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Parrot Minikit Smart: Lets You Turn Your SmartPhone into Handsfree GPS
These days most smartphones come with pretty decent navigation capabilities. So in order to help drivers take advantage of this, Parrot has launched the Minikit Smart. This Bluetooth hands-free kit with a docking bay designed for all Smartphones, allows…
10 great iPhone / iPod dock and speaker systems
It's party time and you've got an iPod full of tunes but no way of blaring them out to your gang of expectant, drunk friends. The keg's running dry, all the Pringles have been eaten and a riot's about to…
Parrot MKi – handsfree kits for car-based music fans
Parrot, the unfeasibly-difficult-to-Google producer of in-car hands-free kits has just brought out a range of new iPod-enabled music control systems for your vehicle. These devices hook up to your car stereo and allow you to play almost any device through your car speakers…
Parrot to launch MINIKIT Slim mobile hands-free kit
Parrot has announced its MINIKIT Slim, a mobile phone hands-free kit measuring just 13mm wide, offering 10 hours of talk time, and weighing 83 grams.
It allows voice dialling of any contact simply by speaking their name, and synchronises automatically with the mobile phone’s contacts list…
Shiny Video Review: Andrée Putman's photo frame for Parrot
A good few weeks ago, Parrot announced the Andrée Putman-designed digital photo frame. Now, I don’t know about you, but with a price-tag of £250, I’m slightly dubious as to what this photo frame can offer above all the other sub-£100 models. Take a look above for Susi’s thoughts on it…
Parrot puts on airs with its Andrée Putman designed digital photo frame
Parrot’s been busy putting on airs recently, trying to shed its image of being a pocket-friendly company, with the launch of a new digital photo frame designed by French designer Andre Putman.
At £250, it’s a fair cry from Parrot’s usual offerings, yet the 7″ frame offers the standard fare, of Bluetooth connectivity plus an SD card slot for displaying photos, otherwise the internal memory can reportedly hold…
Another 'world's first', Parrot announces NFC-enabled PARTY Black Edition speaker system
Parrot has squawked back onto our radar with the announcement of their PARTY Black Edition speaker system, which supposedly integrates Near Field Communication for easy and fast streaming from the source to the system.
Adopting the fancy ‘touch’ word that’s become synonymous with stylish and innovative technology, the user simply has to touch a Bluetooth-enabled source like a mobile phone, MP3 player or computer to the 650g system…
Is the USB Parrot the most annoying add-on ever made?
That staple of the 70s sitcom, the talking bird, is now available for your PC.
Opinion: Digital photo frames, are they really worth the cash?
Now Sony has entered the er, frame, in manufacturing digital photo frames, the Editor-in-Chief posed the question of does this now mean they are serious bits of techno kit.
Well, with so many on sale now, ranging from the £50 cheap to the £200 expensive, they have – in recent months – become best-sellers on many high streets. In fact, recent sales figures show more than a MILLION of them were sold last year…
CES 2008: Parrot launch a couple of speakers, the DS1120 and DS3120
Parrot has been a busy little company, working hard in the aviary on several different products to launch at CES 2008. Amongst them are wireless stereo speakers, the DS1120, plus a DS3120 stereo.
The first product works by streaming music via Bluetooth from the source, however if it doesn’t have stereo Bluetooth, a Bluetooth USB dongle and line-in RCA jack is also included. The DS1120 will sell for around…
