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- Philips 42PFL5603D
- At the Consumer Electronics Show this year we selected the Philips 42PFL5603D as the best product overall because it addressed one big issue with today's flat-panel HDTVs: power consumption. Now that we've tested the "Eco TV," we can confirm that it does indeed use less power than any flat TV...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Philips 42PFL5603D, Philips Electronics N.V., Eco TV, backlight, TV
- Product reviews 2008-05-30
- iPod nano owners complain of high-pitched whining noise
- Back in September a thread was started on the Apple support forum by an iPod nano owner who wanted to know if "a high-pitched whine or buzz that is audible if you hold it close to your ear" is normal for the media player. The answer now seems that...
- Tags: Gadgets, Apple, Apple iPod
- Blog posts 2007-01-02
- JVC LT-32X787
- The most popular size for wide-screen LCD TVs right now is 32 inches diagonal, perhaps because it closely matches the screen real estate of 27-inch, non-wide-screen CRT TVs that many people want to replace. These sets come in numerous prices, brands, and feature sets, and JVC's LT-32X787, with a street...
- Tags: TVs, Monitors & displays, TV & Home Theater, JVC LT-32X787, JVC
- Product reviews 2006-06-06
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- Rich people can hang $4,000 IntelliTunes digital jukebox on their walls
- This one may be just for the Lehman Brothers and AIG execs of the world, because I'm not sure anyone else can afford Game Cabinets' new $3,995 Intellitunes digital jukebox in this economy. What do you get for all that money? The wall-mountable unit sports two separate...
- Tags: Jukebox, Wall, Intellitunes, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Pantech C610 (AT&T)
- Pantech doesn't normally come to mind when we think of high-end feature phones, simply because most Pantech handsets we review are of the lower-end, basic variety. (See the Pantech Breeze, for example.) Pantech surprises us every once in awhile, though, as it did with the Pantech C610. At first...
- Tags: Cellular phones, AT&T Corp., Pantech C610, Pantech
- Product reviews 2008-10-06
- Velocity 103
- We've seen plenty of Windows Mobile devices in our day, and at times they all start to blur together--same story, just different packaging. However, back at CTIA Spring 2008, a new company called Velocity Mobile caught our eye, impressing us with a fresh approach to the user interface. Recognizing that...
- Tags: Smart phones, Keyboards, Cellular phones, Monitors & displays, Handhelds, Velocity, Velocity 103, High Tech Computer Corp., HTC Touch
- Product reviews 2008-10-03
- Amazon, open the Kindle before Apple eats your lunch!
- Amazon, open the Kindle before Apple eats your lunch!The lack of features is a featureThe Kindle is actually eating Apple's lunch. By offering no features other than the ability to read books, the Kindle is doing what Apple typically does best: offer fewer features at a greater price. The Kindle...
- Tags: E-books, Corporate communications, Games, Monitors & displays, Amazon.com Inc., E-Ink, lunch, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- Tk Torch (zip)
- Do you find yourself using your smartphone or PDA as a torch? This little app utilises the entire screen for maximum brightness and lets you choose how long to keep the backlight on, over-riding the built in limit of 3 minutes auto off. You can also adjust the brightness and...
- Tags: Loftcat, Smart Phones, PDAs, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-10-01
- Samsung SyncMaster T240HD
- The 24-inch Samsung SyncMaster T240HD is a HDTV disguised as a $499 monitor. The OSD menu design is taken directly from the menus used in Samsung's HDTVs. It has tons of connection options--all of which face toward the back, not down as they do with most monitors--including two HDMI ports...
- Tags: Monitors & displays, Corporate communications, TVs, TV & Home Theater, display, bezel, footstand, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Samsung Syncmaster, Samsung SyncMaster T240HD, OSD, connection option
- Product reviews 2008-09-26
- Motorola i365 - black (Nextel)
- If there ever was a Nextel phone, the Motorola i365 would be it. Big, burly, and bulky, the i365 looks as if it could withstand just about anything. Make no mistake: this is a serious phone for making voice and push-to-talk PTT calls. There's no camera or music player, and...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Motorola Inc., I365, phone, Nextel Communications Inc., Motorola i365
- Product reviews 2008-09-25
- Seeing the light: Dell makes major commitment to LED displays
- Seeing the light: Dell makes major commitment to LED displaysWhat's the life-expectancy of an LED display?Is it expected to be better or worse than an LCD display? After all, the two are unlikely to be exactly the same, and if it's worse then surely the energy cost of manufacturing extra...
- Tags: Engineering, tree-hugger, light-emitting diode, LED DISPLAY, DELL Makes, global warming, Dell Computer Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-25
- Motorola Renegade V950 (Sprint)
- Photo gallery:Motorola V950The Motorola V950 is the fifth QChat phone that Sprint has released this year. We've seen the Sanyo Pro 200, the Sanyo Pro 700, the LG LX400, and the Samsung Z400, and now we come back to the company that pioneered push-to-talk PTT in the first place ....
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, phone, Renegade V950, Motorola V950, PTT, Motorola Inc., rubber, Sprint Communications
- Product reviews 2008-09-22
- Virgin Mobile Shuttle - red
- While we were fans of Helio handsets like the Ocean and the Kickflip, we knew that Helio as a company was struggling. Indeed, Helio was shopping around for a buyer, and in late June, Virgin Mobile stepped up to buy the fledgling MVNO for $39 million. There were many questions...
- Tags: Cellular phones, Shuttle, Virgin Mobile, Helio, handset
- Product reviews 2008-09-19
- Samsung LN-46A950
- We've mentioned before that when it comes to black-level performance, the most-important factor in home theater image quality, you get what you pay for. Samsung's 46-inch LN46A950 is just more proof. This flat-panel LCD represents the company's second generation to offer a backlight based on cutting-edge LED (light-emitting diode) technology,...
- Tags: Engineering, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Monitors & displays, Overall IT, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., light-emitting diode
- Product reviews 2008-09-10
- Apple's iPod range
- Apple's iPod rangeApple's iPod rangeAt what point is thin too thin? The ipod touch was already fairly thin but comfortable, the thinner model at what point does it break? Sometimes I wear mine on my hip and other times on my arm. Now if its on my...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Engineering, Archos 605, Apple iPod, Apple Inc., battery, Apple iPod range
- Discussion threads 2008-09-09
- Samsung 2693HM
- The Samsung SyncMaster 2693HM is a 25.5-inch LCD monitor that can be found online for as little as $444. It boasts a pleasing aesthetic, good performance, especially for movies, in the warm preset, and includes 360-degree rotation and 90-degree pivoting. It's hampered by a flimsy-feeling stand, a bad lower viewing...
- Tags: Monitors & displays, Performance management, bezel, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., display, neck, LCD
- Product reviews 2008-09-08
- Verizon Wireless Blitz
- Photo gallery:Verizon Wireless BlitzThanks to the popularity of text messaging, cell phones with QWERTY keyboards aren't confined to just smartphones anymore. Following the footsteps of handsets like the LG Rumor, the Verizon Wireless Blitz is what the industry is calling a messaging phone--a phone with a full QWERTY keyboard without...
- Tags: Instant messaging, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, number key, slider mechanism, phone, messaging, Qwerty-keyboard, Verizon Wireless
- Product reviews 2008-09-03
- Peek
- Here's the Peek pitch: there are those of us who are dependent on e-mail, but don't want to get a smartphone--maybe because of pricing, or because smartphones can be pretty complicated for first-time users. So forget the BlackBerry, the Treo, and the iPhone; the people behind Peek wanted to introduce...
- Tags: Handhelds, e-mail
- Product reviews 2008-08-28
- Samsung PN50A650
- Samsung makes so many different varieties of flat-panel HDTVs, sometimes it's difficult to keep up. This particular plasma, the 50-inch PN50A650, was released in the spring of 2008 right around the same time as the slightly less expensive PN50A550, which we reviewed way back then. We really like both of...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Monitors & displays, more-expensive version, Overall IT, redesign, Samsung PN50A650, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., plasma, HDTV, TV
- Product reviews 2008-08-27
- Dell UltraSharp 3008WFP
- The $2,000 Dell UltraSharp 3008WFP is a beautiful-looking display with a ton of features. Because of its 117 percent NTSC color gamut, however, we encountered many more color problems than we expected during DVD and Blu-ray playback. Be prepared to do a lot of color tweaking if you plan to...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Dell UltraSharp, display, Dell UltraSharp 3008WFP
- Product reviews 2008-08-25
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