The new Kindle will have a monochrome E Ink display, like existing models, but will add a front light for reading in the dark. Kindle users who want to read in poor light or in the dark currently have to buy an external light. The new Kindle will have a touch screen and will come in 3G and WiFi versions, the report says. The addition of a light will reduce the battery life of the Kindle, which currently lasts for up to two months.

From reports that we are receiving from America, customers in Canada and America are being told iPad pre-orders will ship on March 19th; this is three days after the new iPad goes on sale. Apple’s online stores in France, Germany, Switzerland and Japan are also reporting delays of up to three weeks. This is the first time that Apple has launched a new iPad in Britain on the same day that it goes on sale in the US. Although the company has restricted orders to two iPads per person, shortages are going to be inevitable. The delays are of course for online orders so you can expect to see the usual long queues outside Apple stores on Friday.

However, users looking to pay less than £100 for a handset off the shelf in 2012 will be spoiled for choice anyway.  For example, the Nokia Lumia 710 uses the user-friendly Windows Phone operating system and comes in an unusually wide range of colours.  The T-Mobile Vivacity runs on Android and echoes the stylish look of the iPhone, and offers a 3.5 inch touchscreen and 5 megapixel camera.

For those looking for something at a super low budget price point, supermarket Asda has just launched a range of £12.50 pay as you go phones, including the T-Mobile Zest 2, perfect for younger users needed a basic communication tool or even to keep in the car for emergencies.

Whenever buying a new phone regardless of price, it always pays to spend some time online looking for the latest mobile phone reviews on sites such as Recombu to double check you are making the right choice.

From Sony the future looks great with the introduction of the Playstation Vita which is the most powerful and versatile handheld console the market has yet seen. Coming with a 5 inch OLED touch screen, rear touch panel, dual analogue sticks, in-built gyroscopes for motion control, front and rear facing cameras, GPS, wi-fi, that is the answer from, Sony! It can be said that the Vita has all you need and although many believe that the dedicated handheld consoles may be a thing of the past, not if Sony has anything to do with it.

Also coming out of the blog is the revelation that the new tablet will feature a quad-core processor, but his has been denied in other sources, we shall have to wait and see on that score. Another source, The Wall Street Journal, is reported to have stated that the forthcoming iPad will have LTE capability. It would seem that this would have limited effect although LTE, which offers faster data speeds than 3G, is not available in the UK and even within the US coverage is limited.

Apple has not yet announced any plans for a launch event and never comments on new devices before they are officially unveiled. Significantly though, they usually update their products yearly and the iPad 2 was announced on March 2 last year and went on sale a week or so later.

The enhanced features of the device include “skeletal tracking” and improved speech recognition, as well as the cost of developing a device that works across several systems, rather than a single games console, which has to be good news. In spring 2011, Microsoft decided to release a software development kit which allowed coders to build their own software on the platform. This move has resulted in several innovative uses, including a control mechanism for a search-and-rescue robot, and a scanner to create blueprints for 3D printers.

Kinect holds the world record for being the fastest-selling consumer device in history, shifting over eight million units between November 2010 and January 2011 and recent figures suggest more than 18 million devices have now been sold.

However, a big disappointment for  Nokia’s new Lumia handset which got off to a poor start, failing to make the top 10 handsets in the four weeks of the survey period. The Lumia, which runs Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 operating system, was released in Britain on November 16. The iPhone 4S is a more powerful version of its predecessor, with an improved camera and a new voice control system called Siri. Last week, there was speculation that Google was working on its own voice control software to be released as part of its Android mobile operating system.

Not such good news for RIM, the Canadian company that makes BlackBerry handsets, it has had a bad year but there was at least some comfort in the GfK data. Sales of BlackBerry handsets increased during the period of the survey, with three variants of the BlackBerry Curve in the top 10.

The Amazon Kindle is an e-book reader developed by Amazon.com subsidiary Lab126 which allows users to shop for, download, browse, and read e-books, newspapers, magazines, blogs, and other digital media. The Kindle hardware devices use an E Ink electronic paper display that shows up to 16 shades of gray, minimizes power use and simulates reading on paper.

Their new manufacturing process, involving simple sodium chloride (table salt), can boost the capacity of computer hard disks by six times. With current hard disk manufacturing technology reaching its limits, the new process could mean that current capacity is able to be increased on future computers. In a statement it is reported that the agencies have “developed a process that can increase the data recording density of hard disks to 3.3 Terabits per square inch, six times the recording density of current models”.

The new C5 in-ear headphones, too, deliver on both those ambitions: an innovative “Micro Porous Filter” acts as a diffuser. B&W claim this produces a “pristine, natural” sound, and for once the marketing blurb is spot on: music listened to through the C5 takes on a quality of spaciousness that is hard to achieve even in more expensive, on-ear cans. Although the sound quality is near perfect, the way that the headphones are held within the ear is not to everyone’s liking. This uses a thin tube of flexible plastic to hold the headphones within the ear, although it does promote a genuine feeling of security, it can become uncomfortable after long periods.