The PlayStation phone is the device equivalent of El Dorado, in that it’s spent a long time as a golden fable to trot out when conversation slows. Now the fusion of gamepad and Android phone has emerged into the modern world in the form of the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play. It’s a time when iPhones have permeated the globe, able to deliver tactile gaming on the go, and Nintendo’s 3DS is making waves by bringing portable 3D fun to the masses. Even within the Sony stable, the Xperia Play has rivals to overcome. There’s the NGP, successor to the PSP, on the horizon, which [...]

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When the D3s was announced a few months ago, it was difficult to see what the fuss was about. It looked exactly the same as the 24.5 megapixel D3x and the original 12.1MP D3. That wasn’t where the similarities ended, either – Nikon has resisted the urge to follow Canon and make its ‘prosumer’ and professional cameras 15 megapixels and up, and the D3s sticks rigidly to the more-than-adequate 12.1MP of its predecessor. Nikon D3s video sample But while the looks are the same, the D3s delivers a hearty kick to the outgoing D3. Its headline specs – the 12.1MP sensor [...]

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