When the first Android handsets started to appear in the UK, I couldn’t wait to get my hands on one. The iPhone, with all its restrictions and Jobsian control-freakery just wasn’t for me. I wanted something much cooler, more open. I wanted something made by Google. Having been an Android user for 10 months or [...]

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Apple’s prohibition of Flash on their i-Devices is well-known and equally well documented. Using Safari on the iPad can be more than a little frustrating when you have vast swathes of  video and games on the internet consigned to the Schminternet with messages like this: All may not be lost. I’ve got an iPod dock [...]

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In the mid-Nineties, when the Filofax was battling with Lotus Organizer for the title of King of the PIMs; as the PC industry was blooming and before the days of Apple Stores, a device so cool it was like something from science fiction began to get some buzz. The Apple Newton. Of course, there was no way I could afford one of these mythical things, so I opted for the next best thing: the Amstrad PenPad.

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