Category: Hardware Reviews
Android is becoming an unstoppable force in the mobile industry. A wide range of manufacturers, each have their own spin on the OS, have cranked out device after device. Google, however, has released the unbranded, vanilla version for a select few handsets which go under the brand ‘Nexus’. The Nexus …
Android is becoming an unstoppable force in the mobile industry. A wide range of manufacturers, each have their own spin on the OS, have cranked out device after device. Google, however, has released the unbranded, vanilla version for a select few handsets which go under the brand ‘Nexus’. The Nexus …
The HTC Desire Z is a rather interesting creation packing both a high resolution touch screen with Android and a slide out full QWERTY keyboard. This is the handset known as the T-Mobile G2 over in America, not to be confused with the T-Mobile G2 here in the …
The HTC Media Link is a tiny box with two small outputs. What it does is fairly magical and quite cool. Plugging it together is simple enough. A familiar miniUSB charging plug goes into one hole, a miniHDMI plug in the other. After hooking the HDMI into your …
We’ve never had anything like this before. A phone that’s water-resistant, dust proof and scratch resistant. In theory this should be life-proof. Inside there’s Android 2.1 with the tweaked graphical user interface called “MOTOBLUR” to bring your social networks together and make navigation a little easier. A 5 …
We first saw the Optimus back in February at Mobile World Congress when it was called the GT540. We’ve also seen some rather excellent LG Optimus One hands-on videos, like this detailed LG Optimus Review. The LG Optimus One is an Android phone running 2.2 (FroYo) and is …
Windows Mobile 6.5. Oh, how we laughed. Remember the stylus? Remember the apps that looked nothing like the OS ? Heck, it didn’t matter too much and Windows Mobile was still king of the ring. Business users loved it, power users loved it. Then the iPhone turned up. …
Well, this is a nice looking thing. The HTC HD7 burst onto the scene just a few weeks back and we were lucky enough to grab one on the day. UK network o2 have the exclusivity on this and, fair play to them, it’s one heck of a …
The Brasso Gadgetcare product is designed for cleaning and shining gadgets and removing those pesky fingerprints and marks. Sure, you could polish your phone with your sleave or rub against your shirt every once in a while, but the smudges and smears...
The NoiseHush N650 is a small solar-powered car kit. It charges the 100mAh battery from the light of the sun and, in theory, you can have "unlimited talk time" in direct sun light. When there's no sun you do get a charger in the shape of a cigarette...
This device looks a lot like another very popular device. The design of it is, and let's be honest here, a clone of the Apple iPad.. give or take a few inches. Inside it runs Android 2.2 and there's the very latest Flash 10.1 and an 800MHz CPU. …
This is a phone that, like the HTC Legend, is created from one single piece of aluminium. It makes the device sturdy, solid and cool to hold. The HTC 7 Mozart has hi-fi audio, with SRS WOW HD sound for an improved audio experience. The Zune music in...
Sony Ericsson call this a "Phone Remote". Wearable on your wrist or on your clothes with the help of a clip, it communicates with your mobile and displays information from your phone. It'll also let you find your phone, control music and adjust volum...
The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini is small. Now, before you click away in disgust at that opening sentence, let me just repeat that. It is small. There's no camera trickery going on here. This is the smallest phone I've ever tested. Get your cred...
The Acer Stream is available exclusively here in the UK on eXpansys. You won't currently see it on a contract or subsidised so you may have to think hard before giving away £399.99. The headline specs include HD video recording at 720p / 24 fram...
The term "smartphone" has long been attached to the Android OS. It's meant that many have perhaps classed the device as a business tool or a high cost handset. Now, with Android appearing in a wider range of devices in various shapes and sizes, we're...
Specs CPU - 1GHz Storage - 1.5GB internal, 768MB RAM, microSD expansion Camera - 8 megapixel auto-focus and LED flash, 720p HD video recording, geotagging Connectors - 3.55mm audio jack, microUSB connector Sensors - G-Sensor, digital compass, ...
The HTC Desire really caught us off-guard. If I'm honest the HTC Legend looked to be the better handset when we first saw them both. It was the design of the Legend that won us over, but the sales of the Desire seem to have proved otherwise. This …
Windows Mobile 6.5 is getting a bit long in the tooth now but write it off at your peril. The HTC HD2 is simply amazing thanks to the HTC Sense interface and there's still a big community out there. The HD2, which we reviewed here, has the 1Ghz …
Back in October 2006 we had a look at the Omni Beanbag Chair. It arrived flat-packed from the USA and we added our own beans. It was a weird thing for us to review, but we figured a lot of our time was spent sat down, so why …
The HTC HD2 official car kit is here. It's from HTC themselves and sold here by easydevices.co.uk. First up, I will mention the drawing on the box. I think it's supposed to show you that the car kit can mount on the dash or the windscreen, but they've …
Battery life. It's always a massive talking-point when you mention mobile phones. Come on, let's admit it, if we all had crappy old Nokia's with monochrome screens they'd last weeks without charging. Sure they would, but who wants to go back to a pho...
The Laybag is a tiny bean bag for your phone to rest on. It comes with a small "lip" to stop your phone slipping down and is useful as a temporary phone holder or a way to hold your phone at a viewable angle. It's ideal for watching …
The X10 reviewed here is exclusive to Orange in white. The X10 is an Android powered handset and there'll be more from the X10 family in the shape of the Mini and Mini Pro. This, however, is the big daddy and has specs a-plenty. It's a quad-band GSM...
The HTC Wildfire. Let me crack open a beer and tell you a story. We were invited down to London for a preview of the Wildfire and, unless I'm completely wrong, it was met with a fairly mute reception from the press. Why? Well, it has roughly the …
So what is it exactly that makes the Nexus One so special as an Android phone, well the obvious reason it it was made by HTC but totally how Google wanted it to be, no customisation, no branding, just a good solid well built phone for developers and …
Following our recent look at the X10 Mini we've now got another dinky Android device. This is the Motorola FLIPOUT. It's named FLIPOUT because the keyboard rotates down from the lower left corner of the screen. It's a 2.8" screen and, without the ...
So with the Galaxy S only just going on sale I have been very lucky to be able to get hold of a device to review for the site and test it out in real world use. This has been my only phone to use so had to …
The Snap is the return of the non-touchscreen QWERTY messaging phone. HTC last dipped it's foot into this marketplace with the HTC Excalibur and it's still a handset that's being used on BT with their Office Anywhere solution. The Snap brings WinMo ...
GPS and a circular navigation wheel has been a popular combination with the o2 XDA Orbit 2 paving the way with on-board GPS navigation software, wireless capability and 3 megapixel cameras. On the face of it the Guide seems to offer a similar setup ...
So, the Toshiba TG01. This has been eagerly awaited by many. Toshiba have at last released a Windows Mobile phone and, after glancing at the specifications, they've come up with one hugely powerful device. For a start there's that capacious screen - ...
I feel dirty in a way, and I'll tell you why. This is and always has been a Windows Mobile site. To be given a HTC Hero to play with for a couple of weeks? No.. we don't want it. Why? Because it's powered by Google Android - …
The Touch2 is one of the very latest Windows Mobile 6.5 devices. Scheduled to launch on October 6th this has a 528Mhz Qualcomm processor, 512MB ROM and 256MB RAM. The screen is a 2.8" TFT-LCD with QVGA resolution, which isn't quite as high as the hig...
The o2 XDA Venn actually appeared a couple of years ago in the USA as the Pantech Duo. It's an interesting idea - there's no touch screen but there are two keyboards - a sliding QWERTY out the side and a numeric keypad down the bottom. Specs Desp...
When HTC first asked me if I'd like a Tattoo I was a little confused. "Well, not really, I mean on women it can be kinda sexy but...", "No", they said, "The HTC Tattoo phone. Y'know, the new Android handset for the masses?" An interesting name it h...
The HD HD2. This phone has a lot of weight on it's shoulders. In recent years and months Windows Mobile has been badly knocked by the iPhone and Android. Both of these platforms have made serious inroads and many Windows Mobile customers have moved a...
Above is the cradle itself - it's from easydevices.co.uk. It's made in China and, although probably not "official HTC merchandise" looks the business. In the box you get a UK mains charger with a small round plug at the other end, a small manual and...
The Motorola Dext is currently available from Orange. It's the first ever QWERTY Android handset to cross our desk and initial impressions are good. It seems well build, although the sliding mechanism is perhaps less snappy than the sliding QWERTY HT...
The Legend is similar in both size and shape to the HTC Hero but this times there's an "alloy unibody" making it very solid with a slide-in battery. The "chin" is still there but, instead of the trackball, there's now an "optical trackpad" on the chi...
