Apple iPhone Launch Full Of Fail

Apple iPhone Launch Full Of FailDespite the Apple’s corporation’s best attempts to foist a ghastly US-style, all-whoopin’ and a-clappin’, backslappin’, high-fivin’, luxury goods-spendin’ iPhone ‘event’ on us Brits, initial reports suggest that the great occasion failed miserably to live up to the pre-launch hype. It doesn’t look like the UK sales on Friday are going to be adding to the expected 3m iPhone sales.

With the clock ticking down to the Apple-decreed hour of 6:02pm on Friday night, stockists Carphone Warehouse, O2 stores and Apple’s own retail chains were ready and waiting to deal with the expected rampaging hordes of credit card wielding punters desperate to shell out £269 for the privilege of owning an iPhone and spending 18 long months in the expensive company of exclusive carriers O2.
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EasyNote XS £350 UMPC Launched By Packard Bell

Packard Bell Launch £350 EasyNote XS UMPC With looks that only a chemically enhanced mother could love, Packard Bell’s EasyNote XS teensy-weensy ultra-mobile PC has been given a UK launch.

Claiming to offer all the features of a notebook in a really small package, the EasyNote XS packs a 800×480 resolution TFT screen into its cuddly 230x171x29mm dimensions, and weighs in at a bag-untroubling 950g.
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Portable Photo Storage Choices For Travellers (pt 2)

Portable Photo Storage Choices For Travellers (pt 2)Yesterday we started to look at the many ways of tackling the issue of data storage when on the move.

Mid priced viewers
Deep pocketed photographers looking for more professional features may be impressed by the EPSON P-3000 Multimedia Storage Viewer, offering movie and photo playback on a large 4″, 640×480 pixels, Photo Fine Ultra LCD, backed by 40GB internal memory, built-in CF and SD memory card slots, long battery life and a built-in audio player.
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Mobile Internet Access Hits 15m In UK

If the growth of mobile access use continues at the current rate in the UK, future Brits may develop hands with massive thumbs, teensy little fingers and Quasimodo-like hunches developed from squinting at tiny little screens, according to a new study by the Mobile Data Association.

Well, alright, we made up the bit about the possible Darwinian side-effects, but the figures show that an awful lot of us are now getting on line with our phones, with the total now hovering around the 15 million mark.
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Philips Launch Ho-Hum Streamium MP3 Players

Philips Launch Ho-Hum Streamium MP3 PlayersAlthough most folks had assumed that Philips had long given up the ghost of scoring a hit in the portable MP3 player market, the Dutch electronics giants are back with two new contenders.

Hoping to divert some of the tidal wave of Nano-bound cash into their own coffers, the ‘Streamium’ players come in 4GB and 2GB versions, christened the SA9345 and SA9325 respectively (way to go in the naming department, Philips!).
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Toshiba Libretto 50 Ultra Mobile PC- Ten Years On

Toshiba Libretto 50 Ultra Mobile PC- Ten Years OnWith the industry’s focus once again looking towards Ultra Mobile PCs, we were prompted to dig out our old Toshiba Libretto 50 and see how it shapes up in comparison.

Released over ten years ago in January 1997, the Tosh was seen as something of a mini-marvel in its day, being the first mini-notebook computer to both pack an Intel Pentium (hurtling along at 75MHz) and run Microsoft Windows 95.
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Motorola Announces MOTOLIVN D8/D7 Landline Handsets

Motorola Announces MOTOLIVN D8/D7 Landline HandsetsMotorola has announced its new range of of MOTOLIVN phones for folks that are still digging the landline action.

White, tall and slim like an Icelandic supermodel, the D8 phone comes with a location-free base so you can position the handset wherever there is a nearby power socket.
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