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Choosing the best operating system – Windows, Linux, MacOS: ITReviews.com Buyer’s Guide
Whether you’re buying, building or upgrading a PC, there’s one crucial choice to be made: what operating system to opt for. Windows 7? Home Premium or Ultimate? Linux? Or maybe a Mac? Fear not, IT Reviews is on hand to unravel what can seem like a confusing list of options. This guide deals with the…
Choosing the best smartphones, tablets and e-book readers: IT Reviews.com Buyer’s Guide
If you often find yourself needing to access information when you’re out and about, you’ve probably discovered one of the major drawbacks of a laptop: they’re only really usable when you’ve got a nice, flat surface and somewhere to sit. While netbooks make this slightly easier, they’re still not always the best solution for a…
Sega Virtua Tennis 4
To be a successful tennis player, you must be hugely fit, fast, have a natural gift for the game… and, of course, a great grunt. The louder the noise you can make while hitting the ball – even sounding like you’ve stood on a bear-trap – the more your opponent will be put off. Those…
Dell Venue Pro
We’ve waited a long time for the Dell Venue Pro to surface. Announced along with the rest of the inaugural Windows Phone 7 smartphones back in October last year, it has taken until now for it to go on sale in the UK. The Venue Pro is the only Windows Phone 7 handset to have…
Nokia E7
Nokia’s recent deal with Microsoft means its higher-end smartphones will soon be coming with Windows Phone as their operating system. But in the short term, Nokia’s top-of-the-range OS is ^3, a touch-friendly version of Symbian. ^3 isn’t universally popular due to its similarities with S60 which is a bit of a ‘Marmite-, love-it-or-loathe-it OS. Win…
HTC – 7 Pro
HTC’s commitment to Windows Phone 7 has so far seen it launch more handsets running Microsoft’s revamped smartphone operating system than any of its competitors. Three models appeared soon after Windows Phone 7 was launched – the HTC HD7, the HTC 7 Mozart and the HTC 7 Trophy. Now, a few months after the initial…
The Document Foundation – LibreOffice 3.3
To talk about the new release of a open-source productivity suite LibreOffice, it’s necessary to talk a bit of corporate politics. For the path to LibreOffice was opened back when Oracle bought up Sun. Sun had been the surrogate parent of OpenOffice, having given it commercial support and stepped back to allow the open-source office…
Hercules – Webcam Deluxe Optical Glass
High-definition (HD) and widescreen devices dominate the high-end webcam market – and with the soaring popularity of video chat via Skype, it’s a trend we we fully expect to see continue. But if your needs are more modest, it’s worth considering the Webcam Deluxe Optical Glass from Hercules. It’s a once high-end device whose popularity…
Microsoft – Arc Touch Mouse
If we don’t get this out of the way from the off, then it’s going to be the proverbial elephant in the room. The Microsoft Arc Touch Mouse is a notebook mouse. And it costs £70. Yep, you read it right. That’s £70. For a mouse. We figure we may have lost about 90 per…
Microsoft – LifeCam Studio
The thing about making gadgets is that you have to keep upgrading them to keep in touch with the latest trends, or everyone regards you as yesterday’s news. While 3D is all the rage for movies and monitors, HD is the current must-have for camcorders, digital still cameras – and now webcams. As you might…