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Great, but plain 4Gb SD cards can be picked up for well under £10, in fact you can pick up a 32Gb card for £60, only £10 more than the cheapest Eye-Fi.
Yup - it's gone live in the UK.

However some apps are appearing in Pounds, some in Euros and some in US dollars. Upon getting to the pre-confirmation screen Google Checkout converts the price to Pounds.
I installed this today and:

Good:
- Can add anyone's gamertag to your list, just type it in and you're away. Clicking on the user you can see their avatar and list of played games etc.
- Android Notifications. The same way Android notifies you of incoming E-Mail, SMS and IM, this app adds a little 'ring-of-light' icon to the notification bar if anyone in your list signs into Xbox Live, and it seems to be push notification.

Bad, but not too bad:
- It's all manual. Much like the app on other platforms, you can't just enter your gamertag and watch the app pull your friends list in, so you have to manually enter the gamertag of every Live user you want to add. However this isn't too bad as it lets you filter your list to those select users you do want to see (and it's probably like this due to the way the Live API's work)
- Notifications: If you put your own gamertag into the app, your phone will end up telling you your online, every time you switch your 360 on. You can switch Notifications off entirely, but not by user (Then again, this isn't too bad - you'll know when someone is using your 360/gamertag when you're not!)
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Any initial top-up (starting credit) or bonus top-up (e.g. for transferring your number to 3) has a 30-day expiry.

Any top-up you buy after that has NO expiry date (subject to making/receiving a call/text every 180 days - the same clause for any PAYG phone in the UK). When you buy a top-up you get 30 days of Skype-To-Skype and MSN free, after which another top-up is required, but your existing credit never invalidates.

3 dropped the 30-day expiry on top ups a couple of years ago.
OK:

Wired Techfest Demo: Boku (Dated 6th March 2007)
http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/03/techfest_demo_b.html

Wikipedia: LittleBigPlanet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Littlebigplanet
"Announced on 7th March 2007"
It's legit, I saw it last night and thought, "Ooh, never heard of that one". Pressed A and was greeted with a 'No items in that category' message.
From the bottom of that page:

"*If you’ve already upgraded to the iPhone 2.0 Software Update for iPod touch, the 2.1 update is free."

Just before your 'Update' makes people think they'll be paying for it if they have 2.0.
It said that for me too, so clicked on 'Learn More', got an iTunes error.
Now it's saying 1.1.4 is the latest version again.

*goes for lunch*
on the Major Nelson podcast yesterday they cleared this up - if a game is delisted it will disappear from the Marketplace, but by going to Account Management you will be able to redownload any purchased games, even if they have been delisted.
If you mean Space Giraffe (because developer Jeff Minter did get a *bit* whiny), well that got a Metacritic score of 68%, so it doesn't meet the criteria, even if its conversion rate is probably well below on the conversion rate.

Also, Tetris Splash was an XBLA game, Tetris Evolution was the retail game (Splash having a 1% better score on Metacritic than Evolution)
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
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