With the Kindle, Amazon seems to have a pretty tight hold on ebook readers, having created an attractive and desirable – yet also affordable – product in a market that until then hadn’t really been catching people’s attention. This has led to the rest of the market to up its game – no bad thing Full Article…
It feels like a long time since the Sony Walkman was the king of portable music, with the Apple iPod stealing its thunder. The Sony Walkman NWZ-B173 isn’t going to revolutionise the MP3 player market, but it’s a decent budget player with a few nice features. A charge of just three minutes provides 90 minutes’ Full Article…
Introduction The latest batch of Amazon Kindle ebook readers has been a bit slow to filter out to the UK. We got the new £89 Kindle fast enough, but the Kindle Fire has been totally absent anywhere outside the US since its launch, and it’s only now that the Kindle Touch and Kindle Touch 3G Full Article…
Overview and features What do you want from a modern car sat nav? How big should the screen be? These are questions that the Navman Panoramic drives home as you eye up its attention-grabbing 7-inch display, along with: will this even fit in my car? Don’t worry on the last one – thanks to an Full Article…
The Conran Audio iPod Dock is a stylish speaker set and is very versatile. As well as a 30-pin dock that holds your iPhone or iPod in portrait or landscape orientation, there’s a 3.5mm AUX-in and stereo RCA ports for other audio devices. A USB socket connects to your Mac to sync a docked iOS Full Article…
If you have an iPhone or an iPod then there is a good chance that you have a lot of pictures and movies stored on them. The MiLi Power Pico Projector enables you to show them off. This connects to your iOS device and throws the images onto your wall, creating a ‘screen’ of up Full Article…
We’ve all been there – you’re away from a power supply but need to make or receive an important phone call and the battery dies. It seems like the more complex smartphones get, the shorter their battery life is. The iLuv iBA200 portable USB rechargeable battery kit attempts to help fix or avoid these situations. Full Article…
Overview The Amazon Kindle 4 (aka Kindle 4th Gen, Kindle Touchless or just plain Kindle) was announced as a sidenote to the colour Kindle Fire and touch-enabled Kindle Touch. But in many ways it was the most significant of the three, because of its extraordinary price. The UK remains the poor cousin to the US Full Article…
Overview, features and performance The very notion of TomTom turning to Jeremy Clarkson for in-car navigation is obviously a polarising decision. This surprisingly compact package may represent perfect timing for the Christmas rush, but be warned: Clarkson isn’t for everyone, even in controlled bursts. If you’ve got any doubts at all about whether the TomTom Full Article…
Overview We’re seeing an ideological battle happening in ebook land. On one hand you have the e-ink advocates, who argue that anything but e-ink is hopeless for ebook reading, and that ebook readers should do one thing really, really well. On the other, you’ve got the LCD fans, who reckon that there’s more to life Full Article…
Overview For a while it was looking as if Amazon had the UK ebook market to itself: while rival booksellers offered a range of ebook readers from the likes of Elonex and Sony, nobody offered the soup-to-nuts service of Amazon’s Kindle, store and associated apps. Now, though, Amazon UK has a serious rival in the Full Article…
Overview If it’s vaguely tablet-shaped, there’s a good chance that Elonex makes it: the firm makes 10-inch and 7-inch Android tablets with capacitive touchscreens, cut-price seven-inchers with resistive screens, portable media players, photo frames, weather stations and ebook readers. In ebooks it makes two kinds of devices: e-ink readers such as the £99 621EB, and Full Article…
Overview The Sony Reader PRS-T1 Wi-Fi is a light and thin ebook reader that doesn’t quite measure up to the competition. If the only two specifications you care about are the weight (167 grams) or the thickness (9.5mm) then this might be your best option. However, if you care about an accessible interface, extra features Full Article…
Overview and features The most amazing thing about Apple’s latest iPod touch is its colour. It’s available in both black and white. No, we’re not being glib – we mean it! Apart from the colour change there’s no difference here between the specs of the iPod touch 4th Generation from 2010, and this latest refresh. Full Article…
Panasonic KX-FP205 Fax Copier With the ability to make up to 20 multiple copies1, as well as enlarge, reduce and collate, this unit is not just a fax machine, but a true home/life office command center. See Who’s Calling at a Glance This fax machine is Caller ID2 compatible so you can see who’s calling Full Article…