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67% of Pocket-lint readers say £55 "too much" for games
Modern Warfare 2 pricing unpopular 31 July 2009 17:28 GMT
Pocket-lint readers have slammed Activision for the pricing on its forthcoming military shooter Modern Warfare 2. The company has said that it'll be on sale for £55, but 67% of users we polled thought that this was "too much".

Activision attempts to justify...
COMMENT: Facebook's policy on Holocaust denial is wrong
55% of Pocket-lint readers say Facebook should censor Holocaust denial 15 May 2009 14:48 GMT
Should Facebook automatically delete all Holocaust denial groups? That's the question we asked Pocket-lint readers this week, after a storm erupted over Facebook refusing to cave to a Dallas attorney who's demanding that Holocaust denial pages be removed.

Tesco...
94% give new Facebook layout thumbs down
"If I'd wanted Twitter, I'd have signed up" 20 March 2009 10:13 GMT
Facebook's most recent changes are proving unpopular with users.

The site recently reworked its user's homepages in order to make the site more "real-time", said by some to be in an effort to counter Twitter's meteoric popularity rise.

Although...
"Are we dancer" voted silly song lyric
Beat Weird Al Yankovic by a whisker 17 December 2008 16:46 GMT
The Killers hit song "Human" has one of the worst song lyrics of all time. Well, that's according to users of Orange's music service.

Over half of music fans aren't convinced by the band's reworking of the Hunter. S. Thompson quote, "we’re raising a generation...
Pocket-lint readers don't want voice search
62% say no thanks to out-loud browsing 24 November 2008 16:22 GMT
It seems Pocket-lint readers see voice-enabled search functions a feature too far.

Both Google and Yahoo have recently launched voice-activated search, Google for iPhone, and Yahoo with its oneSearch mobile app.

But, in our latest reader poll...
Xbox 360 price cuts now in effect
So, how many Pocket-lint readers are now tempted to buy? 19 September 2008 17:24 GMT
Microsoft's new lower prices for its Xbox 360 family of consoles in Europe have gone into effect today.

With a new low entry-level price of £129.99, we were interested to know if this would tip Pocket-lint readers into taking the Xbox plunge.

In...
60% of Pocket-lint readers trust Wikipedia
Poll results show online encyclopedia gets thumbs up 4 August 2008 17:15 GMT
In our latest Pocket-lint reader poll we asked if you trusted Wikipedia. It seems 60% of you do trust the the free online encyclopedia, while 40% are wary of info the site that anyone can edit.

Wikipedia was founded in 2001 and is made up of online wikis, which...
COMMENT: Is iTunes UK a rip-off?
79% of Pocket-lint readers say yes as ISPs crack down on file-sharers 25 July 2008 16:25 GMT
A whopping 79% of Pocket-lint readers believes that iTunes is a "rip-off" in the UK where the average price is 79p a track, versus 99 cents in America and the same in euro cents in Europe.

The result of our most recent poll, it seems that many of you think...
COMMENT: Is the Nintendo Wii winning the console war?
We ask Pocket-lint readers if the system is just a fad... 18 July 2008 14:15 GMT
With just-released data coming in suggesting that Nintendo's Wii is the top-selling video game console in the United States with 10.9 million units shifted, we thought we'd reveal whether the Pocket-lint readership thinks the system is here to stay.

In the...
63% of Pocket-lint readers not getting iPhone 3G today
And tales of woe from those who tried hard to do so... 11 July 2008 16:20 GMT
On what could be described as a frustrating day for early adopters in the UK, in our latest poll, we asked the Pocket-lint readership whether they were planning to pick up an iPhone 3G today.

It seems that 63% of Pocket-lint readers weren't planning to brave...
Microsoft to begin multi-million dollar Vista ad campaign
As two-thirds of Pocket-lint readers say just give up 9 July 2008 14:15 GMT
Microsoft is to begin a multi-million dollar advertising campaign to promote the Vista operating system, as an executive admits the current Apple "Get a Mac" adverts have "caused some impact".

However, the most recent Pocket-lint reader poll suggests this could...
Two-thirds of Pocket-lint readers holding back on Blu-ray
Price still the big issue for next-gen disc format 30 May 2008 16:44 GMT
Although the news hot out of Japan suggests that Toshiba may have one last shot to fire in the next-gen format war with some mysterious new DVD upscaling tech, right now to all intents and purposes the Blu-ray/HD DVD format war is over.

So have consumers rushed...
Will mobile broadband make Wi-Fi redundant?
WLAN is sooo 2007 30 April 2008 16:12 GMT
There have been a few headlines floating round cyberspace of late proclaiming that mobile broadband will very soon be the death of Wi-Fi.

We decided to put this puzzler to the tech-savvy Pocket-lint readership to see what your thoughts on this particular issue...
Pocket-lint readers divided on Kindle ownership
As e-book reader finally back in stock at Amazon 21 April 2008 15:56 GMT
Amazon's e-book reader, the Kindle, appears to have proved massively popular since its launch in the States last year with the white device consistently sold out since it debuted.

It seems that Amazon has now finally caught up with demand with the ecommerce...
Poll: Pocket-lint readers do not want phones on planes
Almost 60% against mile-high mobiles 7 April 2008 12:27 GMT
The European Commission has today formally given the go-ahead for plans to allow mobile phone calls from airplanes.

But 59% of respondents to a recent Pocket-lint poll do not welcome the prospect of flights sat next to someone nattering on their mobile.
Poll shows opinion split over Android
51% not "excited" about its arrival 21 March 2008 13:52 GMT
Pocket-lint readers don't seem as excited as you might think about the prospect of a wave of new Android phones due out later this year.

In a recent poll on the site, 51% of people said they weren't "excited" about the forthcoming Google Android phones due...
Poll: Majority of Pocket-lint readership up for Oyster-phone
57% say yes to mobile payment on Tube 7 December 2007 9:40 GMT
Following the news that O2 has launched trials of its "O2 Wallet" we were interested to know if the technology-loving Pocket-lint readership would see this as a bonus mobile phone application, or a bogus waste of time.

The primary use of the "Tube-Phone", a...
Pocket-lint poll: 59% would buy an iPod touch over a classic
Apple's phoneless iPhone gets more votes than the 160GB model 18 September 2007 11:05 GMT
In the most recent Pocket-lint reader poll, which we like to think of as a vox-poppy snapshot of our readership's feelings on a topic, we were interested to know if you would prefer to buy an iPod touch or an iPod classic.

Although both devices are from Apple's...
Poll results - 69% of Pocket-lint.co.uk readers want a touchscreen iPod
Dear Mr Jobs... 3 August 2007 18:09 GMT
In the most recent Pocket-lint.co.uk reader poll, we asked you if you fancied the idea of an iPod with a touchscreen.

Well, it seems that you do. 69% of you said "Yes, please and make it snappy" while 31% of the Pocket-lint readership is quite happy with the...
56% of Pocket-lint.co.uk readers not tempted by PS3 "Starter Pack"
Poll reveals roughly half and half split about new value offer 27 July 2007 18:15 GMT
In our latest Pocket-lint.co.uk reader poll - where you get to tell us what you think about a certain subject - we asked you if the recently launched PS3 value "Starter Pack" would tempt you to buy the console.

The results have been fairly evenly split with...
VIDEO: Megawhat at the Firebox Christmas presents preview
Find out what you'll be asking the fat man for this December 23 July 2007 16:07 GMT
Megawhat.tv, the new WebTV channel from the world of technology and gadgets brought to you in conjunction with your fave gadget site, Pocket-lint.co.uk, has a new episode ready to view now.

This week, Megawhat.tv visits Firebox.com's Christmas product showcase...
Enough already! 7 megapixels more than adequate for compact cameras
Latest reader poll results revealed 19 June 2007 18:08 GMT
The results of the latest Pocket-lint.co.uk and sister site Photographypress.co.uk reader Polls are in and as always these results provide a fascinating snapshot of how our tech-loving readership feel about a certain issue.

This week we looked at digital photography...
67% of you say "yes" to touchy-feely gadgets
Getting touched up - the latest Pocket-lint.co.uk Poll results 10 June 2007 11:24 GMT
In the latest Pocket-lint.co.uk reader Poll we asked you "With some gadgets now offering touch controls, not traditional buttons, is 'touch' going to be the new 'type'?"

67% of you are excited by the new touch developments and said "yes", while 33% of Pocket-lint.co.uk...
Yes to VoIP calls on your PSP - 60% of you would
Latest Pocket-lint.co.uk Poll results hot off the press 2 June 2007 15:46 GMT
Following BT's announcement that it is to develop a software-based application that will allow people to use their PSPs as VoIP handsets, in the latest Pocket-lint.co.uk reader Poll we asked you, "Would you use your PSP as a VoIP phone?" and 60% of you have backed up BT's...
Two out of five US households with a TV have a videogame console
That number has grown immensely in the last 2 years 6 March 2007 17:25 GMT
Although a whopping 41.1% of households in the US have some sort of gaming console, it's still the hardcore gamers who dominate playing time.

This is according to an exhaustive study by Nielsen research that covers the last quarter of 2004 through to the fourth...