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If ever there were a product that followed trends, if would be the mobile phone market. For a while, smartphones were getting smaller and smaller, trying to squeeze as much out of as small a device as possible. Then Apple (the trend setter, let us not kid ourselves) released the iPad and slowly but surely, mobile phone manufacturers decided that they would quite like to utilise the large screen size [...]

Product: Blackberry Playbook 2.0 Price: Starts at £169.99 The tablet market is a funny one in many ways. The undisputed king is Apple, with the luxurious (and expensive) iPad and they aren’t going anywhere. But everyone wants a piece of that pie, and now Blackberry have their newest Playbook model – 2.0 – that is offered at a cheaper price and thus presents a lower barrier to entry. But [...]

Ted Baker Amazon Kindle 4 Case Nothing says class quite like Ted Baker, when it comes to mobile accessories and this sleek yet discrete Kindle 4 case is no different. Bringing a unique sense of elegance to your Kindle 4, the Ted Baker case is smooth, soft to the touch and padded enough to protect against the occasional accidental drop. Available in a range of colours, we can’t recommend this [...]

The Motorola Xoom is an impressive piece of tech. The preferred size of a tablet is quite a personal thing. The Xoom being somewhere between that of larger tablets like the iPad, and smaller tablets such as Dell’s Streak 7 is quite a good place to be. However, as with many tablets, the weight is still an issue. Holding the 730 grams Xoom in one hand for any period of time can become a strain. Motorola [...]

With the focus on operating systems, desktop software and games consoles, it’s often easy to forget that Microsoft have always have a presence in the peripheral market. The original InteliMouse series pretty much paved the way for the optical mouse, being among the first to feature a middle-button / scroll-wheel and built-in forward/back buttons. Well, Microsoft have done it again. The Microsoft [...]

HTC has been busy at IFA in Berlin just recently, having announced two new Windows Phone devices, the Titan and Radar. One thing is very clear about these two upcoming phones – the HTC 7 Trophy is clearly their technological father, and we’ve recently got our hands on one. The first thing you notice when you pick up the device is its weight, coming in at 140 grams it feels sleek and [...]

Samsung’s entry into the Windows Phone 7, the Omnia 7, is a brilliant piece of tech. The first thing you’ll notice before you even pick up this phone is the size of the screen – it’s huge! At 4inches, the Super AMOLED Plus screen glows with pride. The handset itself isn’t amazing in design, it’s pretty plain and sans-frills, but I think that’s probably the [...]

Model: Lamborghini Eee PC VX6 Manufacturer: Asus Price: ~£499 Availability: Out now When it comes to gorgeous design, Apple tend to lead the way. There aren’t many elegant models in the PC market. That is, there weren’t until Lamborghini got involved. We took a look at the Lamborghini Eee PC VX6 to see what you get when you combine top netbook manufacturers Asus with prestigious car [...]

Model: Eee PC 1015PEM Manufacturer: Asus Price: £229.99 Availability: Out now Asus released the 1015PEM at the end of 2010. There are two versions, the 1015PEM (£229.99) and the 1018P (£329.99). We tested the 1015PEM. Not much has changed in the looks department of the Asus Eee PC 1015PEM’s compared to the older Eee PC netbooks. The 1015PEM is a sign post of how far Netbooks have come, with [...]

Originally dubbed The Playstation Phone, Sony’s Xperia Play is the first Smartphone to feature a gamepad. Something that hasn’t really been attempted since Nokia’s N-Gage, which was launched in 2003 and re-released in ’08. It works. The phone slides out to reveal the gamepad, which functions exactly as it should. With a d-pad, X, O Triangle, Square. Start, Select, Menu and [...]