Month: April 2004
Mordaunt Short unleashes Genie
Don't normally get too excited about new speakers, but these curvaceous numbers look very nice and they're from a respected British company too. Called the Mordaunt Short Genie , the home cinema package comprises four magnetically shielded satellites and a…
Unpatriotic JVC and Comet
When David Beckham lifts the Euro 2004 trophy in Portugal in July England will witness the best party since, oohh, the Rugby World Cup final However not everyone will be wrapping themselves in the flag of St Georges and…
Vodafone's first 3G phone reviewed
We recently got the chance to play with the Samsung Z105, which is being groomed by Vodafone to feature as its launch phone for its consumer 3G service that's expected to be announced at the start of May. Overall…
Freeplay announces wind-up DAB
Alternative energy company Freeplay, famous for those wind-up radios, is to enter the DAB market – reports this week's ERT. Rory Stear, the company's chairman and chief exec told ERT that while design hasn't been decideded upon, product development is…
iPod speaker bag
Bought yourself an Apple iPod but not sure where to put it when you go out? Well we reckon the Felicidade Groove Bag Triplet might be the holdall you've been waiting for. Not only has the bag been designed…
Laptop TV that goes everywhere
What with Euro 2004 less than two months away we are already starting to assemble a range of gadgets to ensure that we don't miss a kick. We quite like the look of the Lifeview TV Walker, a mobile…
Treo 610 confirmed – kind of
It appears that the successor to the Handspring Treo 600 Palm based smartphone, which is sold in the UK by Orange, is on the cards reports The Guardian. A slip by US bank in a communication to its investors confirmed…
Tosh trounces the iPod take 2?
We have always rated the Toshiba Gigabeat G20 MP3 player. The hard disk based 20 Gigabyte player is one of the few that can challenge the Apple iPod in terms of design, and it has a bit of a…
Samsung's smartphone hat-trick
For a few months now we have been wondering why Samsung has a range of impressive GSM smartphones on sale in the US, but not in the UK. Well we need wonder no more as it appears that the…
New Palm Zire
We could spend hours debating whether there's a future for the low-end PDA. After all aren't we all going to be using smartphones? That said we kind of like the look of the latest £200-ish Zire 72 multimedia style…