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Had a lot of tweets from many of you regarding today’s HTC event. James and I recorded a LOT of video for you today and I’ll be editing and uploading that for as soon as I can. We’ve just left the event and are heading over to the after-show party. I’ll be home late this evening but will upload video as soon as I can.
In the mean time, have a look at some of the photos we took below. Don’t forget, you can also replay the Live Blog any time too!
You may have arrived here looking for Mobile Tech Addicts or perhaps you are already a loyal visitor to tracyandmatt (I hope so!) but the news we have for you today is that we’ve merged with Mobiletechaddicts.com with tracyandmatt.co.uk. All the old stories will remain on both sites but we’ll all be working together with myself, James and Gareth at the helm. The podcast will still be recorded weekly and that will retain it’s name. We hope that more of you will also download and listen to the podcast over the coming weeks.
There will be more changes and enhancements over the coming weeks/months so stick close! 🙂
As always, the forum is available for you to get in touch with us any time and I would like to thank everyone that visits and supports the site.
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I’m sure that most of you will know that HTC are holding a press conference and event today. We’ll be there with some old friends and shall be live blogging as things unfold.
We’re expecting to see the HTC Desire HD and Desire Z at the event and hope to have plenty of video/photos for ya.
Below you’ll find the live feed to the event where you can, hopefully, see what’s going on. You’ll also be able to join in the discussion and ask questions. We should be starting coverage when we arrive at the event around 11am.
It’s been a while since we looked at a non-smartphone from Sony Ericsson. In the past we’ve reviewed several handsets within their Walkman range and we thought it was about time that we reviewed some more!
So we’re starting out with the new Zylo. The Zylo is available from around £120 SIM-free and from free with a contract. It represents pretty good value for money with 3G connectivity, Bluetooth 2.1, Google Maps, MP4 playback, 3MP camera supporting Geo-tagging and Twitter, Facebook and YouTube clients.
Over the next week or so we’ll be putting the Sony Ericsson Zylo to the test and we’ll have the full review for you soon. Until then have a look at the unboxing video below to see what’s on offer.
Does the Dynadock V10 really soups up your laptop and productivity as V10 engine transplant would pimp up a car? Or is the all-in-one gizmo more of a two-stroke Trabant with a huge rear-wing?
I wasn’t sure what to make of the Dynadock.
It functions as docking stations of the yesteryear but it doesn’t look like one and connects via the ubiquitous USB rather than some obscure proprietary port.
The device tries to be a Swiss army knife of computer connectivity. It’s essentially a 4-in-1 gadget comprising a USB audio interface, a USB hub, a USB-to-DVI and a USB-to-Ethernet adapters. Quite an entourage for a single USB cable it uses to communicate with the computer.
If you saw my Blaq review yesterday you would have seen how beautiful the user interface is. To give you a further insight I have recorded a brief demo video to show the main (and coolest) features of the application.
Have you downloaded Blaq yet? What do you think? Please let us know over in the forum.
Here I have the Sanyo xacti CS1 compact full HD camcorder, when I got the question from Matt ‘would you like to review a HD camcorder?’ to say I was thrilled would be quite the understatement; so as you can imagine I jumped at the chance as I have never used one before and this was a great opportunity as I was going on holiday!
My first thought when I received the camcorder was ‘How can it stand up against the vastly popular Flip HD range of pocket camcorders?’ Now the people who know me will know that I am not the most ‘clued up person’ when it comes to any type of camera, so I am reviewing for a novice point-of-view which I think will be a particularly realistic test as I beleive that this camera is likely to appeal to noobs like me. To find out how it all went please read on.
A few weeks ago Innopocket sent me an email saying that they’d just launched a new stand for the Apple iPad; the Hexapose Stand. Having seen the product shots and knowing how popular the iPad has become among our readers I thought it would be a good idea to request one to review.
After cases I suspect that iPad holders or stands are the next big accessory that iPad owners are likely to buy. There are plenty out there now but the thing that initially attracted me to the Hexapose was that it is made from aluminium and looks a little like the stand you’ll find on an Apple iMac. It’s also poseable in 6 different positions, hence the Hex in Hexapose, in both portrait and landscape orientations.
The whole unit arrives in a fairly small box and requires the simplest of assembly, just a couple of screws to hand tighten. As you’ll see in the video below, it’s easy to put together and use and furthermore holds the iPad secure enough to be safe whilst still making it easy to remove when you need to.
Over the past few years we’ve reviewed a ton of HD camcorders here on tracyandmatt and it seems that every other model we receive claims to be, at the time, the worlds smallest, thinnest or lightest HD camcorder. So Toshiba are joining this party with their Camileo S20. Probably not not the thinnest or smallest camcorder on the market the S20 is still pretty slim and is certainly light, at 115 grams it’s about the same weight as your average mobile.
The limited size does came at a cost though, as the Camileo S20 does not have an optical zoom but instead a 4x digital. However the spec is still pretty good in every other respect with a 5mp sensor and capable of recording 1080p and 720p video and coming in at under £140 over at IT247.com
The full review is coming up over the next week or so but for now you can check out the unbox to see what it’s all about.
You probably saw Ian’s post about a potential Huawei Android tablet being announced today. Whilst I’m not sure we’re going to see such a thing James and I are indeed on our way to a Huawei event that will be starting at 11am.
We’ll be reporting back on from the event as things unfold and will have a full report for you shortly after.
Follow us on twitter.com/tracyandmatt for live news (WiFi/Mobile coverage permitting), we’ll tweet what we can!
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