With the iPhone joining the iPod as the devices to use while you’re doing sports, it’s no surprise to see a huge range of accessories and apps that let you take full advantage of the powerful little computer that now lives in your pocket or strapped to your arm.
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Arrow Words is a crossword-style app from Britain that’s a great little time-waster with the ability to exercise your brain at the same time. I say ‘crossword-style’ because, unlike the crosswords we’re used to, the grids don’t have true symmetrical chequerboard patterns.
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Looking at the beautiful, heavy packaging, you think these headphones are going to be heavy. But once on they are comfortable and light – you can even forget they’re there at all.
The slim Beats Solo HDs ooze sophistication and sexiness. Their ultra-gloss exterior finish, which is also scratch resistant
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Bang & Olufsen’s EarSet 3i is the Danish company’s first attempt at a headset specifically for iPod, iPad and iPhone users. Building on a strong reputation for quality audio, this set adds an inline remote and microphone for total iOS goodness.
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“How many roads must a man walk down before you can call him Amanda?” That was the moment I fell in love with the Lonely Planet Offline Translator. Probably not for the reason Lonely Planet would have hoped, though. But let’s start at the beginning.
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In the mad rush to read everything electronically, there is a certain quality and charm that has been left behind in the pages of ’real’ books. Fierce Grey Mouse HD, a children’s storybook app for iPad, regains some of that beauty lost.
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Ever since Apple built the App Store and opened its ‘doors’ for business, competition among developers and their creations is nothing short of fierce. You expect then, that any app from Apple itself should meet, even exceed, the bar it’s set so high
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If you’re a fan of the FIFA franchise on full-sized gaming consoles, you’ll find FIFA 12 on the iPad device different, even a little disappointing. The capabilities are not the same, and you’re playing on a touch screen – but apart from this it’s great to have FIFA 12 on the iPad and on the go.
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Is it an iPod docking station? A glowing rainbow lightshow for the home? A spherical sculpture, even? Actually, it’s all three. Gear4’s SoundOrb Aurora is an iPhone/iPod sound system with a few clever features and while it may not be the ultimate in premium sound, it certainly offers something ‘left of audio centre’.
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