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Check out our new £250 Amazon voucher giveaway! HTC Legend Android phone reviewed Unfortunately, we didn’t do this review, but with a sparkling 3.2-inch AMOLED, five megapixel camera with flash, running on a 600 MHz CPU and Android 2.1 and of course all possible connectivities you can imagine, the HTC Legend has the potential to be an outstanding smartphone. It sports a touchscreen rather than a full QWERTY and has pretty much the characteristics of its predecessor, the HTC Hero. However, compared to the Hero, almost every feature and hardware specification has received an upgrade, supposedly making it much less buggy than first generation HTC Android phones. I personally like the quality of the AMOLED alot and think that HTC has done an excellent job at perfecting this phone. If you’re considering a new phone and fancy a chance at trying out Android OS based smartphones, we highly recommend you check out the latest review just recently done by the folks over at Gizmodo. The HTC Legend is not yet available in Europe, but hopefully later this month. It is expected to cost around £390. Unfortunately there is yet to be any announcement made regarding its availability in the US. [via Gizmodo ]

Check out our new £250 Amazon voucher giveaway! Vodafone accused of supplying malware on HTC Magic In a recent scenario, Vodafone was held responsible for supplying a Mariposa botnet malware and other threats on HTC Magic Android Smartphones. It was noticed that a smartphone supplied by Vodafone’s Spanish division was attempting to make a backdoor entry into the systems during the synchronization process to steal critical information. The news became widespread as the customer affected is an employee of Spanish anti-virus firm Panda Security. The extra code had been devised to generate information from systems not concerned with the recent detaining of three suspected botmasters in Spain. However, Vodafone acknowledged the problem and claimed it to be a totally isolated incident. Pedro Bustamante, the researcher at Panda Security who analyzed the attack confirmed the malware to be a Mariposa bot client. The botnet-control mechanism revealed that this malware belongs to a guy named ‘tnls’. Once it infects the systems, the malware sends a connection request back home to receive further orders perhaps to steal all data pertaining to user’s credentials. The smartphone was also found to be infected by Confiker and a Lineage password-stealing code as per analysts at Panda. Vodafone stated that security and privacy of its customers are one of its top concerns. Following the incident they lunched an immediate investigation to find the root cause and concluded that this was an isolated local incident. These problems usually are a result of an infected computer in the manufacturing or production lines of the company. [via Ubergizmo ]

Check out our new £250 Amazon voucher giveaway! Latest ASUS PL30JT laptop measures less than one inch thick Displayed recently at the CeBIT, the ASUS PL30JT is a new ultraportable 13.3″ laptop on a slim diet. Asus have established themselves over the years for making quality laptops that not only look good but also pretty dependable. What the PL30JT has to offer is the added attractive feature of being slim, though there are quite a few choices available when it comes to laptops thinner than one-inch, the PL30JT looks to deliver this as well as provide at the same time some powerful specs. Weighing in at just 1.7kg, the PL30JT sports a 13.3-inch(1336*768) LCD display, it is powered by Intel Core i5-520UM processor running on Intel Mobile HM55 chipset, NVIDIA GeForce 310M 1GB VRAM, 4GB 1066MHz DDR3 and supports up to 640GB HDD. [via AVING ]

Check out our new £250 Amazon voucher giveaway! Yakuza 3 Yakuza 3 might have been a long time coming, this game is going to be release later this month, but it’s another great PS3 swansong. And it’s easy to see why Sega took its time bringing the game to Europe. On the one hand it’s a very good beat-em-up packed with cool gangsters, the sort of stuff which translates easily but on the other it’s basically an upperclass Japanese lifestyle simulator, which is understandably a much harder sell. You play, Kiryu Kauma, who spends his life alternately brutalizing thugs and dosing around swanky Japanese towns. This is a set against a relentlessly paced mob story that sees our man – the former head of the Tojo clan, now retired called upon a crisis hits his old gang. The plot is tangled and the telling takes its time – there are literally hours of cutscenes here. Still, at least the translation is subtitled, rather than the godawful sub-American soap dubbing Sega used in the previous Yakuza. And the really good news is the upshot of all the HBO-style intrigue is fighting, Loads and loads of fighting. Your Yakuza can use a huge number of weapons and has some of the most brutal finishers you will see outside of Manhunt. The basics seem limited initially, but that’s because the early enemies struggle to give the system a proper work-out. By halfway your foes became smarter and tougher, and real strategy comes into play. Kiryu can be leveled up almost constantly, which rather than simply boosting stats opens up new moves and styles: by the time you are drop-kicking thugs to the floor and following up with a crack to the face, the combat has completely transformed from cumbersome to Chuck Norris. [via Gamespot ]

We have an iPod Touch winner! Free gadget giveaway: Win £250 ($378) worth of Amazon voucher to buy any gadget you like! Here’s our latest free gadget giveaway folks. Technically, this isn’t actually a gadget giveaway because we are in fact giving away free cash (in the form of a £250 Amazon shopping voucher), but we reckon this is as good a giveaway as any! For you gadget fans, if you’re the winner, you’d be able to get your hands on a huge range of gadgets with this amount of money! Why are we doing this? We’ve been sponsored this giveaway to promote a new site by Microsoft here in the UK. The new site is known as “Where’s the ‘Any’ Key?” and is a place designed for people to share their odd, funny, silly, awkward IT moments and stories in the past. Any visitor can randomly read through others’ stories or leave behind their own. The fun thing about “Where’s the ‘Any’ Key?” is that if your story is rated by others and chosen as the best story of the week, it gets turned into a comic strip where it will be featured for sharing and downloading. Not everyone ‘gets’ computers. It’s a good job those more ‘IT literate’ people are around to help their friends and family with home IT issues! You see, they have to put up with a lot – while they do it all with a happy heart, they all come across ‘those’ situations that are so odd, confusing or downright funny that they simply HAVE to tell the word about it! To be in the chance of winning this £250 Amazon voucher, all you have to do is follow the rules below. Participants are not obliged to leave your story but we do recommend you check out the site and share it with your friends and families. How to Enter Anyone, anywhere worldwide can take part. Please participate according to the rules below so that everyone will have a fair chance of the random draw at the date specified below. Everyone will have an equal chance of winning no matter when your entry is placed. Late entries will not be counted and ignored. To enter into the giveaway all you need to do is: Subscribe to our RSS feed to stay up to date with us! Leave a comment below with a valid email address (your email won’t be given out), this will allow us to get in touch with you ASAP if you’re the chosen winner. Leave a comment what you’ll be wanting to buy with the prize if you’re the chosen winner (Comment content will not affect chances of winning) Follow us on Twitter if you’re already a Twitter user, just in case we can’t get in touch with you through email, we will also be announcing our future contests / giveaways via our Twitter! (Any retweet love will be greatly appreciated!) That’s it! Optional – if you’re a blogger yourself and have abit of free time, do a quick post about this giveaway, it will be much appreciated! Optional 2 – to make it more fun each person can enter up to 10 comments during the next two weeks. This giveaway will end on the 22nd of March at 20:00 GMT, winners will be directly contacted following random draw the next day so please remember to leave valid contact details!

We have an iPod Touch winner! Acer Aspire 1820PT – latest ultra-portable convertible tablet notebook Acer Aspire 1820PT is marked among the most awaited products of this year. And if you are wondering what’s so special about the Aspire 1820PT, then you would be thrilled to know that its been claimed to be one of the most portable convertible touchscreen notebooks. It is just like packing all the latest technologies into one. Acer Aspire 1820PT is powered by a 1.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo SU7300 processor. This 11.6-inch convertible touchscreen notebook offers you with option integrated 3G technology. Once you look at it, you would surely feel that Aspire 1820PT is one of the most beautiful gadgets you have ever seen. This gorgeous looking ultraportable touchscreen notebook is a powerful package as it features 4GB of DDR3 memory (which can be upgraded to 8 GB). And with GMA X4500MHD graphics support and 250GB or 320GB storage capacity, Acer Aspire 1820PT proves to offer whatever you are looking for. Style, power and technology, it has it all. Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, gigabit ethernet, WiFi a/b/g with optional UMTS/HSPA and 3G technology are the robust connectivity options offered by this Convertible Touchscreen Notebook. It weighs just about 1.72kgs with dimensions of 285 x 208.9 x 28.5-34.5 mm. Its screen and touchpad supports multitouch gestures offered by Windows 7. 1820PT also offers you with a stylus pen for accurate handwriting recognition. With a battery life of 8 hours and price tag of 599 Euros, Acer Aspire 1820PT is one big invention possessing great power and incredible style. [via Engadget ]

We have an iPod Touch winner! Weekly Roundup: 7th Mar 2010 Virgin Broadband: Next-gen fragging for discerning gamers… Official: iPad arrives on April 3rd, pre-order from next week Gallery: New Audi RS5 boasts 450 BHP Classmate PC: Netbook for students Video: 2010 Audi A3 TDI test drive Fujifilm FinePix XP10 – new rugged digital camera Leaked: New redesigned LG watch phone GD910? Microsoft unveils new LG Windows Phone 7 prototype HP Mini 210 – compact yet powerful new netbook LG T280 – new thin and compact notebook Pentax Optio W90: Latest rugged waterproof digital camera Gallery: Mercedes F800 Style concept car Hope everyone has had a good weekend so far, the above were some of the gadgets and tech we featured this week. Its not always possible to talk about them all here at GadgetLite so the list of links from our neighbouring friends’ blogs below hopefully gives you a bit more for your craving needs! If you own a tech, gadget blog yourself you can always Twitter us some links to be shared and featured in this list, for now have a good weekend everyone! iCrew Bike Navigation System — NaviGadget DIY Fork Head iPhone stand » Coolest Gadgets Windows Mobile 6.5 apps won’t run on Windows Phone 7 Series » Unwired View Improve Your Laptop’s Sound With Clip-On Speakers from Logitech | Cult of Mac Sony to take on Apple with Playstation smartphone | TG Daily HiVision SpeedPad Android Tablet To Cost Under $100 | Geeky Gadgets IPhone Pod Projector – Cute and Flashy The Alfa Romeo Has An Encounter with Space Invaders | Walyou Rii Mini Wireless Keyboard | Desktop | Gear OhGizmo! » Archive » Richard Solo Charger Gives You A Flashlight And Laser Pointer Too Mind controlled pin-ball showcased at CeBit, reads brain and nose waves it seems Sanyo Unveils World’s Smallest Camcorder: Xacti VPC-CS1 | UK Gadget and Tech News, Reviews and Shopping Android Developers Get Adobe Photoshop.com Mobile Editor LG InTouch Max (GW620) Review Microsoft Pink Phone Lives, On Its Way to Verizon ASUS Intros EeeTop All-in-One PCs in CeBIT 2010 | Desktop PC at Hardware Sphere Microsoft Courier tablet and its comparison with the Apple iPad More XBox Form Factors Could Launch atari 2600 joystick soap: tub games on [technabob]

We have an iPod Touch winner! Official: iPad arrives on April 3rd, pre-order from next week Its finally official, Apple has told in a press release the official launch date of the iPad. It will be available from April 3rd, while for those of you in the US, the queue for pre-ordering the non-3G version of the new device will open from next friday. Its also been said that the 3G version will be coming in late April along with iPads for users in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK. For those in the UK, all it says is that the iPad will be coming late April, no exact date is yet available. There will no doubt be some discrepancies in terms of pricing, if you’re in the US, you’re looking at the following pricing. Even if you’re not, this should act as a nice guide to how much you’ll be needing to put on your credit card bill! 16GB WiFi only — $499 32GB WiFi only — $599 64GB WiFi only — $699 16GB WiFi + 3G — $629 32GB WiFi + 3G — $729 64GB WiFi + 3G — $829 More on the Apple iPad … Here’s the full press release… iPad Available in US on April 3 Pre-Order on March 12 CUPERTINO, California-March 5, 2010-Apple® today announced that its magical and revolutionary iPad will be available in the US on Saturday, April 3, for Wi-Fi models and in late April for Wi-Fi + 3G models. In addition, all models of iPad will be available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK in late April. Beginning a week from today, on March 12, US customers can pre-order both Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi + 3G models from Apple’s online store (www.apple.com) or reserve a Wi-Fi model to pick up on Saturday, April 3, at an Apple retail store. “iPad is something completely new,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We’re excited for customers to get their hands on this magical and revolutionary product and connect with their apps and content in a more intimate, intuitive and fun way than ever before.” Starting at just $499, iPad lets users browse the web, read and send email, enjoy and share photos, watch videos, listen to music, play games, read ebooks and much more. iPad is just 0.5 inches thick and weighs just 1.5 pounds-thinner and lighter than any laptop or netbook-and delivers battery life of up to 10 hours.* iPad’s revolutionary Multi-Touch™ interface makes surfing the web an entirely new experience, dramatically more interactive and intimate than on a computer. You can read and send email on iPad’s large screen and almost full-size “soft” keyboard or import photos from a Mac®, PC or digital camera, see them organized as albums, and enjoy and share them using iPad’s elegant slideshows. iPad makes it easy to watch movies, TV shows and YouTube, all in HD, or flip through the pages of an ebook you downloaded from Apple’s new iBookstore while listening to your music collection. The App Store on iPad lets you wirelessly browse, buy and download new apps from the world’s largest app store. iPad includes 12 new innovative apps designed especially for iPad and will run almost all of the more than 150,000 apps on the App Store, including apps already purchased for your iPhone® or iPod touch®. Developers are already creating exciting new apps designed for iPad that take advantage of its Multi-Touch interface, large screen and high-quality graphics. The new iBooks app for iPad includes Apple’s new iBookstore, the best way to browse, buy and read books on a mobile product. The iBookstore will feature books from the New York Times Best Seller list from both major and independent publishers, including Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins Publishers, Macmillan Publishers, Penguin Group and Simon & Schuster. The iTunes® Store gives iPad users access to the world’s most popular online music, TV and movie store with a catalog of over 12 million songs, over 55,000 TV episodes and over 8,500 films including over 2,500 in stunning high definition. All the apps and content you download on iPad from the App Store, iTunes Store and iBookstore will be automatically synced to your iTunes library the next time you connect with your computer. Pricing & Availability iPad will be available in Wi-Fi models on April 3 in the US for a suggested retail price of $499 for 16GB, $599 for 32GB, $699 for 64GB. The Wi-Fi + 3G models will be available in late April for a suggested retail price of $629 for 16GB, $729 for 32GB and $829 for 64GB. iPad will be sold in the US through the Apple Store® (www.apple.com), Apple’s retail stores and select Apple Authorized Resellers. iPad will be available in both Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi + 3G models in late April in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK. International pricing will be announced in April. iPad will ship in additional countries later this year. The iBooks app for iPad including Apple’s iBookstore will be available as a free download from the App Store in the US on April 3, with additional countries added later this year. *Battery life depends on device settings, usage and other factors. Actual results vary. Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation with its award-winning computers, OS X operating system and iLife and professional applications. Apple is also spearheading the digital media revolution with its iPod portable music and video players and iTunes online store, and has entered the mobile phone market with its revolutionary iPhone.