the web like wildfire. In fact, the search “white iphone 4 inch is outstripping “obama birth certificate inch according to Google Search Insight: Every once and a while, the internet makes me sad. Have you folks ever heard of newsworthiness? If you aren’t a […]

When the ultra mobile PC world had a little more momentum than it does today, Sony had a few high-end offerings that stood head and shoulders above most other models in that they had some amazing engineering and used some relatively high-end CPUs. The Sony UX range had a huge fan-base and still stands on its own against competitors today. Looking at the Freestyle PC that was revealed in  a Sony presentation a few days ago, I see another unique product. Is this a sub 10 inch slider? ‘Freestyle’ indicates […]

The recently released Photosynth app for iOS is an impressive and effective (and free!) tool for making high-quality interactive panoramic photos directly on your mobile device. The Photosynth project is the brainchild of Microsoft Live Labs. It started as a neat service that was capable of combining hundreds of photographs from similar areas and allowing the user to virtually fly around to each photo. Later, support for uploading traditional panoramic photos and creating interactive ones from your desktop came online. Now they’ve unleashed an awesome new app for creating mobile […]