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If we were to travel back in time to about a year ago I wonder if many of us would have predicted that Motorola would be back in the phone market in such a big way as they are now? I think it’s fair that adopting the Android platform has been the saviour of Motorola winning great popularity here in the UK with the Motorola Milestone and the Droid X in the USA.
The latest incarnation of the Milestone, the XT720 sees Motorola continuing to innovate and stands at the moment as the only smartphone to be capable of outputting video in HD over an HDMI cable, allowing you to watch back the 720p HD footage you recorded on the 8 megapixel camera.
Sporting a 3.7″ capacitive touchscreen at 480 x 854 pixels, WiFi, GPS, RDS radio stuffed in to a thin and light package and all running under Android 2.1, the Milestone XT720 seems to offer great value for the £351 asking price.
Check out the unboxing and demo video below and be sure to come back for the full review soon!
I can remember a time when the only sensible option for home printing was to buy an inkjet printer. Laser printers were just too expansive and massive for your average home user. Although the prices have been falling for a long time it’s only recently that there have been some big breakthroughs in terms of printer size.
Take this Samsung ML-1665 laser printer we are reviewing today, it’s actually billed as being the worlds smallest mono laser printer and having had it here in the office for a few days I have to say that I certainly agree that it must be; it’s tiny!
So do you pay a premium for the small size? Well unlike many other tech products where a smaller size leads to increase cost this clearly doesn’t apply here as it247.com have this Samsung ML-1665 laser printer for under £70!
If you are wondering whether or not it’s any good, read on to find out…
IM+ for BlackBerry was recently updated and if you have not seen it in action now is your chance. We reviewed IM+ for the iPad a while ago and the application on the BlackBerry is much the same and works beautifully.
Shape Services that produce IM+ have a nice range of applications for all mobile platforms. Head on over to the site and see if you can find something to make your life easier.
The popular CNN news network have just released a rather excellent application for the iPhone. As you will see in the video below the app incorporates not just the news headlines but video as well as some other super features.
If you have an iPhone and like to keep up to date with world news then this app is a must. It’s free as well!
Check out the short demo video below to see what it has to offer.
A few months ago I got my hands on the Archos 5 Internet Media Tablet and we did a little review of the portable media player.
This time I’ve got my hands on the Archos 5 Internet Tablet to review. So at this point you may be wondering if I’ve just repeated myself in the last two sentences. However, the two devices are indeed different. The hardware on both the Internet Media and the Internet Tablet are much the same, the come in 32GB to 500GB models for example. However where they differ is in the operating system. The Internet Media tablet having a custom Linux-based OS and the Internet Tablet has a more standard Android operating system. We thought it would be worth seeing what this Android version had to offer.
As always the review is in the making but for now you can take a look at the unboxing video below.
Radio technology started with just that – radio waves. Now though, newer ways of delivering radio station content have been developed, with DAB digital radio paving the way, and now internet radio. Digital radio is still yet to invade people’s homes, but internet radio with its added features, could be the advancement that old-school radio buffs have been waiting for, this article is definitely worth to read if you enjoy of radio devices.
The Squeezebox is one of a growing range of available internet radios – ones that stream stations from the internet. The benefits include better sound quality without that notorious analogue hiss, and a much, much wider selection of radio from around the globe to listen to. So, internet radio is all well and good on paper, but whether this particular internet radio from Logitech is really capable of replacing your battered FM radio in practice is the one question that’s probably in your mind, and luckily for you, is also the one that we’re about to answer. Read on to catch our verdict.
Our friends over at Clove Technology dropped me a line to tell us about some of the offers and new devices that they’ve added to their site in July.
Starting with the HTC Wildfire that we reviewed a little while ago, they have that for just £229.13 and it’s in stock. Then on to the HTC Desire and the Samsung GalaxyS which are £387.75 and £433.58 respectively.
Don’t forget too that they also have the Motorola Milestone XT720 in stock from today – yep that’s the one with an HDMI output cable so you can playback your movies from the phone on an HD television!
Read on to find out more about what’s on offer…
I suppose it has been a few days since we last heard about one mobile phone company suing another so it was about time for another one.
This time it’s Motorola versus Huawei. US based Motorola filed a complaint against Hauwei with the federal court in Chicago and claim that of of their former engineers leaked information to Huawei’s founder, Ren Zhengfei.
Huawei said the lawsuit was groundless.
"Huawei will vigorously defend itself against baseless allegations," the company said in an emailed statement.
Even if there is any truth to the claim, obviously I have no idea, I’m really not sure how far Motorola think they are likely to get with any kind of lawsuit as if the case goes through the courts in the US any decision that’s may be made cannot be enforced in China where Huawei are based.
Since at least 2006, Motorola had required its engineers to sign a confidentiality agreement, according to the filing.
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The Nokia X3 has been around for a while now but we constantly get asked about it, possibly because it’s just got the circa £100 on PAYG mark. So we decided we had better get around to unboxing and reviewing it.
Being part of the X Series range, the device is based around music and although fairly basic it does come with a very affordable price tag.
Running Symbian Series 40 the user interface will be familiar to Nokia users and therefore navigating the phones menu will be a piece of cake. Unlike the Nokia X6, we have previously reviewed, this one comes with a proper hardware keypad which most Nokia users are used too.
With its music controls located along side the screen could the Nokia X3 be a good alternative to carrying an MP3 player? Only one way to find out. Lets unbox and put it to the test.
We may have mentioned giffgaff once or twice in the past and we quite like the way in which they operate, offering their customers, or members in their lingo, rewards for helping other members or for referring friends that then become members.
Today giffgaff launched a new iPhone app that allows you to look after your giffgaff account, refer your friends and to read and participate in their forums.
confidence has created an iPhone application called Mygiffgaff which is a beautiful execution of a very useful program that allows you to check your giffgaff balance as well as see which goodybags you have active and which one you have queued up.
Check it out!
Posted by: Matt
If we were to travel back in time to about a year ago I wonder if many of us would have predicted that Motorola would be back in the phone market in such a big way as they are now? I think it’s fair that adopting the Android platform has been the saviour of Motorola winning great popularity here in the UK with the Motorola Milestone and the Droid X in the USA.
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