Archive for December, 2010

Archos 32 review

The Archos 32 Internet Tablet attempts to stretch the definition of what a tablet really is. While the French PMP maker would like you to believe that it is indeed a full-on slate, in reality it’s personal media player. But that’s not to say it’s not a stellar gadget. In fact, this is one of [...]

Sony Bravia KDL-40EX43B review

With its chunky bezel and curves, Sony’s 40EX4 looks every inch the old school CCFL-backlit LCD. However we can forgive the girth as this set has a compelling excuse: it’s swallowed a Blu-ray player. The advantage of having a Blu-ray deck integrated into the TV is primarily space. This screen is destined to serve smaller [...]

Palm Pre 2 review

The Palm Pre is the smartphone saviour that never was. Sleek and replete with the most intuitive smartphone operating system, webOS, since iOS took a bow, it failed to do the business, eventually leading to its makers subsumed by tech giant HP. The Pre 2 is now here to reclaim Palm’s rightful position at the [...]

BlackBerry Bold 9780 review

The Blackberry 9780 is the first Bold handset to use Blackberry 6. The latest update to RIM’s operating system is move away from the rigid and static OS of old, towards something more fluid in a market where Apple iOS and Android 2.2 are winning fans. After using the Bold 9780 for a while though, [...]

Apple iPad review: iOS 4.2

You can’t have escaped the news that Apple finally released it’s latest software update this week. For the first time iOS 4.2 is a universal binary, this means that iPad, iPhone 4 and iPod Touch users can run the same version of the operating system. Although lets be clear each is optimised slightly to suit [...]