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After watching that, now I can't wait! The banter brings back memories!

Same here Daft. Only ordered it because it was Halo and £25. There isn't even a summary of the good stuff on the Wiki! Off to Gametrailers to watch some videos and see what all the fuss is about.

Same problem here. Cant see me using it to be honest.

Anybody got Words With Friends? No Game Centre for me, not available on the 3G. Apparently it's too slow to handle it, although the identically spec'd iPod Touch 2G manages just fine. Maybe it'll appear in Cydia at some point?

Saw that earlier and popped an order in. Tesco had better deliver on release day. I've got a bad feeling that they won't The way you're going you ain't gonna make it in to work tomorrow Either that or you'll get there to discover there's been a break-in overnight and a certain game was the only thing stolen

That's the stuff it's missing

They all seem to be pretty similar. Some pull tricks, housing part of the battery outside the unit. Those ones are definitely thinner, but you have to put up with part of the battery jutting out (Dell used to do this. I think Acer still do?). IIRC the best models around at the moment are supposed to be the Toshiba NB350, Samsung N220 (or N210, practically the same machine), the Dell Mini 1012 and an Asus Seashell machine (the model number escapes me right now). Of those the Samsung has the best battery life by far, the Toshiba has the best keyboard, the Asus is a good balance between the two. The Dell is the wild card. It's the only one of the four that's available with a higher res screen (1366x768 instead of 1024x600) and can reliably be found with 3G and Broadcom's CrystalHD card (it comes with the high res screen). The Samsung also carries the Broadcom card, but it's not very well advertised and isn't standard, so it's become a bit of a lottery as to whether or not a machine has the card included. I had it narrowed down to either the Dell or the Samsung. The Sammy is probably the best net book around really, the battery lasts 12 hours, the keyboard is solid, the track pad is OK, build quality is good. The Dell for the reasons mentioned earlier. The base Dell isn't as good as the Samsung, it's just the upgrades that make it a particularly interesting machine. It's also worth mentioning that if battery life isn't a massive issue there's much more powerful 11" and 12" machines for a little bit more money (and they come with Win7 Home Premium insteadnof Starter). Battery life still sits at 4-6 hours on those, which ain't bad. That Dell on Amazon is the standard spec unit btw.

There's some pretty cracking deals on eBay for refurbished Dell Mini 1012s. Was looking at them before I picked up the iPad and you can get one with all the trimmings (HD screen, built in 3G, 2GB RAM, Broadcom HD decoder, Bluetooth etc.) and a 3 year Dell warranty for around £320. Less with each extra you remove (though all of them seem to have the 3 year warranty, I guess the sellers get that as standard from Dell?). Had a play with one, seems like a nice machine (especially with the HD screen upgrade!).

It'd be lacking because it'd still just be a smartphone build of the OS, it'd just have a new UI layered over the top to make it more usable on a 10" screen. To make proper use of the tablet form factor the OS needs to be rebuilt and reworked to utilise the significant amount of extra screen space. Skinning the smartphone build sounds good in theory, but in practice it doesn't really work. It's why there aren't really many Android tablets around at the moment. The Tab is the best of them, but it still feels like using an Android phone. Samsung have pretty much abandoned it, they announced it's successor (this time running Honeycomb a "more specifically optimised" OS) on the same day they launched the Tab. At €750 a unit I'm really not surprised.

Right now it definitely would be the iPad or new Kindle. The Kindle is a fantastic book reader (I'm not convinced that the eInk display is actually necessary, I read just short of 3 books on my iPad while I was on holiday, but it's far cheaper than an iPad and the battery lasts longer) but the iPad does one heck of a lot more and is a far more useful bit of kit to be carrying around. Notion Ink's Adam looks quite interesting. I'm not sure how much people can bank on Android tablets though, it all depends what Google pull out of the hat with Honeycomb (Android 3.0 for Tablets). Right now Android could, in theory, be really good on a tablet, but compared to the iPad and Windows 7 tablets it's a bit lacking.

I'd be happy with the first game + 4 player online co-op tbh. It was awesome, but a pain in the arse that it was split screen all the time. Anyone tried Monday Night Gaming? Looks good, but at 1200 points I'm looking for some opinions.

Well, it arrived! Can't believe how amazing the screen is and how responsive the device is! Quite happy with it so far, though I have come across that "how the hell am I supposed to type on this while lying down?" awkwardness. Still, keyboard is better than expected; I can pretty much touch type on it like I would a normal keyboard (well, semi-touch type, have to glance at the screen every few seconds to check my hands are in the right place. Auto-shift is throwing me out too, keep starting sentences with lower-case letters. Really impressed with Wired magazine and Osmos so far. Deciding what apps to buy is proving tricky though, they're not at disposable prices like the iPhone ones

There's a really good build of Android for it too apparently.

http://www.scan.co.uk/Product.aspx?WebProductID=1270746&source=froogle Probably worth the extra tenner over that 5770. Saw a 5830 over the weekend for ~£135 but I can't remember where. Prices are definitely coming down though.

Might go with PS to start with given it's free. Doesn't handle RAW images though (but not the end of the world given they can be 10-30MB each, I only got the 16GB model). Keep hearing about Osmos, will give it a shot!

I just bought an iPad. Was looking for a small laptop but I just couldn't find one that I was happy with inside my £400 budget. Not sure I'll be happy with the iPad either tbh, but I got sick of looking and got offered one at a really good price. It's basically for entertainment on the plane down to Tanzania next week (20 hours from my house to the first hotel!), photo editing while I'm there and for blogging what I see. Any recommendations for apps? I've got a £15 voucher kicking around somewhere. Pages is pretty much a given, but I need a decent photo editor too. I'll probably pick up Wired, Monkey Island and Sam & Max before I go, any other stuff for entertainment (without a network connection)?

May as well wait a bit before buying a new handset now, various leaks are adding up to next quarter being one of the biggest ever for new phone releases. There should be one or two models running Android 3.0 before the year ends (along with a bundle of Android 2.1 and 2.2 devices), as many as a dozen models running Windows Phone 7, a couple of Symbian^3 and Meego handsets from Nokia, at least one Blackberry OS6 device (the Torch is the only confirmed one at the moment AFAIK) and Samsung might have another Bada powered device on the market too. Unless you're in urgent need of a new phone now I think waiting a few months will pay off

Don't buy the 8GB. iOS4 has brought the iPhone 3G to it's knees! It'll probably do the same for the 8GB Touch.

Quite like Revolution. It's got the same old Civ problem though, how on earth can Knights take down a Panzer? I mean come on! It's a freaking tank vs a bunch of dudes with swords! Still, fun for a portable game. Prefer the Total War series on the PC.

I can see some sort of PSP/Android mashup doing well, but the way Engadget describe this one sounds crappy. It's more 'PSP' games on Android than apps, a touch screen and a decent browser on the PSP.

You mean this? http://n-europe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=27896

The Galaxy S uses the Hummingbird, not the Snapdragon. There's no way anybody's launching a gaming platform on a 1GHz Snapdragon SoC, it'd be crap! The chip is built to crunch through Android OS and give snappy UI response, not for 3D gaming. Presumably the phone ain't launching this year so dual-core Tegra2 or similar could be a good bet. Sounds like a good idea from Sony though. If they can get the PSP catalogue running on an Android-powered phone it could work wonders for them

I never had any doubt that it was still going tbh, when 3D Realms collapsed as a developer it was strongly hinted that DNF would "go the way of Prey" and move to an external developer. I'm sure I even remember reading a quote somewhere where Broussard said he couldn't finish the game because there was always something else to add and that he'd handed development to aopther studio as a result. Anyhow, Gearbox. Wicked! I honestly believe we'll be playing this by this time next year. Hopefully it's not another 'Too Human'

Same here to be honest. Miss some stuff from Battlefield 2 (like the size of the maps, large teams and huge array of vehicles) but Bad Company 2 seems to flow better. I suspect the things I miss are the things that'll be in Battlefield 3 anyhow, that's what will make it stand out from other current shooters.

Wow! FAAD did say they had something big planned for today. Civ: Revolution is pretty good!