Asus To Ship 350,000 Transformer Prime Tablets In December?

The Asus Transformer Prime is due to go on sale next month, and yesterday we heard that all the pre-order units of the device had sold out in 24 hours in Amazon, and now there are reports that Asus intends to ship 350,000 units of the device in December.

Asus is obviously looking to make sure that there are enough Transformer Prime tablets to meet demand, as the company were initially unable to meet demand for the original Transformer tablet when it was launched.



It will be interesting to see how popular the Transformer Prime tablet becomes, we suspect that the fact it is the first tablet to ship with NVIDIA’s new quad core Tegra 3 processor will make it extremely popular.

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SIM free Nokia Lumia 800 Hits The UK December 1st

We had expected the SIM free version of the Nokia Lumia 800 to be available from a number of retailers here in the UK at launch, unfortunately some retailers were told that the device would only be available through certain mobile carriers at launch.

Now it looks like we wont have to wait very much longer for the SIM free Nokia Lumia 800, as the guys over at Clove will have the device in stock form the 1st of December, and it will be available for £443 including taxes.



The Nokia Lumia 800 features Windows Phone 7.5 Mango, and it features a 3.7 inch AMOLED display, a single core 1.4GHz processor and an 8 megapixel camera.

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Acer Allegro Windows Phone Smartphone Goes On Sale in Europe

The Acer Allegro is due to go on sale in the UK and Europe next month, but it would appear that the device has already gone on sale in France, with one Freh retailer selling the Windows Phone device for 284 Euros.

The Acer Allegro features a 3.6 inch VGA touchscreen display with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels, and it comes with Windows Phone 7.5 Mango.



Processing is provided by a single core 1GHz processor and there is also a 5 megapixel camera, 8GB of built in storage, and something which Acer calls Fast Charge, which is designed to charge you device 2.5 faster than other smartphone chargers.

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Android Market Now Installs Apps On Officially Unsupported Devices

Google has this week rolled out a new update for its Android Market place, which has added support for additional unofficially supported devices. The new devices to now be included within the Android Market for applications to be installed on them include : HP TouchPad, Barnes & Noble NOOK Tablet, and Amazon Kindle Fire.





So if you have loaded Android on to any devices that didn’t originally ship with Android, you can now enjoy a simple install process directly from the Android Market.

But be aware the Android Market will also recognise some apps you might have installed from non-Android Market sources, and will try to update them but will fail.

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Google Announces More Services Closing, In Their Out Of Season Spring Clean

Google has today announced more Google Services will be closing in the latest round of out of season spring cleaning, currently in progress at Google. This month Google services to get the chop include: Google Gears, Google Wave, Knol, Google Friend Connect, Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal, Google Bookmark Lists and Google Search Timeline.



Now with Google+ finished and launched, Google Wave is now being closed for good and as of January 31, 2012 the service will become read-only and finally close completely on April 30th 2012.

For more information one each service receiving the chop head over to the Google Blog post.

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EVGA Offers Special Edition Batman Arkham City GTX 580 Video Card

We know that a lot of gaming geeks are waiting in anticipation for the video game Batman Arkham City video game to land so they can get their Batman on. If you need a new video card to play the game you will want to check out the new offering from EVGA.



The video card firm has unveiled a new video card that is a Special Edition to go along with the game. It has Batman graphics from the game on the side. It would be perfect for a gaming PC with a clear side. The card has a GTX 580 NVIDIA GPU on it.

The card can be used in SLI mode and it has 512 CUDA cores. The 1536MB of GDDR5 RAM is clocked at 4GHz and it supports PhysX and 3D vision surround. The core clock is 797MHz and the shader clock is 1594MHz. The card is available now with the game for free for $509.99.

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