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iPhone: How Apple Created Their Masterpiece

admin — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 11:14:13 +0000

Every single day another next-gen touch screen mobile phone seems to be coming out. The barrage of information being thrown at us can be dizzying: as well as touch screen there’s dual core, retina displays, HDMI mirroring and a slew of other technical terms. There are reviews saying X phone is the best, another saying [...]

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Apple Mac Mini 2.5GHz Intel Core i5 Review

admin — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 10:50:40 +0000

Apple’s new Mac Mini is a mixed bag. It offers the usual visual flair that all Mac posers will froth at the mouth over; it features upgraded internal components that massively speed up and smooth out usage – yet it has no optical drives… AT ALL. It also has an added ‘Thunderbolt’ port (previously given [...]

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iRiver Story HD Review: What’s The Point of an HD eReader?

admin — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 11:19:50 +0000

The iRiver Story HD is being promoted as the world’s first eReader to be fully integrated with Google eBookstore. This is a nice boast to be able to make – but one boast they certainly can’t make is that it’s an elegant-looking eReader. It isn’t. After spending some time with the Nook, Kindle and Kobo [...]

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ViewSonic ViewPad 10 Review – The Dual-Booted Disaster

admin — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 11:17:20 +0000

There are a lot of high quality tablets to choose from in 2011. The ViewSonic ViewPad 10 is not one of them. One of the ViewPad 10′s few plus points is the design. This rectangular tablet is 10.8 x 6.7 inches and only 0.57 inches thick. The front is nigh on all glass, except a [...]

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What Does Apple’s Lawsuit Tell Us About Them?

admin — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 10:39:18 +0000

Back in 2002 British Telecom launched the most ridiculous lawsuit in history, when they went to court arguing that they invented the hyperlink, and anybody who has the temerity to link to anything should pay them for the privilege. To no one’s surprise it was laughed out of court, and we all went home, relieved [...]

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Seven Tips To Help Out Newbie iPhone Users

admin — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 11:11:51 +0000

At first, the iPhone can seem a dizzying piece of machinery. Sure it comes with an instruction manual, but going through dozens of pages – pages hampered by the kind of writing quality that makes this blog seem like Charles Dickens – can be a frustrating experience. So here are seven simple tips for making [...]

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Nokia E7: Nokia’s Flagship Smartphone

admin — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 11:34:27 +0000

After dominating the cell phone market for most of the last 10-15 years, Nokia have suddenly fallen behind. Ever since the cell phone evolved into the smartphone, Samsung, HTC, Apple and Sony Ericcson have all overtaken it. The E7 is their latest attempt to make up the difference – to create a phone that looks [...]

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Top 5 Gadgets In The World 2011

admin — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 11:09:29 +0000

In a world filled with tech of every design and functionality, some are useful, some are quirky, some are just a big fat waste of time… and a few are classic, definitive and essential. These are they: 5) Kindle 3 Why? The text-speech feature… the built in web browser… the MP3 usage… the sleek, sweet [...]

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iPhone 3 Verus iPhone 4: Stick Or Twist?

admin — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 11:04:37 +0000

Apple’s iPhone 4 is a magnificent smartphone. It has a huge list of pros, and very few cons. However, if you already own an iPhone 3 is V4 sufficiently different (and better) to justify the hefty price tag? Here’s our comparison of the two phones: Design: iPhone 4 is 24% thinner than the iPhone 3. [...]

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Blackberry’s Tablet, the PlayBook, Was Intended To Be An iPad Killer… So What Went Wrong?

admin — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 11:01:00 +0000

In recent times Blackberry has swiftly gone from ubiquitous to has been, thanks largely to the iPhone and the iPad. This sudden change of fortune has led RIM to hasten back to the drawing board… and now comes the result of that R and D: a new tablet called the Blackberry PlayBook. Unfortunately it seems [...]

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Motorola Photon 4G – One of the Best Smartphones of 2011

admin — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 10:56:43 +0000

From a design perspective the Photon 4G is far from spectacular. A cornucopia of features make for a big, heavy (158 grams), thick (12.2 mm) phone – so if you consider your phone to be a fashion accessory you’ll want to look elsewhere. Personally though I liked the weight, it gives it that well-built, sturdy [...]

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