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New Samsung Galaxy S to be Unveiled May 3rd

Samsung have announced an event on May 3rd in London to unveil the “Next Galaxy”. The much anticipated Galaxy S II successor has been the subject of all manner of debate with specifications encompassing a veritable geek wishlist. Rumours point to the device being big (around 5 inches, give or take), fast (quad core processor) and sexy (transparent! No, really, someone mocked it up). The success of the Galaxy Note points to potentially having a stylus also although we would take that one with a pinch Read more [...]

Asphalt 6 now free via GetJar

Gameloft’s popular street racing game ‘Asphalt 6: Adrenalin’ is now available for free via GetJar Gold, saving you the princely sum of 69p off the Android Market version. It is a nice little racer, if it works on your device that is. It is not available for some Samsung Galaxy devices via Android Market but you may be able to get it free via Samsung’s app store. Which rather defeats the rigmarole of going via GetJar in my case. But now that it is free virtually everywhere, does this mean that Asphalt Read more [...]

Asus aren’t the only ones with a keyboard docked Android tablet

Chinese outfit Lenovo has announced they are following in the footsteps of Asus with the Ideatab S2. The Android 4 packed fondleslab might not be as powerful as the new Asus Transformer Prime with a dual core 1.5GHz processor but it should come in cheaper, and certainly the 16Gb option gives it a more reasonable price tag when it gets released in the west later this year. Besides, who needs all 4 cores of a Tegra 3? The keyboard dock will pack in an additional battery and a claimed 20 hours of operation. Read more [...]

Lenovo announce 55″ Ice Cream Sandwich TV

In one of the few examples of a holistic approach to digital content consumption, Lenovo has decided to go an throw a whole Android 4.0 implementation inside a 55 inch TV. The IPS panel (read: iPad stuff) gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “smart TV” with full 1080p resolution and a 1.5GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. There’s 1GB of Ram and a 5Mp camera to boot. Lenovo have developed a “Sandwich” user interface which gives the user video on demand, internet apps and regular television Read more [...]