Wicket pics, Graham

'ERE, ash a nice picture . . . England Twenty20 star Graham Napier is pretty handy with a camera as well as a bat.

So Sony Ericsson have snapped up the Essex star to play with their 8.1 megapixel C905 Plus Cyber-shot™ phone to take some behind-the-scenes pictures.

Have a look at some of his efforts here: From the left: Graham turning up for training, England stars warming up at Lords, Graham with ex PM John Major, and former Wimbledon coach Joe Kinnear. Let's hope he captures one of England winning the Ashes.

The best 100 games EVER

 

WE’RE taking part in Radio 1’s Big Gaming Weekend which ends tomorrow with listeners’ Top 20 favourite games ever.

They asked our Games Editor Owen Anslow to come up with his favourites for listeners to choose from. Here’s his TOP 50.

Hear the results tomorrow for yourself at 7pm in Mistajam’s simulcast and tell us what we've missed out below.

Gadgits joins Radio 1 gaming weekend

GADGITS has been invited to take part in Radio 1’s Big Gaming Weekend over the Bank holiday—by providing our list of top video games of all time.
Games Editor Owen Anslow has searched every level of his gaming soul to bring millions of listeners his definitive list.
He’s one of the panel of industry experts selecting their top 100 games which listeners will whittle down to a top twenty.
And we’ll be featuring our TOP FIFTY in the paper on Sunday.
The results of BBC Radio 1 & 1Xtra’s online poll will be revealed on Monday at 7pm in Mistajam's simulcast.
It’s the highlight of the weekend which kicks off tomorrow with Scott Mills at 6.30am on Radio 1.
Over the weekend the legendary Live Lounge will be transformed into the ultimate gaming arcade where DJ's will slug it out one game at a time for glory.
And listeners can check out the leaderboards online.
Then, all day on Bank Holiday Monday, starting in Scott’s show you can sample the top choons from gaming soundtracks — chosen by both listeners and DJs.
Jo Whiley will be joined by games guru Johnny Minkley. At 1pm, Fearne Cotton and Aled Hayden-Jones host a special gaming surgery with tips and even the odd cheat.
Greg James will continue cranking up console classics you’d forgotten you’d even heard between 4pm and 7pm before handing over to Mistajam's simulcast for the ultimate countdown of BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra's poll of the greatest ever computer games.

Free Sky+ box when you sign up

Sky TV is offering one of the greatest gadgits of the late 20th century FREE when you join.
New customers will receive a Sky+ box -- saving £99 -- when they subscribe to Sky TV for £16.50 a month.
Anyone who has a Sky+ box, which allows you to pause and rewind live TV and record a whole series at the touch of a button, swears they could not live without it. There's a choice of six entertainment TV packs – Variety, Knowledge, Style & Culture, News & Events, Children's and Music – each containing a range of quality channels, from £16.50 a month. Additional Packs cost an £1 extra a month.
Visit www.sky.com/skyplus for further information. Offer ends Friday 25 June 2009.
 

Vodafone's roaming charge holiday

MOBILE giant Vodafone is giving its customers a break from roaming charges for three months during the summer holidays.
From next month those with pay as you go and pay monthly accounts will be able to talk, text and send picture messages from over 35 countries across Europe for the same price as at home
For example, a customer on a plan with 600 minutes and unlimited texts who opts in to Vodafone Passport would use these minutes and texts when they are on holiday with no extra charges.
Existing Vodafone Passport customers automatically benefit from the three-month promotion.
From May 15, customers who don’t currently use Vodafone Passport can sign up for free by texting the word ‘Passport’ to 97888 if they pay monthly or to 2345 if they use Pay as you go, or they can visit vodafone.co.uk/roaming.
In addition, from May 15, Vodafone Pay as you go customers on the Simply tariff, will find that calls they make from the UK to friends and family overseas will cost from as little as 5p per minute to both landlines and mobiles.
 Customers can opt in to the new Vodafone International call plan by calling 36888 or texting the word ‘international’ to 2345 from their handset, visiting vodafone.co.uk/international or speaking to an adviser in one of Vodafone’s 400 stores.
Countries included in the Vodafone Passport summer promotion are: Albania, Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Canary Islands, Channel Islands, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Faroes, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Isle of Man, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madeira, Malta, Monaco, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Ireland, Romania, San Marino, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Vatican City, New Zealand, Australia.
Vodafone Passport promotion does not include mobile internet.
Vodafone Pay as You Go call costs on the Simply Tariff for Vodafone International are:

New Vodafone calls cost 6.6p a minute

MOBILE giant Vodafone has announced the best value pay-as-you-go packages on the market—with the cheapest rates working out at just 6.6p a minute for calls.
And there’s no weasely higher rate for the first few minutes, or different rates according to network or landline—the rates apply across the board.
Called Freedom packs they come in bundles of texts and calls for £10, £15 and £20.
From Friday April 10 you can buy 300 texts and 100 minutes of calls for £10; 600 texts and 200 minutes for £15; and unlimited texts and 300 minutes for £20.
You can use existing credit to pay for the 30-day packs or a debit or credit card. The bundle is then available to use instantly.
The minutes can be used to call any network, all 01, 02 and 03 landlines and voicemail at any time of the day. No catches, no subscription.
Just call 2345 free from your mobile and follow the prompt to select the Pack you want.
You can check how many minutes and texts you have left in your Pack and get an update on your credit balance at anytime by calling 2345 free.
If all the texts and minutes in a Vodafone Freedom Pack are used before 30 days, you will pay your standard rate for calls and texts using TopUp.
There’s no rolling subscription so when a Pack finishes, you can choose what you want to do – grab another pack, or switch to Free Weekends to get free texts and/or calls each week, or Text Unlimited to get free texts each month.

Sony DAB Rising Star nominations

WHO will be radio's next saviour - you decide.
 Five contenders have been shortlisted for the Sony DAB Rising Star award by a panel of UK radio experts including BBC Radio 1’s Colin Murray, radio legend Tony Blackburn and TV personality Danny Wallace.
Last year BBC6 Music’s George Lamb walked away with the gong. In the running this year is Phil Clifton who presents his own early breakfast show on XFM, Katey Wallace from Radio Teesdale, Oxford FM’s Rosie Tratt, Chris Younie who presents on The Hits on Key 103 and Singing Henry on Kerrang! Radio. The award is the only people’s choice award so for more information and to get voting check out www.sony.co.uk/risingstar 
  The winner will be announced on Monday, May 11th 2009.

Test new Sega game

GAMING giants Sega want YOU to help them test Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games. They've asked Gadgits to recruit readers to help them develop and test their new game. Just email us and tell us which Winter Olympic sport you'd like to see on this game and we'll get back to the lucky ones with an invite to try out the video game when the full prototype is ready. Email gadgits@notw.co.uk, with your name, age and address. Under 16s will need to be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

Wii games come of age

When it was launched three years ago the breakthrough Wii console was hailed as a move away from hardcore shoot-em-ups to more mainstream sports activities.

The key was, and still is, motion control that lets you use real-life actions to play games and benefit from exercise.

And the Wii is now often the centrepiece at family parties where three generations, from gran to the kids will join in.

iPhone free on £34.26 a month plan

O2 introduced two new Pay Monthly 24-month plans today.

The iPhone 3G 8GB will be available for free on the £34.26 a month plan and the 16GB model for free on the £44.05 plan. They have made no change to the existing 18 month tariffs.

The deals are available now at The Carphone Warehouse and O2

Secret Sky 3D Keane gig

SKY TV gave another demo of their 3D system last night with a live broadcast of top band Keane.
Not having seen the Sussex band since 2004, when they had huge hits with Somewhere Only We Know and Everybody's Changing, my first thought when I saw singer Tom Chaplin on screen was that 3D must trim pounds off you becasue he looked really slim.
But then when I went next door into the main Abbey Road studio and saw him performing live, I couldn't tell the difference between him and the image on Sky's 3D screen. He really has lost a lot of weight.
The band were really on form and Tom even agreed to pose for this picture in 3D glasses. Trouble is, it looks like you need 3D glasses to view it properly.
But the 3D broadcast was very impressive, except when Tom veered towards the camera. It looked like the end of his mic was coming out of the screen. With the right direction, if 3D effects for their own sake can be avoided, this medium is bound to catch on.
It really does offer an added, er, dimension to the entertainment.
We met Tom's mum in the crowd, who travelled up from Sussex for the historic event.
She told us that Tom's dad, an aid worker, would be watching the gig in Rwanda on the simultaneous webcast of the gig. 

Exclusive: Pro Evo 09 England strip unveiled

Back of the net!

Here’s an exclusive look at Konami’s new downloadable England kit for the glorious Pro Evo ’09.

Fabio’s boys donned the new Umbro uniform for the first time today, as they breezed through a friendly against Slovakia at Wembley.

Free Monsters Vs Aliens download

DOWNLOAD a free PC demo of Activision's Mosters Vs Aliens, the video game based on the new 3D movie animation from DreamWorks.  Players lead a dynamic team of misfit monsters on a mission to protect earth from destruction.  Get yours here

Twitter texts free on Vodafone

Vodafone customers can save cash by sending free texts to Twitter.
From today customers can send text messages to a short code (86444) for “tweets”, @replies.
And they’ll be able to receive text messages from people they choose to follow via SMS on Twitter.
 These text updates will be free of charge for the first few weeks.
But all text message updates sent FROM Twitter will remain free of charge.
“We are delighted to be the only operator in the UK today to offer Twitter on SMS to our customers,” says Vodafone Internet boss Al Russell.
“Since we made social networks on the move both simple to use and great value, customers have flocked to using these services which have exploded in popularity.”
When receiving a text message from Twitter with a URL, customers will be able to click on the link and access the webpage directly from their mobiles.
Since Vodafone UK included mobile internet in the price plan giving customers unlimited access to mobile internet, social networks have topped Vodafone’s popularity charts for the most visited sites on mobiles.

Try the cool Rivmixx groove

Checkout this hot new social network site for musos.

Forget Facebook, Rivmixx.com is a brand new networking website for the music-orientated and music-obsessed which allows artists, labels, events and venues to speak directly to their audience and fans to be closer in touch with all their favourites.