Monthly Archives: July 2004
Fujitsu Siemens – Pocket LOOX 420
Thinner and lighter than the rest. These are terms many PDA manufacturers like to assign to their devices, and sometimes they can be misleading. But in the case of the Pocket LOOX 420 they are spot-on. It is thinner and lighter than most if not all of the competition at 11.3cm high by 7cm wide…
Sony – Clié PEG TJ37
Sony’s recently-announced decision to pull out of the PDA market in Europe and the US came as something of a surprise to many PDA users. The company has been a strong partner for PalmSource, and has driven our conceptions of what PDAs can do forward, often putting multimedia at the core. It’s good news that…
MSI – GeForce NX6800 Ultra
As you may have guessed from its name, MSI’s Geforce NX6800 Ultra is the first retail card we have seen based on Nvidia’s new high-end graphics core, the 6800 Ultra. Code-named NV40, the 6800 Ultra is the first of the new NV4x family, which offers big performance gains over the previous high-end core, the FX5950…
Hauppauge – MediaMVP
There is an emerging category of consumer electronics designed to play your ever-expanding digital media collection without you sitting in front of your computer. Some have their own storage, like the majority of MP3 players, but not the Hauppauge MediaMVP. As long as you have an Ethernet network in your house (and it’s surprising just…
Blueberry Consultants – BB FlashBack
This is one of those deceptively simple pieces of software that will find a home with people who have had to spend hours online or on the phone to technical support every time a system or program fails to perform correctly. It also has potential for creating training videos and sales presentations. BB FlashBack is…
Namco – Smash Court Tennis Pro Tournament 2
Permission to start the review off with the traditional frustration about the quality of tennis games? Splendid. Apart from Sega’s Virtua Tennis series and, if you were in a welcoming mood, Top Spin on the Xbox, you’re looking back to 1982′s Spectrum game Match Point to find a suitably good ball-whacker. But there’s also Namco’s…
XFX – GeForce FX5200 Executioner Edition
The packaging is lovely. It seems fair to start there, as XFX – née Pine – has clearly worked hard to make sure you feel like you’re getting your money’s worth here. From the slightly squashed ‘X’ shaped box (which will no doubt just about keep Microsoft’s lawyers away), to the little touches within it…