Archive for the ‘Mobiles & PDAs’ Category
Kenzo and Proporta team up to make smartphone cases
For all the disappointed raging nerds on the internet, furious about the lack of external change in the iPhone 4S, there were many more relieved iPhone case manufacturers delighted that they didn’t need to suddenly scramble to revise their product lines over night. And with good cause, as the case market for the iPhone 4 is pretty strong, with a range of offerings for varying groups of customers. For the…
Doro PhoneEasy 610 and 615 flip-phones review
Disclaimer: Jack Ratcliffe may have written this article, but the opinions are his parents. Mainly. Doro mobile phones aren’t like ordinary mobile phones. They’re more like Fisher Price phones – they boast simple lines, simple materials and simple colours, making the phones almost child-like in appearance. This is odd, because Doro mobiles are aimed at the other end of the spectrum: the older user. A company started by one of…
US Robotics tread new waters with an ‘uninspiring’ group of tablet accessories
In the increasingly evolving world of technology and gadgets, manufacturers frequently have to explore other avenues in order to thwart the otherwise inevitable prospect of liquidation from knocking at their doors. The latest electronics company to delve into fresh territory is US Robotics, known primarily for producing high-speed modems in the 80s. Given that modems that were considered high-speed in the 80s have been diminishing almost as quickly as VHS’s,…
HTC Sensation XE: Beats Audio on your smartphone
HTC have recently just announced the arrival of the Sensation XE into the market, and for HTC fans that demand a big more bang from their portable music player it looks like being just the ticket. HTC’s much publicised buyout of Beats Audio, the audio equipment company headed up by Dr Dre, was backed up by the promise of future integration of Beats Audio software into HTC hardware, with the…
Amazon unveils Kindle Fire and Touch: Threatens Android cousins more than iPad 2
The worst kept secret since civil servants decided to leave al-Qaeda dossiers on trains, Amazon finally ended the will-they-won’t-they speculation over its entry into the tablet game. The 7 inch Kindle Fire is full-colour dual core tablet running a customised version of Android 3.1 Honeycomb. Unlike the vast majority of 7 inch Android tablets however, the Kindle Fire has a the benefits of Amazon’s content ecosystem and incredible pricing power…
Alcatel OT-810: A cute featurephone for the budget conscious
In case you were wondering I’m not a fashion-obsessed teenage girl – or any kind of teenage girl really. But I couldn’t help but emit a “kawaiii” (an adjective routinely emitted by Japanese girls when adorable or cute things swing into their line of sight) on seeing the Alcatel OT-810 (despite its distinctively un-kawaii name). Why? Well it’s just so gosh-darn cute, but that aside the palm shaped clamshell phone…
Abolish ‘I’ll have to call you back” scenarios with the Jabra Supreme headset
If you want to be able to concentrate and enjoy having a conversation with somebody without the intrusion of annoying background noise and interference, you may be interested in reading about the Jabra Supreme – the first non-stereo headset to incorporate Active Noise Cancellation technology. Boldly going where ‘no headset manufacturer has been before’ in exploiting the benefits of Active Noise Cancellation technology, it sounds logical that a user’s listening…
The Toshiba AT200. A honeycomb tablet so thin it’s almost see-through.
The iPad 2 is facing some serious competition these days. As the consumer market warms up to the potential of tablet media, there is certainly no shortage of options for us to choose from. And we can certainly thank Android and Apple for that. That said, there is little operationally, to distinguish one android from the other right now, which is where Toshiba’s AT200 can take the moral high ground…
Edifier Tick Tock Dock review
Despite doing it without fail every day of my life, waking up is a hard business that I’ve not managed to improve on with age. Nas had the right idea. Maybe next year I’ll get the hang of it. Until then I find myself relying on a series of gadgets and old fashioned techniques to free myself from Morpheus’s clutches. I’ve tried sleeping with the curtains open, so warm sun…
Toshiba AT100: Android tablets hit maturity
This Autumn sees a wealth of mature Android tablets hitting stores – pumped up with better specs and the new 3.1 and 3.2 Honeycomb operating systems. One of these mature devices is the Toshiba AT100 (formally known as the Thrive). How does it shape up? Read on. The Toshiba AT100 launched on September 1st, bringing with it Android 3.1 – Google’s first tablet-optimised OS. Most new tablets will be sporting…
