With Galaxy Nexus smartphone released into the wild reviews of the new Google Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich started popping up on the web. By far the most in-depth review we have seen was done by our friends over at Engadet.

By the looks of it the Ice Cream Sandwich is the tastiest flavour the Google Android operating system we have seen so far as it brings the Honeycomb UI to the smartphones while adding loads of new features. It still isn't the most noob friendly OS out there but current Android users will definitely appreciate all the goodies.

In case you can't be bothered reading the long review Engadget also created a series of videos showing off the most important stuff. Hit the source link for more info.

Samsung continues battle with Apple for the top spot. When Apple released the first generation iPad Samsung was the closest of all the rivals with Samsung Galaxy Tab and that Apple has iPad 2 on the market Samsung is again after it with Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and by the looks of things it came even closer to nabbing the top spot this time around. Specifications at glance are 10.1 inch screen (1280 x 800 px), with weighing in at 1.33 lbs is even lighter then the iPad 2 and also a tiny bit thinner at 0.33 inch. (more...)

Finally HTC Flyer got into hands of guys over at Engadget. From what we've seen it looks like a good tablet and eventhough it is running Google Android 2.3 Gingerbread HTC has done a good job of customizing the interface to make it tablet friendly. The App junkies will not find it interesting though due to Android 2.3 apps are not really large screen friendly and to make it worse it is expected to cost slightly more then the Apple iPad 2. Probably the digital pen is to blame. Now don't get us wrong HTC did do a great job with it but we don't think anyone will really make a daily use out of it. Still a solid entry into tablet market for HTC and let's hope they will bless us with a Honeycomb tablet sometime soon. Meanwhile check the video review by Engadget after the break. (more...)

Top search for the past few months on our website has been the Olympus E-PL2 is Micro Four Thirds camera and now it is finally available for purchase for about £500 and guys over at Photography Blog got us covered with an in-depth review. Compared to its predecessor the Olympus E-PL1 it offers a larger and higher resolution3 inch LCD screen, a live wheel selector, dramatic tone art filter, ISO ranging from 200 to 6400, a refreshed version of the 14-42mm kit lens, new accessory port 2 for bluetooth connectivity, macro arm light which takes care of precise illumination of macro shots and there are three new conversion lenses available. The body remains small, light and plastic to keep the camera in the "affordable" price range. Also  the 12.3 megapixel sensor, image stabilisation, supersonic wave filter, one-touch HD video recording and 3fps continuous shooting remain the same as on the E-PL1.

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We have already seen a few of hands-on videos of the upcoming BlackBerry Playbook tablet but now thanks to Engadget we have a bit more in-depth info on this tablet. As you have probably heard BlackBerry Playbook runs QNX operating system that BlackBerry purchased in April last year which in combination with WebKit and Adobe Flash and Air and named it BlackBerry Tablet OS. It offers a very smooth and polished user interface and experience. It is set to be released in Q1 2011 and promises to be the first tablet to offer real multi-tasking as we have come to expect it from desktop operating systems such as Windows and Mac OS X. No info on the pricing yet but we expect it to be priced similarly to Apple iPad.

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