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BlackBerry Tour Review: Part 2

admin — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 02:39:10 +0000

My, my, what a long road we’ve traveled . We’re back at it just like we promised . We combed through the BlackBerry Tour we had a while ago, but now that we have a Verizon unit in hand it’s a whole new ball game.

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Viliv X70 dissected and reviewed ahead of initial pre-order

admin — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:38:34 +0000

We know what you’re thinking: too much Viliv X70 news at once and you’re liable to go mad as a hatter with excitement. Settle down, and now let’s move on. jkk mobile ’s been playing with the MID for quite some time now, and has posted an epic, 27-minute long review.

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The Emerging World of Real-Time Cellphone Data

admin — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:31:12 +0000

At ReadWriteWeb we’ve been following with interest the projects of the MIT SENSEeable City Lab , which is producing some excellent analysis and visualizations of cellphone data in urban centers . MIT refers to this data as “digital footprints,” because it essentially tracks the movement and sometimes actions of people in an environment. Our most recent post looked at what cellphone data revealed about who attended the Obama Inauguration in January. Recently we spoke to Andrea Vaccari, a research associate at the lab.

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Corsair Obsidian Series 800D PC chassis revealed

admin — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:02:37 +0000

Corsair revealed their very first PC chassis today at Computex. It’s called the Obsidian Series 800D and it can support a full tower that can hold 5 5.25-inch hard drives and 6 3.5-inch hard drives all within its steel frame. The chassis itself is finished in matte black and has a brushed aluminum faceplate. There’s support for ATX, Extended ATX and micro ATX as well as hot-swappable SATA bays in the chassis’ tool-less frame.

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Sony Ericsson Yari reviewed: gesture gaming surprisingly playable

admin — Sun, 31 May 2009 00:37:20 +0000

Sony Ericsson’s Yari motion-gaming handset only made its official debut last night, but already GSMArena have posted their review of the 5-megapixel slider. As you might expect, it’s the special movement-tracking gaming that prompts the biggest smiles, but there’s still some love spared for the 5-megapixel camera with autofocus. The camera produces decent pictures – there’s at least one sample here - but video recording is still limited to QVGA 30fps. There’s no Xenon flash, either, and while the camera will geo-tag and use Smile Detection, Sony Ericsson have left out BestPic. The NetFront browser performs reasonably, though there’s no streaming Flash video support, and the gaming works well within the limits of a cellphone. We still wonder whether people will take to motion gaming on a phone as they did on the Wii; it’ll take more than the paltry two titles Sony Ericsson preload onto the Yari to convince us. In the end, though, despite a screen that could do with being larger, and that frustrating video recording limit, the Yari rates well. Want to see the Yari in action? Check out our hands-on video demo and gallery from the launch event yesterday. It’s expected to reach the market in Q4 2009. Relevant Entries on SlashGear Sony Ericsson Yari and Aino hands-on [Video] Sony Ericsson Yari with motion-sensitive gaming PSP Phone concept, I think I like this one the best Sony PSP phone in works as SE partnership weakens, say analysts Sony Ericsson Satio hands-on [Video]

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Seagate Showcase DVR Storage Expander 1TB review

admin — Mon, 25 May 2009 16:39:29 +0000

As more and more Digital Video Recorders (DVRs) offer the choice of recording in high-definition, and more consumers decide to prioritize picture quality, the standard storage in most models simply can’t keep up. Into that fray steps the DVR Expander, a straightforward way of adding recording capacity; today it’s the turn of the Seagate Showcase DVR Storage Expander , a full 1TB of storage. Like other DVR Expanders we’ve reviewed, setup is deliberately easy. Seagate supply the Showcase unit itself- a 2.5 x 6.0 x 8.0 inch box – together with a stand for positioning it vertically, an A/C power adapter, quick-start guide and either a 1m USB or 1m eSATA cable, depending on which model you’ve bought. 500GB and 1TB versions are available, with either USB 2.0 or eSATA connections to suit different models of DVR. Plug in the power, connect the Showcase to your DVR, and turn it on; when you turn your DVR back on, on-screen you’ll see a prompt to format the new drive. Once that’s completed, most DVRs will treat the new storage as an extension of their internal capacity, switching from one to the other as they fill up and as old files are deleted. Seagate suggest you’ll have enough room for up to 200hrs of HD content or 1,000hrs of SD content. That will obviously depend on the settings of your DVR, but the Showcase is certainly much easier – and warranty friendly – than opening up the recorder itself and swapping in a larger drive. The Showcase isn’t silent but it was generally quieter in use than the DVRs we tested it with; if you’re actually watching something then you’re unlikely to notice the Seagate in operation. As you might expect, the Showcase also works with Windows and Mac OS X computers, showing up as an external drive. Don’t expect to be able to readily play files recorded with your DVR, though, as different models have different, often modified formats. Similarly, there’s no way to load up the Showcase with downloaded video and play it back through your DVR; each time you connect up the drive, it needs to be formated in order for the DVR to recognize it.

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Rogers HTC Dream review

admin — Sun, 24 May 2009 17:48:20 +0000

So by now you’ve probably seen that our Rogers HTC Dream demo unit recently arrived in a locked safe and are wondering why such a fuss has been made over a device that has been for sale in the US from T-Mobile since October of 2008. While the device is physically the same of course, there are quite a few differences compared to the stock Android OS and it really took us by surprise. Want to know more? Grab a coffee, slip on your spectacles and a hit the jump for the review.

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Schwinn Tailwind electric bike review

admin — Sat, 23 May 2009 03:54:26 +0000

Schwinn’s Tailwind electric bike — which has been available for just a few months — has been sitting in our apartment since post CES, waiting for the New York weather to shape up enough for us to give it a fair spin. Well, it’s been beautiful recently, so the pedal-assist bike has been taken for several spins on our backyard BMX trail to see what kind of dust we could raise together. The bike is a retro, hulking, 58 pound package, with a Toshiba SCiB Quick Charge Plug n’ Drive ( SCiB ) battery saddled onto the back for about 30 miles of assistance. It’s an expensive (about $3,200) piece of eco-friendly transportation, to be sure.

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Lenovo IdeaCentre A600 review roundup

admin — Fri, 22 May 2009 00:24:13 +0000

We expected these to launch sometime in late March or early April , but it looks like Lenovo’s IdeaCentre A600 is just now started to roll out, and along with it a handful of reviews. There seems to be a consensus that this all-in-one’s a really good bang for the buck, especially with the TV tuner and somewhat useful remote / gyroscope controller / VoIP handset. Performance-wise, the Intel Core 2 Duo / ATI Mobility Radio HD3650 powered device is good but nothing worth writing home about. Boing Boing Gadgets suggests it won’t match the latest iMac at gaming. While …

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Philips SPC1330NC webcam reviewed: high quality but not exactly high speed

admin — Thu, 21 May 2009 23:01:24 +0000

If you're still Skyping in VGA you need to get with the times, brotherman. Two megapixel webcams are where its at, and according to the review at Register Hardware , the