A Greek marketing group has created the first “Tweeting Bra” as part of a campaign from Nestle Fitness for October’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The social networking bra utilizes a special mechanism hidden under the hook of the bra. When it is unhooked, a signal is sent to a cell phone which in turn notifies a server that generates a tweet.
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Something a bit different for today’s news.
gMusic 2 is free on the US and UK iTunes stores.
It is the best app for playing your Google Music on an iPhone or iPad.
Sadly, this offer was for one day only, and was free at time of posting. It has now reverted back to its full price.
It was Sunday afternoon, and I happened to be in the Apple store in Plymouth.
On display were all the new iPhone 5S and 5C, the new iPad Air and all the other shiny Apple hardware and accessories. But to my surprise the iPhone 5S had hardly anybody browsing around them. In fact even the iPads weren’t gathering much attention. But the iPhone 5C tables were packed and this seemed the one item that was selling quicker than any of the others at that time of day.
The 5C was always meant to have a slow burn start, eventually surpassing the 5S in sales numbers. I’m unsure about the actual sales volumes in the long run, but it does show many people just like the different colours and aren’t too worried about the overall specs.
Samsung and China Telecom revealed the latest flip phone for their customers, the SCH-W2014. The dual-screen flip phone comes equipped with a 2.3GHz Snapdragon 800 processor and 2GB of RAM to power Android 4.3 on the device. Samsung loads it up with 32GB of internal storage and the capability to expand that via microSD. The W2014 also has dual-SIM capability.
This phone won’t see the light of day overseas but it does demonstrate how versatile Samsung is when it comes to manufacturing different phones in all sorts of shapes and sizes.
I have had the QX10 and QX100 now for several weeks and my views on them have slightly changed. They are both excellent however I now carry the QX10 with me more than the QX100.
I carry the QX10 permanently with me as it is considerably lighter and smaller to pocket. It also has 10x optical zoom so for most situations it is a better option to carry.
If I know I will be travelling to somewhere specifically where I intend to take photos or where there might be an opportunity for good shots then I will take the QX100. The QX100 takes incredible quality photos.
But if I had to choose just one, it would be the QX10. If I wanted QX100 quality I would use a DSLR camera instead.
However, my wife and I have been out several times with our iPhone 5S’s using the QX10 and QX100 and had a great time using them. More fun actually than most cameras.
Google released the Nexus 5 via its own Play Store for a low price of £299 for the 16gb and £339 for the 32gb model. The 8mp camera with optical image stabilisation has been heavily promoted along with Google Now and Google Search being tightly integrated into the handset.
Over the weekend there has been plenty written, tweeted and camera samples posted. It seems that the whole phone is now one large Google Search machine. This is great if you like Google and being honest when integrated into Google Now becomes an interesting proposition. The camera whilst not being super awesome is still above average and for the majority of people will be fine.
If I hadn’t just bought an iPhone 5S and iPad Air and didn’t have close friends and family also on iOS, I would buy the Nexus 5 without blinking an eye. It represents good value and backed up by Google’s services and excellent voice search, search, Google+ photo enhancements and more.
Dave from UKMobileTech and myself have teamed up to create a new tech podcast.
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Note some apps this sequence causes a conflict.
Both the iPad Air and iPhone 5S and Apple’s latest devices and both are so easy to crash. In fact, I have never seen Apple hardware suffer this much. Even iTunes on the mac running mavericks keeps quitting unexpectedly.
So how do you get the iPad Air and iPhone 5S to crash and cause a reboot all by itself. Start using either device. Open and close all the apps or games that you would normally use. Now double tap the home button to launch into the multitasking mode and jump to another app. Now do the same thing again. After repeating this a few times you will get your iPad Air or iPhone 5S to soft reset all by itself.
I haven’t lost any data when this happens and it only takes about 5-10 seconds to reboot back to life. It has happened once on my iPad Air yesterday and happens at least once a day on my iPhone 5S. I would hope a software update for iOS 7 will fix this annoying bug.
So have you been affected by this too?
I have an old iPad 2 64gb wifi and 3G model for sale for £260 plus postage. It is in very good condition. It has once small dent in the side but apart from that there are no other visible scratches.
My wife used this iPad 2 at home, and had a gelaskin on it , hence why there are no marks. It is sim free and unlocked. In fact, it has never has a SIM card in it. It runs the latest iOS 7 as well.
Included is the box, charger, USB 30 pin lead, a pink, but now dirty looking Smart Cover and a fairly new Logitech wireless keyboard cover. This keyboard acts as a screen cover and uses magnets like the official Smart Cover to attach to the iPad 2. For photos please go to ad on the PSC Forum http://www.pscforum.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2342
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