O2 has had the exclusivity for the iPhone since launching in the UK back in November 2007. Now that is set to change with Orange announcing its plans to sell the iPhone very soon.
Orange UK and Apple have reached an agreement to bring iPhone 3G and 3GS to Orange UK customers later this year. Orange globally now offers iPhone in 28 countries and territories.
Orange, which has the largest 3G network covering more people in the UK than any other operator, will sell iPhone in all Orange direct channels including Orange shops, the Orange webshop and Orange telesales channels, as well as selected high street partners.
This is great news for consumers who are interested in getting the iPhone but didnt want to switch to O2. A pre-registration site for customers to register their interest has been launched at www.Orange.co.uk/iPhone. More information on pricing, tariffs and availability dates is set to be released “in due course”.
I love to work outside. There is nothing more appealing to me during a work day than an opportunity to take my laptop and work in the back garden or in the park. Relaxation, quietness and fresh air. But of course there is one fatal flaw in this seemingly perfect plan and that is the sun. It causes a glare on the screen leaving me with a suntan and strained vision.
However, I have found a product that will stop this glare on ANY laptop and it’s called the Laptop UNV which is available here. Basically, It’s a thin contraption that is fixed to the lid of your laptop. It fits all 10” to 17” laptops. You can open it up to form a protective shield from the sun as shown.
Yes you may look a little daft sitting on a park bench with your hands dipped into a mysterious black box but at least you’ll be able to read up on the latest happenings at Crenk!
Gizmodo had an exclusive regarding the new Tablet PC from Microsoft. The tablet will be call the Courier and man does it look good.
The Courier is currently in “late prototype” stage of development and not exactly a tablet, its more of a booklet. The dual 7-inch (or so) screens are multitouch, and designed for writing, flicking and drawing with a stylus, in addition to fingers. They’re connected by a hinge that holds a single iPhone-esque home button. Statuses, like wireless signal and battery life, are displayed along the rim of one of the screens. On the back cover is a camera, and it might charge through an inductive pad, like the Palm Touchstone charging dock for Pre.
The Courier user experience presented here is almost the exact opposite of what everyone expects the Apple tablet to be, a kung fu eagle claw to Apple’s tiger style.
It’s complex: Two screens, a mashup of a pen-dominated interface with several types of multitouch finger gestures, and multiple graphically complex themes, modes and applications.
This is video of a Japanese air hockey table (possibly manufactured by Sega) that’s designed to give game participants seizures. I couldn’t even see the puck most of the time. And not just because I was rolling around on the floor clutching my eyes, but I was.
If you like being distracted by projections and badass animations while you play pool, the Obscura CueLight is for you. It uses sensors and an overhead projector to create images that follow the balls as they bang around the table.
The system itself will set you back $80,000, no pool table included. At the Esquire Ultimate Bachelor Pad, where it’s currently set up, it’s projecting on a $125,000 pool table. Bottom line: you can’t afford it.
This is a bit of a strange combination, as Italian motorcycle company Ducati brand their own camcorder.
The Ducati brand is very much associated with quality and luxury, plus it is no surprise that they have moved into branded goods as Ferrari and Lamborghini have already got their own range of notebooks.
The Ducati branded camcorder is made by Toshiba and is an S10 camcorder. The camcorder is white with red accents and the Ducadi logo on the LCD. The LCD is 2.5″ and can record in 1080p resolution. The sensor of the camera is 5 magepixel and there is a 4GB memory card that saves the video. The 4GB can hold about 60 minutes of recording. Price is not yet known.
I don’t mean to sound in sensitive or anything, but what doesn’t give you cancer these days? It seems staying at home in a sealed bubble is about the only thing – and even then I’m sure they’ll find something.
Now, it appears that motorcyclists are in the firing line because of a high amount of EMF coming from their hogs. For those of you who don’t know what an EMF is – it’s an Electro Magnetic Field. Just watch Oceans 13 and it’ll explain everything in a horrible British accent.
Randall Dale Chipkar has invented a kind of shield that is to be inserted into the seat of the rider’s motorcycle to ‘shield’ them from these nasty EMFs. In a book he wrote he researched motorcyclists who had caught cancers such as Prostate cancer and bone cancer.
“All of these riders had extremely low frequency (ELF) electromagnetic field (EMF) radiation shooting up from their motorcycle seats into their lower torso”, Chipkar says. “Some readings were 100 times higher than what can be considered as acceptable exposure.”
From what I can see it’s just a piece of tin foil, but then it is marketed to give the rider ‘Peace of Mind’, and it may or may not stop EMFs.
LG has just had its first stab at a smartphone and it is even running on Googles Android operating system, its call the GW620. Previously we have profiled lots of Android based phones on Crenk, such as the HTC Tattoo and even the G2.The GW620 combines a physical QWERTY keyboard and a touchscreen so that it appeals to both the business and consumer markets.
The screen measures three inches, and though LG doesn’t say this in its official press release, word on the street is that this phone has a 5-megapixel camera. Not shabby. We don’t have any other details yet, except that the GW620 will launch in “select European markets” — definitely including Germany — sometime in the fourth quarter of this year.
Here at Crenk we were lucky enough to get our hands on the Luna Voyager from XtremeMac.The Luna Voyager is a compact, full-featured alarm clock and personal audio system for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Features include:
Wake to iPhone, iPod or buzzer
Compact design perfect for home or travel
Easy-to-read display with brightness control
Set clock automatically from iPhone
AC power with battery backup for alarm
Line-in jack for connecting iPod shuffle and other devices
Charges iPhone/iPod while docked
Custom speakers ideal for personal listening
Im a really big fan of the design of the Luna Voyager however for my personal needs im not too sure where an iPhone specific alarm clock fits into it. I already have a very basic alarm clock right next to my bed and it seems as though the alarm clock can pretty much do exactly the same things as the iPhone itself. The key difference is that the Luna Voyager has much better speakers and it is great for someone who travels a lot, apart from that another key difference is that the Luna Voyager is $79.95 from the Apple store, when I could potentially just get an iPhone app that does the same thing for $0.99 via the app store.
Formerly called the HTC Click, the HTC Tattoo will hit the European market in October and others a few months later. HTC hopes this phone will bring the loved-by-geeks Android OS to the masses; we’re not sure that will happen, but it looks like a good entry-level phone for the platform.
It’s called the Tattoo because you can adorn it with custom, patterned covers. Wrapped in those covers you’ll find a 3.2-megapixel camera, 512 MB of internal memory, a 2.8-inch touchscreen with a 240 x 320 resolution, GPS, Wi-Fi, a compass, and Bluetooth. Supported cellular networks include quad-band GSM and EDGE, and 900/2100MHz HSPA and UMTS.
There is a new Formula Three car in Northern Ireland that is receiving a great deal of press lately. Not only can the car reach speeds of 130 mph, but it’s made of sustainable materials, too.
According to BBC News, the ‘green’ vehicle, which researchers say is the world’s first sustainable race car, is a result of a collaboration between the University of Warwick’s Innovative Manufacturing Research Centre, the University of Ulster, and others. Powered by biodiesel, it’s made from environmentally friendly products like hemp, soybean oil, potato starch, and recycled bottles. Researchers didn’t sacrifice safety for sustainability, though. The vehicle’s “critical parts” are not made from sustainable materials, researcher Dr. Julie Soden told the BBC.
It’s clear that researchers don’t intend to keep this car in a lab; they want to see it used on the track. As evidence, A1 Grand Prix champion driver Adam Carroll recently took it for a spin. It’d be quite the feat if, one day, researchers could make this ‘green’ car a viable option for competitive drivers.
