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Daily Deal: Nokia Lumia 710, £129.95! (May 5th 2012)

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A new thing here at Tech Square are ‘Daily Deals’, where we will hunt out some of the best technology and gaming deals across the internet. From computers and tablets, games consoles, games and more! So, here’s today’s ‘Daily Deal’.

Windows Phone and Nokia have helped Microsoft rapidly over the last few months, their Lumia range has proven a big success for the two companies, and have introduced several people to the Windows Phone platform.

The mid-range Nokia Lumia 710, can now be found online at Carphone Warehouse for JUST £129.95, avaliable on a selection on networks, which the phone and £10 top up coming in at £139.95, it is a very good deal indeed!

Check it out! http://www.carphonewarehouse.com/mobiles/mobile-phones/NOKIA-LUMIA-710/PPAY

Buy Nokia Lumia 710

Samsung Galaxy S III Event!

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The live event for the Galaxy S III in London starts tonight at 7, for everyone else, here are the other times

  • 2 PM New York City
  • 1 PM Chicago
  • 12 PM Denver
  • 11 AM Los Angeles
  • 3 AM (May 4) Tokyo

TechSquare will have round the hour updates on the event, with regular posts and content, you can also check out TechnoBuffalo’s LiveBlog event!

http://www.technobuffalo.com/companies/samsung/samsung-galaxy-s-iii-liveblog/

Nokia Lumia 710 Available for only £129.95 in UK

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The highly popular Windows Phone from Nokia, the Nokia 710, as been made affordable by a lot of UK tariffs, making the phone available from sub £200, but now at Carphone Warehouse, is now on offer for just £129.95+£10 top up.

Incase your interested, here are the selected networks and prices. If you want to visit this deal yourself, click here! http://www.carphonewarehouse.com/mobiles/mobile-phones/NOKIA-LUMIA-710/PPAY

T-Mobile
T-Mobile Pay As You Go
 Purchase an Internet Booster for £5 and get 500MB Internet for 30 days. Text MONTHWEB to 441 to purchase from credit. International plan: get 60 minutes for calls abroad with every £10 top-up
Talk plan: top-up £10 a month and get 100 minutes to UK numbers
Text plan: top-up £10 a month and get unltd texts to UK mobile numbers		 -
  • Now £129.95
  • Was £279.95
  • Plus £10 top-up
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Vodafone
Vodafone Freedom Pay As You Go
 100 minutes, 300 texts and 50MB web access Passport: take your UK price plan abroad with you
Vodafone Family: free call between 4 people when 1 person pay £5 per month
Vodafone Top-Up and Get Talk:extra 1000 minutes to Vodafone number for 30 days with £10 top-up		 -
  • £129.95
  • Plus £10 top-up
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O2
O2 Text and Web Pay As You Go
 300 text, 500MB internet, unlimited Wi-Fi My O2: set automatic top ups to be triggered when their credit reaches a specific amount
O2 Rewards: 5% cash back on all top-ups for the first 6 months, then 10% thereafter
O2 Priority: Get priority treatment at O2 venues.		 -
  • Now £139.95
  • Was £279.95
  • Plus £10 top-up
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Orange
Orange Pay As You Go
 Call 343 and choose one of our five animal plans 2 for 1 Orange Wednesdays
Magic numbers: pay for a minute, talk for an hour
Reserve tank: extra credit if yours runs out		 -
  • Now £139.95
  • Was £279.95
  • Plus £10 top-up
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3 Pay as you go
 £15 Top-up gets you:300 minutes, 3000 texts, plus all-you-can eat data International calling: Call friends and family abroad from 2p per minute150MB of FREE internet: Get with every top-up, lasts 30 days

Get £10 with your first top-up: Changing your existing number with Three

Nokia Pureview Phone to Boost Windows Phone

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Back in January when Nokia first announced their first Pureview phone, everyone assumed that this phone will run the Symbian Belle operating system, but most people interested didn’t care, and really were interested in the 41 mega pixel camera on offer.

But however the Finnish group did however state that this device WOULD be making it’s way over to the Windows Phone platform after all, and if this does happen, this would be a huge boost for Microsoft and Windows Phone.

You happy this phone is making its way over to Windows Phone?

HTC Titan II is Out Now!

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The HTC Titan was arguably one of the best Windows Phone/HTC devices that was released in 2011, and only 5 months down the line, the Titan II has been announced, and three months later, released onto the market.

The phones main feature is the whopping 16mp rear facing camera, and for all the other specs, here they are:

  • Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango)
  • 4G LTE
  • 4.7”, WVGA, Super LCD, 480×800, 199 ppi
  • Qualcomm 1.5 GHz Snapdragon S2 processor
  • 512MB of RAM
  • 16 GB of internal storage
  • 16MP, 720p, dual-LED rear camera
  • 1.3MP front camera
  • 5.2” x 2.7” x .4”
  • 5.2 ounces
  • 1730 mAh battery

Looks good don’t you think?

Rovio Confirms It Has ‘No Plans’ for Angry Birds Space on Windows Phone. Not the Case, According to Rovio CEO

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With Angry Birds Space making it’s way across the likes of iOS and Android. Windows Phone 7 uses appear to be left out.

Rovio confirmed that WP7 will not be receiving the inevitable new Angry Birds title, as it will cost too much, and the OS isn’t big enough.

But Rovio CEO Mikael Hed quickly changed the statement that Microsoft and Rovio are working on bringing Angry Birds Space to the Windows Phone 7 market!

You excited by this news? Or do you believe still that Rovio will undertake a ‘silly’ move to bring this game to the Windows Phone 7 marketplace? Comment below!

I’ve Switched to Windows Phone!

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I’ve been a fan of the Android OS since I got my HTC Wildfire over a year ago. And to be honest, all the other operating systems didn’t really get to me. I already owned an iPod Touch with iOS 5. I love it, there’s no need for an iPhone in my opinion. And then there’s Windows Phone. Which I always thought was all of the phones we’re too expensive for what they are. Yes, iPhone’s are plus £500 nowadays. But we’re use to that anyway. I decided to sell my HTC Wildfire for £60, as the phone was becoming really sluggish and hard to use now. So I just thought that all I need to do is upgrade to a new Android device. Which was going to be the Samsung Galaxy Ace.

Now, James, our Administrator already has this device, and it seems to work great, but It was hard not to join the WP7 bandwagon, as everyone seemed to like it and be in on it. Then recently, I saw Nokia’s latest WP7 handset, the Lumia 710, and also on my preferred network, Vodafone. Which I have been using since my HTC Wildfire. The phone was an amazing £150, on PAYG. Which just seemed too good to be true! And this one had a 1.4GHz processor, 8GB Memory, 3.7″ screen, and of course, Windows Phone 7.5 Mango OS. So I went into Vodafone and decided to pick one of these up.

I love it, I so much prefer this device over any Android device I’ve owned/seen. Even my uncle’s new Samsung Galaxy SII. And this phone is just a joy t0 use. And that is how and why I decided to switch to Windows Phone 7.

Mario Party 9 (Nintendo Wii) Full Review

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It’s not often we review games here at TechSquare, but when we either get an important and amazing game that’s been released, or like this one, a new game in a series. We’ll give it our thoughts and opinions.

Right off the bat, yes, it feels like a Mario Party game, that’s a good start, right? However I actually am slightly disappointed in this game. I say slightly, I am disappointed in this game. I use to have such fun playing Mario Party, my favourite being Mario Party 7 for the NGC. And this is just completely different comparing the two, yes it’s got the boards, characters and the spaces. But it’s missing what makes Mario Party, well..Mario Party.

The characters are your usual characters you can expect, Mario, Peach etc. And there’s nothing wrong with them, except no Boo sadly, but ah well. The boards, seem nice, haven’t had the chance to play every single one, but I’ve certainly got a taster. And the minigames are actually really nice and feel unique comparing to other Mario Party games. But some need to be played first before you get the hang of it, instead of reading instructions. And Nintendo have given us 80 BRAND NEW ones! Which is excellent. These are really the only good points that I can give Mario Party 9. And these are usually found in each one anyway!

The concept of going around a board with the other characters, in a small car seems pretty cool, but it’s really gimmicky. And it’s just not the same being able to go around and explore the map by yourself. And stuff that they left out, which they didn’t have to. The lack of items, yes, there’s dice blocks and a few others. But really? Candys? Orbs? These we’re amazing ideas that made the game twice as fun!

It’s a beautiful looking game, and you can see Nintendo did try with this one, but possibly a little too much? This is proberly the last Mario Party title to his the Wii. But maybe Mario Party 3DS, or a Mario Party 10 on the Wii U can help me fall back in love with the Mario Party I always knew and loved.

Officially TechSquared – Our Rating 7.5/10

@Andrew_Jackson5

iPad 3 Just 1 Day Away!

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It’s been months of speculation and rumours, and finally we have just one day left before we see Apple’s latest rumoured iPad 3.

The tablet has been speculated to come with an amazing array of specs, including a quad-core processor, a retina screen said to have a resolution of 1536×2048, instead of the current 768×1024 display we see on the likes of the iPad 2.

We expect Apple to release this at 6pm London time, and hopefully we could see this being released with the even more speculated Apple TV, that has been said to been happening in the works for such a long time, and we are hoping to see this released aside with the iPad 3.

So will we see what we all want on the iPad 3? Quad-Core? Retina display? March 7th we’ll have all the answers.

Is the iPad 3 missing a home button?

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If we take a look at the iPad 3 invitation photo, we clearly cannot see a home button, measuring everything on the iPad, water droplets and everything, we can tell that the iPad is indeed landscape, and that the home button is under the maps app, when looking at the iPad 2,

iPad 3 invite

 

However looking at a model from the iPad 2, like we said, the home button is directly below the home button on the device. [PICTURE FROM TECHNOBUFFALO.COM]

 

5 icons in dock - portrait

See what we mean? So what are your thought on this? Have Apple ditched the home button on the upcoming iPad?

@Andrew_Jackson5

Apple iPad 3 is All But a Definite!

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With just over a week to go before the hyped up March 7th, we’ve already seen rumoured photos and specs of the next gen iPad, and now this seems all but certain with the release invitation of what seems to be the iPad 3.

The photo states ‘We have something that you really have to see. And touch’. This was acompanied with a photo of the said-to-be iPad 3 and a hand touching the calender app, with March 7 on it! See it for yourself below!

So are you excited? We certainly can’t wait to see what’s on the brand new iPad!

@Andrew_Jackson5

Nokia Lumia 710 Hitting UK on February 1st?

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While Nokia have been shouting about their huge and popular Nokia 800, it seems that the 710 has been a little quiet. Until in the past 24 hours, we’ve heard a lot more for the Lumia 710.

Yes, we know the phone is out in the USA, but we have yet heard news for the UK release of this phone. But now we’ve heard from numerous sites including TechnoBuffalo, that this handset will be hitting UK shelves by 1st February!

The phone is expected to be less than the Lumia 800, which is going for around £26 on contract (£449 PAYG), while the 710 should be coming in at around £16 a month (£250 PAYG). The handset will also run Windows Phone 7,5 Mango, 5MP camera and a 3.7″ display.

You excited for the 710? Let us know in the comments!

@TechSquareAJ

HTC Titan II Announced at CES

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At last, one of the first major smartphones to be announced at CES, have been comfirmed by HTC. There new handset the HTC Titan II will feature astonishing features, which give the iPhone a huge run for their money. Including a 16MP camera, yes that’s right, 16! And also a 1.5GHz Snapdragon Processor. Comparing it to devices like the Flyer, which featured a single core 1GHz processor.

Now the reason why this device is called a titan, is because it offers one of the biggest screen in the smartphone market, a full high-definition 4.7″ display, and also packing in Windows Phone 7 OS.

So, what’s your opinion, do you own the first HTC Titan? Will you be upgrading? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.

Twitter: @TechSquareAJ

HTC Radiant – HTC’s Answer to Samsung & Apple?

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HTC, one of the largest mobile phone companies in the world, have release new images about their iPhone killer, the HTC Radiant. We expect to hear more on HTC’s new handset at CES 2012 in the coming week. Last year we saw the release of two of HTC’s most promising devices. The HTC Radar, and the massive HTC Titan.  These two phones will burn holes in your pocket at prices from £350 to £500. The Radiant looks to be a very impressive and promising device. packing Windows Phone 7 and a processor to compete with phones such as the iPhone 5 (Coming later this year) and the Galaxy S3 (fingers crossed more info coming at CES 2012). From the picture, the camera looks pretty decent. Looking to be around an 8MP camera, with flash capabilities. The front looks promising too with a high resolution display, possibly around 4.3″ screen to rival the Galaxy S, and the usual Windows Phone 7 touch sensitive buttons nearer the bottom. Also the usual 3.5mm headphone socket at the top. We will keep this post up to date with news and updates for the HTC Radiant. Picture below from WPCentral.

More info on the Galaxy S3 - http://computalk.be/?p=422

- @TechSquareAJ