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Review: Alcatel One Touch 990

By TechRadar, published 31-10-2011

Overview, design and feelSome phones are all about power; others affordability. Alcatel's One Touch 990 (or OT-990) falls firmly into the latter category, as you'd expect given the company's reputation as a purveyor of budget phones. So the question we're asking here isn't what exciting tech helps this rival Samsung's Galaxy S2, HTC's Sensation, Sony Ericsson's Xperia Arc, or any of the other powerhouses in our 20 best mobile phones list.Rather we're concerned with whether it's money well spent. Especially when the world contains the likes of Orange's budget titan, the San Francisco. If you read our review of it, you'll know we lost our heart to that phone because of its amazing competence given its paltry cost. Other rivals worth bearing in mind are the INQ Cloud Touch, which excels at so...

Review: Nokia 700

By TechRadar, published 25-10-2011

Overview, design and feel?The Nokia 700, touted as the world's smallest smartphone, is dropping as part of a trio of Nokia handsets (the 600, 700 and 701) running the new Symbian Belle interface. And it is indeed small. It's slim. It's quite sleek too, and many other 'S' adjectives as well. The thin frame holds a 3.2-inch AMOLED ClearBlack touchscreen, 5MP and VGA cameras, an external speaker hugging the bottom curve, and all this in only a 92g, 9.7mm-thick phone. It's pretty swish.The smooth battery cover has a brushed steel finish that feels smooth to the touch, encasing the 5MP camera with LED flash and - happily - a tiny clip, meaning no scrabbling around to get the cover off.There's an almost miniscule camera soft key on the right side, plus a lock button and slightly longer volume ro...

Rocksmith Review: Learn To Play Guitar

By GameInformer, published 24-10-2011

Rocksmith teaches you to play guitar, and it lets you use any guitar with a pickup to do it. The game is an impressive feat in music education wrapped up in the trappings of a game. While several other franchises will give you a more enjoyable party game, more robust unlockables, and flashier graphics, no other video game title offers such an impressive suite of tools to get you playing an honest-to-goodness musical instrument. The technology on display is remarkable. Plug your own guitar into the game console using a cord that comes with the game. Start playing. It’s as simple as that. A simple-to-use in-game tuner helps you keep things sounding right. Songs automatically adjust the output sound to match the tone of the original guitar part, and you hear the notes you pl...

Review: Sony Ericsson Mix Walkman

By TechRadar, published 10-11-2011

Overview, design and feelThe latest budget offering in the Walkman-branded mobile phone range by Sony Ericsson brings the music to the party, but what we'd like to know is: does it bring much else?Firstly, it's a chunky-but-light candybar phone with a curved, rubberised plastic back that sits fine in the palm but doesn't feel particularly solidly built. Style-wise, it apes the standard black appearance of its higher-specced stablemates, but comes with one of a range of plastic customisation bands that we can only imagine is intended to appeal to the young music-loving audience the phone's aimed at.The overall effect, however, is a little tacky. Still, the Sony Ericsson Mix Walkman certainly isn't ugly, it's just more of a non-descript pebble than a thing of beauty, that's all. The back is ...

Don't Call It A Comeback: 7 Products That Saved Their Companies (And 2 That Didn't)

By MaximumPC, published 19-08-2011

They say fate's a fickle mistress, but destiny's got nothing on the free market. For every Microsoft-esque success story, there's the burnt out husk of Sun Microsystems (R.I.P.). The really interesting tales have nothing to do with overwhelming successes or overwhelming failures, though; any budding novelist can tell you that a good story needs some tension. Join us as we take a look back at ten companies that found themselves broken, beaten, and battered, leaning on the ropes and looking woozy. Seven of them were able to summon the strength of Soda Popinksi and roar back to life stronger than ever. Two Glass Joe wannabes tried to put up a fight but found themselves on the mat in short order. The last one's still covering its face and playing rope-a-dope. Can it survive after staring down ...

Brand new unlocked Palm Pixi Plus is priced at $79.99 - no contract required

By phoneArena, published 08-01-2011

It’s rather difficult to say why it’s happening, but one web site is selling the unlocked version of the Palm Pixi Plus for a mere $79.99 – and that doesn’t require any contracts! Maybe it could be due to an abundance of stock...

Review: Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo

By TechRadar, published 29-06-2011

Sitting pretty in the hand, the small Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo smartphone and its 8.1-megapixel camera offer photographic skills far beyond what you'd expect for its 125g weight. The 3.7-inch screen with multi-touch Reality display is nice and sharp, and benefits colour-wise from Mobile Bravia technology. However it fares poorly in direct sunlight, with us having to pull the ol' hand-as-a-sun-blocker move. The phone is small enough to use comfortably with one hand, so it's not a huge problem, but essentially, with smartphones such as the Samsung Galaxy S2 carrying AMOLED and the Apple iPhone 4 with its Retina display technology, should we really be having problems with direct sunlight any more?But, moving on, the (blue for us) semi-anodised finish, curved posterior and well-distributed wei...

SlashGear Morning Wrap-Up, April 28th 2011

By SlashGear, published 28-04-2011

Good news this morning, with Verizon’s 4G LTE back online in time for the launch of the DROID Charge. But this is a black eye for Verizon, casting doubt on the reliability of their network, and leaving subscribers to wonder why they had to use a workaround to get 3G. We have a hands-on of the new white iPhone 4 that Chris Davies visited with in London, complete with a video and a comparison to the Samsung Galaxy S II. Also, users that had manually updated their Nook Color found their e-reader bricked after the 1.2 update was installed. No word yet on a fix, just that “engineers are investigating the issue“. Also, the Huawei lawsuit, RIM’s questionable OS update, the G-Slate, more on the Sony PSN story, plus the Samsung Galaxy S II launch in Korea. Lots more after th...

Buying Guide: 20 best mobile phones in the world today

By TechRadar, published 28-04-2011

Our verdict on the best mobile phones / best smartphones - constantly updated We've all got at least one mobile phone each, right? The trouble is, how do you decide which is the best mobile phone for you when you realise it's time to phone the network and trouble them for an upgrade?If you've read our list of the latest mobile phones, seen the hottest pre-release new mobile phones and are still stumped, well, this is where we make it easy. Because here we have our constantly-updated list of the top 20 best mobile phones you can get in the UK.And now, after a glut of top-end mobile phones steaming out from Mobile World Congress 2011, we've just brought you our biggest update ever to this definitive chart.The big surprise was the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc nabbing top spot - the combo of Andro...

Buying Guide: 20 best mobile phones in the world today

By TechRadar, published 21-04-2011

Our verdict on the best mobile phones / best smartphones - constantly updated We've all got at least one mobile phone each, right? The trouble is, how do you decide which is the best mobile phone for you when you realise it's time to phone the network and trouble them for an upgrade?If you've read our list of the latest mobile phones, seen the hottest pre-release new mobile phones and are still stumped, well, this is where we make it easy. Because here we have our constantly-updated list of the top 20 best mobile phones you can get.And now, thanks to a glut of top-end mobile phones steaming out from Mobile World Congress 2011, we're bringing you our biggest update ever to our definitive chart.So what's changed? We've lost seven of the 20 from the previous ranking, the top ten has seen a hu...

Review: Nokia E7

By TechRadar, published 04-01-2011

If beauty were only screen deep, the Nokia E7 series would stand a good chance in a Miss Handset competition, even up against the likes of the iPhone 4, HTC Desire S and Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc. This QWERTY keyboard phone boasts a four-inch capacitive touchscreen, AMOLED ClearBlack display and sleek brushed aluminium casing that feels great in the hand. It's just under 14mm thick, but fairly lightweight for its size and depth. A strong double-thumbed push to the tilt and slide mechanism will reveal the well-spaced, rubber-buttoned QWERTY pad. The hinge is a little stiff, but the solidity is appreciated. The weight is nicely balanced held portrait, landscape or with the keypad out, and the touchscreen isn't overpowered by unwieldy additional keys. The soft keys it does have are spare and n...

Review: Nokia E7

By TechRadar, published 04-01-2011

If beauty were only screen deep, the Nokia E7 series would stand a good chance in a Miss Handset competition, even up against the likes of the iPhone 4, HTC Desire S and Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc. This QWERTY keyboard phone boasts a four-inch capacitive touchscreen, AMOLED ClearBlack display and sleek brushed aluminium casing that feels great in the hand. It's just under 14mm thick, but fairly lightweight for its size and depth. A strong double-thumbed push to the tilt and slide mechanism will reveal the well-spaced, rubber-buttoned QWERTY pad. The hinge is a little stiff, but the solidity is appreciated. The weight is nicely balanced held portrait, landscape or with the keypad out, and the touchscreen isn't overpowered by unwieldy additional keys. The soft keys it does have are spare and n...

Review: Nokia E7

By TechRadar, published 04-01-2011

If beauty were only screen deep, the Nokia E7 series would stand a good chance in a Miss Handset competition, even up against the likes of the iPhone 4, HTC Desire S and Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc. This QWERTY keyboard phone boasts a four-inch capacitive touchscreen, AMOLED ClearBlack display and sleek brushed aluminium casing that feels great in the hand. It's just under 14mm thick, but fairly lightweight for its size and depth. A strong double-thumbed push to the tilt and slide mechanism will reveal the well-spaced, rubber-buttoned QWERTY pad. The hinge is a little stiff, but the solidity is appreciated. The weight is nicely balanced held portrait, landscape or with the keypad out, and the touchscreen isn't overpowered by unwieldy additional keys. The soft keys it does have are spare and n...

HTC Flyer palm-rejection wins tableteer approval [Video]

By SlashGear, published 03-04-2011

As the tablet ecosystem hurriedly juggles to face the new iPad 2 threat, attention turns to slates with differentiating features to see if they’ve got what’s needed to stand their own against the Apple juggernaut. The HTC Flyer‘s stylus input option may not have met with universal approval at its MWC 2011 launch, but it looks like those keen on digital inking may well have a solid experience with the 7-incher. Carrypad tested out one of the most important features, palm-rejection, to see if the Flyer could hold up to proper pen use. Video demo after the cut Palm-rejection is basically the ability of a touchscreen device to ignore the touch of a hand leaning on the screen while a pen or stylus is being used. Officially known as vectoring, if not implemented properly t...

Off-contract brand new Verizon Palm Pixi Plus is selling for $45 shipped

By phoneArena, published 03-03-2011

We said it was bound to happen, but we’re seeing Verizon’s Palm Pixi Plus being sold for the new record off-contract pricing of only $45. Sure there are some basic smartphones out there priced for free, but of course...

Verizon's Palm Pixi Plus takes another price dip - $45 no-contract

By phoneArena, published 18-02-2011

Previously, we’ve seen third party sellers offering the smartphone at the no-contract price of $55 and even $50. Today though, we’re seeing a new record being made now that it’s going for the no-contract price of...

No-contract required Palm Pixi Plus for Verizon is selling for $54.99

By phoneArena, published 15-02-2011

It’s not the first time we’ve seen third party resellers knocking off some serious cash off of Verizon’s Palm Pixi Plus, but it’s so much better when they’re selling a no-contract required device for dirt cheap. This time...

Palm Pre 2 Hitting Verizon Tomorrow

By SlashGear, published 02-09-2011

Just announced from the HP Palm Think Beyond webOS event is that the long speculated Palm Pre 2 is finally hitting Verizon tomorrow. The device is the first to sport the webOS 2.0, but sadly this release announcement comes just as they announce exciting news about the Palm Pre 3. The Palm Pre 2 has been speculated to be available with Verizon sometime around this week and sure enough they’ve just made it official. The hype around the phone was mainly about the support for webOS 2.0. But other than that it doesn’t seem like there was too much excitement about the device considering that most major carriers had no plans to carry the device. And now with the Palm Pre 3 possibly available this summer, the Pre 2 may very well be just a tiny blip in the radar. Relevant Entries on...

Palm Made HP Relevant Again

By SlashGear, published 02-09-2011

It’s no secret that mobile, namely smart phones and tablets, is the hottest topic in the tech industry today. It’s almost as if companies who don’t have products in these categories are not even in the conversations dominating industry trade shows and conferences. Had HP not purchased Palm this would still be the case. However they did purchase Palm and now HP finds themselves right back in the middle of this fascinating mobile conversation, this time with a fresh suite of mobile products. During the era where traditional clamshell mouse and keyboard PC’s were the hottest topics, companies like Dell and HP, Lenovo, Toshiba, Sony, etc were the focus of many analysts like myself and media.  I still track all those companies extensively however the growth sectors for tech are now ...

HP Pre 3: Palm-less Pre announced

By TechRadar, published 02-09-2011

HP has announced the arrival of the HP Pre 3 at an event in San Francisco.HP has been talking up its press event this week for some time now, so TechRadar knew the company was looking to launch something big in the smartphone world – and that something is the arrival of the HP Pre 3, the first Pre without the Palm name.The successor to the Palm Pre 2 has a lot to do to become a real rival in the smartphone world.The originally Palm Pre was hit with underwhelming sales, as was its spin-offs the Palm Pixi and Palm Pre Plus.The Palm Pre 2 came just before Christmas 2010 and, again, wasn't quite the iPhone killer we were looking for.But it was a phone that boasted HP WebOS 2 and all the goodness that with it, including Flash 10.1 support and the new, innovative Stacks feature.Palm Pre 3 feat...

Palm Pre 2 from Verizon on February 17th?

By SlashGear, published 02-04-2011

Looks like the Palm Pre 2 is going to be available in less than two weeks, if you believe an internal product page from a third party retailer. This would be great a couple months ago, but the first webOS 2 device seems a little late to the party. The problem is that HP is having a Palm event on the 9th where it is expected to be highlight webOS devices like tablets and smartphones. Somebody should have checked their calendar. The Palm Pre 2 is supposed to be launch on “all channels” but I don’t think the rush of customers will be there. With the Verizon’s iPhone dropping on the 10th and the HP event on the 9th, the Palm Pre 2 looks to be a minor blip on the radar of consumers. I guess Verizon had to eventually put the Pre 2 out there but this is awfully bad timing if the rumor i...

In Depth: iOS vs Android vs WebOS vs MeeGo

By TechRadar, published 02-02-2011

Pitting iOS vs Android vs WebOS vs MeeGo doesn't seem like a fair fight. It's akin to putting a couple of our TechRadar writers in a boxing ring with the Klitschko brothers. With Apple's iPhone/iPod/iPad OS, Google's Android, plus the Symbian, Microsoft and Blackberry platforms, do we really need any more pretenders to the mobile OS throne?Yes - because 'competition drives innovation' (or so the saying goes). Android improvements will make iOS better and vice-versa. While lower-league operating systems will have to work harder to stand out, they'll help to ensure that the big two don't get complacent. And yes again - because beyond the smartphone battleground, the next big tech confrontation is about to be fought on tablet devices. It's not just a straight iPad vs Android face-off, either....

Palm Pixi Plus quietly makes an exit from Verizon's web site

By phoneArena, published 28-01-2011

If you've visited Verizon's web site of late, you may not have known, but the Palm Pixi Plus has been removed from their listing of available handsets to purchase. Although it might not come off as being...

Verizon's Palm Pixi Plus can be picked up for $60 no-contract

By phoneArena, published 24-01-2011

Currently, the site DailySteals is offering the webOS powered device for $60 with an extra $5 going towards shipping – bringing its total cost of ownership to a mere $65! That's undeniably one great deal...

HP Topaz webOS tablet detailed plus Touchstone v2 wireless plans

By SlashGear, published 24-01-2011

Further details on HP’s Topaz webOS tablet have emerged, detailing the specifications of the 9.7-inch XGA slate we’re expecting to hear about at the event on February 9. According to documents finding their way to PreCentral – and which date back to sometime in 2010 – Topaz will use Qualcomm’s dual-core 1.2GHz MSM8660 CPU with Adreno 220 graphics, together with dual-band WiFi b/g/n, optional HSPA and, eventually, LTE and CDMA, and a battery good for over 8hrs. More interesting, though, is the Touchstone v2 dock. Processor Dual-core Qualcomm MSM8660 at 1.2GHz Graphics Integrated Adreno 220 GPU Screen 9.7″ XGA 1024 x 768 Dimensions 190mm x 240mm x 13.7mm Weight 700g / 1.5lb (estimated) RAM 512MB DDR2 Storage 16g / 32g / 64g eMMC Camera Front-facin...