If Apple is looking for help with their iPhone 4 antennas, they could do worse than call on Anandtech. Faced with ongoing confusion over the signal strength issue, together with Apple's claims that the smartphone has the best antenna performance of an iPhone to-date, they managed to hack their iPhone 4 to show signal strength in dB rather than generic bars.
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Mac mini 2010 review
Apple’s Mac mini was always the compact computer with a few frustrations. Perfectly scaled for doing duty as your HTPC, the absence of a native HDMI port meant hooking the Mac mini up in your living room was never quite as easy as we’d like to expect from Apple. Now, with a slick unibody refresh, more media-friendly specs and a reworked I/O selection, the new Mac mini looks set to take on SFF PCs for the home entertainment crown. Check out the full SlashGear review after the cut.
Sharp NetWalker PC-T1 gets reviewed: Only niche appeal
Back when it was officially announced, we described Sharp's NetWalker PC-T1 slate as the epitome of a niche device, and sadly Pocketables' review hasn't done anything to change our opinion. The Linux-based 5-inch MID does several things right - its ostensibly chunky casing turning out to fit nicely into the hands, and some intuitively placed hardware controls like an optical trackpad - but in the end sluggish performance spoils the show.
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Pandigital Novel fails to impress: slow, broken WiFi and poor ereader app
Considering picking up a Pandigital Novel ereader now that they're available at Kohl's? Judging by ebook-afficianado Nate's first-impressions, you might do better to wait a while before dropping your cash; he's found the Novel to be slow, broken in its WiFi support and significantly lacking in flexibility.
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Air Display for iPad reviewed: make your iPad a secondary monitor
Graphic designers, musicians and IM-addicts already know how useful a secondary sub-display can be, and now iPad owners can find out the same. Air Display, fresh to the App Store, is Avatron's $9.99 answer to extending your OS X screen across to your iPad via a WiFi connection, and we've just reviewed it over at Everything iPad.
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GenUpload: Two weeks with KIN
A few weeks back, I wrote my first impressions of Microsoft’s new KIN phones, and their appeal specifically to the different way teenagers use cellphones. But understanding the intent of the KIN and a few hours of testing wasn’t really enough to get a real picture of how well it would actually work as a phone for teenagers. So, for two weeks, I shelved my featurephone and iPod Touch, and went with just a KIN (in this case, the KIN 2).
HP Compaq Airlife 100 gets reviewed: too flawed for mainstream
Smartbooks may not have breached the market at the pace ARM hoped for, but even with that delay the first models in the wild are getting mixed reviews. Over at Carrypad our old friend Steve "Chippy" Paine has been putting the Airlife 100 through its paces since unboxing it earlier this week, and while it's nowhere near perfect there are some real strengths, not least lengthy battery life even when always connected to a 3G network.
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Verizon LG Ally Gets Reviewed by Android Community
There new LG Ally Android-based handset is about to hit store shelves, so we wanted to bring to your attention the review Android Community have just posted over there on their site. There's plenty of text there, breaking down the main features of the new Android 2.1 handset, but they also made sure to include plenty of pictures of the device, too. But, does the LG Ally make the wait worthwhile? Or has LG missed the mark with the device?
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Sony NEX-5 review round-up
Sony's two new NEX-5 and NEX-3 digital cameras may only have officially made their debut today, but the first reviews and previews are already in. Overall, the judgement seems positive: the two interchangeable-lens cameras are compact, certainly smaller than a regular DSLR, and image quality seems to have surprised many with just how impressive it is. "For a small camera to output ISO 3,200 images that look amazing when printed at 13x19 inches: that's worth noticing" say Imaging Resource, for instance.
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Audiophile-friendly Nationite S:Flo2 gets reviewed
Audiophile-PMPs are a pretty rare breed, especially if you don't want to empty your entire bank account to acquire one, and so the Nationite S:Flo2 has plenty riding on it. Priced from $119.50 (albeit only netting you a mere 2GB of storage), the S:Flo2's selling point isn't its touchscreen, video capabilities or games, but its excellent audio quality. Joker of the MP4Nation forums has reviewed the S:Flo2, and it turns out you really don't need to spend crazy money to get crazy-good sound.
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Element Case Joule iPad Stand Review
It’s been said that Apple accessories are a licence to print money, and with Element CASE’s Joule iPad Stand coming in at $129 it looks like a pretty good example of that. Can a way to prop up your iPad – even if it’s indecently sleek and nicely machined – really be worth a quarter of the cost of an iPad itself? Check out the SlashGear review after the cut.
JooJoo update goes OTA; tablet improved but still buggy
Fusion Garage has confirmed that the promised JooJoo software update has been released OTA to existing owners. Tipped to address UI problems and bring full-screen Flash video playback to the iPad-alternative, the new firmware has also been loaded onto demo JooJoo units Fusion Garage have been toting for their European roll-out; unfortunately, judging by some hands-on impressions with the updated unit, it's still not perfect.
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