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OnlineAmazon could soon allow you to make cash from your unwanted MP3s, eBooks, apps and more
6 February 2013 -
Reviews & hands-on
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Tablets 4 out of 5Amazon Kindle Fire HD 8.9 review
The Kindle Fire HD 8.9 swells Amazon's UK tablet offering to three devices, with the 8.9 sitting at the top of the pile, at least, in terms of size. It matches the design of the 7-inch Kindle Fire HD, and in many cases offers the same specs and functionality,...
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Apps
APP OF THE DAY: Kindle for Android review (Android)
There's a lot of talk of ecosystems with modern smartphones and the war raging around where you buy your content and where you consume it. In an ideal world you're free to move your content around and do with it what you want: it is, after all, your content....
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Tablets
APP OF THE DAY: Amazon Mobile (Tablet) review (Android)
Amazon Mobile is one of the greatest coups of the shopping world. You walk into a high street store, scan what you want to buy, examine the price online compared to the shop you’re physically standing in and press buy, because it’s inevitably cheaper....
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Gadgets
Braun Prestige BN10 digital watch pictures and hands-on
It's been around for "a few months", Pocket-lint was told, but the Amazon Summer Wish List event was the first time that we've come up close with the Braun Prestige BN10 digital watch for men - and we likey. A lotty. Made from incredibly solid stainless...
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Tablets 4 out of 5Amazon Kindle Fire HD review
The Kindle Fire HD brings to the UK something missing from Amazon's armoury: a tablet. With the Kindle E Ink reader now firmly lodged in the hands, and minds, of many, the most important thing about this particular tablet might not be the operating system...
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AppsLovefilm for Kindle Fire HD pictures and hands-on
With the arrival of the Kindle Fire HD comes Lovefilm streaming its way on to Android. Not for every Android user mind, just those who happen to have picked up Amazon's new tablet. We've been calling out for a Lovefilm app for Android for ages: the...
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Gadgets 5 out of 5Amazon Kindle Paperwhite review
The biggest issue with the Amazon Kindle and its E-Ink technology is that while it's fantastic for reading on the beach, in broad daylight, or lasting for what seems an eternity on a single charge, try to read it in bed and you'll struggle without some...
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Gadgets 5 out of 5Kindle 6-inch (2012) review
No one could really accuse the Kindle of ever having been massively over-priced. For one, there has always been a good range of models, giving users the choice about what they spend and what options they get. But recently, Amazon has made the entry-level...
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AppsAmazon Kindle for Mac adds gesture support, we flick through some books
Amazon Kindle for Mac has added gesture controls for Lion and Mountain Lion users, so Pocket-lint fired up the app to see whether it makes a difference. The new app hasn't really changed that much although it is also worth noting that if you've got a...
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OnlineAmazon's Top Toy Tips for Christmas 2012
Amazon has held its annual Christmas in July/Wish List event in London, and it's now a Pocket-lint tradition to pick out best (most relevant) of the toys on show in order to get a sneak peek on what might be the biggest sellers come the end of the year....
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Online 4.5 out of 5Amazon Kindle Touch 3G review
It wasn't all that long ago that we reviewed the new Kindle. As you might imagine, we loved it. This is, after all, the best known and best designed ebook reader on the market. It's simple, cheap, and pretty much single-purpose. What it does, it does...
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AppsAPP OF THE DAY: Amazon Mobile review (Android/iPhone)
There was once a time that shopping involved flitting from one shop to the next. A glance in one store was followed by a dash over the road to another. A quick mental comparison of prices followed, along with the ever-important point of how far you'd...
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Tablets 4 out of 5Amazon Kindle Fire review
Is it a jumped-up e-reader, a cut-price iPad or nothing more than a portable shop window for Amazon’s endless shelves? The Kindle Fire blunders into the tablet wars with something to annoy everyone: an LCD screen to irritate E Ink fans; a GPS-less,...
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Online 4.5 out of 5Amazon Kindle (2011) review
With all the fuss over the launch of the Kindle Fire tablet, it would have been easy to overlook the new Amazon product that Jeff Bezos expects to sell "many millions" - the cheapest Kindle ever, slightly confusingly also called the Kindle. (The Kindle...
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OnlineQuickSmart Back Pack Stroller debuts in UK
Austrian company QuickSmart has been manufacturing its Back Pack Stroller for some time, but it's never been available in the UK, much to the dismay of travelling British parents. They too wanted to be able to pack an entire pushchair into an easy to...