05/26/2009, When U.S. television switched to broadcasting in high-definition, many shows were forced to change their production design: HD images are so crisp and clear that any blemish on the set – paint jobs, cracks in the wall, the old sofa in the corner – would have jumped out at viewers right away. Hollywood’s plastic surgeons, needless to say, saw a similar boost in business as Home Depot did. Now the […]

05/26/2009, By Simon Barber* I have just spent a week with a Kindle 2 Amazon lent me to review. Tomorrow I have to send it back and will be sorry to see it go. I am fairly certain that I will not be able to resist the temptation to buy one of my own although I do continue to have reservations about the $350 price tag and the longevity of the […]

05/14/2009, Sasha from netbooknews.de just posted a video hands-on (below) of the cute MSI Wind U200 that we mentioned when it leaked. You can also check the launch event photo gallery here.

05/07/2009, In-depth review by Karsten Lemm Click photo to see gallery. For hi-res photo sample, go here What’s so special? Making your camera go “click!” at just the right moment is crucial: Blink and you’ll miss it when your child scores a goal, a bee buzzes away from a flower, a surfer hits the waves. Most cameras can’t guarantee that you’ll capture a striking image when something happens in a split […]

04/21/2009, We got our hands on the AspireRevo and we can answer a couple of questions that might pop when you first look at it: Is it as good as Acer/Nvidia say at Playing HD content? Yes, it is. The Aspire Revo plays HD video content without any problems. It is actually quite impressive, even if we had seen previous demos using the Ion platform. How cute is it in the […]

03/25/2009, [GDC09] Just as it was announced, we got our hands on the Vuzix Augmented Reality Kit. Our conclusion: it is still rough and requires higher resolution cameras in the future. Clearly the demo works and depending on your application, the current setup might be “good enough”, but for example the pistol demo lacked the resolution to align the sights as one would expect. Vuzix Augmented Reality Kit uses a camera that can “see” […]

03/12/2009, The Xperia X1 was one of the most anticipated smart phone of 2008. It came to the market very late, but it’s never too late to play with it and publish our findings. Let’s provide some context: The Xperia X1 is Sony Ericsson’s first Windows Mobile smart phone and is the leading model in an “Xperia” family that will grow overtime. Among its numerous qualities, two set it apart from […]

03/12/2009, Dell just launched the Studio One 19, an affordable all in one computer with a multi-touch tactile display. We played with it and the few things that we came away with are: it’s reactive, well priced and… the sound is surprisingly good. First, let’s go over the highlights: 18.5″ Display (1366×768 or 1920×1080, 16:9) with Webcam (Multi Touch as an option) Intel Celeron (2.2Ghz) or Core 2 (3Ghz max) processor […]

03/09/2009, The HP MediaSmart Server EX-487 is the second generation MediaSmart Server. It runs on Windows Home Server, a flavor of Windows dedicated to network attached storage. The Ex-487 is in fact a small PC, however, HP made it quite easy to setup and manage and that’s where the added value really is. Windows Home Server has a few basic functions that are very handy: its data store can recognize duplicate […]

02/20/2009, Windows Mobile users were excited by the upcoming Windows Mobile 6.5, and while we have published an article that outlines the details of Microsoft’s new mobile OS and services just as they were announced, we had yet to test it for ourselves. We had the opportunity to spend about an hour with a Windows 6.5 HTC Touch Diamond 2, which will be the poster child for WM 6.5 when it […]

02/18/2009, [Mobile World Congress] Acer is a newcomer in the smartphone world. The company believes that laptops (or Netbooks) and mobile phones will eventually “merge” in some ways and that is the reason why it makes sense for them to go into that market. We have had the opportunity to take a closer look, and at the moment, all these phones are variants of plain-vanilla Windows Mobile phones. They aren’t “bad” […]

02/18/2009, [Mobile World Congress] The HTC Touch Diamond 2 was on display at WMC for all to try. The phone’s physical design is excellent and our opinion, this is the best Windows Mobile “body” right now – if you don’t need a physical keyboard. The phone was fairly responsive, and comes pre-installed with Windows Mobile 6.1 Pro. A free WM 6.5 Upgrade will come later. HTC is also pushing hard on […]

02/18/2009, [Mobile World Congress] Despite the recent “merge” between CyberShot and Walkman into the Sony Ericsson IDOU phone, the company is still making interesting one-trick pony phones (meaning they one strong point, like “photos” or “music”). The Sony Ericsson C903 is a simple camera phone that is good at what it does. Activating the camera is easy and you can record decent-quality video and fair quality photos. The phone also has […]

02/18/2009, Here’s the Samsung OMNIA HD. Some people think that the display is HD, but no, it’s the video recording that happens in HD, in 720p to be exact (1280×720 at 24 frames per second). As you can imagine, Samsung used one of the best optic that they have and in still mode, it can capture 8 Megapixel images. While Megapixels don’t guarantee image quality, we can tell you that after […]