LEAK: New iPad releases!

According to several leaks new iPads will be released on the October 22nd.

They are said to be smaller than an iPad mini but bigger than an iPhone.

A Kettle With an Initiative!

 

The iKettle may have a terribly cliched name, but it makes up for that unoriginality with loads of novel functionality that might just be enough to justify its £99 price tag. Maybe. After all, how many kettles do you know that politely ask if you’d like a piping hot cup of tea when you get home at night?

The crux of the kettle’s capabilities is its ability to connect to your home’s Wi-Fi network. This puts it in contact with an accompanying mobile app on your smartphone that gives you complete control over all of the kettle’s functionality—including multiple temperature options for different hot beverages—from wherever you have access to your home’s wireless network.

Starting the kettle boiling before you get up and head to the kitchen is a wonderful feature, for sure. But it’s the iKettle’s ability to monitor its internal temperature and alert you when the water is ready that most coffee and tea fans will love—especially since it sends you notifications instead of an ear-piercing whistle. And last but not least, when you walk through the door at the end of the day and your smartphone rejoins your wireless network, the iKettle will even offer to start a fresh brew like your own personal butler. 

Yes, It is Finally a Curved Phone! - Samsung Galaxy Round

Galaxy Round
Samsung said the curved screen will help users navigate the phone better

Samsung Electronics, the world's best-selling smartphone maker, has launched a handset with a curved display screen.

Called the Galaxy Round, the smartphone will feature a 5.7in (14.5cm) display.

The launch comes just days after rival LG said it would begin production of curved-screen phones next year.

Digital display technology has been progressing towards curved screens. Both Samsung and LG already offer curved organic light-emitting diode (OLED) television sets.

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The South Korean firm has beaten its rival LG by at least a few months to offer a handset featuring flexible-screen tech.

LG had previously pipped its competitor to the post by being the first to sell a curved TV.

However, the question remains why consumers should want this tech.

One of the big appeals of using a flexible display is that it should be less prone to damage than the rigid version in a traditional handset.

But because the battery in the Galaxy Round remains stiff, the device has a fixed shape and it is not yet clear whether it will in fact be less vulnerable to drops or pressure.

So it may be the case that an announcement on Tuesday by LG's chemicals division could ultimately prove more significant.

It said that it had begun mass production of both curved batteries and ones that come in the form of flexible cables.

The age of the bendy phone still awaits us.

Samsung said the curved screen display would help consumers use some of the features on the phone, including those that enable users to check information such as date, time and missed calls when home screen is off, with more ease.

At the same time, users can also change music tracks on their phone, even while its display is off.

The Galaxy Round will initially be launched only in South Korea. The firm gave no indication of its plans for a global launch


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Iphone 5s + 5c review

There is one major change on the outside: the home button now sports a ring around it, marking the area for the Touch ID fingerprint sensor. Input your prints a few times on set up and it’ll remember them, logging you and only you in. Thankfully, it works flawlessly and quickly: if you lock your phone with a passcode, it’s a useful option to have for convenience’s sake rather than security (after all, it still defaults to a pin when you restart the phone) and it’ll save you minutes every day when you’re unlocking to check email or browse the web. And if you don’t lock your phone? It won’t change a thing.

Whether you’re security conscious or not though, you’ll benefit from the other improvements in the iPhone 5s. Between iOS 7 (which looks and feel fresh, though isn’t without its flaws) and the new A7 processor, it absolutely blazes along, booting up quicker and making lag a thing of the past: games look glorious and they’re only going to get better. Impressively, battery life seems to have been slightly improved despite the faster silicon. With push notifications on and email pumping away at most you can get a day’s use out of it.

The camera, too, is better than ever. The eight megapixel sensor grabs impressive shots in low light, and exemplary ones in daylight. Better still, the live filters in iOS 7 let you give your snaps an Instagram-ish finish before you've even hit the shutter button - you can see how they all look in real-time while you frame your shot. It’s no Nokia Lumia 1020 camera, but with its mesmerising slo-mo video filming mode, the iPhone 5s comes very close.


If you've got an iPhone 5, the 5s will throw few surprises your way. Very few. Too few: it’s identically sized, for one thing, so the screen remains as cramped as ever. While plenty of people prefer displays you can reach across with one finger or thumb, it would be nice for Apple to get with the program and offer a larger variant to take on the new breed of Android phablets. If you were hoping for refreshed hardware that feels new, forget about it: the iOS 7 update for your iPhone 5 gives you an almost identical experience.

That’s about the only issue with the product itself, mind: the iPhone remains a masterful example of mobile engineering. It’s just a pity the iPhone 5s costs so much (£549 for the SIM-free 16GB version, stretching up to an eye-watering £709 for the 64GB).

While  the iPhone 5c is so close in price to the 5s that you might as well just stretch the extra fiver a month, the fact remains that both are exorbitantly expensive, especially if you want 4G thrown in. If all you need is a web browser and the ability to play a few games and stream music, there are much cheaper options out there, especially if you’re prepared to venture into Android territory, or even Windows Phone. If you don’t lock your phone today, you don’t need to pay for Touch ID tomorrow.

Oh, also, the gold version is even more horrible in reality than the press images would have you believe: it’s a blingtastic atrocity that looks like a discarded prop from a 2001 rap music video. Avoid at all cost.




The Apple iPhone 5s is the phone people expected, if nothing else. It’s more powerful than ever, with a better battery life, all inside the same slick design. If you’re toting an iPhone 4 at the end of its contract and a truly fantastic camera matters to you above all else, it’s a no-brainer, but if you’re tired of glass and gun metal grey and want a new experience however, the colourful 5c might be the better option.

If you’ve got an iPhone 5 or even a 4S however, it’s not clear the new goodies inside the iPhone 5s outweigh the high price. Certainly, Touch ID on its own is not a killer feature, just a useful extra, and the software is almost identical otherwise, thanks to Apple’s post-sale support. Just don’t buy the gold 5s, whatever you do.

GTA 5 Online

The online version of Grand Theft Auto V came out on Tuesday and followed the release of the console game, which won widespread critical acclaim and broke sales records.
Rockstar North, the game's makers, pre-emptively warned fans before the online game went live that "plenty of issues are bound to occur" and that huge demand will make the first few days "even more temperamental" than standard launches.
GTA V online lets up to 16 players form teams and enter the world of Los Santos to carry out crimes, take part in races, complete missions and play sports.
Rockstar will be releasing updates and fixing glitches in the coming weeks and has urged players to get in touch when problems arise.
Since hitting shelves last month the console version of the game has broken record sales, bringing in £500 million in its first 24 hours on sale and £1 billion after three days – believed to be the fastest entertainment product to reach the milestone.

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Xbox One vs PS4

The PS4 will hit store shelves in Europe on 29 November for £349, while Microsoft's Xbox One launches on 22 November for £429. Although it is £80 more expensive, Microsoft's option comes bundled with the new Kinect.

FIFA 14 will come as standard for the XBox One, with a single controller. More expensive bundles will offer standard and prestige versions of Call of Duty: Ghosts.

For the same price as a basic XBox One launch pack, Sony are offering two controllers, a camera and Killzone Shadow Fall with a 500 GB console.

Analyst firm IDC predicts that Sony PlayStation 4 (PS4) bundle sales will edge out Microsoft Xbox One sales due to a variety of factors, most notably the PS4's lower price point.

However, the Xbox One platform has two key market advantages – Kinect's pervasive voice-based user interface and Xbox LIVE's impressive infrastructure and design.

A lot of you probably think that the xbox one sales would be much better if you had the option to just get the xbox one without the kinect because then it would be a lot cheaper and would be able to compete in price terms with the ps4. What will probably happen is that other secondary sites or sellers will let you just buy the xbox one with out the kinect, but this will have to be after it is released.

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Which Phone Should You Get?

Apple has revealed two new versions of the iPhone at an event in California, United States.

The iPhone 5S introduces a fingerprint sensor that lets you unlock the phone without entering a password. But a hacking group have managed to workout a specific sequence of lock-screen buttons to bypass the fingerprint system, so my advice is, if you have one, keep the fingerprint system but put a password as well.

The 5S has a new fingerprint sensor

The iPhone 5C is designed to be a 'cheaper' version and has a body made of colourful plastic, instead of metal and glass.

The cheaper iPhone could help Apple compete with less expensive handsets by companies like Samsung and Nokia.

Nokia's smartphones already come in a rainbow of colours

Apple hasn't been selling as many phones as other companies recently. More people are choosing Android smartphones that have similar features but cost less.

More than half of all smartphones sold so far this year were Android handsets - only about 28% were iPhones while 9% were BlackBerry smartphones.

But with a price tag of £469 the 'cheaper' iPhone 5C is still more than twice as expensive as the Google Nexus 4 - an Android smartphone with comparable features.

There is also the Samsung Galaxy S4 and the Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini for people who think the S4 is too big but still want one.

Both these phones are more than adequate to compete with the rest of the phones in the market. The stats above they show how android has rocketed past all the other handsets in terms of sales and are more popular than ever. I will hopefully be doing a separate post about these two phones soon so stay tuned!

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Curved Smartphones?

Curved smartphones are on the way as tech giant Samsung says it'll be launching one next month.

The announcement came at an event for the Galaxy Note 3, but Samsung didn't give out any more secrets about the curved device.

Curved screens are just the start of an expected move towards foldable phones.

Technology firms still need to work out how to make bendable phones cheaply and come up with display panels that can be very thin and heat resistant.

Samsung revealed this prototype last year

Prototypes of curved and bendy phones have been on show at tech events already.

Samsung, the world's best-selling smartphone maker, hasn't said what October's device will look like.

Samsung also makes TVs with curved displays, but they are very expensive, costing thousands of pounds each.

Why was the BBM launch delayed?

The launch of BlackBerry Messenger on Android and iPhone has been delayed after a leaked version of the chat software caused problems.

BBM was supposed to launch on Android and iOS at the weekend but was cancelled at the last minute.

BlackBerry said over a million people downloaded an unofficial version of BBM which somebody posted on the internet.

The head of BBM said this "impacted the system in abnormal ways" and the launch would be delayed by at least a week.

The BlackBerry company is up for sale and could be sold for around £3 billion.

On Friday the smartphone giant said disappointing sales of its BlackBerry Z10 phone had cost it about £600 million.

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New Cheap Tesco Hudl Tablet - Why so cheap?

Supermarket giant Tesco has stepped into the tablet wars today, launching its new Hudl tablet computer.

It's a seven-inch device, costs £119 and runs the latest version of Android. Tesco hope the low price means it can go up against Google and Amazon tablets of a similar cost.

At the pricier end of the market, Microsoft is also expected to launch two new Surface tablets later today.

It's the latest move in the battle of the tablet computers.

Each maker is hoping for good sales leading up to Christmas.

It's just three years since Apple launched the iPad and kick-started the tablet revolution.

But soon tablet computers are expected to outsell regular desktop PCs, possibly by the end of this year. More than six million tablets were sold in the UK in the first half of 2013

Personally I would love to have PCs still leading against the tablet computers but tablet computers are are more mobile than computers and, like I just posted about there are already new accessories blowing our minds for the tablet computers  I don't have anything against tablet computers but as they're still quite fresh in the market and I think soon these will be the dominant computers/tablet computers or whatever you want to call it.

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WORLDS THINNEST KEYBOARD! ONLY 0.5mm THICK!

First off, sorry for not posting in a while. I've been really busy, and I mean REALLY busy. Now moving on to what you're here for:

The world's thinnest computer keyboard has been revealed by tech company CSR.

The keyboard is as thin as a sheet of paper and works with tablets and computers, wireless, using Bluetooth.

It's flexible and measures just 0.5mm thick.

The keyboard has a battery built into the top edge

It's hoped the keyboard could be built into tablet covers, books or desks.

It will go on display at the IFA tech show in Berlin, Germany on 6 September.

I think this could be a great new invention because you can fold or roll this keyboard up. This may need a cover depending of the price and it has a built in battery and we don't know if it's easily replaceable or not. It may not be easily replaceable, as it is so thin. Also we don't know how durable and firm it is so it may rip. My thoughts are that it will be firm to a certain point because this soon looks like it will be very popular.

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