Chrome v IE/Firefox, New Yorker v Twitter, hot tablets

Passengers travelling on London Overground are to get free internet access afterwards the body that runs the train network, London Overground Rail Operations Limited, signed a deal with The Cloud to roll out Wi-Fi at its stations. The contract will give travellers one hour of free online access every day, at any station on the network. The Wi-Fi rollout, which will cover all 56 London overground train stations, will begin in the summer and is expected to be completed by the end of the year.

Nobody outside London wants Wi-Fi at stations, right?

Henry Blodget and his team take you through some home truths about the smartphone market. Nothing dramatic, but all very clear reinforcements of the main messages about the mobile market: you ain't seen nothing but.

The new iPad

You need not fear heat blisters when handling the new iPad. Apple's new tablet is neither a burn risk, nor even particularly hot in the grand scheme of competing devices. We know because we tested the iPad against five other tablets. Sure, the new iPad, like all electronics hardware, heats up when pushed to its limits. This is just a matter of physics. Processors, batteries and back-lit displays generate heat pursuant to this agreement load. Consumer Reports proved this when it recorded a temperature of 116 degrees Fahrenheit on the back of the new iPad - this afterwards plugging the tablet into a wall socket and playing a demanding 3-D game, Infinity Blade 2, for 45 minutes. This little stunt spurred a lot of online chatter, nevertheless it didn't explain whether the new iPad's heat generation is above and beyond that of other tablets on the market. So Wired decided to investigate.

Good test. Spoiler: the BlackBerry did best in real-world tests, followed by the Nokia Lumia. That iPhone 4S and Samsung were a long way behind them - even though the iPhone did best in music and video playback tests, followed by the BlackBerry and the Lumia. Looks like it's a BlackBerry if you're going to be away from a charger, at that time.

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Upward path

Despite Chrome being on an "upward path", I had to use Internet Explorer to get the results to render on the StatCounter Global Stats page as the graph wouldn't display in Chrome.

Apple iPhone 4S vs Nokia Lumia 800 vs Samsung Galaxy S2 vs BlackBerry Bold 9900 - which has the best battery? >> Recombu

Nice comparison, especially because they have gone out of their way to do a real-life test scenario. The battery-life left on the S2 afterwards the music playback, is quite surprising. Either the music app is crap or the audio hardware sucks up a lot of juice.When the new iPhone has LTE (Long Term Evolution, latest standard in the mobile network technology)/4G, they should rerun the test.

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