11/06 | LaCie aims for the design crown in travel speakers.
design
We’ll take a moment to restate our introduction: the Sound2 Speakers are attractive. From the correct angle, they look like nothing more than speaker cones; in actuality, that's exactly their nature. The pair almo ...
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10/31 | iHome has an alarm clock for 2 of you.
If there are two iPhone or iPod users sleeping in your bed, with two different wake times, and different taste in music, then iHome has an alarm clock for you! iHome has added another clock radio and stereo iPod/iPhone dock t ...
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10/28 | Solar power for your iPhone.
From Scosche comes the solCHAT, a small solar powered hands free speakerphone kit for your iPhone or other Bluetooth phone. The solCHAT is very small, about the size of a business card, and less than 3/4 of an inch thick.
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10/19 | Edit photos easily.
If you search Apple’s App Store, you’ll find over 75 pages of photography-related programs. To be honest roughly 20% of those don’t really have anything to do with photography, such as BabyBuilder Lite or 100 Hot Women. Of th ...
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10/18 | Fujifilm brings better dynamic range to a lower price.
ergonomics, controls and expansion
Anyone who has held the F200 EXR will feel instantly at home with the F70 EXR both in design and in its feel in the hand. Both are positives: the design is reasonably compact and is extr ...
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10/18 | The latest entry-level messaging phone for Verizon.
hardware and design
When closed, the Intensity has the form factor of a standard candy bar phone and a surprisingly solid feel to it; this is not a hollow-feeling piece of plastic like so many competitors. The almost-QWER ...
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10/17 | Verizon claims one of the best non-smartphones and mostly succeeds.
hardware and design
The Rogue is perhaps the largest form-factor phone we've reviewed in recent months. Samsung has made good use of the phone's size and centers it on just two but very important elements: a touchscreen a ...
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10/15 | SSD storage will surprise you.
Other World Computing has added Solid-State Drive (SSD) storage to their Mercury portable hard disk product line. The Mercury On-The-Go SSD comes in 64 GB, as reviewed here, 128 GB, and 256 GB sizes, with prices of $299.99, $ ...
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10/06 | Sleek, easy to navigate, touch screen eReader from Sony.
My impressions of the new Sony eReader PRS-600, are good, but it deserves a peek into the history of Kindle and Sony eReaders, before we take a closer look.
A Brief History of Sony vs. Kindle
In November 2007, Amazo ...
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10/04 | Maximo gives iPhone and BlackBerry users an all-round capable headset.
what's in the box and comfort
The HS5s come in a large black retail container with a host of accessories. A carrying pouch, extension cable, shirt clip, airline adapter, and 4 different size earplugs are all included. Th ...
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10/04 | Surprisingly capable speakers for a low price.
hardware and features
The Arion has a typical 2.1 speaker design. Each satellite has an internally soldered wire protruding from the back of the speaker with a standard RCA jack on the end. The subwoofer has a power cable, ...
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09/27 | Samsung makes a green phone with soild all-round features.
design and expansion
The Reclaim is designed well for the hand, easy to hold with the keyboard either extended or shut. Overall, the build quality is superb, too, and we found the back panel hiding the battery to be quit ...
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09/27 | A simple but effective way to share MP3 player audio.
what's in the box and the design
The iMainGo 2 comes in a small retail box with some documentation and, in a rare move for the class, name brand batteries to power the system right away. The speaker system itself is fairl ...
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09/26 | Jabra tries to strike a balance between audio quality and size.
design and comfort
A first try of the Halo gives an immediate impression of absolute subtlety. Where many over-ear headphones are built to call attention to themselves, these hide as much as possible; the microphone is co ...
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09/26 | The first dock to turn a media player into a home theater.
Although it's named the Zune HD, Microsoft's touchscreen media player is really a standard-definition device until you attach it to the AV dock. But it's here that the new Zune potentially has the edge over the iPod as a TV- ...
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09/25 | HP third gen media server gets new interface and improved Mac support
HP has quickly refreshed its MediaSmart servers with the new EX490 and EX495, which have arrived shortly after the second-generation EX485 and EX487. The review covers the flagship EX495 which sports an Intel dual-core CPU ru ...
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