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We spend a lot of time on Pocket-lint talking about specs. All too often we’ll tell you about just what each gadget can do; which one is faster, which is stronger, which is thinner, which lighter, how many megapixels something has, the number of ports, whether it’s HD or not, [...]
Amazon to rival Apple’s Siri with Kindle voice recognition tech
Startup bought on the quiet
Amazon has been found to have purchased a startup called Yap, which could pave the way for it developing its own brand of voice recognition to rival the iPhone 4S Siri system.
Yap are the developers of an app called Yap Voicemail, which on the face of it sounds innocuous enough, however [...]
Nokia Lumia 800 SIM-free stock on hold until 2012
Strange move?
UPDATE:?Nokia: Lumia 800 will be available SIM free on 16 November?- Nokia is saying that it will be available, just not from all retailers on day one. Looks like Clove got left out of that list.?
Word has filtered through the web that Nokia will be holding back the SIM-free version of its Nokia Lumia [...]
VIDEO: Vet and n00b take on Call of Duty universe
Time to go viral
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 is just a few hours away from its midnight launch. Keeping our excitement levels topped us is this awesome piece of viral fodder put together by Activision. It features?Sam Worthington, Jonah Hill and Dwight Howard all getting up to some COD related high-jinx.
The Noob character has [...]
Barnes and Noble Nook Tablet launched
Read all about it
Barnes and Noble has announced the Nook Tablet, which features a Kindle Fire beating spec sheet and improved functionality over previous versions.?
The Nook Tablet features access to millions of comic books and songs as well as a 1GHz dual-core processor and 1GB of RAM. Also included is free cloud storage for media [...]
Motorola Corvair leaked – television based Android tablet
Gingerbread powered
Motorola is planning on releasing a TV connected Android tablet which beams images straight from the device to your television.
The 6-inch slate is powered by Android 2.3, or Gingerbread and is said to be currently in testing with cable companies. Technology website The Verge received the pictures of the tablet and box which shows [...]
Sony Ericsson Arc HD appears complete with dual-core chip
Uber screen inbound
Sony Ericsson fans could be set to see the Arc range get its biggest spec bump yet with the Arc HD. The phone, which features Galaxy Nexus levels of power, has made an appearance online.?
That HD in the title relates to the Arc’s screen, which was already a stunner. The new phone, however, [...]
Mozilla developers building entirely web based mobile OS
Boot 2 Gecko
Mozilla is working on a new entirely web based operating system called Boot 2 Gecko. Pics of the B2G interface appeared on the Mozilla wiki and show an icon based OS, not unlike Apple’s.?
Developers are currently testing B2G and its “proprietary, single-vendor stacks”. They are building new APIs for things like camera, telephone [...]
HTC Ice Cream Sandwich updates roll out in early 2012
Device list announced
HTC has announced when and what handsets in its device lineup will be getting Android Ice Cream Sandwich updates. The good news is that it is the majority of flagship HTC phones, the bad, that they wont be coming until ‘early 2012′.
HTC pushed the info out via its Facebook page, listing the entire [...]
LG Optimus Android Gingerbread update lands
Three handsets to receive 2.3
LG has finally brought Android Gingerbread 2.3 to its range of Optimus handsets; the new version of the operating system replaces Android Froyo and? will be rolling out to three handsets during the November.
After the initial three, more premium handsets have received the update, a full global rollout of Android Gingerbread [...]
