Hugely anticipated Nexus 7 Now available for Pre-order

Google announced a freakin' sweet 7-inch tablet appropriately called the Nexus 7 at I/O today, and no doubt many of you are itching to get your hands on one. You'll be happy to hear that it's available for preorder starting today, and will be shipping mid-July to the U.S., Canada, UK, and Australia. The pricetag is a low, low $199. Here's a quick run-down of the specs.

7-inch 1280 x 800 display
Quad-processor
Tegra 3 12-core GPU
Front-facing camera
Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, NFC, gyroscope
9 hours video playback
300 hours standby
340 g
Chrome as standard browser
$199, shipping mid-July to US, Canada, Australia and UK, preorders available today
Includes $25 credit in Google Play store, lots of preloaded goodies

Want to get in on the action? Order here! So, who's excited? I'm excited.

Radio 1′s Big Weekend on Hackney Marshes

This weekend huge names from Jay Z and Nas to Florence and the Machine and Bombay Bicycle Club will be taking to the stage at Hackney Weekend.
BBC Radio 1 will take over Hackney Marshes from Saturday 22 – Sunday 23 June for UK’s largest free music festival as part of the BBC’s contribution to the Cultural Olympiad which launches this week.
Live music will take place across six stages offering an eclectic mix of music genres including, hip hop, dance, folk and indie.
The acts range from worldwide names to exciting new talent such as Random Impulse and Kersha Bailey – gems discovered by Radio 1 DJs who will perform on the BBC Introducing Stage.
The headliners for Saturday 22 include Jay Z, Kasabian, Jack White, Sean Paul and Swedish House Mafia.
The headliners for Sunday 23 include Rihanna, Lana Del Ray, Chase and Status, Nas and David Guetta.
The audience is set to reach 50,000 people for each day of the festival. Listeners registered for tickets months before the event and a number of lucky people won free tickets to  one day of the festival – priority was given to those who live in Hackney and the surrounding boroughs.

For the full line up and more information about the event visit: http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/events/e9wmxj


To plan your journey visit:
www.tfl.gov.uk/

92 new features of Apple iOS 6 listed and categorised

Your iPhone or iPad may be getting 200 new features this Autumn. That's what Apple promised in iOS 6, as long as you have an iPhone 3GS or later, a second or third generation iPad, or a fourth-generation iPod touch.

Apple didn't list all of the 200 features during the epic two-hour keynote this week, but iOS head honcho Scott Forstall went through more than 90 of them. They were divided into four main categories and a few subcategories. Marquee features got their own slides, and there was a significant digression into new Siri features. But many other features were dumped on to two sets of slides, near the end of the presentation. 

We detailed many of the marquee features in our main story about iOS 6, but obviously we couldn't get to all of them. Here's a list of just some of what's coming soon to your iPhone, in alphabetical order. Tell us what you're most excited for in the comments.

Marquee Features

Call Enhancements: Reply with message

Call Enhancements: Remind Me Later

Do Not Disturb

Facebook Integration

FaceTime over Cellular

Features for China: Baidu

Features for China: Sina Weibo

Features for China: Tudou

Features for China: Youku

Features for China: Improved Text Input

Full-screen landscape Safari experiences

Guided Access

Mail: Inline Photos/Videos

Mail: Pull to Refresh

Maps

Maps: Flyover

Maps: Local Search

Maps: Traffic View

Maps: Turn-By Turn Navigation

Open Protected Office Docs

Passbook

Safari: iCloud Tabs

Safari: Offline Reading List

Safari: Smart app banners

Shared photo streams

Single-App Mode

VIP Mailboxes

iOS 6 Siri Major Improvements

Ask about movies

Eyes Free

Get sports scores

Launch an app

Make dinner reservations

Tweet

New languages: Canadian English/French, Spain/Mexico Spanish, Italian, Swiss French/German/Italian, Korean, Chinese for Taiwan/HK/PRC

iOS 6 User Features

Game Center challenges

Improved privacy controls

Lost Mode

Made for iPhone hearing aids

Per account signatures in Mail

Redesigned Stores

Alarm with song

App in Safari search results

Custom vibrations for alerts

Faster Safari JavaScript

Features for China

French, German and Spanish dictionaries

Game Center friends from Facebook

Global network proxy for HTTP

HDR improvements

Kernel ASLP

New iPad Clock app

Personal dictionary in iCloud Search all fields in Contacts

VoiceOver improvements

Autocorrection for every keyboard

Bluetooth MAP support

Improved keyboard

IPv6 support for Wi-Fi and LTE

Location based reminders for iPad

Manual location entry for reminders

Manual reorder of reminders

Manual reorder of reminders

Word highlights for speak selection

iOS 6 Developer APIs

Action Sheet

In-app content purchases

Map Kit

Pass Kit

Reminders

Transit Apps

Audio and video sampling during playback

Auto layout

Collection views

Control camera focus and exposure

CSS filters

Face detection API

Frame drop data

Game groups

In-app purchase hosted content

Multi-route audio

State preservation

Video stabilisation

Bluetooth MAP support

Crossfade with CSS animation

Game Center in-app experience

In-app Bluetooth pairing

Inter-app audio

Pull to refresh on Table views

Read and write image metadata

Remote Web inspector

Rich text on labels, fields and text views

VoiceOver gestures

Web Audio API

Lovely renders of next iPhone in white

Martin Hajek managed to fool the web when his black iPhone mockups were taken for the real thing. Gizmodo is a good sport and is now featuring his work on a white iPhone mockup which to our eyes look pretty darn good.  The renderings are based on leaked photos and video of what most believe to be the next-generation iPhone’s metal back.

BBC rolls out streaming sports coverage to 3G networks

After giving its iPlayer the nod to stream programming content over mobile networks in the UK, the Beeb has decided to do the same with its BBC Sport mobile site. Not only will you be able to stream live coverage, like the current crop of Euro 2012 football matches, but also any existing video content that was previously desktop-bound. Hit up the source link to give it a try; you'll need Android 2.2 or higher or an iOS device that's packing version 5. Sorry, non-sporting Brits. You're going to find the Olympics pretty hard to miss this summer.

Samsung reveals its top-secret Galaxy S III design process

DUMMY CASES, HAND-DELIVERED PROTOTYPES AND TWO DESIGNS THAT NEVER SAW THE LIGHT OF DAY.

The secrecy surrounding the Galaxy S III was crucial in building anticipation ahead of the device's launch, and today Samsung has revealed some details of the phone's top-secret development process. Only a privileged few within Samsung were able to see the device, with design and engineering work taking place within a secured area at Samsung's Seoul HQ. Discussion with outsiders was forbidden, and the phones were apparently locked inside secure boxes for transportation, even within buildings.

Most interesting is the revelation that Samsung fully designed and built three versions of the Galaxy S III to further reduce the chance of the actual design leaking out. That'd certainly explain the appearance (and leaking) of a buttonless S III a few weeks ahead of launch. In today's blgo post, Samsung R&D engineer Woo-Sun Yoon confirmed the use of dummy cases like the one above in field testing, to protect the phone's true exterior from prying eyes.

“We had to make three types of the GALAXY SIII to prevent the design from leaking. And on top of that, whenever any of these had to go out for testing, we put them inside ‘dummy boxes’, which are cases that hide the design of the device, to disguise it. Even if people, inside or out of the campus, saw the device, I doubt they would have known what it was.”

And the security didn't stop once the devices were completed. Samsung says units delivered to mobile operators were transported in person and hand-delivered by its employees, and testing was done under strict supervision. All this resulted in the final design remaining a mystery until just a week before launch, when a Samsung service manual outed what we now know to be the Galaxy S III.

For all Samsung's pre-launch secrecy, it's now being incredibly open when talking about that secrecy. You'll find a full run-down of exactly how the S III was kept under wraps over at the source link.

Source: Samsung Tomorrow