I suppose this sentence could make sense if they mean “applications that come from England”.
“I am hoping to see this year the Dell Streak which is a 5-inch Android tablet and Hewlett-Packard which is rumoured to be building a tablet based on a Web operating system.” —
Source: Grace Chng’s ST blog on “Popping the Tech Tablet” (whatever that means)
Apart from the overall terrible sentence structure (no punctuation, equating a Dell product with an entire company leading on into a sentence fragment), our favourite Digital Life editor calls Palm’s WebOS “a Web operating system”, which is a bit of a misnomer at best.
Digital Life believes a camera’s CCD = Carbon Coupled Device.
Correct answer: Charge-Coupled Device.
Guide to essential iPad apps:
Zinio - Free (also recommended by Grace Chng on the previous page)
Except it’s not available in the Singapore iTunes store.
Most likely explanation is that Digital Life polled early adopters who imported their own iPads, and use them with American iTunes accounts.
Guide to essential iPad apps:
Vanity Fair - Free
Except it’s not. It’s $4.99 USD.
“Why limit this to Digital Life? The ST is filled with inaccuracies!”
It’s a good question, and the rather dull answer is that we don’t have the time. You could start one yourself, or make it an open contribution wiki?
If I had to nitpick, an onscreen keyboard that was “too tiny” would not “still” be usable to write a review with. Just tiny enough, maybe.
Minor quibbles: “so I was simply blown away”; “it simply annihilated the competition when it came to gaming performance”; over-use of “simply”.
Also, for some reason, the reviewer was blown away just by reading the specs. Seems a little too easy to impress.
In the first paragraph, the author seems to have forgotten to bring her book to the corner.
This might be the best thing ever published in DL. Singtel’s 3G equipment openly embarrassed. Point goes to the Nexus One smartphone.