Monthly Archives: November 2006
Samsung – SGH-i320
If you want a Windows Mobile Smartphone you’ve been pretty much tied to candybar-style handsets up until now. Samsung changes that, having introduced the SGH-i320, a Windows Mobile Smartphone with a small keyboard and a wide format screen. Neither feature is exactly a revolution for a Smartphone, but they are for this particular operating system….
HP – Photosmart A618
HP’s first round of dedicated photo printers – the small, toaster-shaped ones you can print from directly using your camera – have been a big success, so it’s hardly surprising that the company would want to refresh the format. There aren’t many innovations possible in this product type, but HP has probably chosen the best…
HTC – S310
HTC has been making Windows Mobile devices – both Smartphones and Pocket PCs – for a long time, but it was only earlier this year that the company decided to strike out and use its own name as a brand. Before that, HTC had delivered devices to network operators and to PDA sellers such as…
Magix – Movie Edit Pro 11 Plus
Think of entry-level video editing and the products that spring to mind are probably Adobe Premiere Elements or Ulead VideoStudio, but there should be another on your shortlist; Magix Movie Edit Pro 11 Plus. As the number suggests, this is a mature product, but isn’t as well known in the UK as it is in…
Canon – PIXMA MP830
An all-in-one device at nearly £230 doesn’t look great value, when they start at around £50. At over four times the entry-level price, you’d expect some extras and, fortunately, Canon’s PIXMA MP830 has plenty to offer. It’s a big, robust machine, obviously designed for general office use, and its feature list includes duplex printing, duplex…
Gigabyte – NX73G256D-RH
Graphics card manufacturers employ every trick in the book to reduce the cost of their budget graphics cards and the Gigabyte NX73G256D-RH is a good case in point. Across the box it states in large print that the graphics chip is a GeForce 7300GS and it mentions PCI-Express, DirectX 9.0c, DVI-I, HDTV and ‘Windows Vista…
Epson – Stylus D88 Plus
The D88 and the slightly cheaper D78 are Epson’s latest, four-colour, general purpose inkjet printers aimed at the home user, both for domestic and home-based business needs. The D88 Plus is a squat, though relatively compact, silver and black printer with a traditional upright paper feeder at the back, and it weighs in at a…
Serif – PhotoPlus 11
Whatever your view on its software, you have to at least admire Serif’s business model. One of the few proponents of productivity software that isn’t owned in some form by a larger US-based software company, Serif relies less on retail stores than many of its peers. Instead, it’s willing to bank on word of mouth…
Nintendo – Wii
A bit of an odd review, this one, and we should ‘fess up at the start. We’ve not had a Nintendo Wii to review on our own testbed. Instead, we were invited to a house in the middle of London that Nintendo has kitted out with its brave new hope. The following is based on…
Deep Silver – Secret Files: Tunguska
You can’t beat a good conspiracy theory. Did you know that Tony Blair is from an ancient bloodline of alien lizard creatures? Presumably, Cherie’s from a similar race with a crocodile bent, which would explain the toothy grin. All world leaders are blatantly aliens, anyway; they certainly talk in a different language in which it’s…