| |  |  | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | Week in Tech | | | | Nokia shocks, Galaxy Gears and everything IFA | | | You know those weeks where you get a year's worth of news in just seven days? This is one of those weeks. First up, news that Microsoft is buying Nokia's phone business. "The big question is whether it'll work," says Gary Marshall. Apple is the dream, but the outcome could be more Blackberry. We also learned the Xbox One release date: it's going to trail the PS4 in America, but beat it by a week in Europe. And in a move that shocked and saddened Key Lime Pie fans everywhere, Google announced that Android 4.4 will be known as KitKat. It's even teamed up with Nestle for the whole thing. So much for not being evil, eh? We might be days away from seeing Apple's legendary and quite possibly fictional iWatch, so the announcement of Samsung's Galaxy Gear smartwatch could be something of a spoiler. In our Galaxy Gear review, Gareth Beavis explains that it’s priced high and suffers from a "laggy and buggy interface." Also, it's a horse, says Gary Marshall: "Henry Ford famously said that he didn't ask people what they wanted, because they would have asked for faster horses. The Galaxy Gear is a faster horse." It's essentially Samsung's 2009 smartwatch, the S9110, given an update. IFA in Berlin is the world's largest consumer electronics show, so naturally we were all over this year's exhibits. You'll find all the details in our exhaustive guide to IFA 2013, which COME IN WEEK IN TECH YOUR TIME IS UP! |  | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In this week | | | | | | | ■ | Week in Tech: Nokia shocks, Galaxy Gears and everything IFA | | | | | | | ■ | Talking points: Xbox back in the game, Galaxy Note 3, Galaxy Gear and Nexus 5 | | | | | | | ■ | Competition: WIN! £10,000 worth of gadgets | | | | | | | ■ | The week's best buys: Microsoft Surface Pro, Nexus 7 (2012) and HTC Desire C | | | | | | | ■ | Top 10: Android phones | | | | | | | |  | | | | | | | |  | | Talking points | | | | | | | Microsoft's army of public relation executives were made to sweat profusely as they applied damage-control to their bosses' cack-handed attempts to reboot the videogame industry. Have they been able to turn their fortunes around? Read more | | | | | | | | | | | Samsung's latest is-it-a-phone-or-is-it-a-tablet identity crisis has landed in the form of the Samsung Galaxy Note 3. Announced at IFA 2013, the handset comes packing the latest version of Jelly Bean, Android 4.3 and a 5.7-inch Full HD Super AMOLED screen with a resolution of 1,920 x 1,080. Read more | | | | | | | | | | | Samsung's new smartwatch, the Galaxy Gear, has been revealed at IFA 2013 - but Android-running wrist-warmer will only work with the also-announced Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 edition for now. Read more | | | | | | | | | | | Google officially announced this week that the latest iteration of Android will go by the name of Android KitKat, but in a commercial for its sweet-flavoured operating system, Google also revealed what seems to be the long-awaited Nexus 5. Read more | | | | | | | | | |  | | Your tweets this week | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | The week's best buys | | |
The Sony Xperia Tablet Z is a triumph. Sony has taken the best of Android and fused it with its own innovation to make a device that delights in more ways than we can count. | | | | | | | | | |
The Google Nexus 7 is a remarkably solid device all round: the specs and screen are both good, it's got a premium build quality and a very low price tag. If you're on a budget this is the tablet to buy and, even if you're not, it's well worth considering. | | | | | | | | | |
The marriage of the Core i7 processor with the discrete GeForce GT 740M graphics from Nvidia should see you through any normal task and game you can think of. Add in the versatile touchscreen, and we can easily see being used in many different ways throughout the home. | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | | Ideas for a healthily named Android |  | | | |  | | | @tonybhoy610 Cabbage, after iPhone users. | | | | | | | | | @bilalm1 Chocolates are everyone's guilty pleasure. Who'd want a healthy veggie for an OS? | | | | | | | | | @URehmat Imagine Android 4.5 Lima Bean. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There's one way in which Android outdoes its Apple-branded smartphone competition - the number of phones out there running Google's hot mobile OS. Here's our pick of the best. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | TechRadar Promotion | | | | | | | Deal of the week: Photoshop Elements 11 for £32.99 | | | | | | The TechRadar deal hound has been scurrying around the web again this week, sniffing out the hottest tech bargains. Our favourite deal this week is Adobe Photoshop Elements for PC or Mac for the bargain price of £32.99 over on Amazon. Photoshop Elements is on sale on Adobe's site for £78.15, so the Amazon price saves you £45. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Tablets for work and play | | | | | | When you hear talk of a post-PC world you might wonder if you're ready to give up something that has been a reliable workmate, leisure buddy and friend. But fear not, because the arrival of the tablet opens up a whole new world of possibilities without losing the functions you love. Lenovo's new tablet range shows that a post-PC world is nothing to fear. These keyboard-compatible gadgets are perfectly at home for work or play, and certainly won't have you mourning your laptop. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | 1998: iMac. 2001: iPod. 2007: iPhone. 2010: iPad. Time and again, Apple has reinvented out relationship with tech. Will this Tuesday's launch change the world once more?
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