It is the kind of day where future tablets have been generous enough to give us a glimpse of themselves before they arrive officially in the consumer hands. It was the Toshiba Smart Pad first and we now have for you the much more highly anticipated Samsung Galaxy 7-inch tablet. While the Toshiba variant will go official in matter of days, the Galaxy Tablet is still in the works, but we are ‘understandably’ anxious to know more about the latter one.It was spotted in Sydney, Australia, in possession of an anonymous telco worker at a train station and it did indeed look

Though reception issues with the iPhone 4 handset have been reported by several users since the device’s launch, the problem has been properly confirmed to be present in the phone by the engineers of the Consumer Reports blog, who conducted certain tests on the phone.The test was conducted by placing three iPhone 4 handsets along with other phones from AT&T such as the iPhone 3GS and Palm Pre in a radio frequency isolation chamber that was capable of simulating different signal levels from various mobile carriers. It was revealed during the testing process that no other

Is Apple field testing the next generation iPhone? Could be. iPhone developer Pandav noticed some usage records of an unreleased iPhone in the iBART app’s analytics. The iPhone that’s listed in the usage logs is iPhone 3.1, which I don’t have to tell you, does not match any current iPhone. The iPhone 3GS is listed as iPhone 2,1. While it wouldn’t be surprising to see that Apple is busy working on a new iPhone, (There are rumors that Verizon will be getting an iPhone somewhere in2010) is this the one?[Ubergizmo]

ITV has started the testing phase of its ITV 1HD simulcast channel, in preparation for the launch of Freeview HD in December. With the Granada region getting the HD version of Freeview at the end of the year – for people who have found a DVB-T2 set tuner by then – ITV are keen to be ready with a complete HD channel. Currently the channel offers HD to Freesat viewers, but only through the red button at certain times, whereas the ITV1 HD channel will be a simulcast of ITV1. UpscaledAlthough it will be labelled as HD, many programmes will be upscaled from

A trimmer version of Facebook looks to be on the cards, after the social-networking site sent out invitations to select users to beta test the site.Not much is known about just how slimmed-down the Lite version of Facebook will be, but it could be a blessing for users who think that Facebook at the moment is getting far too cluttered with apps.Feedback neededTechCrunch is reporting that it has been inundated with social networkers who have been asked to try out Facebook Lite saying that, surprise surprise, it is more Twitter-like.This makes sense. After