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Voodoo Envy 133 laptop is the world's slimmest
By Nick Mansell on Wednesday, 11 June 2008

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Sorry MacBook Air, there's a new thinnest laptop in town. Voodoo's Envy 133 is a tiny 17.9mm to Apple's lardy 19.4mm effort. Weighing a sprightly 1.5kg, the 13.3in model comes with carbon fibre casing in a variety of colours and hails from Voodoo's new Business division - all part of the takeover by HP (Voodoo founder Rahul Sood has a lot on this on his blog). More after the jump.

Tags: laptops  macbook air  voodoo 
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Sony Ericsson's 8.1MP cam phone
By Nick Mansell on Wednesday, 11 June 2008

Not a confirmed one this, but the Unofficial Sony Ericsson Blog claims to have leaked shots of the upcoming Cyber-Shot C905 with a stonking 8.1MP to its name.

Several full-time camera features also find their way onto the spec list including autofocus, face recognition, image stabilisation (presumably only the electronic variety) and a proper xenon flash. Like the iPhone 3G, it also has GPS for geotagging shots and an accelerometer for rotating the display.

The only disappointment is the lack of optical zoom and a pretty stingy QVGA 2.4in display. The USE blog says it'll be here by December for around £400 sim-free, complete with a 2GB Memory Stick Micro. Rather puts iPhone's 2MP snapper into the shade.

 
Selling your iPhone to buy an iPhone 3G? Here's how to erase your personal data first
By Julian Prokaza on Wednesday, 11 June 2008

Read more...With the iPhone 3G due to go on sale in a month, lots of owners will no doubt be looking to sell their old models before they upgrade – particularly since O2 will be offering iPhone PAYG SIM cards that letes you use an iPhone on the cheap.

The problem, as we reported last month, is that it’s impossible to completely erase all of your personal data from the iPhone using iTunes alone. The recovery process may be complicated, but that’s hardly reassuring for anyone looking to flog their phone on eBay.

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Full details of the Eee PC 900 UK battery upgrade offer announced
By Julian Prokaza on Wednesday, 11 June 2008

Read more...Following complaints from Eee PC 900 owners about the lacklustre performance of its battery, Asus has finally announced the details of its battery upgrade programme it’s been hinting at for the last few weeks. Billed as a “special summer promotion” by Asus (cue angry cries from irate Eee PC owners), it consists of three parts – full details after the cut.

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No free upgrades for UK iPhone owners after all
By Julian Prokaza on Tuesday, 10 June 2008

Read more...O2 has announced its tariffs for the new iPhone 3G. The 8Gb iPhone 3G will cost £99 on O2’s new £30 per month tariff; the 16Gb model will cost £159. Both models will be free on its highest £75 per month tariff.

Unfortunately, the free O2 upgrade offer for exisiting iPhone owners we initially reported turned out to be untrue. O2 is letting customers break their exisiting 18-month iPhone contract if they sign up to a new 18-month iPhone 3G contract, but that's all they get from the deal. More details after the cut.

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Samsung's iPhone rival - the Omnia
By Nick Mansell on Tuesday, 10 June 2008

We're not sure why Samsung decided it would be a good idea to announce a touchscreen smartphone at the same time as the iPhone 3G but it might be just the thing Windows fans are looking for as they step over the queue of sleeping-bag wrapped shoppers outside the Apple Store.

Sporting Windows 6.1 it manages to pack in a 5mp camera with face detection (to the iPhone's bog standard 2mp), GPS and 7.2Mbps HSDPA. The screen's smaller at 3.2in to iPhone's 3.5 but it does have DivX, XviD, H.264, WMV and MP4 video support, as well as video capture.

It'll be going head to head with the iPhone 3G when it launches in Europe next month. We've got a pretty good idea who the winner will be.

 
Ofcom paves the way for 4G
By Nick Mansell on Tuesday, 10 June 2008

Read more...Turns out that whole digital switchover isn't just about being able to watch Simon Schama 24/7 on UKTV History - it's actually all about freeing up space for new services. Ofcom's just published detailed proposals of what it actually plans to do with all the spare bandwidth that turning off analogue TV will create.

The bandwidth will be auctioned off in UK-wide chunks and Ofcom believes high-speed mobile broadband, aka 4G, will be one of the top uses. Mobile telly is also a prime candidate for using the space, as well as extra standard or HD channels.

Tags: 4g  mobile tv 
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£99 iPhone 3G lands 11th July
By Nick Mansell on Tuesday, 10 June 2008

Read more...Well, Steve Jobs came on stage at WWDC and didn't disappoint - a black polo neck and blue jeans. Classic! Oh, and there was a small mention of a 3G iPhone as well.

The iPhone 3G (the official name) will launch in the UK and US on Friday 11th July. O2 once again has the exclusive and Carphone Warehouse has already confirmed that it will also be the only independent retailer to stock it. Expect orderly queues outside Apple stores too.

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Moto offers full-length movie dowloads
By Nick Mansell on Monday, 09 June 2008

Read more...Motorola's been pushing the movie playing experience on mobiles such as the Z10 lately. Now it's taken the next natural step and offered movie downloads via its hellomoto.com website.

The full length films aren't delivered over the air but rather downloaded via PC to be transferred to a phone. It's a simple drag and drop process but the handset is required to go online and download a license key before the file will play.

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Asus's gaming duo
By Nick Mansell on Monday, 09 June 2008

Read more... Apparently there's more to Asus than just endless Eee iterations. Two new gaming laptops have been spotted at this year's Computex show in Taiwan. Gracing the stands in Taipei the G50V and G71V, sporting all-new cases in fetching orange or red.

The smaller G50V (pictured) boasts an option for a 3D display (which Cnet notes isn't great for gaming or full-length movies). The 15.6in screen is powered by a 512MB Nvidia GeForce 9700M graphics card and it gets up to 4GB RAM, two 320GB hard drives and bash-resistant keys for keyboard abusing gamers.

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