Bang & Olufsen BeoLab 14 speakers are stylish but pricey 
If you want your living room to ooze style from every angle and you don't care how much it costs, Bang & Olufsen's new set of surround sound home theatre speakers will be right up your alley.
The standard setup consists of four satellite speakers and a main sub-woofer which will set you back the cool price of £2,500. A five speaker setup will be a better choice, however, if you don't also already own one of B&O's speaker-equipped tellys -- that extra satellite brings the total to £2,800. Continue reading...
Nokia Asha 501 is cheap and colourful but 2G only
Nokia has thrown the curtain open to reveal the latest addition to its bargain-basement Asha line. The Asha 501 boasts a 3-inch touchscreen, comes in a variety of garish hues and will be heading to the UK in the latter half of the year for 75 Euros. It will only use 2G data networks though.
Having 2G only means you won't be able to take advantage of 3G data speeds and the super-fast 4G will be strictly limited to your fevered dreams. Posting a photo to Facebook will require significant amounts of patience. There are other sacrifices you'll have to make for the price, too. The 3-inch touchscreen has a low 320x240-pixel resolution and the phone runs on Nokia's Asha software, rather than Windows Phone 8 you'll find on its more premium Lumia range. Continue reading...
New GTA 5 screenshots tease heists, bikes and, er, scuba
Grand Theft Auto 5 is only a few months away, and in a bid to whet gamers' appetites -- and eventually ply them away from their cash -- developer Rockstar has released a slew of new screenshots teasing its upcoming title.
Click through the pictures above to ogle the 12 new shots for yourself, and see if you can guess at any particular missions or key moments. Continue reading...
First 3D-printed gun fired, blueprints up for download
The world's first gun you can make at home using a 3D printer has been fired, the BBC reports. And the controversial group behind it has now made the blueprints available online, so anyone with access to the technology can print off and assemble their own firearms.
Called the Liberator, the weapon is made by a group called Defense Distributed, and was tested on Saturday in Austin, Texas. I've embedded a clip of it being used after the break. Continue reading...
Acer W3-810-1600 leaks, world's first small Windows 8 tab
Acer may have been busy bombarding us with laptop-cum-tablets yesterday, but behind the scenes it seems it's working on something far bigger. Or smaller, rather.
Because Amazon.com accidentally leaked the Acer W3-810-1600 -- the world's first small Windows 8 tablet, PCWorld reports. We've heard a fair bit of buzz surrounding smaller Windows 8 tablets coming our way, but this is the closest we've come to official confirmation. Look at it, you can almost taste it. Continue reading...
Acer Aspire P3 is an ultrabook convertible, joins R7 and A1
Is the Acer Aspire P3 a tablet? A laptop? It's both. Acer is calling it an 'ultrabook convertible', but it's basically a Windows 8 tablet with a detachable keyboard dock. And if you're thinking that sounds a bit like the Microsoft Surface, you'd be right.
It's just one of Acer's new toys it's shown off in New York. There's also a laptop with a new hinge, and a tablet designed to be used in one hand. Continue reading...
Freedom i-Connex Bluetooth keyboard folds up, keeps typing
For those of us who cling defiantly to our physical keyboards and find tapping away on a touchscreen a chore, a Bluetooth keyboard is a necessity. I went hands-on with a new one that crossed my desk today.
Clocking in at just 250g, the Freedom i-Connex keyboard is a cheaply constructed Bluetooth accessory that won't weigh you down. It'll hook up to your iPhone, iPad or Android device, BlackBerry PlayBook or even your PlayStation 3. Continue reading...
Facebook Home skins Android, puts your friends first
Facebook has massively overhauled its Android offering, creating 'Home' -- a launcher which completely replaces your Android phone's interface to put all your friends' updates on your homescreens.
When you install Home and turn on your phone, you'll be met with page after page of full-screen images of you Facebook friends called Cover Feed. Each page shows an update -- status, photo and so on -- for you to flick through, 'liking' items and commenting directly from the interface. These pages load in the background so you'll have fresh content from your mates each time you turn your phone on -- you'll of course have to keep a close eye on your data allowance. Continue reading...
Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini leaks, has a 4.3-inch screen
The Galaxy S4 was only announced last week, but it looks like Samsung has a shrunken version of it up its sleeve, SamMobile reports.
Named the Galaxy S4 Mini, this forthcoming phone will be the little brother to the S4, just as the S3 Mini was to the Galaxy S3. And we've got some specs to go with this bevy of pics. Continue reading...
Nike FuelBand prototype and design process detailed in pics
Nike's lifted the veil on how its fitness-tracking FuelBand gadget came to be, also showing off a prototype design for the motivational wrist-occupier.
Development kicked off in late 2009, Nike says, with colour-coding to demonstrate how much exercise you'd done proving a popular idea from the off. The team was inspired by "thick, terry wristbands worn by the tennis greats of the '70s", apparently, and wanted a band covered in smart panels that would change colour "like a chameleon". Continue reading...
Samsung Galaxy S4 official accessories and cases roundup
You're going to buy the Samsung Galaxy S4, but it's not quite enough! Click through the photos above to check out Samsung's horde of official accessories and cases to go with its new smart phone. Continue reading...
Samsung Galaxy S4 design and new apps in hands-on photos
Samsung has finally taken the plastic wrapping off its Galaxy S4 smart phone -- click through the photos above to ogle the company's massive new mobile from every angle.
So what's new in Samsung's next flagship? First off you get a 5-inch, 1080p screen that uses HD Super AMOLED display tech, and a slimmer bezel meaning you'll be looking at more screen and less boring plastic. Continue reading...
Nokia Lumia 720 and 520 Windows Phone 8 handsets leak
Mobile World Congress doesn't get going until tomorrow, but two Nokias have leaked ahead of it, via the @evleaks Twitter account. The Lumia 720 (pictured above) and 520 are both mid-range Windows Phone 8 handsets, with screens around the 4-inch size, and 1GHz processors beavering away inside.
Both handsets were rumoured before, but this is the first look we've had of either. They're both typically Nokia, with colourful backs and bright, vivid screens. Windows Phone 8's Live Tiles are present and correct too. Continue reading...
Sony NEX-3N, Alpha A58 pack premium specs from £400
Sony has taken the wraps off a pair of new snappers for the novice or budget-minded shutterbugs among you. The NEX-3N interchangeable lens compact camera and the Alpha A58 digital SLR start at £400 and £450, respectively.
The NEX-3N replaces the previous NEX-F3 at the bottom of Sony's interchangeable lens compact range, and brings a couple of tweaks to the table. Most notable is its size, which has seen a significant reduction from its predecessor. It still has a sturdy metal design, but it's much easier to hold and won't take up as much space in that stylish shoulder bag of yours. Continue reading...
BlackBerry Z10 and BB10 reviewed: Classy phone, kooky OS
RIM has finally pulled the curtains back to reveal its long-awaited BlackBerry 10 software. Together with its new phone the Z10, it represents a new chapter for BlackBerry it hopes will see it claw back some of the customers it's lost to Android and the iPhone. My US colleague Jessica Dolcourt at CNET.com has reviewed the new phone and its new operating system.
The interface of BlackBerry 10, Jessica explains, has a polished design with large icons, designed to make touch interaction easier. Rather than make use of physical home buttons, you'll navigate around the interface entirely using touchscreen gestures. Continue reading...
HTC M7 picture leaks, keeps capacitive touch buttons
This is the first look at what could well be the HTC M7, the super smart phone the Taiwanese company is hoping will revive its fortunes.
The snap was posted (and subsequently taken down) on Chinese microblogging site Weibo, Android Community reports. As well as what could be the M7 (it's not exactly a studio shot, as you can see), there's another glimpse at HTC's Sense 5.0 UI that'll run on it. Click through the gallery to see all the snaps. Continue reading...
Samsung HW-F750 is world's first wireless soundbar
It begins. The gates are barely even open for the tech fest that is CES, but Samsung is already bigging up a raft of audio and home cinema products, and they're all coming to the UK. What you can see up there is the HW-F750, the world's first soundbar with a built-in valve amp, and the first to feature Bluetooth to connect wirelessly to your telly.
Also on the menu: more wireless fun with an NFC- and Bluetooth-enabled speaker, a surround sound system, and a new Blu-ray player. Have a click through our little photo gallery above.
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BlackBerry X10 gets shown off in leaked pictures
There's not long to wait now until RIM's BB10 operating system launches, and with it a slew of new handsets. Here's one of them in the flesh -- the BlackBerry X10, part of the BlackBerry N-Series, according to N4BB.
As you can see, it's a Qwerty affair, with the keyboard taking up the lower half of the device. This should please BlackBerry stalwarts who aren't keen on giving up physical buttons. Continue reading...
New book reveals Apple prototypes of the 1980s
You may be pretty pleased with your iPad and iPhone, but look at what we could've had. These designs, first reported by Designboom, are prototype Apple products that never saw the light of day. They've been collected for the first time in a book by Hartmut Esslinger, a designer who worked at Sony and Louis Vuitton before starting at Apple in 1982.
Esslinger knocked up some of the most iconic Apple products of the 1980s, but here we can see the ones that never made it to the shop shelves. There's an Apple desk phone with a screen. A small Mac desktop. And even a tablet concept. Talk about ahead of his time. Continue reading...
More pics of the Huawei Ascend Mate leak
We first spied the 6.1-inch Huawei Ascend Mate a few days ago, when an exec whipped it out in a shop in China. And now here's some more snaps of the blower in action, courtesy of MyDrivers, via Android Central.
The mahoosive mobile is seen alongside another device that's expected to make an appearance at CES, the Huawei Ascend D2. There's also word on some of the specs, and you'll be reassured to know they're pretty mammoth too. Continue reading...
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