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LEGO Brings Physical Toys to the Digital World

Oliver Haslam — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 23:13:44 +0000

Everyone loves LEGO, and I'm no different, so it was with great excitement that I read about Life of George, a new LEGO game that incorporates real, physical LEGO bricks with the magical (and revolutionary, of course) world of the iPhone.

Guitar Hero gets Game Center support

Oliver Haslam — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 22:53:31 +0000

Game Center compatibility is finding its way into most games these days, and Activision’s Guitar Hero is no different.

Along with Game Center, version 1.2.0 also adds multitasking support and the less exciting ‘bug fixes’.

I’m off to find out I don’t have nearly as [...]

Apple’s Game Center – Xbox Live for your iPhone

Oliver Haslam — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 11:32:03 +0000

After months of betas and subsequent pulling of said beta, Apple finally let Game Center loose on the world with the release of iOS 4.1 last week. We’ve all had some time to test it out, and now we finally have some games that take advantage of all the new APIs. A week later, [...]

iPhone 3G meets the washing machine & lives on!

Oliver Haslam — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:58:08 +0000

If you follow me on Twitter, the chances are you read about our iPhone 3G finding its way into the washing machine on a 60 degree (Celsius) spin cycle! Much panicking ensued, and an old T-Mobile G1 was even pressed into service as a temporary device. We were not happy.

24 hours later, and I’m bored. Off [...]

Powermat Home & Office – reviewed

Oliver Haslam — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 17:30:32 +0000

If you follow me on Twitter (You DO follow me, don’t you?) you may remember I received a Powermat for review a few weeks ago. I spent a week using the device with my iPhone 3G using the Powermat case designed for the handset (sold spererately). It’s taken [...]

Dont think Apple could miss a design flaw?

Oliver Haslam — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:37:15 +0000

With all the hoopla surrounding the iPhone 4 and it’s ‘reception issue’ I often hear one particular argument….

“But Apple would never design something so stupid as an antenna that doesn’t work….”

To that, I must respond by pointing you, loyal reader, to Exhibit A – the iPhone 4 rubber band – I mean bumper. [...]

New poll: Which iPhone 4 will you be picking up?

Oliver Haslam — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 17:20:05 +0000

It’s been a while since we had a new poll on here, but with the impending launch of the iPhone 4 I figured now was as good a time as any!

The question is simple enough:

Which iPhone 4 are you planning on buying?

The options -

Black – 16GB Black – 32GB White [...]

Dutch phone store puts up iPhone 4G page?

Oliver Haslam — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 18:08:58 +0000

The internet’s all abuzz with iPhone 4G (they won’t call it that, right?) talk right now and it isn’t going to stop anytime soon. With that in mind, I’m taking pretty much everything I read with a couple of pinches of salt.

Having said that, it appears that Dutch phone retailer 2call.nl is listing [...]

Opera Mini demo appears – is scary fast

Oliver Haslam — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:33:39 +0000

I’m not usually one for third party browsers, and until now had absolutely zero interest in seeing Opera Mini hit the iPhone. I say ‘until now’ as I’ve just watched a mind-blowing demo of Opera Mini 5 running on an iPhone over an EDGE network. Loading nytimes.com, Opera managed to pull down 5 (count ‘em, [...]

Cheap iPod/iPhone/iPad dock extender found!

Oliver Haslam — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:19:07 +0000

Those following me on Twitter may remember me asking for a dock cable extender for my iPhone a while back. Unfortunately I never found a solution, but today I stumbled across one. Thanks to a post over on HotUKDeals I found the ‘Dock Extender Male/Female Cable for All iPod/iPhone‘ available for a [...]