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Toshiba mini NB205-N325BL
Editors' note: This review is part of our 2009 Retail Laptop and Desktop Holiday Roundup, which covers specific fixed configurations of popular systems found in retail stores.While we've never been particularly enamored of the Toshiba NB205's awkward battery and terrible audio or its oddly spaced keyboard, this $399 retail configuration...
Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Keyboards, Toshiba NB205, netbook, Toshiba Corp.
Product reviews 2009-12-01
Zoom Q3
Photo gallery:Zoom Q3The advent of dedicated, pocket-size video cameras, popularized by Flip, Kodak, and Creative, brought a welcome change from the bulky tape recorders of the past. Most users praise the simple operation and basic features of this new breed of video cameras, but in some cases, the limitations can...
Tags: Corporate communications, Zoom Q3, video
Product reviews 2009-11-30
Garmin Nuvi 1690
Garmin made a pretty big splash last year when it debuted the Nuvi 880, its first-ever Internet-connected portable navigation device PND featuring MSN Direct data service. With MSN Direct scheduled to go offline in the very near future, Garmin had to create something to fill this void, so it partnered...
Tags: Garmin Nuvi, Garmin Ltd., data service, portable navigation device, suction-cup, cradle
Product reviews 2009-11-24
Samsung Convoy SCH-U640 (Verizon Wireless)
Photo gallery:Samsung ConvoyEditors' note: This review originally reported that the Convoy does not support Verizon's push-to-talk network. In fact, the phone does support the service. We apologize for the error.Hot on the rugged heels of the Motorola Barrage comes an equally durable phone for Verizon Wireless called the Samsung Convoy....
Tags: Verizon Wireless, keypad button, Samsung Convoy, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
Product reviews 2009-11-20
TomTom Car Kit for iPhone
Unveiled alongside its turn-by-turn navigation app for iPhone at WWDC 2009, TomTom's Car Kit for iPhone is finally available for purchase. Offering a bit more than just a way to hold your iPhone steady while driving, the Car Kit also has a GPS receiver built-in, a car charger, and...
Tags: Smart phones, GPS, Apple iPhone, TomTom, car, Car Kit, bracket
Product reviews 2009-11-19
Zvox Z-Base 575
Photo gallery:Zvox Z-Base 575Sound bars feel like they've been around forever now, but they're still a relatively new product; consider that the groundbreaking Yamaha YSP-1 debuted back at CES 2005. Since then, the exterior design of the units hasn't changed much, with the vast majority still consisting of a long...
Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Zvox Z-Base 575, HDTV, TV
Product reviews 2009-11-16
Boston Acoustics Duo-i plus
Editors' note: The Boston Acoustics Duo-i Plus is nearly identical to the Horizon Duo-i we reviewed a year ago. Not a lot has changed since then aside from the addition of full support for iPhone playback. While the Horizon Duo-i worked with the iPhone, the device had...
Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Boston Acoustics Inc., Apple iPod
Product reviews 2009-11-13
Zvox Z-Base 525
Photo gallery:Zvox Z-Base 525Surround sound and its accouterments tend to dominate a living room, requiring an AV receiver, several speakers, stands, and wires to make the whole thing work. That's why many people choose to skip surround sound, opting instead for the tinny acoustics of their TV speakers. Single-speaker solutions...
Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Zvox Z-Base 525, speaker, HDTV, TV
Product reviews 2009-11-11
Magellan RoadMate 1470
Design The RoadMate 1470 doesn't deviate from the tried and true portable navigation device form factor. Measuring 3.3 inches by 5.2 inches by 7 inches, the RoadMate's thinness easily makes this unit one of the most pocketable devices in its class. Like nearly all PNDs, the majority of the RoadMate's...
Tags: Magellan RoadMate, charger, suction-cup, mini-USB
Product reviews 2009-11-10
Sony KDL-46VE5
Photo gallery: Sony KDL-VE5 seriesIn case you haven't noticed, "green" is big business. One way for HDTV makers to cash in on the public's craving for efficiency is to label a TV "eco-friendly." Sony's KDL-VE5 series does just that, but unlike a lot of so-called green electronics, this...
Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Sony KDL-VE5, Sony Corp., TV
Product reviews 2009-11-06
Toshiba Satellite A505-S6980
You can't argue with a large-screen, value-priced laptop when it delivers good performance, and looks nice to boot. We appreciated the Toshiba Satellite A505-S6960 when we reviewed it in our 2009 back-to-school retail roundup, liking its affordability, large screen, strong battery life, and excellent-sounding speakers. Just a few months later,...
Tags: Keyboards, Microsoft Windows 7, Notebooks, Processors, Toshiba Corp., keyboard, laptop computer, Toshiba Satellite
Product reviews 2009-11-04
LivePVR Professional Call & Meeting Recorder (Mobile)
LivePVR Professional Recorder Windows Mobile Professional LivePVR Professional is a application which can automatically and silently record Phone calls, Meeting notes,Voice Mail, Audio notes in the background and save them organized in folders named with the respective information. Forexample, for Phone Calls and Voice Mail messages, the file names will...
Tags: Phone, Caller ID, Recorder, Mobile, File, Desktop Application, Files
Software downloads 2009-11-01
Onkyo SKS-HT870
Onkyo is known for having speaker expertise, even though it's not primarily a speaker company. That's because of Onkyo's success selling home-theater-in-a-box systems HTIBs, which combine a speaker system and an AV receiver in a single box, taking some of the confusion out of putting together your own system. The...
Tags: center channel, speaker, Onkyo
Product reviews 2009-10-30
2010 Infiniti QX56
Photo gallery:2010 Infiniti QX56Compared with sporting and agile cars such as the Infiniti G37 and FX50, the 2010 Infiniti QX56 is an odd throwback, a journey into yesteryear before the first hybrids strode the earth. Built on a truck frame, it rides like a railway car. The engine, big enough...
Tags: Infiniti QX56
Product reviews 2009-10-30
Samsung Caliber (U.S. Cellular)
We've seen plenty of Samsung touch-screen handsets come our way, but not many of them make it to U.S. Cellular, a regional carrier based in Chicago. The only one so far has been the Samsung Delve, which made it to the carrier's lineup late last year. Now another one has...
Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, U.S. Cellular, Samsung Caliber, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
Product reviews 2009-10-29
Onkyo HT-S7200
Photo gallery:Onkyo HT-S7200"True" home theater fans may look down on home-theater-in-a-box systems, but sometimes that elitist attitude is unwarranted. The Onkyo HT-S7200 may technically be an HTIB, but that's just because it comes in a giant box; the system is composed of two separate components, the SKS-HT870 7.1 speaker package...
Tags: speaker, Onkyo HT-S7200, Onkyo, HTIB
Product reviews 2009-10-27
Nokia 2705 Shade - black (Verizon Wireless)
Photo gallery:Nokia ShadeMost of Nokia's recent cell phones for the U.S. market haven't been too exciting. Sure, the company gave us the odd Nokia Twist last month, but we're more likely to see functional handsets like AT&T's Nokia Mural 6750. Verizon's new Nokia Shade 2705 certainly is part of that...
Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Verizon Wireless, Nokia Corp., phone
Product reviews 2009-10-27
Vizio VF551XVT
Photo gallery: Vizio VF551XVTWe're willing to bet that when Vizio announced the VF551XVT back in January, plenty of savvy HDTV bargain hunters marked down "June" as the time they'd buy this 55-inch LED-based LCD. Then the company pushed its release back to September. Then it announced that the...
Tags: Monitors & displays, Cable, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Vizio VF551XVT, Vizio
Product reviews 2009-10-23
Samsung Moment (Sprint)
In case you haven't noticed, the Google Android dam has broken. For almost a year HTC was the only manufacturer to offer handsets with the operating system, but in the past month, Motorola and Samsung almost fell over each other to offer Android smartphones of their own. Moto gave us...
Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, slider mechanism, Sprint Communications, Samsung Moment, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
Product reviews 2009-10-22
Tritton AX900
Among all the video game accessories available today, no other market seems to be expanding as rapidly as the video game headset. With most current-generation consoles able to produce 5.1 surround sound, finding a headset solution to handle such a request is now much easier than before. We've tested a...
Tags: Games, Tritton Technologies, headphone, headset
Product reviews 2009-10-22
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