Nokia Music+ is halfway to Spotify, has 7-day free trial
SoftwareLumia owners in the UK can now get their hands on Nokia's Music+ subscription service, which aims to take some of the monthly music-subscription pie from the likes of Spotify and Rdio.
The Music+ service is available for the reasonable price of £3.99, but this is noticeably more expensive than for the rest of Europe and the US, both of which also have to pay 3.99, but in their respective currencies. Continue reading...
Tech gifts for children
GadgetsChoosing a Christmas present for a young child is daunting -- even seasoned shoppers will get cold sweats at the prospect of trawling the baffling
maze of toys in the vain hope of getting it right. And if you'd like to buy something with a techie spin, the chances narrow considerably.
Hopefully, by checking out this round-up of top tech gifts this Christmas, you'll avoid the soul-destroying sight of the kids playing with the box more than the toy. Continue reading...
Best sports and fitness gadget gifts
GadgetsIf you were glued to the Olympics coverage like the rest of Britain, you may have been struck by just how technically advanced sports training has become.
But it's not just professionals who have access to hi-tech training aids -- there are plenty of sports gadgets that make excellent gifts for friends or relatives hoping to shift that extra Yorkshire pud off their waistline come January.
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Archos GamePad is £130 Android-packing 7-inch gaming tablet
Games and GearGamers prep your thumbs: Archos has announced a 7-inch portable games console that will run Google's Android OS and carry a sub-£130 price-tag.
If you've been lusting after the Playstation Vita but can't quite afford Sony's prices then read on. Continue reading...
Amazon Kindle is small, light and cheap in video review 
To learn to read is to light a fire, so the saying goes, and what better way to stoke that fire than with the Amazon Kindle?
Bibliophiles may disagree of course, but take a look at our video review of the latest version of Amazon's ebook reader with Luke Westaway before you make up your mind. Continue reading...
Buy two BlackBerry PlayBooks, get one free
HandheldsCan things get much worse for RIM? The BlackBerry maker has a promotion on for its PlayBook tablets for businesses: buy two, get one free.
The Back to Business promotion, aimed at small businesses, runs from now till the end of the year, reports SlashGear, though sadly there's no word on whether it'll apply to UK businesses. However will they cope? Continue reading...
Sony PRS-T1: light e-reader, handles heavyweight reads
GadgetsAmazon may well be prepping a Kindle tablet along with a new Kindle, but that doesn't seem to be stopping Sony ploughing on with its e-readers. The latest Wi-Fi version is the lightest 6-incher ever, and at just 8.9mm thick, it's sure to fit snug in your luggage, even if you have filled it with far too many pairs of emergency pants.
A limited edition version comes with a voucher that'll let you download the ebook of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (the first in JK Rowling's gajillion selling series) from the Pottermore website. Good news for fans of the boy wizard. Continue reading...
Brian Blessed interview: "I want sat-nav on the Moon!"
We saluted Brian Blessed's best bits when he was named the new voice of TomTom, but now we've had a chance to make some celluloid gold ourselves with the big-mouthed big man.
Brian swung by the CNET UK podcast this week to tell us all about his own personal Greatest Gadget, using sat-nav on the Moon, and pranking Kenneth Branagh with real tanks. Continue reading...
Apple live blog: September 2010 music event as it unfolded
MP3 PlayersWelcome to CNET UK's live blog of Apple's September product announcement. We sent our most caffeine-filled journalists to the press conference, to bring you up-to-the-minute updates and UK-focused commentary. Tell us your reactions to Apple's new products in the comments section at the bottom of the page or on the CNET UK Facebook page.
19:30: That's it, folks! Our ringing ears are off for some rest. Make sure you check back later for our first impressions of the new products. Bye! Continue reading...
Sat-nav Wars: Nokia Ovi Maps records your voice, TomTom offers Darth Vader
Mobile PhonesBig news in the world of sat-nav voices! Nokia's Ovi Maps now puts your own voice in charge of directions, while TomTom is using the force to guide you with the voice of Darth Vader and others from the Star Wars series. Continue reading...
TomTom Go Live 1000: Apps and mobile phone tracking hit the road
HandheldsTomTom is meeting the challenge of location-aware smart phones and free navigation software with a new souped-up sat-nav platform. The Go Live 1000 will be the first to add apps and real-time routes.
The Go Live 1000 packs a 500MHz ARM processor and capacitive touchscreen, boasting a WebKit-based user interface. It includes a SIM-card slot, 4GB of internal storage and 128MB of RAM. It'll be the first in a slew of devices to support third-party apps, downloaded via the Web or over the air via mobile partner Vodafone. Continue reading...
Mobile World Congress 2010
Mobile PhonesiPad Central
LaptopsKindle DX now available in UK: It's not fat, it's big boned
HandheldsTo celebrate the sudden outbreak of crystalline precipitation currently falling on Britain, Amazon.com has announced it'll now ship an international version of its massive, designed-for-newspapers-and-textbooks Kindle to the UK -- the Kindle DX.
In principle it's the same as the standard Kindle (which we reviewed late last year), but features a larger 246mm (9.7-inch) E-Ink screen. "Kindle DX is great for personal and professional documents, cookbooks and textbooks -- anything that is highly formatted," Amazon says. Continue reading...
CES 2010
GadgetsVexia Econav 435 and 355 tested: Saving you petrol, in theory at least
HandheldsIt's been a long time since anything new happened in the world of sat-navs, but finally the day has arrived we can report on something different.
Spanish company Vexia is bringing its range of Econavs to our shores. The twist is that the sat-nav gives you advice on the most economical way to drive, telling you which gear you should be in and whether you're accelerating too quickly. Continue reading...
Homer Simpson voice on TomTom sat-navs: About to hit a chestnut tree?
HandheldsHomer Simpson has joined the ranks of Mr T and John Cleese as a downloadable custom voice for TomTom portable navigation devices. Fans of The Simpsons can now listen to Homer 'woohoo' and 'd'oh!' his way through their turn-by-turn directions.
Along the way, Homer adds his own commentary such as: 'Take the third right. We might find an ice cream truck! Mmm... ice cream.' We hope, however, that the voice won't be causing drivers to career into any chestnut trees.
The Homer Simpson voice was recorded by Dan Castellaneta, the same voice actor from the television show, and is available for download using the TomTom Home software suite for 9.95 (8.50). Continue reading...
Fondly remembering the Psion 3mx
It's been a decade since that morning in 1999 -- the morning I took delivery of one of my all-time favourite gadgets. Continue reading...
Garmin-Asus nüvifone G60 hands-on
Mobile PhonesAs we were being kicked out of Mobile World Congress for the day, we legged it to the Garmin-Asus stand and had a quick play with one of the brand-new sat-nav handsets from the joint venture between PC maker Asus and GPS specialist Garmin, the G60.
We wrote about the quad-band G60's announcement last week, and feared it would be a chunky mother lover. Which it is. But it actually felt smashing, and for a resistive touchscreen handset, it was more responsive than we were expecting, even with our meaty man fingers. The screen itself has a matte finish, rather than the usual gloss we see on resistive screens.
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BBC iPlayer goes mobile: Which player is best?
MP3 PlayersFirst it was available only to Windows users. Then it adopted Adobe Flash and opened up its streaming walls to Mac and Linux. Now, the BBC's iPlayer is available not only on all desktops, but on the iPhone, and now a plethora of mobile devices that support Windows Media DRM.
We've got almost all the devices the iPlayer is compatible with in our capacious desk drawers, so we thought it'd be awfully charitable of us to load up some BBC content and take our favourite players for a spin. Continue reading...
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