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New GoPro HD Hero3 adds Wi-Fi and slims down

The GoPro HD Hero3 builds on its predecessor, packing wireless connectivity into a smaller frame.

The marvellous GoPro HD Hero2 camera now has a successor unsurprisingly known as the GoPro HD Hero3.
Like its predecessor, the HD Hero3 is designed for filming extreme sports and other dangerous activities – but this time it has a few new tricks up its sleeve. Built-in Wi-Fi connectivity allows you to send photos and video straight off onto your home computer without a cable – and yet somehow the device is 30 per cent smaller and 25 per cent lighter, making it even more inconspicuous when attached to a helmet or on your handlebars.
Instead of being sold in packages based around your extreme sport of choice – as with the HD Hero2 – the GoPro HD Hero3 comes in White, Silver and Black Editions, each one denoting the level of performance.
The top of the range Black Edition has the ability to record 4K video, and comes with a waterproof remote for controlling multiple cameras, erm, remotely. Then there's the doubling of frame rates at lower resolutions, improving quality quite substantially.
Jump down a notch and the Silver Edition shoots 11MP stills and 30fps 1080p video, while the budget White Edition shoots 5MP stills. All come with the standard accessories but the daddy of the range also comes with the premium ones, too.

Microsoft Surface Phone incoming?

Yet more fuel has been added to the fire that is the Microsoft Surface smartphone.

Knowing Microsoft built the Surface tablets to show hardware manufacturers just how it should be done, there's a good chance the company will do the same with a smartphone – and the rumours are mounting.
We first heard the Surface smartphone is in the final stages and will launch in the coming months and now, according to French website MonWindows Phone, we've further confirmation of its existence by way of GPS data found to be from Microsoft's HQ in Redmond.
An anonymous developer managed to track down longitude and latitude details of the phone, which shows the Juggernaut Alpha device – as it's codenamed – located at the Studio H building on the Microsoft Campus, a fact confirmed by Microsoft's own Bing Maps service.
Where things get really interesting – besides mentioning the latest version of Windows Phone 8 – is the phone's firmware, which goes by the lengthy name of redmond_83012_123215. Ignoring the numbers, the 'redmond' bit suggests it's an in-house job and not something from Nokia or HTC.
Concrete evidence of a Surface Phone, this certainly is not, but the signs are starting to point the right way.

32GB Google Nexus 7 on the way

Lamenting the lack of expandable storage? The Big G has listened, and could be cramming more precious GBs into its Nexus 7 tablet.

Hot on the heels of rumours that there could be a super-cheap Nexus 7 around the corner, comes the whisperings of a 32GB Google Nexus 7 tablet, thanks to a Dutch Reddit user who received an email stating that his Nexus order has been delayed for three weeks, with the consolation that it will be a 32GB model when it arrives.
It's unclear at this time whether or not there will be 8GB, 16GB and 32GB models of the Google Nexus 7 out simultaneously, but it could be possible that the 8GB model could be phased out, while the 16GB model falls to a cheaper price point.
Could we see a 32GB Google Nexus 7 tablet out by Christmas to help reduce the grumblings of a lack of expandable storage? Watch this space...