Written on August 19th, 2010 by PricesTechno shouts
With the imminent release of the Samsung Galaxy Tab tablet computing is about to get a whole lot more interesting: the Android-powered device is a real rival to Apple’s iPad, promising multi-touch goodies without the expense of Apple kit. At least, that’s what we hope is happening, because the Samsung Galaxy Tab price is still secret. The Samsung Galaxy Tab Android tablet isn’t the only Google-powered device heading our way: in addition to the iPod-rivalling Samsung Galaxy Player Toshiba’s working on an Android tablet, too , and the same reports suggest HP is doing the same. HTC’s forthcoming tablet drinks Google juice, too – although confusingly it appears to be running Chrome OS rather than Android
Written on August 19th, 2010 by PricesTechno shouts
With mirrorless hybrid cameras grabbing all the limelight, the D-SLR market’s been a bit quiet of late. Just the right time, then, for Sony to pounce with two new cameras. The A390 is one of two new models aimed at beginners – the other is the cheaper A290. These cameras share the same 14.2-megapixel CCD sensor, but the A390 reviewed here also includes Sony’s Quick AF Live View mode and a tilting LCD display
Written on August 12th, 2010 by PricesTechno shouts
According to a survey of UK iPad owners put forth by Cooper Murphy Webb , people who own iPads are now using them as their preferred device for reading newspapers, magazines and books. Of the 1,034 iPad owners polled via telephone between July 28th and August 10th, 43% use the iPad for more than 10 hours per week, with most of those usage hours taking place in home. While the iPad dominates among users for text based activities like perusing magazines and books, the laptop still holds strong as a primary entertainment device — perhaps due to the iPad’s lack of Flash support. I know that I have been discouraged from readily picking up an iPad to watch online video from the Pavlovian effect of those disappointing little blue legos . Giving ammunition to the “ iPad Will Save Reading ” camp, 31% of iPad users prefer their iPad to their laptop, mobile phone, e-reader and print media for reading newspapers and magazines, perhaps due to the innovative presentation of news put forward by aggregator iPad apps like Flipboard and Pulse. And moreover 41% of iPad owners prefer the iPad for reading books, which bodes well for iPad apps like iBooks, Kindle for iPad, and Barnes and Noble. As a side note to and probably as a byproduct of text consumption, the iPad is also preferred for Internet browsing among UK owners at 38% and gaming at 37% respectively. iPad owners may be a skewed sample in terms of consumption habits — six times more likely to be “wealthy, well-educated, power-hungry, over-achieving, sophisticated” according to one survey — and UK owners even more so. But at over 3.27 million iPads officially sold at the end of Quarter 3 (our educated guess is around 5 million so far), Job’s magical and revolutionary product is gaining inroads in the way people at least say they partake in the written word, if they happen to be in the ever increasing class of people that own one. Photo: Cliph CrunchBase Information Apple iPad Information provided by CrunchBase
Written on August 9th, 2010 by PricesTechno shouts
An enterprising iPhone hacker has figured out how to get Adobe Flash working on the iPhone, despite Steve Jobs’ banishment of the third-party plugin from all iDevices for reasons detailed in his long-winded “Thoughts on Flash” memo posted to Apple.com back in April. Why do you need Flash on the iPhone? To see banner ads? No, not really. Sponsor You need Flash to see the whole Web: the one with icky-Flash intros that block you from accessing the main website, the Flash-based menu for a favorite local restaurant, the Flash videos that haven’t yet been re-encoded for your iPhone, and so on. It may not be the Web you want to see, but it’s the Web that, for now, you still need to see. And now there’s a way to get this content on your iPhone: Frash . Well, sort of. Frash is a very, very alpha port of Flash 10.1 designed for the iPhone. The software comes from Comex, the same hacker who brought you the Spirit jailbreak and the JailbreakMe.com website , among other things. And it’s just been compiled again. How to Install Frash (a.k.a Flash for iPhone) To install Frash properly, you’ll need to refer to a how-to guide, like this one hosted on Redmond Pie . But to sum up: You must first jailbreak your phone, download the .deb, upload it to a folder on your iPhone using SSH, restart your phone and… what’s that? Did I lose you? If all that sounds too hard, too geeky or too time-consuming, there is another way, as I discovered this morning. You can just install Frash from Cydia, the jailbreak app store instead. In order to accomplish this feat, you’ll need to already have a jailbroken phone. Then the instructions are as follows: Launch Cydia and tap the “Manage” button Tap “Sources” Tap the “Edit” button (top-right) Tap “Add” (top-left) In the pop-up box, type http:///repo.benm.at/ Tap “Add Source” to close the box Tap the “Done” button (top-right) Go to the “Search” section in Cydia and search for “Frash” Install the app. Done! Now you have Frash on your iPhone. SBSettings users can also add the “Frash Toggle” to easily switch Frash on or off. (You’ll want to keep it off for the most part because it can hog the battery). Do You Need This? Besides the argument, “because you can,” is there any real reason to install Flash/Frash on your iPhone? Maybe there’s the odd site that requires it, but, for the most part, you can live without it, we’d say. Besides, in its current implementation, Frash hasn’t been able to deliver the Flash content we miss the most: videos . To test, we headed to a few different sites with Flash-only video. (You can see the ones we chose – we pulled them from our “iDon’t” flickr photoset here ). Trying to play the Flash videos either crashed the browser, led to weird error messages or simply left us staring at blank, black screens where the video should have been. But that’s why it’s called, alpha , right? Banner ads, however, worked just fine. Discuss
Written on August 3rd, 2010 by PricesTechno shouts
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