Even with everyone currently seemingly obsessed with wearable technology, companies are still banging out new tablets like there's no tomorrow. Apple isn't due to refresh its iPad lineup until later this year, but Samsung has today rolled out two new flagship tablets that it hopes will take the iPad Pro to task - if indeed that's something that ever exists.
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Oliver Haslam has written about technology for over a decade. His work has been published in print at Macworld and online pretty much everywhere else. If it plugs in or has a battery, it's fair game.
Facebook has today updated it's Facebook Messenger app, the app that saw the social network break its instant messaging feature out into a completely separate app on mobile.
When Apple announced OS X 10.10 Yosemite at WWDC last week, the Mac finally received a version of its operating system that more closely resembles some of the design philosophies that iOS 7 brought to the iPhone and iPad. Just like when Apple updated its mobile operating system last year, Yosemite will usher in a new look for all of Apple's first-party apps, which means that third-party developers will need to start looking at making their own apps fit the overall look and feel of the new OS.
Before Apple announced iOS 8 at WWDC, there had been plenty of chatter that a new split-screen mode was on its way to the iPad which would allow two apps to run side-by-side in a similar way to the feature offered by Microsoft's Surface tablet. As the opening keynote of WWDC came and went, no mention was made of this rumored feature, but now that iOS 8 is in the hands of developers, mention of the split-screen mode has been found throughout the Software Development Kit that Apple provides.
If you're a fan of football - sorry, can't call it soccer! - then you'll no doubt already have your favorite seat placed nicely in the middle of the room, pointed squarely at the TV. There are plenty of games to keep up with over the next four weeks, and if you live in the right country, it's all going to be on TV. If like some of us here, you need a handy way of keeping abreast of what games are on and when, then you're going to want to pay attention.
As Apple presumably ramps up its plans to launch a new iPhone in the coming months, it's almost inevitable that we'll learn more and more about the unannounced device. Today we've been treated to yet more leaked photos of the supposed iPhone 6, and these are the best yet.
If you're a fan of the trend that sees smartphone sizes seemingly increasing with every new major product release, then you're probably already a big fan of Samsung's Galaxy Note line of smartphones-cum-tablets. Weighing in with screens that most of us wouldn't want to carry around in our pockets, the Note family of smartphones has always been popular amongst those who want a device that's large enough to watch movies on without having to carry around a tablet.
When Sony launched the PS Vita TV in Japan late last year, it looked like it could be the product that we'd all been expecting to come from the folks at Apple. A little box that plays TV content as well as top-class games? Where do we sign up?
If you're a big fan of the Grand Theft Auto series of games then you're going to want to prick your ears up, because even thought the fifth installment in the franchise has been around for nine months, the game is still set for a big release on the next generation platforms alongside the PC. And it will be up for pre-order starting today.
Apple's big iOS 8 reveal at WWDC brought with it one or two features that we never saw coming. One feature that's considerably less unexpected but perhaps one that has slipped under the radar, is the Camera app's new time-lapse mode.
