You may as well call in sick to work right now: Portal 2 has arrived, and it owns your week. The much-anticipated title is available today for Xbox 360, PS3, PC and Mac, offering a much-boosted single player mode complete with fresh challenges, new characters and more devious test levels, while there’s also an innovative two-player cooperative mode.
Orange UK has confirmed launch details for the Motorola ATRIX, which will be landing as a carrier exclusive in early May. Available free on agreements from £35 ($57) per month and above, the dual-core ATRIX's HD Multimedia Dock and notebook-like Lapdock will also be on offer.
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HTC hasn't been short on new smartphone launches this year - the HTC Sensation most recently, the HTC EVO 3D last month, and then five new phones back at MWC 2011 - but Windows Phone has been conspicuous by its absence. According to a new, leaked promo caught by Pocketnow, however, HTC is readying a beastly photo-focused Windows Phone handset with a whopping 16-megapixel camera.
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Hannspree‘s Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet, the SN10T3, isn’t expected to hit the market until Q3 2011, but the company had the freshly-released SN10T1 on show here at IFA 2011 today. Based around a 10.1-inch 1024 x 600 touchscreen and NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 processor, the slate may run Android 2.2 Froyo but it’s well hidden under a custom UI. Still, that decision has left the SN10T1 missing a few key features which may take some of the shine off of its low price tag.
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Samsung may have had 3D video-on-demand to announce at IFA 2011 this morning, but the company was also demonstrating its smart TV streaming system that can squirt a live video feed from a D7000 or D8000 series HDTV to one of the company’s Android-based devices. We grabbed some hands-on time to see whether this is the setup to retire your SlingBox for; check out the video demo and more after the cut.
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The HTC Sensation leaks keep on coming, with Vodafone's premature unveiling of the dual-core Android smartphone being followed by a trio of videos. MobileBulgaria spotted the promo footage (which you can see after the cut) uploaded by Sogi, which shows the 8-megapixel camera, what looks to be a new launcher screen, and a more impressive weather app.
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The thought of Nokia and gaming may bring to mind terrible memories of taco-shaped N-Gage, but the X7 looks set to change some opinions. Surprisingly waifish in the hand, with distinct tapering edges leaving it feeling like a crisp metal slice, the angular chassis (and Symbian OS) will probably polarize opinion nonetheless.
The IOIO for Android breakout board impressed us earlier in the week with its hack-friendly potential, turning an Android smartphone into the hub of any electronics project. Now its creator, Ytai, has shared some examples of what the IOIO is capable of, including a retro-style alarm clock that can ring when you get messages.
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Motorola's XOOM had its chance to sweep the Android 3.0 Honeycomb market; now the low-cost slates from Taiwan are here to steal its thunder. Acer has priced its 10.1-inch Iconia Tab A500 tablet this morning at an iPad 2 undercutting $450, while the eagle-eyed spotted ASUS' Eee Pad Transformer at a mere $400 last month before the listings were pulled. Both are expected to hit the US later in April, but how do they compare?
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The allure of public transport is so often undermined by the scent of urine and dawdling performance, but the only people soiling themselves in the Dutch-made Superbus are likely to be those over-excited by its eco-friendly turn of electric speed. Capable of accommodating up to 23 passengers and still hitting 155kph (96mph), the lengthy carbon fiber and fiberglass vehicle is headed to Dubai next month.
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In the gadget world, you're nothing until you've run Doom, and ereaders aren't exempt. Luckily Pocketbook's new 360 Plus has stepped up to the plate and delivered, with a new video demo showing the compact ebook reader running Doom II on its e-ink display.
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ASUS had already revealed the Eee Pad Transformer, priced it, and let us get our filthy mitts on it, so the only thing left is the official product page. That's now online, complete with all the hardware details you might need along with a comprehensive run-down of the software ASUS will be pre-installing onto the convertible Android tablet.
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