Monthly Archives: January 2011
HP – Photosmart Premium CN503b
What do you call an all-in-one printer with something like an iPhone strapped to the front? The HP Photosmart Premium CN503b, as it happens – and it comes complete with a 4.2in full-colour, internet-enabled touchscreen display. With even the most basic models offering high speeds, decent quality and features like duplexing and photo printing, home…
Bongfish – Harms Way
Conventionally, the wheels on the bus go round and round. In Harms Way, they get shot, punctured or blown off by a cluster of landmines. This is no traditional racing game, but a team-based driving and shooter hybrid – an intriguing combination. Guns and gearsCreator Justin Carpenter describes Harms Way as a cross between Burnout…
Android app round-up: My Tracks, Pulse, CamCard Lite, Beautiful Widgets, Sketchbook, Chess Free
This month we’ve been burning off those extra Christmas pounds, keeping up to date with RSS in a visually interesting way, making the most of business cards, tweaking our smartphone’s user interface, doing some drawing and brushing up our chess skills – all with the help of Google Android apps. MyTracksIf your January plans include…
Canon – PIXMA MG6150
We recently looked at the Canon’s lower-end PIXMA MG5150 which provided a number of welcome surprises and offered well above average print and photo quality for its measly £74 price tag. Now it’s the turn of its big sister in the MG family, the MG6150. Glossy appearanceSuperficially the two machines have much in common. Like…
BBC – Doctor Who Adventure Games: Shadows Of The Vashta Narada
We know it’s a show about time travel, but we felt like we’d slipped back a few years when we loaded up the BBC’s latest Doctor Who Adventures release, Shadows Of The Vashta Narada. But there’s a lot we can forgive about it because once more, for UK residents, the game is available to download…
Creative – HQ-1450 Lightweight Headphones
A solid half-way house between full-on headphones and in-ear earphones, Creative’s new HQ-1450 headset is a slim, lightweight affair. But that doesn’t mean it lacks welly, in spite of its budget price. Slim and lightweightFirst things first. Once you’ve removed the HQ-1450 from its blister packaging and connected it up (easily done, as you’d expect),…
Palm – Pre 2
Once upon a time Palm was at the forefront of smartphone technology. And with the Pre 2 it still is – at least, as far as operating system and user interface are concerned. But the new Pre 2 snuck out of the traps rather than being launched with a big fanfare – and with no…
ZOMM – Wireless leash
Losing or misplacing a smartphone can have considerable financial and personal implications. ZOMM’s award-winning ‘wireless leash’ claims to solve this problem by tethering itself to your phone via Bluetooth and sounding an alarm if they go walkies. Personal phone alarmThe ZOMM is a small, keyring-sized device that comes with keyring and belt attachments. It includes…
HTC – HD7
Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 operating system is available on a number of smartphones, each one attempting to offer something a bit different from the rest. Where the HTC HD 7 is concerned, the differences are clear. This handset has the largest screen of any Windows Phone 7 smartphone, offers 16GB of storage where most Windows…
Focus Multimedia – House M.D.
It’s a bit of a puzzle for a games developer, trying to work out how to incorporate the acid sarcasm of Hugh Laurie’s Dr Gregory House into a computer game. That was the challenge that faced Legacy Interactive when it nabbed the licence to one of America’s biggest hit dramas of recent times. Sadly, it’s…