Monthly Archives: August 2008
Nokia – 1650
You shouldn’t expect too much from Nokia’s 1650. The phone costs a mere £44 SIM-free from Nokia’s online store, so it clearly falls into the lower end of any list of phones based on specifications. The dual band 1650 is proof that lower end handsets don’t have to be cheap looking or difficult to use,…
FujiFilm – FinePix S100FS
The digital revolution in photography might appear to have created two general classes of snappers: those who want to point ‘n’ click with the minimum amount of effort and the serious professionals who demand total control and flexibility over exposure, focus, contrast, etc. However, there is a third group: semi-pros, who would like more options…
Greenstreet – Art & Craft Scrapbook
A scrapbook is a collection of notes, photos and memorabilia that focuses on a particular theme or topic, and makes for pleasant reminiscent browsing on some future rainy day. Either that or it’s anything written by Danielle Steele. This offering from Greenstreet lets the user concoct his or her very own digital scrapbook. So what’s…
HP – LaserJet P4515n
If you’re running a small to medium business, or you’re just a prolific writer at home and have a number of PCs connected to your server, then for those day-to-day bulk document printing jobs you want a solid workhorse that’s going to churn out the pages at a swift rate, with the minimum of fuss…
Logitech – Pure-Fi Mobile
Music-playing mobiles are pretty much ubiquitous nowadays. Unless you are going for the really budget end of the mobile phone world, it is likely that your handset plays tunes and that it comes with its own headphones. But wandering around with headphones on isn’t always ideal. Sometimes you want to use proper speakers instead, maybe…
Chillblast – Fusion Photo OC II
As the price of digital cameras and HD camcorders continues to fall, many people are now using their home PCs to do video and photo editing – or rather trying to. There is nothing more frustrating than to start encoding your latest home movie only to find that the software is going to hog all…
O&O – Diskimage 3 Pro
Most computer users would admit to having a fairly large collection of documents, digital media and other files that would be either impossible or expensive to replace in the event of disk failure. While simple tools like Windows’ backup utilities offer limited control over organising data safety, an alternative is to look for peace of…
Asus – Lamborghini VX2SE
Its not often that a jaded old hack goes “Wow!” when opening a box, but Asus’s Lamborghini VX2SE seems to make everyone do just that, including us. Maybe it’s the bright yellow lid of our review sample (don’t worry, it’s also available in carbon fibre black) or maybe the fact that it is presented in…
Epson – B-500DN
With new business-class inkjet printers from HP and Epson, there’s a definite move to challenge the supremacy of the colour laser in the office. Epson’s B-500DN is an industrial-strength inkjet, designed to be cheaper to run and to produce better colour than toner-bound equivalents. It looks a bit as though Epson has said ‘build the…
Oki – C5950n
OKI has a range of colour laser printers in the C5000 series and, as the model number suggests, the C5950n sits at the top of that range. It’s a narrow but deep printer, thanks to its in-line LED engine, in a case with slightly old-fashioned looking curves. OKI has always used strips of high-definition LEDs…