Dan Sung News Archive 
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ViewSonic ViewPad G70 pictures and hands-on
HANDS-ON High end Android, low end price 27 February 2012 11:29 GMT TweetThe ViewSonic ViewPad E70 is the absolute rock bottom in Ice Cream Sandwich budgetry but, if not having a rear-facing camera and just a 800 x 480-pixel display is a little coarse for you, then you might want to consider the step up model, the ViewSonic...
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ViewSonic ViewPhone 4s and 4e pictures and hands-on
HANDS-ON MWC 2012: Look like a Lumia, work like a droid 27 February 2012 11:00 GMT TweetWhile ViewSonic's tablets at Mobile World Congress have been familiar fare (apart from the ViewPad E100), what did rather take Pocket-lint by surprise were the Android phones the company has shown off in Barcelona.
So far, the top-end ViewSonic...
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ViewSonic ViewPad E70 pictures and hands-on
HANDS-ON One of the cheapest ice cream sarnies around 27 February 2012 8:01 GMT TweetA £129 Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich tablet sounds too good to be true, but that's exactly what ViewSonic has proposed at MWC 2012 with the ViewSonic ViewPad E70. Heading down to the stand in Barcelona, we can definitely comfirm that this device exists...
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ViewSonic ViewPad E100 pictures and hands-on
HANDS-ON MWC 2012: iPad 2 on the cheap 27 February 2012 7:35 GMT TweetViewSonic, of course, does not, and would not, ever market a tablet as the iPad 2 lite - but pick up the ViewSonic ViewPad E100 and it's hard to think of anything else.
Sitting among its friends on the stand at Mobile World Congress 2012, it's...
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MWC 2012: Review of rumours, features, pictures and specs
FEATURE All the phones, all the action 24 February 2012 17:18 GMT TweetMWC 2012 has not even begun and already the news has been flooding in. Europe's most important mobile phone event will be packed, as ever, with handsets of all types from all the manufacturers of the world (minus one) with everything from the smartest...
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APP OF THE DAY: Musaic Box review (Android)
A very unusual game 23 February 2012 18:00 GMT TweetThere are a lot of games on the Android Market but few are as bizarre as today's App of the Day on Pocket-lint. It's a cross between a puzzle game, a detective game and music game and somehow it just about works.
Be warned, this is something...
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Best PlayStation Vita accessories
FEATURE Pimp out your PSV 22 February 2012 15:53 GMT TweetThe Sony PlayStation Vita has arrived - in fact, if you want to know all about it you can read our Sony PlayStation Vita review - but you've probably already bought one. In that case, what you'll need to do now to maximise your enjoyment of the latest...
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APP OF THE DAY: Barclays Pingit review (iOS, BlackBerry and Android)
Cash by text 16 February 2012 18:00 GMT TweetMobile payments is an area of much debate. It’s obviously the way of the future to be able to send funds over and between mobile phones but there ae enormous issues of security and, probably more importantly, customer trust to overcome.
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Ford B-Max and Made in Chelsea's Cheska Hull pictures and hands-on
HANDS-ON Made in Dagenham 16 February 2012 11:34 GMT TweetFord has unleashed its latest take on the small car, the Ford B-Max, with a little help from Made in Chelsea star Cheska Hull at a preview event in London today.
The car is said by Ford to be stuffed to the gunnels with safety technology and...
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Gadgets from the movies: SFX expert tells us how it works
FEATURE Johnny English Reborn's real Q division 15 February 2012 15:38 GMT TweetJames Davis blows things up for a living. That’s what he quips when explaining to Pocket-lint just what the title of Floor Manager of an SFX department is all about. Not all special effects involve pyrotechnics or stunt men hurling themselves...
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APP OF THE DAY: Springpad review
Organise your life 9 February 2012 18:06 GMT TweetEvernote is not the only note taking service. If you’ve never got on with the green-look super-program that is, then today’s App of the Day on Pocket-lint is definitely worth a try. For a start, you can change the background to one of a...
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APP OF THE DAY: Crackle review (Android, consoles, iOS, Smart TVs)
Free movies wherever you go 2 February 2012 18:00 GMT TweetWith the world now awash with video-on-demand services, one might wonder if we really need another to think about, but that’s exactly what we’re recommending on App of the Day at Pocket-lint.
We’re not saying that you shouldn’t...
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Best Android apps for learning and reference
FEATURE For the smartest phone of all 1 February 2012 12:00 GMT TweetSmartphones apps aren't just about games. There's some educating to do out there if you'd care to tear yourself away from Fruit Ninja for just two minutes and we at Pocket-lint have amassed the very best Android apps for learning and reference so that...
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Best Android customisation apps
FEATURE Your smartphone, your choices 27 January 2012 12:45 GMT TweetOne of the joys of Android is supposed to be customisation and yet few people even bother to change their wallpaper after unboxing their little darlings. One of the problems is that most of us have been scarred by our early live wallpaper experiences...
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APP OF THE DAY: PhotoWall review (Android)
Your pictures, your wallpaper 26 January 2012 18:08 GMT TweetSure, you've got a gallery app full of pictures on your mobile phone. Yes, you might even have the odd widget window on your desktop that connects to it too but, frankly, if you're not using today's App of the Day on your Android handset, you're not...
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Best Android navigation apps
FEATURE Get home safe 23 January 2012 12:58 GMT TweetOne of the best things to come out of the smartphone revolution was that we got to throw away all those bits of paper in our pockets along with the 10 minutes before we left home of poring over maps trying to work out where we were going to go. GPS-enabled...
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CES 2012 record breakers
FEATURE The biggest, fastest, thinnest, first 19 January 2012 16:45 GMT TweetCES wouldn't be CES if there weren’t companies out there breaking records. If corporations weren't lauching the biggest, fastest, thinnest or simply the first, then they wouldn't be happy. As it goes, neither would we.
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Cubify 3D home printer pictures and hands-on
HANDS-ON CES 2012: The future has arrived 18 January 2012 10:28 GMT TweetWhat has always seemed the stuff of pie in the sky will be coming to your home within weeks. 3D printing has been around on an industrial level for a while, but now a company called 3D Systems has come up with a version for the home called Cubify that...
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APP OF THE DAY: Super Stickman Golf review (Android & iOS)
No drivers required 17 January 2012 17:58 GMT TweetThere are casual games and there are casual games. Today’s App of the Day is one of the latter, or perhaps the former, depending on how you read that sentence. Essentially, while some of these kinds of downloads are all about swiping you finger...
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Soul Party in Box pictures and hands-on
HANDS-ON CES 2012: Ghetto blaster for the 21st century 17 January 2012 15:35 GMT TweetEverybody who's anybody in the hip hop scene these days has a company churning out headphones with their name on them. Actor/rapper Christopher Brian Bridges, aka Ludacris, (see what he did there?) is no exception and has been the man behind Soul Electronics...
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Nest learning thermostat pictures and hands-on
HANDS-ON CES 2012: Auto-adjusting home tech 17 January 2012 15:08 GMT TweetThermostats are dull aren't they? But they do control half of the money that you fork out every year on energy, so it pays to have a good one. And by good one we, of course, mean one that looks like HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Unlike HAL...
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Acer Allegro Windows Phone 7 smartphone pictures and hands-on
HANDS-ON CES 2012: Coming to the UK? 17 January 2012 11:17 GMT TweetAcer launched the Acer Allegro Windows Phone 7 smartphone in France in October 2011. That made it the company's first foray into the the world of the popular Microsoft mobile OS and now there seems to be a decent chance that it will be arriving elsewhere...
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Sony Walkman Z pictures and hands-on
HANDS-ON CES 2012: Prototype becomes reality 17 January 2012 10:15 GMT TweetWe caught it as a prototype at IFA 2011 in Berlin, but it wasn't until the Android-running Sony Walkman Z series hit CES that it became a reality and a chance for Pocket-lint to go hands on with this suped-up media player.
A match up of the...
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US Army certified gaming guns and gear hands-on
HANDS-ON CES 2012: Blast your foes as Uncle Sam intended 16 January 2012 16:40 GMT TweetThe US Army has officially endorsed a range of gaming peripherals as produced by CTA Digital.
Leading the pack at CES 2012 was the US Army Elite Force Assault Rifle for PlayStation 3 & Move, as pictured. It is modelled bump for bump on the...
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Samsung Series 5 Ultrabooks pictures and hands-on
HANDS-ON CES 2012: Sexy, if not the Series 9 16 January 2012 15:17 GMT TweetOfficially speaking, the Samsung Series 9 laptop is not an Ultrabook - at least, Samsung has chosen not to call it one much like Apple hasn't bothered including the MacBook Air either. Instead, Samsung announced a couple of lesser machines at CES 2012,...
APP OF THE DAY: Tom Daley Dive 2012 review (iPad / iPhone / iPod touch) Splooosh!
Sony Vaio E Series pictures and hands-on Everyday laptops
APP OF THE DAY: The Weather Channel review (iPhone / iPod touch) Tonight for the first time, just about half-past ten...
Canon EOS 650D coming in June - specs leaked About time and all
Diablo III collector's edition pictures and hands-on
Want to transfer Android apps to a Windows Phone? Microsoft would like to help Showing App-titude
Samsung Galaxy S III receives 9 million pre-orders Are you one of the crowd?
ICANN and the dot anything: do we care about domain names? The web is changing
WIN: Tickets to Ibiza Rocks to see Maverick Sabre and Labrinth live Epic prize courtesy of Sony
Olympic diving hope Tom Daley gets own iOS game Tom Daley Dive 2012
Cisco Linksys X3000 One for basic users
APP OF THE DAY: WhatsApp review (Android) Instant message, cross platform
Pentax K-30: 16-megapixel weather-proofed mid-level DSLR 81 seals makes this one tough cam
Steve Jobs dreamt of creating an iCar What might have been
Twitter suggests who to follow according to your web history Separate the 'tweet' from the chaff
Olympus OM-D E-M5 review
The compact system camera to beat all others?
Nokia Lumia 900 review
Is big beautiful?
HTC One V review
V for victory?
Huawei Ascend G300 review
Big bang for your hundred quid
FIFA 12: UEFA Euro 2012 review
Lacks polish, if not the Polish
Asus Transformer Pad TF300T review
Transforms your money in to a great tablet
BlackBerry Mini Keyboard for PlayBook review
Will this make working on the go easier?
Fujifilm X-Pro1 review
Like a Leica
Nikon Coolpix P510 review
Does the P510 zoom beyond expectations?
Volkswagen Beetle Design 1.2TSi DSG review
The bug is back. Again.
The Walking Dead: The Game review
Fleshed out zombie bonanza
HP Envy 14 Spectre review
The Ultrabook that isn't an Ultrabook
Fujifilm FinePix HS30EXR review
Can Fujifilm’s latest put the ‘super’ in superzoom?
Nikon Coolpix S6300 review
Point, shoot and scoot