Month: August 2013
IFA 2013 preview – the year's five hottest gadgets from Sony, Samsung and more
In less than week's time the great and the good of the consumer electronics world will descend on Berlin's rather splendid modernist exhibition centre for the annual IFA gadget fest. Second only to to its American cousin CES, iFA is sure to yield some of the biggest products announcements of the year with Sony and…
IFA 2013's Hot Five – #5 LG G Pad 8.3
Not to be outdone LG has some big products up its sleeve at IFA most notably the G Pad 8.3. It has released a quickie video that gives a preview of the device but is very low on the detail. All we really know is that will be an Android device and that it is…
iFA 2013's Hot Five #4 Panasonic's 20inch tablet
At CES in January Panasonic unveiled a 20inch 4k tablet. At IFA it looks like it will return with an upgrade on the concept with a thinner and lighter screen. It will apparently still have plenty of features including a 1.5GHz Intel i5 processor, Nvidia GPU, 4GB of RAM and a 128GB SSD. And like…
IFA 2013's Hot Five #3 Sony Xperia Z1
Like Samsung Sony have traditionally used IFA to unveil its premium products and this year it could be all about a new high-end phone. It has pretty much confirmed that it will use IFA to launch the the Xperia Z1 which has been referred to in the past as the Sony Honami. It is a…
IFA 2013's Hot Five #2 Samsung Galaxy Note 3
Two years ago Samsung surprised the mobile world by unveiling the Samsung Galaxy Note - a mobile with a stonkingly large five inch plus screen. Cynics scoffed and said that no one would ever choose a phone that large, but Samsung's experiment paid off handsomely and after selling shedloads of Notes mk 1 and 2,…
IFA 2013's Hot Five – #1 Samsung Galaxy Gear Smartwatch
After all that talk of the iWatch it appears that Samsung is going to get there first with its Galaxy Gear smart watch. We don't know a huge amount about the watch at present except to say that it will team up wirelessly via Bluetooth with Galaxy mobiles and offer truncated versions of the stuff…
More Sony Xperia Z1 pics – and the phone looks really rather good
In less than a week's time Sony will take the wraps of its Xperia Z1 smartphone at the IFA exhibition in Berlin. If you can't wait until then take a gander at these images. They come from a Chinese website 365dian and give us a very clear idea of what the phone will look like-…
ARCHOS announces new smartphones, tablets, gaming devices for IFA
ARCHOS, which these days bills itself as a pioneer in Android devices, has just announced its product road map for the rest of the year. It has lined up a series of gadgets all of which will make their public debut at IFA next week. They include Android-based smartphones, the Platinum range of high-end tablets,…
Inappropriate selfies Tumblr – think funerals, car crashes and worse
Today's Tumblr needs to approached with a degree of caution for it is a gallery of people shooting selfies in rather inappropriate places. Like this fella who shot himself with a large fire burning behind him. There's much, much worse too. Be warned. the site is called Selfies At Serious Places and you can find…
Hot rumour – Samsung Galaxy S5 to have metal case
Well it has been a while since the Samsung Galaxy S4 launched so it is about time we started hearing rumours about what the Korean maker might have up its sleeves for its successor. And straight in comes ETNews which claims that Samsung may be looking to use a metal chassis on its next flagship…
