Acer Aspire M5 – Review
The Aspire M5 has been renovated by Acer, now packed into a gun-metal-colored amalgam of plastic and magnesium alloy panels. Aluminum unibody construction it isn't but the two most important surfaces, the lid and the keyboard base, are constructed from a brushed magnesium alloy-type substance, and thus feel durable and more expensive than the bill of materials might suggest. Elsewhere the soft-touch veneer to the polycarbonate surfaces gives a similarly premium look and feel to the Aspire M5's Read more [...]
Nokia Lumia 620 – Review
Nokia's Lumia 620 smartphone is a hot-looking, vibrantly-colored handset, like most Windows Phone 8 smartphones, but delivered at a low-midrange price point. Its seemingly modest innards are packed into a black polycarbonate case which sets off your chosen garish back plate brilliantly.
Compared to some of the super-slinky premium handsets out there it might look a bit plain, but fans of the Windows Phone 8 world will appreciate that it's what's inside the Nokia Lumia 620 that makes the difference. Read more [...]
Huawei Ascend G615 – Review
The Huawei Ascend G615 offers quad-core premium performance for just 300€, and there isn't much else needed in any marketing push by the Taiwanese company.
The polycarbonate casing of the Ascend G615 extends 134mm x 67.5mm x 10.5mm thick, and weighs 145g grams. Build quality can be described as high-standard; no rough edges or ill-fitting buttons. The contored matte black shell gives the Ascend G615 a slightly chunky-looking appearance but it's very rigid and feels marvellously Read more [...]
Sony Xperia ZL – Review
Sony's new Xperia ZL is a slightly reworked version of the Xperia Z released a couple of months back and features a set of top-shelf internals.
The Xperia ZL is 132mm x 70mm and 9.8mm thick, weighing just 151g. Design-wise it's almost identical to the Sony Xperia Z - same sharp-edged orthogonal design brief, at least at first glance. But flip it over and the evolution shows through; the ZL differs from the Xperia Z in that it is possessed of a contored, rubberized backplate making it a delight Read more [...]
HTC One – Review
The HTC One is possibly the most beautiful smartphone we've seen to date, top spec components encased in silver or black aluminium unibody, according to taste. The HTC One is 137mm in length and 68mm wide and a slenderish 9mm in girth. It weighs a trivial 143 grams, and workmanship is sheer perfection through and through thanks to a special manfuacturing process sandwiching two milled sheets of aluminum together seamlessly using a polycarbonate filling.
HTC have installed a pacy Qualcomm Snapdragon Read more [...]
Microsoft Surface RT Tablet – Review
Design-wise the Microsoft Surface RT is done out in a sturdy, matte gunmetal chassis, officially utilising Microsoft's Vapor Magnesium process, giving a great tactile dimension to the new showpiece RT slate.. The screen measures 10.6" across the diagonal, with a 1366 x 768 pixel resolution A number of magnetic strips are strewn about the case for hooking up peripheral devices such as add-on keyboards.
A full-sized USB-2 port is included, which is the first slip on Microsoft's part. That USB-2 Read more [...]
MadCatz S.T.R.I.K.E. 5 Gaming Keyboard – Preview
Every now and then a piece of kit bowls along that splits opinion on whoever sees it. Plenty of folk are going to take one look at the MadCatz S.T.R.I.K.E. 5 keyboard, and faintly taken by its sharp, angular, slickly-lit appearance,will then notice the $200 price tag and move swiftly on.
If you're anything of a gamer, though, you'll likely marvel at the functionality it brings - high-polling rate keys, no less than 21 programmable buttons for your favorite macros, and the bespoke backlighting Read more [...]
Deal Of The Day – Toshiba L745
If you're in the market for a high-powered notebook capable of heavyweight video editing or playing the latest games at high settings, this won't be for you, but if you're the sort of person who likes a fair few tabs open when browsing and swift execution of iTunes and Photoshop, we might have just the deal for you today. the Toshiba Satellite L745.
Now this is where the technical stuff kicks in - don't be tempted to think of the Intel Pentium B960 powering the Toshiba Satellite L745-S4126 Read more [...]
VMWare Fusion 5 – Windows on a Mac Review
For power users who want the best of all three worlds, Apple machines are the only choice if you fancy running OS X, Linux, and Windows on the same piece of hardware. For instance, you might be transitioning from Windows to the Mac ecosphere, or you may be a dev who prefers operating inside the Apple envelope but there are some programs in the Windows environment that aren't ported to Mac. Whatever, VMWare's virtualization tool Fusion 5 has been released, allowing you to run the Windows Read more [...]
Deal Of The Day – Stylus Functionality For $10
Fair bit about tablets in the news of late, what with the launch of Windows 8 at the end of this week, and of course the new iPad mini and seriously up-specced iPad 4, both unveiled last night.
So how about a stylus compatible with the various OSes and tablets; iPhones, iPads, Blackberry Playbook, Amazon Kindle Fire family of tablets, Galaxy tablets and smartphones, and touch-enabled Windows tablets? The stylus is 8mm in diameter, closer to a dainty fingertip than to a stylus-proper, Read more [...]