Tag Archive for 'review'
In a world of $250 netbooks and credit crunch, is there a place for a high-end ultraportable that, in its peak configuration, costs $4,345? That’s the question Sony - and plenty of others - are asking about the new Vaio TT, its latest luxury notebook. A carbon fiber chassis, WWAN, Blu-ray and RAID options all [...]
Rarely do we receive so many questions, so many comments and demands over an upcoming review. In the few days since our HTC Touch HD unboxing and hands-on video demo, the messages have been flooding in. Today, we’ll try to answer those questions - and, of course, the biggest question of them all: have HTC [...]
Let’s talk mail. No, not email, nothing so throwaway. I’m talking letters - proper letters, delivered to your postbox and preferably handwritten with a proper ink pen. Letters like that deserve some ceremony in their opening, and thankfully here’s just the letter opener for the task. Purisme’s carbon-fiber letter opener, designed by Mario Zeppetzauer, is [...]
SlashGear reader Tony Reilly offered to preview the upcoming New Xbox Experience update for us, Microsoft’s update to the Xbox 360 GUI which will launch on November 19th.
The New Xbox Experience (NXE), unleashed on the public on November 19th, is the mother of all dashboard updates. Those of you out there that might have been [...]
Sitting on the SlashGear test bench for the past week or so has been Gateway’s FX6800-01e PC, and boy have we wanted to tell you about it. Outwardly there’s little to suggest - beyond the color scheme, which edges on the vibrant - that the FX6800-01e is anything other than a standard Gateway machine, but [...]
Aigo’s P8860 has been one of the more interesting mobile internet devices (MIDs) we’ve been keeping track of, not least because it actually managed to move out of prototype stage and into the hands of buyers. The 800MHz Atom powered ultraportable has a 4.8-inch touchscreen and slide-out QWERTY keyboard, and runs a specially tweaked version [...]
With Windows 7 officially outed, the screenshots, video and first-impressions have been coming thick and fast. Whether you’re a media junkie, a tableteer or just wondering what your work desktop might look like after the next upgrade cycle, we’ve been gathering up all the details you need.
Hopes have been high for the Samsung NC10, with preliminary feedback tipping it for top spot in the netbook pile. After the last round of hands-on feedback we knew it could perform and that the keyboard was exemplary; now, Laptop Mag have delivered both a full review and confirmation that the NC10 may just be the best [...]
The HP Mini 1000 netbook announcement may only be a few page-scrolls away, but the hands-on opinions are already coming thick and fast. Its predecessor, the HP Mini-Note 2133, was held in high esteem, and expectations for this new, lower-priced version are big. From the sound of it HP have delivered in most areas, with [...]
Samsung’s Epix SGH-i907 has a lot riding on it. Its AT&T predecessor, the BlackJack II, was a highly regarded Windows Mobile smartphone, and the competition has only got better since then. On paper, the Epix looks pretty good: 3G HSPA, WiFi b/g, aGPS and a 2-megapixel camera; PocketNow have been testing it out to see whether [...]
