Monthly Archives: October 2011
Kinect Sports Season 2 by Microsoft on Xbox 360/Kinect
Kinect Sports Season Two unveils a fresh helping of six new sports. Well, five sports and darts, which certainly has the potential to be a motion-controlled disaste – in the event, though, it scores a veritable bullseye – but it’s set amid a collection with a few patchy areas. DartsWhile it employs the usual slightly…
Xerox Phaser 6010 colour laser printer
The Xerox Phaser 6010 colour laser printer is pitched into a touch market. For small businesses and home office users wanting to save every penny they spend on essential office equipment, there’s a wide range of choices – which means manufacturers have got to produce something really eye-catching to stand out from the herd. DesignThe…
HP ENVY 110 all-in-one printer
HP’s new ENVY 110 multifunction inkjet printer comes with a good-looking, slimline design using high grade materials, which is rare on printers – but the price tag is high. A 3.5in touchscreen is hosted on a flip-out panel that’s beautifully constructed and weighted, with an exact angle possible. It’s here that the set-up wizard begins;…
Forza Motorsport 4 on Xbox 360 by Microsoft
The BBC’s Top Gear series, as we all know, is about two great romances – the love affair between humans and automobiles, and the love affair between Jeremy Clarkson and, well, Jeremy Clarkson. It’s therefore not surprising that Clarkson has allied himself with the racing game that above all symbolises that eternal fascination between man…
Western Digital WD TV Live
Western Digital’s WD TV is a compact media-streaming box of tricks that will nestle anywhere around your television, providing a relatively cheap point of entry into the world of net TV and streaming media for those without a smart TV. It is, essentially, a new cut-down budget version of Western Digital’s Live Hub, with the…
ViewSonic V350 smartphone
ViewSonic’s V350 is a dual-SIM smartphone, designed to end the need to have separate phones for separate lives. If you’re one of those poor chumps who, when the phone rings, needs to check both pockets – one for your personal phone, one for your ‘work’ phone – this could be the handset for you. The…
Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S smartphone
Sony Ericsson is resurrecting itself from a period in the doldrums with some rather nice handsets, and the Xperia Arc S is a case in point. It’s a really good-looking phone with a large screen and plenty of power. And, as high end handsets go, its price is attractive too. Core specFrom the very start,…
Nokia Lumia 800 Windows Phone 7.5 Mango smartphone: VIDEO first look
Nokia today released the Lumia 800, its long-awaited flagship Windows Phone 7.5 ‘Mango’, and the first since striking deal to develop handsets for Microsoft’s mobile OS earlier this year. Our friends at OneMobileRing got up close and personal with the new handset when it was announced at today’s Nokia World 2011 conference in London –…
FIFA 12 Review by EA Sports on PC
Yes, summer has finally given up the ghost and autumn’s here. That means leaves clogging up the guttering, shops stocking up on Christmas trees – and EA bringing out the latest version of FIFA for all the footie aficionados who can’t afford to watch live games on Sky Sports. The problem each year for EA…