Amazon Grocery Store unveiled

Amazon.co.uk has launched its new site. Together with Amazon’s traditional books, DVD’s and games etc. online shoppers can now buy groceries ranging from nappies to noodles! Amazon will be offering free delivery on more than 22,000 top grocery lines from companies such as Pampers, Kraft, Walkers and Kenco.
Consumers can also purchase ethnic and specialist goods such as kosher, organic, gluten-free and sugar-free food.

Online grocery shopping in the UK is currently dominated by Tesco, which has 45.1 per cent of sales. Sainsbury's has a 14.1 per cent share while Asda is close behind at 13.7 per cent. Morrisons is expected to launch an online shopping site in the near future and Marks & Spencer has also said it is considering the move. Customers could potentially save money on their groceries by buying in bulk. People can also shop online at Amazon on their smartphones.

Amazon will be stocking 2,000 products at its five warehouses around the UK, with its largest facility, of 800,000 square feet, at Swansea Bay in Wales. The remaining products, including fresh and chilled items, will be sent from outside suppliers.

iPhone 4 alternatives

Samsung Galaxy S
This is the only phone, that does everything the iPhone 4 does. It also comes with free satnav courtesy of Google. Samsung’s take on the Android interface also includes a Social Hub that aggregates social network data about all your contacts, and there’s a 4in AMOLED screen and a camera with the ability to shoot HD movies. With video calling Apps such as Fring, you can hold your own teleconferences. All that remains to be seen is whether it will acquire the cache of an Apple device. It runs Android 2.1, but will get an update in the future.

iPhone 3GS
Hold onto the iPhone 3GS , many of the new iPhone4’s new features are software-dependent, and the new Apple mobile operating system, iOS4 will be available for free to all iPhone 3GS users. The new software will breathe new life in to your 3GS, bringing with it Folders (for organising your apps), Multitasking (so you can run more than one app at once), unified Mail inboxes and the iBooks ebook app.

HTC Desire
The HTC Desire has been the best-looking handset on the market. It is solidly constructed, and it runs Android 2.1. Therefore it offers full multitasking, free satnav, video-calling via apps and there’s also HTC’s Sense user interface. An upgrade to Android 2.2, which means a massive speed bump and wifi hotspotting, is promised when Google officially release the new software.

Nexus One
The first phone to have Google’s design influence over traditional Android handsets, the Nexus One has a slick handset, and is likely to be the first phone that will get upgraded to FroYo (Android 2.2) – it’s intuitive, a viable iPod substitute when used with the Amazon MP3 store, and the price is coming down rapidly. It’s also available in Vodafone stores, rather than online only as it was in America.

Dell Streak
This 5in tablet computer is said by Dell to be very much a data-first device, albeit one that happens to make phone calls. An alternative to the iPad perhaps? Video playback is impressive too. Use it with a Bluetooth headset, and the Dell Streak can expand the possibilities of what you can do on the move. It currently runs Android 1.6, and no released Android app is yet a patch on those available on the iPad for reading magazines or newspapers.