HTC One X Lands In The UK April 5th

We finally have some information on the launch date of the HTC One X here in the UK, the device will be available from the 5th of April, and retailers will start shipping the handsets out to customers who have pre-ordered on the 4th of April.
The guys over at Unlocked Mobiles just sent us these photos of the HTC One X, and the handset will be available for £497.98 SIM free including taxes.

As a reminder the HTC One X features a quad core 1.5GHz NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor and it features a 4.6 inch HD Super LCD 2 touchscreen display with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels.

You can find out more information about the SIM free HTC One X over at Unlocked Mobiles.

CSound Music Programming Language Arriving On iPad

Users of CSound music programming language who own an iPad might be pleased to earn that a new Csound iOS application called CSound Touch will be arriving on Apple’s iPad device very soon.
Csound is a programming language designed and optimised for sound rendering and signal processing. The language consists of over 1300 opcodes, the operational codes that sound designers use to build “instruments” or patches.

Csound Touch is a new app that lets you to render, process, compose, and perform with the Csound language. The Csound Touch iOS application comes supplied with a large library of synthesis, signal processing, and MIDI instruments which users can use or customise to their exact needs.
Csound Touch also includes tutorials, manuals, and examples to help new users learn the Csound music programming language if you have never used it before. Pricing and availability for Csound Touch are to be announced shortly.

Scepter Launches Cheap, Green 40-Inch HDTV

Sceptre makes a bunch of different TV sets that range from small screens to bigger screens. The company is particularly known for making brightly colored TVs sized more for small rooms or dorms than the living room. The company’s latest set is a 40-inch unit boasting ultra green status.


The set has an estimated yearly cost to operate of only $14. The power sipping TV has a 38.5-inch viewable area and sells for under $400. The TV is Energy Star 5.3 certified and has full HD resolution. It has three HDMI inputs and a single USB port.
The contrast ratio is 5000:1 and the TV has a 60 Hz frame rate. The LED backlighting is good for over 50,000 hours and the TV can be wall-mounted. The TV will be available at Target, Walmart, and at several online retailers.

Nokia Reader comes to Series 40 phones

Nokia Beta Labs has got a nifty new application for their existing Series 40 Touch and Type phones. Now you can follow your favourite local news quickly and easily from your phone's homescreen. The news is always fresh and you don't need to worry about your battery consumption, thanks to their new ‘Nokia Notifications’. And with only two clicks you can open a story in the browser to read and explore more. Nokia Reader is simple to set up: just start it and the nearby content starts to automatically flow in. You can also select your favourite news sources from the online directory of the major news sources.

Read on the go!

Here are a few of the key features of Nokia Reader:

• View local and international news
• Easy access to Internet
• Battery-friendly
• Latest topics on home screen
• Online directory
• Cloud storage for your selections.
• Supports Nokia Browser

In case you're having problems getting Nokia reader on your phone’s homescreen, you can get help from a quick how-to guide that should suffice for this relatively easy install. The content of the directory is based on your location and the phone's language setting. Reader fetches the list of news sources from the backend server. It downloads and installs an add-on called Notifications. It then uses this optimized push notification mechanism for pushing the news from Internet to the Reader application.

Here’s how you can add the Nokia Reader on your phone's home screen:
1. On homescreen touch and hold on any area on display.
2. Select "Personalise view"
3. Select the place you would want to have the Nokia Reader.
4. Select "Nokia Reader" from the list.
5. Select "Done" and answer "Yes" when it is asked to save the changes.
6. Now Nokia Reader will always show the latest topics directly on the home screen


The application has been tested on a couple of phones. Nokia Reader is available for Series 40 touch and type devices and has been tested to work with the Nokia C2-02, Nokia X3-02, Nokia C3-01, Nokia Asha 303 and Nokia Asha 300. It’s part of Nokia’s Beta Labs, so there could be slight bugs with the usability of the application, but as of now, according to their Beta Labs, it works pretty neat on the above devices.

Belle Feature Pack 2 might be coming soon

There’s some pretty good news for Symbian smartphone users as there could be a chance that a new Feature Pack 2 update is in the pipeline for the newer models. The Nokia PureView will be part of the update, and that will be coming to the 603, 700 and 701 as well, along with a CPU speed increase.

Gigantic 41 megapixels sensor

As reported by GSM Arena, the Belle Feature Pack 1 update in itself ups the performance of the browser as well. It goes from 157 points to 212 points. With Feature Pack 2, there’s a further increase in the speed with the points tally going up to 242. Equivalent to that, Android 2.3 gets 181, Android 4.0 gets 256 and Safari gets a 305. Obviously iOS wins, but Belle isn’t that far off, which is definitely good news. Mango scored a lowly 141 points, as compared to the competition. This was part of the HTML5 test’s browser comparison tests. Also, Nokia Beta Labs is ending the Universal search that was currently existing on their phones. This might mean that the feature may be a part of FP2 as well. 

Symbian on its own was definitely a powerful platform. With the advent of the other operating systems, it did lose a lot of steam, but it's still chugging on with these updates. One of the main problems was the limited app store, but besides that, the interface, the media and everything else was pretty much top notch. Symbian wasn’t too optimized either and it did face a similar fate as Samsung’s Bada operating system. As compared to frontrunners, Google and Apple, it didn’t really impress that much, and Nokia themselves started looking at Windows Phone as their future operating system. With PureView 808, we might see it come back, though. The 41MP camera might just be an impressive feature that will make some heads turn. What do you guys think, Symbian Belle, a 41 megapixel camera phone and hopefully an affordable price tag would make this a good buy? Let us know in the comments section below.

LG Lucid Lands On Verizon

LG’s latest Android smartphone, the LG Lucid is now available from Verizon wireless in the US, and the handset costs $79.99 after a $50 rebate when you sign up to a new two year contract with the carrier.
The LG Lucid features 4 inch display with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels, plus a dual core 1.2GHz processor and 1GB of RAM plus front and rear facing cameras, plus Android 2.3 Gingerbread.

On the back there is a 5 megapixel camera which can record full HD video in 1080p, on the front there is a VGA camera for video chat, and it also comes with Bluetooth and WiFi.
LG have also said that the Lucid will get an upgrade to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich in the near future, you can find out more details over at Verizon.

Adobe Photoshop CS6 Beta Downloads Pass 500,000

In just a week since Adobe made a fully functional version of its new Photoshop CS6 Beta available for public download. Adobe has announced that the Photoshop CS6 Beta has been download over half a million times.

New features in the latest Adobe Photoshop 6 Beta release include CS6 Extended 3D editing features and quantitative imaging analysis tools together with tilt-shift creation tools, to name just a few.
“Photoshop CS6 beta includes all the features in Photoshop CS6 and Photoshop CS6 Extended. Take this opportunity to try out the 3D image editing and quantitative image analysis capabilities of Photoshop Extended*, but note that—while these features will be included in the shipping version of Photoshop CS6 Extended—they will not be included in the shipping version of Photoshop CS6.”
You can download the latest Adobe Photoshop CS6 application from the Adobe website now to give it a try.