The iPhone 4S launched at midnight through both Vodafone and Telecom. We've got pictures from both events - some better than others - and an unboxing of Apple's newest phone.

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No one will be surprised to know that a huge, huge number of gadgets come through our office (and our test labs) every month. At the moment, we're got two really nice Android phones from Sony Ericsson's new Xperia range, the Ray and the Active.

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We can't tell you where you can buy an iPad 2,yet. But we can tell you where we think you'll be able to buy it from 5pm today.

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We got a large gift box in the mail today, and inside it was 2degrees' newest Android 2.2 option, the Ideos X5. At first glance, it looks like Huawei's answer to the iPhone - the most flashy 2degrees offering to come into our test centre so far. It's going for $549, too, which ain't bad. Naturally we took loads of pics.

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Panasonic is launching its new range of Lumix cameras today in Queenstown, and Zara Baxter is on the scene. We'll bring you as much live coverage as we can during the event, and upload photos taken with the new cameras later today and tomorrow.

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Is it a hoax or is this real life? At CES 2011 in Las Vegas, an iPad 2 dummy was allegedly spotted and caught on video. Given that the iPad 2 should be the hottest product this year, every tech reporter around the world either rolled their eyes or peed a little.

Either way, evidence is mounting that New Zealanders will be seeing the tablet in July.

What do you think? Is this what the real iPad 2 will look like, or is it a hoax?

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At its global 2011 press conference in New York Acer launched 10, 7 and 5 inch tablets and a dual-touchscreen laptop dubbed ICONIA.

The 10-inch tablet will be offered with either Windows 7 or Android 3.0 Honeycomb. The 7 and 5 inch tablets will be Android devices.

Long and slim, the 5-inch tablet is able to display a full web page when held horizontally without the need for horizontal scrolling. The device has also been dubbed a "superphone" to emphasise its 3G connectivity.

The other tablets are likely to be offered in 3G plus Wi-Fi or standalone Wi-Fi models.

Local launch dates are likely to be near mid 2011.

The ICONIA laptop features twin 14-inch displays and has an "intelligent touch engine" that recognises certain gestures to launch specific functions. Ten fingers on the lower screen will bring up the virtual keyboard and five fingers will launch the touch multimedia menu.

Screen content can also be dragged between screens and a browsing feature called "crop" allows you to select, cut and paste a chosen section of a web page to a favourited clip board. If you then subscribe to that crop you'll always be shown the latest version of that info from the original website.

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Nokia's much-touted N8 will finally go on sale this Friday at Vodafone stores for $999. Telecom will add it to its range in the new year.
Top features include a 12MP camera and HDMI out to get those pics and videos on your HDTV.

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Samsung's new 9000 series 55-inch 3D LED TV is just 7.98mm thick. And it comes with a touchscreen remote. All for just $10,000.

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Sony Ericsson today announced the local release of the Xperia X8 Android phone. Unfortunately, the X8 is already well behind the times running just Android 1.6 (Donut). It does, however, get Sony Ericsson's Timescape social media app and sports the four-corner touch user interface to give one touch access to your favourite applications.
The X8 is priced at $449

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