We’ve reviewed a few of the media player products from the Sony Walkman range in the past so were pleased when Sony offered to send us the newest NWZ-A845 which went on sale at the beginning of March this year.
There were a few things that made the NWZ-A845 stand out. Firs of all it has a fairly large OLED display at 240×400 pixels, good for video playback, secondly it’s only 7mm thick! Impressive when you consider what Sony have packed in to that small space, including a battery that claims to give 29 hours of MP3 playback.
Another cool feature of the NWZ-A845 is that it comes with special noise cancelling headphones. The headphones have a built in microphone to pick up the ambient noise which the Walkman then processes to produce anti-noise. They work really rather well!
As always we’ll have a full written review for you soon but for the time being you can enjoy the unboxing video below.
It’s been a while since we reviewed a projector here at tracyandmatt and this week we’ve ended up with two to look at. The first of which is the Mitsubishi XD600U DLP projector.
On paper the XD600U sounds pretty impressive with its 4500 ANSI Lumens brightness, probably one of the brightest projectors that you can buy at the moment. This means that you can use the projector in a room without having to close all of the blinds/curtains and turning off all the lights, particularly useful if you are using the projector for business applications.
The other thing about the XD600U is that it’s 3D ready. You will need some additional kit in order experience 3D with this projector, including a set of 3D shutter glasses but I believe this is one of the few projectors to offer the capability so far.
So to test this projector out of got myself a large projector screen and hooked up to my PS3. Take a look at the video below to see the unboxing and a look at the connectors and controls. Later on in the video you can also see a bit of a demo of the XD600U in use.
Although Windows Phone 7 is the really hot mobile platform from Microsoft right now Windows Mobile 6.5 handsets will still have to make do for now as WP7S is only coming in stores later this fall. One of those Windows Mobile 6.5 phones is the K01 from Toshiba. Announced at MWC 2010 the phone has just been spotted at the FCC and its apparently coming to Europe and Asia at some point soon. We dont have actual arrival dates and pricing details but expect it to hit carriers in the near
I had a few precious moments with this at Mobile World Congress 2010 and whilst the keyboard wasn’t a Touch Pro2 beater the phone was a wonderful example of just how well rounded Windows Mobile could be. One of the most impressive features being the HD playback, smooth and crisp.
We’ve been talking about the Xperia X10 over the past few, erm, months I suppose but things finally seem to be hotting up, I got my Xperia X10 review unit a few days ago and the X10 has now gone on sale in Japan. Apparently the Japanese have gone mad for them and have been queuing for literally hours to get their hands on the brand new device.
The X10 was released earlier this week on NTT DOCOMO, one of the worlds largest mobile phone carriers.
I’ll be posting my video of the X10 over the next day or two before I go ahead and dive in to the full review. Don’t forger to fire over your comments or questions on the X10 and we’ll do our best to answer ya!
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I’m sure that you are only too aware that as of this morning, 3rd April, the Apple iPad went on sale in the US. Still no word on the actual launch date here in the UK or when we’ll even be able to pre-order.
We were keen to review the iPad as soon as possible so appealed to our US followers on Twitter to see if anyone could help us out and get one for us. I’m really pleased to say that we had a few offers of assistance and thanks to Ching-Yao Yu we’ll have an iPad to review within just a few days, as soon as it gets here from Maryland via FedEx!
Massive thanks to Ching-Yao Yu for helping us out.
Please head over to the forums to start submitting your comments and questions and we’ll do our best to answer your questions and it’ll give me some ideas as to what to cover in the videos that I shall undoubtedly be recording!
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Here’s a heads up from WMpoweruser. Microsoft will not be controlling the the hardware specs of Windows Phone 7 devices. As they point out this is a good thing for one reason, no huge Zune style connectors. However, it does mean will will still have to endure what is a pet hate of mine, incompatibility between plugs and cables provided with various devices. At least we won’t have to suffer the annoyance of the iPhone with all cables looking the same but only working on one particular generation.
As the title of the post states, RIM (makers of BlackBerry Smartphones) have released their Q4 earnings for Fiscal 2010.
As you will see in the press release below, although market share for the iPhone and Android is growing, BlackBerry users are growing too and by quite a lot!
WATERLOO, ONTARIO–(Marketwire – March 31, 2010) – Research In Motion Limited (RIM) (NASDAQ:RIMM)(TSX:RIM), a world leader in the mobile communications market, today reported results for the three months and fiscal year ended February 27, 2010 (all figures in U.S. dollars and U.S. GAAP).
Annual Highlights:
It’s been a while since we had a dedicated SatNav device in for review and over two years since we last reviewed anything from Mio.
When it comes to satellite navigation products most people will think or TomTom, CoPilot or maybe Navman but I don’t think Mio’s name would spring to mind for mot people but in actual fact Mio have been making GPS enable PocketPC’s and dedicated GPS devices for years.
When Mio contacted me offering the Moov for review I thought it would be just another Pocket PC style devices with built in GPS capability and maps from one of the better known sources.
I was wrong.
The Mio Moov Spirit V505 is a bit different. It’s a dedicated SatNav unit with not only a BIG screen but also a built-in TV tuner. Ideal for those that drive professionally and want to do something when they have to take their rest breaks.
James spends a LOT of time on the road so will be doing the review over the coming week but I’ve recorded a brief unbox to show you what it’s all about!
2 days before start of sales of iPad, Apple has switched on all the iPad apps…
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Just getting news in from a few tipsters that the HTC Desire has seen it’s first OTA update. You may recall James covered the news on the HTC Desire ROM situation last week and we’ve had a few updates status updates throughout the week.
My understanding is that the OTA ROM update takes us from 1.15.405.3 to 1.15.405.4
No I am guessing that this is to mop up any Desire units that made it out before Google approved the latest ROM on the 26th as the build we had on the review devices was already 1.15.405.4. I’m also guessing this will do nothing for T-Mobile or other carrier branded handsets as we know that the T-Mobile version was an earlier 1.15.110.10 on those.
What’s changed in this ROM update then? I’d say very little given its minor revision number but if anyone out there notices anything then please let me know!
Posted by: Matt
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