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- News@8pm: Nexus S lands and PSP Phone videos
- Olivia Wilde Tron: Legacy star unconvinced by 3D
- Android 2.3 Gingerbread released
- Google Nexus S available for order now
- Android Market outage, app payments declined
- What's on the editor's desk competition returns tomorrow
- BlackBerry PlayBook video demos new gesture features
- Call of Duty: Black Ops replaces GT5 atop UK charts
- White iPhone 4 to launch Spring 2011 Apple reveal
- Apple iPad tops Christmas list, says T3 readers
- New Facebook profile page unveiled
- Apple Mac App store to open on December 13th?
- Super-fast broadband across entire UK by 2015, says government
- News@10: Kinect hack turns drone and Facebook update
- Free apps: HTC Desire HD up for grabs
- Microsoft: we're not controlling Kinect shortages
- Android Market related apps land early
- PlayStation Phone caught on new video
| News@8pm: Nexus S lands and PSP Phone videos Posted: 06 Dec 2010 12:00 PM PST Welcome to your nightly round-up of the day's news and goings on courtesy of T3.com After months of speculation the Nexus S, the sequel to the Google Nexus One is unleashed. Set to be the first smartphone to carry the new Android 2.3 Gingbread OS, you can get all the Nexus S specs and pictures here. The Android smartphone news does not end there, with new PlayStation Phone videos emerging ahead of an expected December 9th launch. If you’ve been struggling to keep up with the story, you can see all the PlayStation Phone specs and info we know so far here.
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While Android lovers can rejoice in the prospect of two brand new handsets, Apple fanbois desperately waiting for the white iPhone 4 will have to wait until Spring 2011 according to store signage which spotted in the US. By that time the iPhone 5 will be prepping for launch we imagine. In more positive Apple news, the Mac App Store is tipped to open on December 13th with details expected to be revealed at an event this week. Will the Mac App Store benefit the consumer though? Well you can let us know by casting your vote in this week's T3 poll.
“We want an iPad for Christmas”. Well that’s according to our T3 readers, who have put the Apple tablet at the top of their wish list. For those of you not hoping an iPad is nestling under the tree, you may want to take a look at the BlackBerry PlayBook, seen as a genuine Apple tablet rival which has been caught on camera showing off new gesture features.
Call of Duty: Black Ops has knocked Gran Turismo 5 off the top of the UK charts, both of which you can win in our Christmas gaming giveaway incidentally. In a brief break from the Microsoft Kinect hacks which grow by the day, Microsoft says they are not controlling Kinect shortages ahead of the festive rush. You can see what the General Manager of Xbox in UK and Ireland says about the so-called dirty sales tactic here.
MORE: New Facebook profile page unveiled I Free HTC Desire HD up for grabs I Super-fast broadband across UK by 2015?
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| Olivia Wilde Tron: Legacy star unconvinced by 3D Posted: 06 Dec 2010 09:30 AM PST Tron warrants 3D but other films don't according to Wilde Olivia Wilde, the stunning leading lady of Tron: Legacy, the upcoming 3D sequel to the Sci-Fi classic, has declared that she is unconvinced by the current influx of ropy extra dimensional flicks.
Speaking exclusively with T3 ahead of yesterday’s UK premiere of Tron: Legacy the Hollywood actress said: “Although I do think that certain stories warrant the 3D technique, the effect, I think certain stories don’t.” She diplomatically went on to add: “Maybe I’m wrong and maybe I’m just not grasping that 3D is like the advent of colour in film, just expanding the medium and I should embrace that fully.”
Wilde added: “We are also very proud to be a film that was actually shot in 3D, a lot of films are converted in post-production which I think never quite works as well and audiences becoming quite apt at telling the difference.”
Despite the doubts she shared over the frequent use of 3D technologies, Wilde expressed her enjoyment of working with the extra dimension for the first time: “I did kind of enjoy looking into the camera some times and just marvelling at what you can see with all these mirrors inside the lens, I thought that was pretty cool. Being so used to knowing what the inside of a lens looks like from being in front of it for a lot of my life so far, looking into it and seeing this whole other complex world inside was kind of cool.”
Having been privy to an advanced screening, we at T3 can confirm that Tron: Legacy’s use of 3D is both warranted and of excellent quality, not abused but adding a repeated depth to both the images and narrative.
Do you think the recent spate of 3D films have diluted the user’s enjoyment of extra dimension movies? Share your thoughts via the T3 Twitter and Facebook feeds and stay tuned to T3.com for a full interview with Olivia Wilde in the coming weeks. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Android 2.3 Gingerbread released Posted: 06 Dec 2010 09:09 AM PST
Google has released Android 2.3 Gingerbread to developers for the first time.
Game development is the key message from the big G – “taking gaming to the next level”, says the launch video. New sensor support, wider video compatibility and performance tweaks will also bring smoother, faster, better gaming experiences, according to the company. The much anticipated update to Android 2.2 FroYo will ship with the Samsung Nexus S phone, on pre-order now.
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| Google Nexus S available for order now Posted: 06 Dec 2010 07:25 AM PST Samsung Nexus S packing Android 2.3 set to satisfy your Gingerbread cravings Eric Schmidt may have showed it off back in November at the Web 2.0 Summit, but the Google Nexus S is now official, along with Android 2.3. The Gingerbread-toting device has just been announced on the Google Blog, and will be available exclusively through Carphone Warehouse in time for Christmas.
What do you think? Will you be upgrading in time for Christmas? Let us know via Facebook and Twitter. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Android Market outage, app payments declined Posted: 06 Dec 2010 07:25 AM PST Google yet to comment publically on what caused the problem. Android app developers lost out this weekend as the Android Market randomly declined payments from buyers hoping to download paid-for applications.
The outage, which ran from Saturday until 12:15pm on Monday, also prevented Android users from buying apps. Many users blamed the implentation of the related apps feature on the Android Market although Google hasn't made any public comment yet.
As of Monday afternoon the issue appeared to be resolved, with payments going through again, but throughout the weekend many developers took to Google's official support forums seeking help from the Android team and demanding compensation from Google.
Android developer Fouldsr said: "I have emailed (prospective buyers), but they may have now purchased alternatives. Probably lost a few hundred pounds, will Google compensate?"
We await comment from Google about what the actual issue was, but there's a lot of angry developers out there with some empty Christmas coffers.
Link: Google support
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| What's on the editor's desk competition returns tomorrow Posted: 06 Dec 2010 06:40 AM PST Can you work out what's on the editor's desk? Returning once again, your favourite technology magazine and website T3 will tomorrow be giving you the chance to win a feast of mystery tech prizes in our weekly competition ‘What’s on the editor’s desk?’.
Running across the T3 Facebook and Twitter pages we will be presenting you, the loyal T3 readers with three riddled clues to see if you can guess ‘What’s on the editor’s desk’ and claim yourself some tasty tech treats. From handsets to headphones, games to general gadgetry, each and every Tuesday we will be giving it all away as long as you can solve the puzzle and work out what’s in our mystery box.
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Last week there was a huge response to the Editor's Desk competition with hundreds of entries coming in across both Facebook and Twitter. However, just one of you could win the week's mystery prize and that lucky someone was Simon Errey of Facebook who is now the proud new owner of a Novero Lexington Bluetooth headset worth £200.
Kicking off with the opening clue at 10am sharp you will be able to pit your wits against the T3 riddlers and bag yourself some booty. The second clue will follow at 11am before the final hint lands on our social streams at midday. From there you will have until 3pm to get your answers in before we pick the lucky winner.
Entries can be made by either commenting on the Facebook post or by messaging us on Twitter @T3dotcom with the hashtag #edsdesk. A winner will be picked at random from all the correct answers and if no correct answers are received by the 3pm closing the week’s prize will be rolled over until the next edition of 'What's on the editor's desk'.
To be in with a chance of winning today’s great and exclusive prize, sign up to the T3 Twitter and Facebook feeds today so you are primed and ready to follow the clues to the T3 treasure tomorrow.
Previous prizes
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| BlackBerry PlayBook video demos new gesture features Posted: 06 Dec 2010 06:28 AM PST BlackBerry PlayBook target iPad success RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook, the company’s attempt at a true iPad competitor, has been demoed at a network event in Canada with a number of the tablet’s features shown off for the first time.
The demonstration, which was caught on video (below), highlighted the tablet’s impressive 1080p HD video playback capabilities and, despite running an early build of the device’s operating system and user interface, a slick two-style gesture control design.
With the BlackBerry Playbook expected to launch in spring 2011, just days ahead of the arrival of Apple’s muted iPad 2, the RIM tablet’s impressive spec sheet that includes a 1GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM and front and rear facing cameras, will be hard pushed to succeed in an increasingly congested tablet market.
Which tablet do you think will make the biggest impression upon launch next spring the BlackBerry PlayBook or iPad 2? Let us know your thoughts via the T3 Twitter and Facebook feeds.
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| Call of Duty: Black Ops replaces GT5 atop UK charts Posted: 06 Dec 2010 04:54 AM PST Gran Turismo demoted by FIFA and Assassin's Creed Call of Duty: Black Ops has returned to the top of the UK video game charts as last week’s leading title, Gran Turismo 5, falls in popularity to fourth position.
Activision’s dominant first person shooter has continued with its strong opening sales that broke all UK gaming records, easily surpassing the mark set by its predecessor Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 last year.
In a week of lackluster game launches, the week’s highest new entry was Donkey Kong Country Returns at number 13 followed by Super Mario All-Stars at 22. The expected Christmas hit, Michael Jackson: The Experience rose to number six in the charts having debuted at 32 last week.
Win a PS3 and 25 of the year’s top game releases or an Xbox 360 with Kinect and game through the T3 Competitions pages. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| White iPhone 4 to launch Spring 2011 Apple reveal Posted: 06 Dec 2010 04:11 AM PST Lighter toned iPhone arriving next year Having been put back as many times as Gran Turismo 5, the white rendition of the iPhone 4 has seemingly been given a launch date by Apple as in store signage pegs a Spring 2011 arrival.
Confirming a press release from the Cupertino company back in October, the new Stateside signage slates the lighter hued Apple blower with a post 2010 release quite clearly stating: "The white iPhone 4 will be available in spring 2011."
With Apple expected to stick to its strict annual product cycles and unveil the iPhone 5 in June 2011, a spring arrival of the white iPhone 4 would leave wannabe adopters with just a couple of months before their device became dated.
Do you think the white iPhone 4 will ever appear or will Apple focus its white shelling efforts on the upcoming iPhone 5? Share your thoughts via the T3 Twitter and Facebook feeds.
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| Apple iPad tops Christmas list, says T3 readers Posted: 06 Dec 2010 03:56 AM PST Nokia and Windows Phone spurned in favour of Apple gifts Last week we asked you what you’d most like for Christmas, from a raft of this quarter’s best and most desirable tech. We gave you 9 options and asked what you’d most like to see under the tree on the 25th, and the results were quite surprising…
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| New Facebook profile page unveiled Posted: 06 Dec 2010 03:12 AM PST Updated page unveiled this weekend. Facebook has pulled the wrappers off of its new look profile pages, bringing photos to the fore and including a slew of new features to keep you addicted to the social network.
Recently tagged snaps of you now appear across the top of the page, so there’s no escaping any embarrassing pics unless you untag them or upload some more to cover your tracks.
Info is also now more obvious, with visual rather than text links showing your favourite albums, movies and bands. What’s more, there’s a new ‘featured friends’ section on the right hand side which integrates the newly minted friends function. That means you can easily manage lists and categorise your pals. So everyone from ‘family’ to ‘no-marks from school you like to boast to’.
The new Facebook profile page is rolling out now. Hit our own Facebook page to tell us what you think. And watch the clip below to see more on how it works. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Apple Mac App store to open on December 13th? Posted: 06 Dec 2010 03:00 AM PST Insider reveals possible launch date for new software service The Mac App store, as unveiled by Apple at its ‘Back to the Mac’ event, is just about ready to go, with rumours this morning hinting at a December 13th Launch. According to an insider, Apple were planning on launching the store today, but haven’t managed to process as many apps as they’d like.
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| Super-fast broadband across entire UK by 2015, says government Posted: 06 Dec 2010 02:15 AM PST Digital hubs in every community according to Culture Secretary. The government will today outline plans to bring super-fast broadband toe every community in the UK. The coalition says it plans for every area to have a so-called “digital hub”, which will give web users easy access to a fibre optic network.
While ISPs will help deliver two thirds of the network, the government will fund the final third from BBC licence fee funds. The state paid areas are likely to be rural parts of the UK that are hard to reach.
However, while Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt says this will give the UK Europe’s ‘best’ broadband network, the government’s strategy doesn’t exactly offer up specifics when it comes to how fast it will actually be.
The mealy-mouthed strategy report says, “In order to determine what constitutes 'the best' network in Europe, we will adopt a scorecard which will focus on four headline indicators: speed, coverage, price and choice. These will be made up of a number of composite measures rather than a single factor such as headline download speed." Ofcom currently considers 24Mbps to be the minimum for super-fast broadband.
Can the government hit this ambitious target? And is its failure to define how fast ‘super-fast’ is going to cause problems down the line? Tell us now on our Facebook and Twitter pages.
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| News@10: Kinect hack turns drone and Facebook update Posted: 06 Dec 2010 02:00 AM PST T3 scans the Twitterverse to bring you a handy daily round-up of gadget news, tech rumours and randomness from the WWW. Kick back with your morning cuppa and catch up. MondaySOCIAL NEWS @TheRegister - Zuckerberg uncloaks facelifted Facebook on national TV
GAMING NEWS @Engadget - Kinect turned into a quadrocopter radar
INTERNET NEWS @TechRadar - UK to have Europe's best broadband by 2015
GAMING NEWS @CVG - George Clooney spotted in Gran Turismo 5
INTERNET NEWS @Gaj-it - BT to launch 1Gbps Broadband?
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| Free apps: HTC Desire HD up for grabs Posted: 06 Dec 2010 01:30 AM PST Free Android apps site launches to bring some Christmas cheer to Android phone owners. The free app craze that's sweeping the UK has come to T3.com with the launch of a brand new App Vent Calendar Android app giveaway.
The soaring sales of Android handsets, driven by phones like the HTC Desire HD, has seen an increase in the quality and range of Android apps available to download from the Martketplace, leading many of the top developers to produce apps not just for the iPhone but also for the burgeoning Android community.
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With Android apps at their most desirable since the arrival of the operating system, T3.com is giving away over £3,000 worth of the best Android apps. From the 1 Dec you'll be able to enter to win top paid apps like Spotify, CoPilot, LogMeIn and We7.
The AppVent Calendar, sister site to the ever-growing App Chart, will run for the 25 days of Advent. Twenty five of the best and most exciting Android developers have joined us to give away a taste of Android love for the festive period. An amazing 800+ apps, valued at more than £3,000 will be given away for nothing, gratis, free.
Each day you’ll all be able to enter a twitter draw to win the day’s app – just follow T3, then hit the button. Re-tweet as many times as you like – winners will be drawn at random at the end of each day.
Additionally, our friends at Three have provided three brand new HTC Desire HD Android phones. These are hidden within the calendar, and a separate draw will chose the lucky winner on these days.
Simply stay tuned, like us on Facebook/t3mag, or follow #t3appvent on Twitter/t3dotcom to take part – good luck, and a very happy Xmas to you from all at T3! This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Microsoft: we're not controlling Kinect shortages Posted: 06 Dec 2010 12:51 AM PST "It's absolutely not a strategy," says UK Xbox boss. Microsoft’s insistence that punters nab Kinect early in order to beat Christmas demand has been derided in some quarters as an attempt to create even greater clamour for the best-selling gaming add-on.
But, according to the general manager of Xbox in the UK and Ireland, that couldn’t be further from the truth. Neil Thompson has launched a staunch defence of the Big M, saying such claims are well wide of the mark.
In an interview with Gamesindustry.biz, Thompson said, “It's absolutely not a strategy, we want to get the product into consumers hands as quickly as we can because we think its exciting, it's innovative. We wanted to do that for Christmas and that's what we've done.”
Thompson added, “Anyone who actually works in the business of producing new technology, especially hardware technology, will know that these things are never managed.” Whether this will stop gossip mongers remarking on his biss Don Mattrick’s comments about buying early, or Redmond’s convenient revelation that it had sold 2.5 million Kinects in 25 days, is up for debate.
What do you think? Is Microsoft managing demand? Or is Neil Thompson right to say there’s nothing untoward? Let us know on our Facebook and Twitter pages now.
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| Android Market related apps land early Posted: 06 Dec 2010 12:14 AM PST Get hold of related apps on phones packing FroYo now. It had been assumed that Android Gingerbread’s imminent release would bring a much-needed ‘related’ apps tab to Android Market. But avid fans of Google’s OS can rejoice knowing that it’s already hit certain phones packing FroYo.
Owners of the Motorola Droid and Google Nexus One across the pond have already seen changes, although reports suggest the recommendation engine needs tweaking, with app advice not quite spot on.
That said, it’s a welcome and long-overdue arrival in the Android Market, so we’re willing to forgive a few niggles here and there.
Remember, you can get stacks of free Android apps thanks to our AppVent feature right here on T3.com. Got the new ‘related’ tab? Let us know how it’s working out for you on our Facebook and Twitter pages now.
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| PlayStation Phone caught on new video Posted: 05 Dec 2010 11:56 PM PST Much-vaunted phone due to get official this week. Desperate for more on Sony Ericsson’s PlayStation Phone? Well, look no further. Two new clips have emerged of the much-hyped handset, showing a dedicated PlayStation icon and the blower’s Android OS.
The good news is that Android 2.3 Gingerbread is sitting pretty inside, a welcome change from Sony Ericsson’s usual policy of loading up its cells with creaking versions of Google’s mobile software.
Word is the PlayStation Phone, known also as the Z1 Zeus, will make an official appearance on 9 December. That’s this Thursday. We’ll be bringing you all the news as it happens, so stay tuned to our Facebook and Twitter pages for more.
In the meantime, have a peep at the videos below and let us know what you think.
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