Polar launches first integrated RC3 GPS watch Polar reckons this is the lightest, slimmest GPS watch your money can buy Polar has just announced its very first fully integrated RC3 GPS training watch. Until now it kept the GPS unit separate so that your watch battery would last for a good year – but now Polar has gone the way of Garmin and integrated the GPS. Polar hasn’t just given it a go to see if it works – it’s fully engineered the watch to cram in a huge 12 hours of battery in a 58g watch....

Pre-order your Samsung Galaxy Note 2 now Get your giant hands on the Galaxy Note 2 before anyone else, if you’ve got £545 to spare Samsung’s Galaxy Note 2was the talk of IFA this year, impressing us in ourhands-on reviewandvideo preview. And why wouldn’t it with that 5.5in Super AMOLED display, new super sensitive S Pen, mighty 3100mAh battery, and speedy 1.6GHz quad-core processor? We were so impressed that when the Note 2 appeared for pre-order onUnlocked Mobiles, for a mid-October release, we nearly ordered it despite the £545 SIM-free price....

Renew recycle bins bring news to London Digital communications pods take your rubbish and give you the news. Not a bad deal Free newspapers are handy for whiling away the morning commute, but they don’t half muck up the pavements. Now Renew’s come up with a wheeze to attract city-slicker litterbugs to the recycling bins – by luring them in with 32in screens full of up-to-the-minute news. These digital communication pods are springing up around London, sporting dual 32in adaptive brightness screens....

Retro Chic – Suzuki VanVan 125 (1972) Splurge £1700 on eBay and you could get your hands on this little slice of motorcycle history What’s the story? As the US-led fad for fat-tyred ‘beach bikes’ faded, Suzuki launched the VanVan (the RV in some countries), which roughly translates from Japanese as ‘bang!’ or ‘keep going on!’. Designed for occasional off-road use, the 125’s air-cooled, two-stroke, 123cc single-cylinder engine produced just 9....

RIM CEO shares his vision for BlackBerry’s future RIM head honcho, Thorsten Heins admits it’s time for the company to fight back and reclaim a piece of the mobile market pie During an exclusive Q&A session with a bunch of journalists, RIM CEO Thorsten Heins, excitedly stated “I want to provide a fantastic mobile computing engine” and essentially told us to hold on to our hats as “we are doing some exciting things with RIM in the next few months....

RIM to give out BlackBerry 10 devices for free – to developers The latest BB block of beauty is getting doled out to developers for free in a bid to build brilliant BB apps BlackBerry has had it rough of late with aPlayBook that never fulfilled its potentialand an App World near devoid of good, original software. But RIM isn’t taking it lying down – hot on the heels of thesuccessful OS 2....

RIP MiniDisc As the final few MiniDisc players dribble off Sony’s production line, we look back at a format that never really achieved its promise RIP MiniDisc, we hardly knew ye. Yes, Sony recently sounded the death knell for the digital format (first introduced in 1992), announcing that the final MiniDisc players would ship in March. In many ways it’s incredible that the MiniDisc lasted so long. It’s been over 10 years since the iPod went on sale and physical media started to look increasingly unwieldy, and even before then the introduction of the recordable CD seemed to herald MiniDisc’s doom, being that it was (a) cheaper and (b) compatible with millions of hi-fis and computers already in use....