Hasta La Gadget!

Wondering how your old buddy Tesco is faring with the launch of its first branded bit of hardware, the £119 Hudl tablet? Well, according to Tesco’s CEO Phil Clarke, via a tweet from Retail Week’s Jennifer Creevy, not too shabby: the supermarket chain has offloaded about 35,000 of the devices over the past few days. We very much doubt the likes of Google and Amazon, which have never been forthcoming with early sales figures, will be threatened by the number, but it’s surely not a bad start from a retailer that knows more about selling bread and milk than tablets. Incidentally, Amazon’s just dropped the price of its soon to be last-gen 7-inch Fire HD to £119, matching that of the Hudl — if you’ve got no ClubCard points to secure a discount, that is. We now have one of Tesco’s tabs in our possession, so look out for the review. We’re assessing the display by rewatching the entirety of Game of Thrones, however, so it might take a while.

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Source: Jennifer Creevy (Twitter)

Google Play crossed a rather significant milestone this morning: something to the tune of 25 billion app downloads. While the accomplishment is weighty enough on its own — especially given that the store also offers books, music and movies, which aren’t included in this tally — Google is celebrating in symbolic style with a number of apps and games for sale at just $0.25 over the next five days. Among the mix of discounted titles, you’ll find publishers such as Gameloft, Electronic Arts, Rovio, Runtastic and Full Fat. Not to stop there, shoppers will also discover a curated collection of 25 must-own movies, 25 banned books, 25 albums that changed the world and 25 top-selling magazines.

With today’s announcement, it was revealed that 675,000 apps and games now live in Google Play — a healthy increase when compared to 600,000 titles and 20 billion installs just three months ago. As you might expect, Apple still claims the largest selection with 700,000 titles in its App Store, although with such a thin separation between the two, we may see Google Play eclipse its rival in short order.

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Google Play hits 25 billion app downloads, holds celebratory yard sale with $0.25 games originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 26 Sep 2012 07:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Samsung’s got more reasons to celebrate today than just the release of its latest pen-friendly tablet — the company also let it be known that it has managed to sell 10 Million Galaxy Note devices, globally. The electronics giant also hit that milestone with its Galaxy S III handset a little under a month ago.

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Samsung: 10 million Galaxy Notes have been sold, worldwide originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 15 Aug 2012 11:52:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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