ARCHOS 8 Home Tablet: Dork review
Up until recently, Apple has had very little to deal with in terms of mainstream budget competition for their iPad. The most recent addition to the market is the Dell Streak which, at almost half the size, is more often seen as a smartphone than an iPad substitute.
When ARCHOS approached me with their ARCHOS 8 Home tablet, I was initially dubious. The gadget looks more like a digital photo frame then a touch screen tablet, however they assured me that although it does double as a showcase for your favourite images, it also boasts far more browsing and entertainment features.
Plus it retails at £129.99.
Got your attention now? Excellent, read on for my review.
Why Apple’s Ping won’t catch on
Twitter/Facebook + iTunes x music = Apple’s Ping
Another end-of-summer evening, another Apple press conference. They have become a way of marking the eternal passage of time and your own undeniable mortality, right morbid gadget fans?
Well, this conference bought the announcement of Ping, which is in no way related to Microsoft’s Bing. Obviously.
Ping is a social network for music lovers. But it’s not Spotify. Obviously. Or MySpace. Obv. This is primarily a social network for music lovers who spend their cash in iTunes.
And here’s why it won’t work.
Doctor Who Adventure Games: TARDIS – Dork Review
Nearly two months after Doctor Who disappeared from TV until Christmas, a new Adventure Game appears! With no other Who product of late, at least until Sarah Jane Adventures starts back up in autumn, this prospect excited me a little. The last two were decent, after all, and it’s always pleasant to hear Matt Smith and Karen Gillan in character.
Unfortunately, this one simply isn’t very good. Sorry. I try to focus on the good points, I’ll mention a few later, but TARDIS was small, boring and, the cardinal sin for a Doctor Who story, lacked any real imagination.
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Doctor Who and Sherlock news a-go-go from Edinburgh
The Edinburgh TV Festival this weekend has brought forth some interesting announcements about the 2011 returns of Sherlock and Doctor Who from the BBC. Holmes confirmed for another coat-tastic year? The Doctor to regenerate in two separate halves? Clearly Steven Moffat’s Cardiff-based TV factory is hard at work.
First up, Sherlock, the Mark Gatiss-co-produced revisitation of the legendary detective, is to return for a second series. Considering the scale of the cliffhanger they visited upon us in the first finale, I’d have been quite appalled if it hadn’t, but it’s still good to have it confirmed.
Frackulous: Scott Pilgrim app fix, Samsung Galaxy Android-brillity and Angry, Angry Birds
Where else can you get a show to hook you up with both time-wasting and time-saving apps? Scott Pilgrim and Stephen Fry-related apps? A review of possibly the best Android phone available right now? Nowhere. We don’t think. Watch on for a bumper omnibus edition of Frackulous.
