Lenovo G570 Laptop Review

The Lenovo G570 is a 15-inch laptop that features a glossy lid and a metal palm rest. Measuring 14.8-inch x 9.8-inch x 1.3-inch and weighing 5.2 pounds, the laptop provides a 2.3GHz Intel Core i5-2410M CPU, a 4GB of RAM, a 500GB 5,400-rpm hard disk drive, and an Intel Integrated HD Graphics 3000 GPU. The G570 comes with a glossy and bright 15.6-inch anti-glare widescreen display with a native resolution of 1366 x 768. Here is the verdict:

The Lenovo G570 offers a solid computing experience, but it's not our favorite 15-inch laptop. For $749, you get a comfy typing experience, strong overall performance, and one of the fastest boot times we've seen on a Windows machine. However, the smudge-prone lid is a turn-off, and you don't get USB 3.0. For about the same price, the HP Pavilion dv6t offers a more stylish metal design, discrete graphics, and Beats audio to boot. The Lenovo G570 is worth a look, but you can do better.
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Review Nokia X 7

This is a global GSM phone. Can be used with T-Mobile, United States and at and t.

Introduction:
the Nokia X 6 is one of the front runners of Anna Symbian, an important portrait QWERTY input, bringing improved browser and a refreshing design for Symbian ^ 3 platform. But the X 7 is also a media-centric device with a sense of premium and a 4-inch AMOLED screen. It is also one of the latest high-end Nokia devices running Symbian so it deserves some special attention. But worth your buck? We will guide you through innovations in the interface, to see if this 680 MHz processor 11-BRAChiONAS under the hood to duplicate the experience and look at the 8-megapixel fixed focus camera, but let's start with some history.

Nokia X 7 first leaked in November 2010, but then it was through a bumpy road in the market. In December, he appeared with at and t name and seemed set for a release centres, but only a month later, either the carrier or phone manufacturer decided to cancel this partnership so that the device does not appear subisdized to members, at least initially. Nokia X 7 However, eventually became official in April ushered in the new Symbian Anna, formerly known as PR 2.0.

Design:
But it is not only the new user interface – Nokia X 6 comes with a corner rather unique design with four grills in every one of the corners, but only the bottom two teams speakers. 4-inch AMOLED display with a resolution of 360 x 640 pixel dominates the front. This does not come with improved Nokia ClearBlack nearly perfect blacks and better anti-reflection for outdoor visibility, but we saw the colors are very high, with black is still very deeply. Add to this scratch protection and seeking a gorilla glass screen, slightly damaged delectable only average sunlight readability. Oh, and we understand on Nokia desire to preserve the ecosystem is consistent, but this resolution 360 x 640 pixels nHD seems dated now.

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In front, you also have earspeaker on top and Central menu at the bottom, while the right side there is a volume rocker and a stylish, dedicated shutter speed key camera that will allow you to quickly Snap photos. To the left for a surprise – you are in a card slot microSD and is protected with a cover of the SIM card slot allows for hot swappable cards. However, being proved to be a challenge even the most expert smartphone. Engineers in Espoo have managed to arrive at a single open mechanism – eyelids they actually serves as the front doors of the small drawers where you can place your cards. Open them, you must first press one side of the lid, and then drag the entire chassis. After quickly fat mechanism works perfectly, but casual user with no Handbook in hand will find unintuitive at best.

Back is one of the most controversial elements of the Nokia X 6 is where fixed focus 8-megapixel camera with dual-LED flash. Fixed-focus, also known as full focus in Nokia, has the advantage to keep almost everything in focus. At the same time is extremely snappy as it takes time to adjust the focus for each shot, but always closer than 20 inches automatically get blurry, so you can forget all about macro shots.

Metal back cover seems very stable and adds to the premium feel of the handset, but is unfortunately not removable. At the top, there is a microUSB port for charging device, a headphone jack 3,5 mm and key locks, while the bottom is just simple.

The phone feels solid to 15 ounces (146 grams) of weight. It is not among the thinnest there with 0.02 inches region (11.9 mm) at its thickest point, but the oval profile contributes to a comfortable in the hand. So together, but this left us with mixed feelings, cannot be denied, the materials used in Nokia, leaving the impression that there is a premium quality.

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HTC EVO 4 G review view

Getting Started:
Just a short time before the Tablet market was completely barren. Your iPad and … well it was about this. There were some Windows CE no-name people there, and perhaps even an Android Tablet or two liquid flea markets in Chinese, but if you wanted a Receive 9.7 "with fruit on it. Samsung was the first to really put their hat to market Android tablet with Galaxy last year, but not before the notice of Honeycomb and Motorola Android constitutes SLASHY is a serious threat to the world of tablet. Now it seems that everywhere you turn other sexy is Honeycomb tablet released or announced.

Arguably the leader of the Android smartphones, HTC was found in a strange position for tablet-less. After months of speculation finally flyers announced in February, and while the tablet PC must be running "a new version of the hardware HTC sense-worthy, strangely enough, only served optimized Android 2.3 not tablet. Later, we discovered that the Honeycomb is not yet open source, and did not provide HTC with source code. To a certain extent they have countered with their own brilliant interface concept and with the release of the EVO 4 G on Sprint vision added 4 G data to the model, but there will be enough to compete with Galaxy tabs and transformers today? Read on to discover!

Design:
HTC EVO 4 G view share the same design as the flyers to review last month, but with the EVO, the color scheme is changed in charcoal with red accents. Approve it. We are really. Not to mention flyers are not good looking, but EVO 4 G preview you will receive notification that the flyer can be mixed. The couple, with aluminum unibody MacBooks construction, HTC is so good and you have a seriously good looks. The EVO 4 G is still emphasis on plastic top and bottom, the top can be removed access to the microSD slot, and we can imagine that in the bottom of an antenna for the houses of fewer interventions. The introduction of lower significantly increased over the rest of the body, which gives a nice hand-maintained when held in landscape mode, but makes viewing EVO 4 G feels a little strange in portrait orientation.

The HTC EVO 4 G is notoriously heavy at 15 oz, but this is due in large part, metal housing and glass screen. The appearance of 7 "with 1024 x 600 seem significantly better than any HTC smartphone tables, is very bright, vivid and can be viewed from any angle. There are four capacitive buttons below the screen: Home, in the menu and back as well as a dedicated button for HTC Scribe pen (more on this later) rotate the screen to the left, and the same four buttons will light up the screen with 1.3 MP camera-facing front over this. Along the top of the EVO 4 GS view are a power button, the 3.5 mm headphone jack on the right volume rocker and a microUSB port is at the bottom. Back to main camera 5MP trimmed in red and two clips: loudspeaker is along the right side, also with accents of Red EVO.
The HTC EVO 4 G is more comfortable to keep on functioning of the landscape from the vertical, but it is undoubtedly a well-built unit. I must say that this does not resist at all fingerprints, are you accustomed to the probably rather than trying to keep it clean. Any device that HTC has no concerns that this will be delayed longer than you would use the device.

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HTC EVO 3D review

Getting Started:
Blasting his way to the top of the Sprint's HTC EVO 4 G is still a famous handset even until today, but more importantly, is one of Evolutionary appliances that seemingly put the bar significantly higher when released a year ago. Granted that this is not a real heir, HTC EVO 3D is in a manner closely due to the fact that they share the same bases while throwing a few neat 3D features blend. Mainly considered to be an upgraded model is $ 199.99 on contract-HTC EVO 3D especially Nice on paper – even more so when you consider the aspects of 3D combined with advanced specifications. In an era when units top-shelf is allegedly in abundance wherever you look, the HTC EVO 3D 3D nature undoubtedly raise some eyes. Let's just hope that the coherence of implementation, but if you do not do, in the final analysis this may ultimately forgettable as something novel.Package contains: HTC EVO microSD 3D8GB preloadedmicroUSB cableWall ChargerGet Guide Terms and conditions for services launched

Design:
So what can we say for another top-shelf Android powered HTC phone? Therefore, it is certainly not the best design, we have seen come from the Taiwanese company, but nevertheless, it marked a number of improvements over EVO 4 g. Constructed from plastic, the handset is thinner (2.86) and feel less regulation in the hands, which can be attributed to in the form of a little more time. Not surprising, but retains some of the design elements that are defined with the HTC EVO 4 G, but goes in particular make it more refined. Specifically, employing to their matte soft touch a rigid pattern, offer an adequate grip when held. All, is an undoubted stem material unit EVO – although it is not sexy looking over things like HTC sense 4 G and 4 G Inspire.

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One of the first visible improvements with 3D HTC EVO is, of course, the higher the resolution 4.3 "qHD (960 x 540) Super LCD, this packaging. Relation to one comes EVO 4 G, this is actually much better with sharper details, iridescent colour production and high contract – although this wash extreme viewing angles.

Make it unique compared to the competition, Parallax barrier coating offers a viewing experience without using any inventive 3D glasses. If you have checked out the appearance of 3D on the Nintendo 3DS, you will easily understand how to work the HTC EVO 3D 3D display. To experience the 3D effect contently, need for screen display at 90 degrees, and wait a few seconds for your eyes to adjust. Strangely, it works quite well! Not only is our warning and mesmerized by this, but the courts up a reasonable amount of depth perception with 3D content. However, if necessary, to maintain a steady hand, coincidentally, mainly due to the shimmering effect seen if you tilt it easily. From our experience, we are able to view 3D content for an extended period of time, but it is worth noting that prolonged use can chafe or nauseating for some people rather. Finally, it just works!

Again, you can specify that it is from the family of circular rings EVO around each button Android Capacitive Touch. To see that they are located near the bottom edge, we have a tendency to accidentally hit the Browse buttons and home more often than others.

On top of the screen you are presented with a light and proximity sensors, wide search acoustic Bbq, 1.3-megapixel camera front and front LED light mounted on the right side of the handset.

Observation on left edge of the phone, is a microUSB port that is used for billing purposes, and data. Although it lacks a dedicated port microHDMI, you can still output a high resolution video and get a picture experience if you buy an optional MHL adapter directly linked microUSB port.

In the meantime, clicky volume rocker, camera switch and button circular aperture size conspicuously two layers all on the right side of the handset.

Both button headphone jack 3.5 mm exclusive power is located along the top edge, and better yet, we are pleased to be able to make it easier to feel the power button.

On the back, you are presented with yet another element in the handset – the 3D auto focus camera, dual 5-megapixel camera with dual-LED flash. By collaborating snaps 3D stereoskopisk photographs and videos. Although it is difficult to compile, there are open seats in a small area red skin around cameras, which hides away earphone speaker.

Yanking out of the back cover gives us access to the battery and microSD card slot – however, drag your battery in advance, if you want to switch off the microSD-card.

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LG Optimus Pad review

Getting Started:
You have already heard about the LG Optimus Keyboard – the first one with support for dual-lens 3D camera and a pair of Anaglyph glasses to tricking your brain into thinking about the third dimension, but the tablet of 8.9-inch 3-d tricks are enough to lure buyers into a Honeycomb Android Tablet market? LG claims is oblong and better overall ergonomics from shale, which provides a unique advantage of typing your fingers can reach each letter in portrait mode, but apart from the strange tall body and 3-d cameras that were difficult to differentiate this tablet between the plates out there.

Safe Optimus Pad, known as T-Mobile G-shale members, has a very impressive 1 GHz dual-core NVIDIA Tegra 2 chip, running under the hood, but today almost each tablet has power. Furthermore, it is not even close to victory in the battle of slimness organized by Apple's iPad 2 and collected by Samsung Galaxy card in the range 8.9-inch and 10.2-inches.

Design:
After the release of the iPad 2 tablet, it seems that the designers have begun collectively singing the mantra slimness and fair manner – in addition to effect wow see something so minute, keep reloading of a seven-or 10-inch slate in your hand is not fun and thinner normally translates to brighter. Therefore, LG Optimus Pad probably has ignored these trends, which is almost 50% thicker than iPad 2 0.53 inches (12 mm) and despite the smaller screen, it is heavier and dropping in 21.87 ounces (450 g) compared with 21.2 oz (601 g) of the second generation iPad.

However, appreciated, despite our disappointment with the tablet of dimensions and weight, yet the comfortable soft touch and Nice sloped agar back ends that contribute to a polished appearance. In addition, LG borrowed curves and feel LG Optimus 2 X instant brand recognition in order to bring the people who have used the phone. The solid build reassures tablet of your quality and even the weight of the mainly contributes to the feeling, at first, but most of the meetings (and we can imagine reading a book of hours) have a tendency to tire the hand.

8.9-inch LCD monitor on Optimus Pad sports a bizarre resolution 1280 x 768, justified by the enlarged body by tablet. The aspect ratio is 16: 9 – wide enough, movie, which is an area where the Tablet computer shining with its full HD video recording and playback. Colors are represented accurately with bright, excellent viewing angles, but disappointing sunlight readable. The detailed analysis, however, contribute significantly to readable text without too much difficulty browsing and reading on the road. Display dominates the front of the Optimus Pad, but tangential to the upper LG has placed in front of the opposing snapper 2-megapixel and a proximity sensor.

Device plastic pages keep a microUSB and miniHDMI port on the left (if you look at the tablet with a portrait orientation), while on the right to have a mic and volume rocker. Travel plan at the top is the Central lock, our fingers are constantly struggled to find, but when they responded with a slightly separate response, so pressing, it is not a problem. Slightly to the left is a speaker, a headphone jack 3,5 mm and a proprietary charger. Finally, the houses at the bottom of the Tablet stereo speakers.

Soft-touch back is one of the highlights of the design to attract attention with Optimus Pad a dual-camera configuration for 3D capture. 5-Megapixel Snappers are capable of full 1080p HD video capture at 720 p video and 2D to 3D. Cameras are almost an inch from each other, while a strip of metal brushed with a separate engraved Google logo draws a line to the right in the middle of the tablet. While there is no easy way to change the battery, is the upper part of the back cover removable, so you can insert a SIM card to your data or manually restore the Tablet via a dedicated button.

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HP TouchPad review

Getting Started:
Feel the depths of oblivion, it seemed as if all the hard work with Palm webOS will nowhere fast as its mobile platform was not adopted by consumers in relation to competition, but Lucky for the HP attack down and rescued them from a possible premature death. Revitalize and supported by almost insurmountable amounts of cash flows, HP now call determines and takes on new layers to webOS Palm will only dream about in sleep. In fact, it was only back in February, when the world was first introduced to the next level of webOS devices – one of none other than TouchPad HP.

There are nearly five months, and the world is finally taste the first webOS Tablet for TouchPad 3.0 HP – but more important, some are curious to know how things stand on some of the Titans in the market. Fortunately, flaunts this point Omega-so lovely price of $ 500 to the base 16 GB Wi-Fi only model, and knowing that this packaging also impressive specifications according to hood, no doubt establish itself as a competitor. However, knowing that this line is defined in the waiting consumers tablets excel from head to toe, in order to get a piece of the pie in a dessert.

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Design:
Let us be honest here, but the first thing that comes to mind when looking for and holding of the TouchPad, it is the fact that reminds us of a super-sized iPhone 3 G/3GS – mainly due to the black plastic exterior and location of the buttons. Instead of sporting events and fancy some essential industrial design, the TouchPad of conventional appearance is seemingly wild day and not try to impress. On the other hand, is made from glossy piano black plastic that looks wickedly polished outside the frame, but it attracts fingerprints and smudges scarily like no other. At the same time, it is larger (thickness "0.35) and Dizzy (26.10 oz) heavier than some of the opponents – even though it makes us wonder since it sounds hollow after a quick tap on the back. I would not win any awards in the planning, but it is comfortable to hold thanks to the curved back — and feeling stable pace, built for the most part.

Boasting a 9.7 IPS screen "with a 4: 3 aspect ratio, which is the same for use with iPad 2, sporting its own analysis and 768 x 1024 pixels. More than enough to draw up a detailed text fine, no problems with clarity, but the production of low surface brightness makes it difficult to view in outdoor settings with the Sun here. As for the manufacture of paints, are notable with natural tones and does not appear to be overly saturated – maintain its vitality thanks to wide viewing angles. Everything is actually a nice display, but does not provide the brightness that is addressed to other monitors – such as those regarding the iPad 2 and Galaxy record 10.1
Held vertically, there is a flat panel monitor physical button below the display minimize all sheets and displays the line start – and at the same time, even acting as candles and messages. When e-mail messages are messages or social network notifications, will slightly inside the ELEMENT glow to indicate that something is waiting for our attention.

In the meantime the only camera on the whole thing is megapixel front facing a located at the top of the screen. Although HP means seriously with the TouchPad, you be nice to see a rear camera to give users extra functionality.

With two speakers, the investments in the left side of the tablet PC offers stereo support, of course, while the computer is a tablet pc-clicky feel volume rocker located toward the upper right corner. Interestingly, there is a narrow oval-shaped cutout, which actually tucks away tablet PC serial information down corner furthest to the right. We suspect that this is the slot for a SIM card for future iterations of the tablet sports cellular connectivity.
Along the top edge of the Tablet, we find the 3.5 mm headphone jack, microphone, and a small, but tactile sense of the power button. The only thing that was found at the bottom, on the other hand, is a microUSB port is used for billing information, and data connectivity. Unfortunately, you are presented again with the polished issue that still has another feature that is often the case with tablets today – such as video-out port via an HDMI-out a sort of. Finally, the rear plastic casing completely naked apart from base material to the HP logo and branding for less at the bottom. As some of the other, there is no easy access to 6,300 mAh internal battery – meaning, you must send it away for the service.

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Jabra KYMATOS review

Getting Started:
The wave of Jabra Bluetooth headsets that could be your Savior in a breezy day, or whatever the manufacturer, it is reassuring to us. Retailing at around $ 60, the headphones are the main sales argument works very well in colder environments, thanks to the shape of microphone boom and DSP algorithms (signal processing). Of course, could not leave the wave, Jabra untested thus gave us the opportunity to impress us, but this achieved? This becomes clear at the end of our review. Now, make it possible to begin to take a closer look at the device itself.

Design:
The wave of Jabra Crescent shape is designed to largely remain hidden behind the ear while a microphone boom extends forward to the user's mouth. We agree that the headset is relatively high compared to other models, but in reality, which is not a disadvantage, because the wave is much lighter than expected. At 1.52 grams, or 13 ounces may be heavier than many other headsets out there, but thanks to the correct weight distribution and a wise choice of materials, the wave did not exert pressure on the ear. Unfortunately rather say we do not want to be able to stop watching this completely. The headset can be felt very often due to the large contact area with your ear.

The wave of the body plastics Jabra has a soft touch finish, added to this, and the supposedly stable hugs your ear is done with rubber to give a tight grip. These combined with rubber sectors could be inclined to collect pollution and dust, but thanks to an extra bit of friction offer headphones barely move, no matter how you turn and twist. However, the Western balkans, the handset, which was to lay on top of the ear canal, it feels like it will be removed at any time. Fortunately, the second has been included in the ear gel sets have a greater tip and feel a bit more pleasant. When you get used to the headset, you should have no problems wearing it over a long period.

Over the wave of Jabra find a separate on/off switch, not get to see often enough for Bluetooth headphones. Right below is a microUSB port that is used for charging internal battery, but the coverage is so flimsy that it comes from the same time. We also discussed a well exposed 2 buttons, volume rocker and a pair of LED lights that indicate the battery level and status of the device. So how do you answer your calls can ask. Well, something that was very pleased to find that microphone boom also has a button for the tip – pressing the collections up and not responding to the call. Joy, we can say that the search button with your finger could not be easier.

Now that we know that the wave of Jabra is not something that can be embarrassing tip in public, let us know if it really offers superior audio quality.

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HTC Salsa review

This is a global GSM phone. Can be used with T-Mobile, United States and at and t, but without 3 G.

Getting Started:
Salsa music is your friend, To put it on nachos-you can do this in dance. The word new times gatherings, music and entertainment. We guess you for salsa is the name of the HTCS latest social media and more specifically the Facebook phone. Facebook integration with clearer, bears more than HTC Salsa, along with its sibling, HTC ChaCha, a button of Facebook, of course, to connect what is happening in your hand to the world of Facebook. Sits between the HTC wildfire s and HTC desire S, is on Facebook, we want to quite some Salsa in our social network, or want to become better by ignoring this friend request and this is a more established model?

Design:
The first thing we think about design of HTC Salsa is the quality of construction. This is not the half baked removes working plastic every bit as well built as the HTC desire HTC hero with an s-esque styling. So, will result in the jarring blue button at the bottom of the version that makes it very clear what all this buzz about. But we will come to later, now, lets talk about the screen.

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By resolution HVGA (320 x 480) and 3.4 inches of screen, HTC Salsa provides a good overall contrast and brightness levels, but not very sharp. Viewing angles hold very well and the capacitive reacts to do the specific enough overall experience is good, but the League below WVGA displays out there.

As regards spatial planning, as mentioned, similar to the HTC Salsa suffered a HTC hero with a Chin that houses extremely important Facebook button. Just below the screen is 4 capacitive buttons while over the front facing camera, light sensor and a speaker on the call. There is a volume rocker and a micro USB port to the left and to the right is one of the best buttons camera, as we have seen on a phone, offers a large, light pressure, two shutter release phase. The sound and the power button until the upper jack lie, while the back is a 5MP autofocus camera, single LED Flash and speakers. The headset is ergonomically curvaceous, although it is perhaps a bit thick and heavy for some. All this makes Hardy medium-sized little PuTTY with a prominent Facebook button. However, the gloss solve screen, hoping for some very special features for justification of the HTC Salsa over the medium-price point.

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Sony Ericsson Walkman review W8

This is a global GSM phone. Can be used with T-Mobile, United States and at and t, but without 3 G.

Introduction: the Walkman revolution how people listen to music, when it came to the late 1970s. For the first time people could easily enjoy favorite melodies on the road thanks to a portable battery powered item. Now that the Walkman personal stereo, way over the past year, Mark lives only in the form of digital media players and an aging line of mobile phones manufactured by Sony Ericsson.

Sony Ericsson W8 is an attempt to revive the Walkman brand and align it with the world of modern smartphones using Android – the rather old version 2.1 Eclair, must be accurate. Created by using the Xperia X 8 as a default, W8, time which promises to deliver excellent audio performance while at the same an affordable base class Android device. A quick glance by the headphone grabs attention with beautiful colored rear panel and user friendly interface, but I will leave a good impression in our minds when we are ready to play with this? Provides the ability to take a closer look and to learn about ourselves.

Design:
Sony Ericsson Xperia W8 basically resembles a colour Xperia X 3 with a Walkman logo on it and hit more often and this is most obvious. We have the same 3-inch scratch-resistant capacitive touchscreen with a resolution of 320 x 480 pixels and the practically identical thick, Lumpy body with a small curve backwards. Although the screen TFT LCD should display a series of 16 million colors, there is a remarkable amount of dithering when viewing color gradients. Apart from these, the screen looks yellowish and color temperature very slightly tilted towards the warm side. Another drawback is that if the screen was turned off for a while, this flickering in a few seconds from the moment you turn your back, allegedly because of a poorly Engineered lighting dimming technology. But the screen resolution is more than satisfactory for a monitor of this size – graphic appears smooth and even the smallest text is easily readable. By using the Walkman W8 outdoor can be slightly difficult should, if the Sun will shine too bright, but as far as the brightness up fully contribute to a certain extent.

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The body of the Walkman W8 Xperia is built exclusively of plastics, even on the back cover are uses anodized aluminium. Slightly curved at the back of the handset making it comfortable team, but a modest 3-incher means that people with larger hands might have a hard time using it. Weight 3.7 ounces, 104 g, just enough so you can feel how this fitted in your pocket or Xperia W8.

Well, there seems to be something impressive about Walkman W8 Xperia today, but it is the sound performance of the device that is more interested in us, right? Allows you to bring the test and see if Sony Ericsson W8 can exercise it.

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HTC ChaCha review

This is a global GSM phone. Can be used with T-Mobile, United States and at and t, but without 3 G.

Getting Started:
One, two, cha cha cha, three four, cha cha cha, ChaCha, HTC [Cha]. I don't want to jump to the beat Facebook? Not? Oh well, never mind. If you wish to update your status or you roll your eyes, have Latin Dance inspired the names of two new social Facebook buttons with HTC phones, hoping to bring some excitement and buzz from the lively Latin culture in these character-building smartphones. Our review of Salsa with a less than savoury, mainly thanks to price, with similar characteristics and a physical QWERTY, all at a lower price-point, we trust the ChaCha Facebook HTC phone with all the right steps.

Design:
HTC ChaCha value is lower than the HTC Salsa and structuring is therefore the medium as a result. It still feels very well put together and no squeaking, creaking and cracking on the horizon. Small screen at 2.6 inches, although full size QWERTY type made for it. Blue, white and silver will not be for everyone, but it feels pretty young, "facebooky and coherent. With a remarkable shift in the center of the screen where it meets the QWERTY phone, HTC ChaCha sits in your hand, well, and when face-down on a surface or screen, or keyboard to contact prevent abrasion.

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HTC ChaCha is blessed with just 2.6 inches screen landscape. Fortunately for smartphone, however, not all size by resolution HVGA (480 x 320), delivers a very good level of detail, leaving the principal competitor Android, Samsung Galaxy Pro two steps back. Also, you can expect good viewing angles and some responsive interaction, which is great. Unfortunately, it reformatted landscape concept UI and small screen, a large part of the formula is too small for comfortable reading, so it may not be ideal for those with visual impairments.

Takes a minimalist approach to physical keys, unlike car slew phones, HTC ChaCha 46, not to mention the four capacitive buttons below the screen. Most of these keys, of course, you can find, around four sliding QWERTY, each key isolated and curvaceous with a sense of iridizon. Above the QWERTY is a call and execute button Facebook button while in the lower right side of the front of the phone. Side step to left side of the HTC ChaCha for volume rocker and microUSB port, while until the top is a headphone and power button. Flip the phone to get 5MP camera-LED Flash and talk, not to mention a stylized thick silver lining, which adds a small Visual zing.

QWERTY is nice to use, click comments with keys that are easy to find and press to mention a good degree.

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HTC HD7S review

Getting Started:
More than six months at Microsoft, who brought the new mobile platform for the stage, you have seen something new in the material for the at&t of Windows phone 7, but now customers can choose to collect the HTC HD7S to the Golden price of $ 200 for the Convention. Apart from the choice of building a Super screen LCD instead, there is absolutely nothing that distinguishes it from the original version. Still, possibly some subscribed line standing below.

Design:
Employs the same svelte appearance and solid industrial design of the original template, there is plenty to like about this, but the only thing that is different with their aesthetic emphasis is yellowish/Golden around the range of the camera.

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Who knows what the "S" in its name, but one can only assume can be associated with the very best fine 4.3 "WVGA (480 x 800) LCD, Super-packaging, an original sporting a regular LCD Panel. Although it produces a deeper color display and not terribly weakened under different angles, the total brightness is still pretty reserve exit.

All buttons are in the same places as before, while the back we find 5-megapixel autofocus camera with dual-LED flash, small loudspeaker Grill and stands. Carefully, looking at the back cover which encases 1230 mAh battery and SIM card slot, this does not seem to close completely and exposes a small hole.

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Nokia E6 review

This is a global GSM phone. Can be used with T-Mobile, United States and at and t.

Getting Started:
When you open Nokia E6 Pack and organized from a high degree, feeling bittersweet industrial design. Device looks great, feels great in your hand and it seems to check all the boxes, but leaves us with a last trepidation when it comes to operating system. We already know that the combination of Symbian Anna and X 7 is missing, so why should experience is better for E6?

E6, represents, therefore, actually a completely different idea. With a keyboard QWERTY, but smaller and larger screen, as well as classic Nokia business order-form-factor, the handset can cause just nostalgic feelings amongst the audience, and eventually ends up in the pockets of a good number of people. The question is, can give rise to lodge above r row of other QWERTYs in the market.

Design:
As far as styling goes, is Nokia E6 a formidable opponent. He married a crisp, clean lines and classic styling with Nokia a distinctive appearance, Nokia's forte in delivering great material coming to light in this phone. With weight behind it, the Nokia E6 feels solid and durable, but may not be for everyone.

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The screen is without doubt a highpoint of the handset. Supply of 1 inch capacitive screen with VGA resolution, it is one of the more densely packed pixels book about, making for a super sharp view. Video quality looks fantastic on the handset, with excellent color and contrast levels, as well as very good viewing angles add only positive impression.

QWERTY form factor is a proven format for Nokia and us generally likes the design of E5, E6 builds and improves it. Under the screen is gorgeous call and end buttons, five-way d-pad and four shortcuts in the home, calendar, messaging and contacts. Activities further to four sliding QWERTY keyboard, with each key is created individually and curvaceously. Volume buttons are to the right along with the Lock slider and microUSB port, sitting to the left. Database is in the proprietary port while charging until the top is the power button, the 3.5 mm headphone jack and microSD slot. Verso Nokia E6 is 8MP camera, dual LED Flash, and speakers.

As you probably can tell, I really appreciate the great attention to detail Nokia handsets tend to demonstrate in the field of construction and E6 is no exception.

QWERTY keyboard actually performs very well with easily identifiable keys, a good amount of feedback and key click intuitive plug (despite us device containing international characters). Despite the good overall performance, E6 is a bit narrow, and so is the keyboard, therefore, may be a little tight for larger hands.

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Samsung gravity eXYPNIS review

Getting Started:
Back at the end of 2008, the Samsung gravity arrived T-Mobile lineup presents itself as an affordable Messaging phone text orientation, but as we have seen in the last few years, the line gravity has evolved to adapt to the changing era. Inevitable, at least now a line gravity pulls the ball Middle smartphone Samsung gravity SMART. As the name suggests, can the handset boasting all smartphone that comes with Android – while still packing together that they must have a physical keyboard. Price of $ 79.99, surely it is hot outside Gate shows how it is more valuable than some of their closest rivals.Package contains: Samsung cardHealth SMARTmicroUSB CableWall Charger2GB microSD seriousness and security and warranty Guide Startup Guide

Design:
Although it is a smartphone heart, is its appearance rather also yesterday with date function phone-esque design and construction. Combine a mainly plastic exterior with a soft touch back, this makes the acoustic feel of light, but it still comes as a cheap feeling now that we have with the. General design aesthetic is really boring and takes the road, playing safely with the conventional approach.
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Knowing that Samsung presents 4 g is considered a medium-sized screen with WVGA, it is undoubtedly difficult to assess the gravity of the smallest SMART screen 3.2 HVGA (320 x 480). Tolerable enough to display most things are not as sharp as on screen see text – with production color of dimmed page and. In addition, production of weak brightness makes it almost does not operate under the Sun, which requires a good armor with your hand to see visible.
Then employs severity eXYPNES after 4 g, a combination of three keys and a physical touch chwritikis, serving as the Center button. Concerning the informal of course, requires some configuration, but like most things, has easy an act very quickly.
Observation of the pages, find decent power button size, microUSB port, 3.5 mm headphone jack and volume rocker. Fortunately, both the power button and volume rocker pleasant respond when you press.
Keyboard setting requires some initial force to get the engine to start, but when you're able, we accept keyboard style 4-line landscape. We like the fact that the buttons are oval, sufficient to accommodate more people, and to demonstrate some good tactile response when pressed, but it is actually rather difficult to produce because they are flat. Nevertheless, we are able to write quickly without a lot of fluff in proportion, but you want to be nice to add a different set of "Shift" and "alt" on the right side of the unit to be more comfortable.
Finally back home to fixed focus camera 3,2 megapixel camera with Led Flash and two seats on the speakerphone. On the bottom border turned on find a location that allows us to release the back cover – so, gives us access to 1500 mAh battery, microSD card slot and spring socket for SIM card.

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Samsung trends review

Introduction:
last summer Samsung Seek brought record touchscreen layer in the market, Samsung and Sprint is now back with a follow-up. Samsung Trends remain essentially the same as the search, but adds some nice upgrades including a larger screen and more modern design. Features include a 3.5 mm jack for headphones, Bluetooth and a 1.3-megapixel camera. Trends come with a microUSB wall charger, but not the memory card.

Design:
Samsung Trends maintains the same general level sliding page as in the search, but it has improved some. Touch screen DC resistors is increased to 2,8 "-a 0.1 increase from Seek-Keep but resolution QVGA. A screen DC resistors are sufficiently flexible and fairs well in most cases, although the light washes out the direct glare. Below this you will still get back home and phone buttons. When you press the home button glow with a blue ring of light, and the other two buttons are much less give, slicker se. Trends comes to Amethyst (violet) and sapphire (blue and black) gives it a fun and more blurred.

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Along the right side of the phone is the button "camera", the microUSB port bottom and Jack audio 3.5 mm and power is at the top. On the left side has a volume rocker and a microSD slot, but there are housed within the door of the battery. The port is not exactly hard plastic, but is not sufficiently soft touch either. It is a little drop works, than we would have liked. 1.3 MP camera and phone speaker located on the back.

Slide open the Samsung Trends and you will find a line 4 QWERTY, which is essentially the same as what we wish for search. Slight rewording, but nothing drastic central location. Distance and the feeling is very good and type quickly and accurately is a gimmick about trends.
Samsung Trends is not a significant upgrade from the search, but makes some nice improvements. Mechanism, the slider is solid, the keyboard is good and the view is so responsive, you can ask to be tændkabler. Samsung and Sprint both pushed the green movement in the industry, and follows a long series of Trends green phones offered by both.

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GALAXiAS Samsung 10.1 Review tab

Getting Started:
Not content with being second best, Samsung went back to the drawing board after Apple revealed the iPad 2 in the world – with impressive thin and Premium design. Samsung is, of course, not content with knowing that you have one upped, and instead they reworked the design of adapter Samsung meets GALAXiAS 10.1 new standard set by rival Chief. After being be officially unveiled back at CTIA 2011, American consumers are now able to scoop up Samsung redesigned tablet – then crowned as the thinnest and lightest tablet on the market. Immediately, I will catch a lot of curious glares with slim profile of the razor, but above all it has is enough power to design a habit model head can remain above water on top of other recent Honeycomb stronger pills floods as well as the market?

Package includes:
Samsung GALAXiAS USB CableWall card 10.1 proprietary plug-ChargerUS AdapterQuick Start GuideHealth and safety and Security Guide

Design:
Okay, let's get together the obvious way, but Samsung GALAXiAS is certainly Super tab 10.1 knife-edge – although we are not at the same level of excitement, once we feasted our eyes on the iPad 2. However, it is the first thing to capture our attention. Apart from the appearance of thin, we are greeted with an elegant conventional Tablet PC that doesn't have anything we haven't seen before. The combination of white plastic back and silver accent offers a good contrast, but as scream in particular no premium. Everything is indeed a brave effort by Samsung, however, lacks creativity and Polish found in models such as the Apple iPad 2 and HTC flyer.

All Android powered tablets we've reviewed so up until now, 10.1 "PLS-LCD from Samsung GALAXiAS is reasonably tab 10.1 the best we have seen so far – honest! First and foremost, 1280 x 800 screen live offers some details and sharp, but when you combine this with the production of glossy color, dishes up a powerful lightness makes it quite charismatic Granites. To see that it is one of the brightest tables that have seen thanks to a Tablet PC, we do not have almost any question, try to use it outdoors in the presence of the Sun. Add skill, viewing angles are pretty much fixed to keep visible in any way you see the flow of colors rock.
When performed in the countryside, camera 2-megapxel facing front clearly located halfway along the black bezel around the screen – with proximity and light sensors. Both the left and right side clips: found along a Silver trim facade hides the two speakers, offer support for stereo output. In the meantime headphone jack 3.5 mm exclusive power, raised and volume rocker button is located along the top edge – with the latter two have a natural tactile response when pressed. At the same time, dock the tablet of proprietary connector and microphone located at the bottom of the tablet. Unfortunately, this rare some modern conveniences, such as a microHDMI port and the microSD card slot.

Flip it around the back, a 3.2 megapixel auto focus camera with LED flash is located directly in the middle of a silver accent plastic.

The more we are in love with skinny look, we should ask ourselves if Samsung had compromises with other gifts, which are becoming ever more apparent between more pills. In addition, the manufacture of plastic is in order, but does not make a resounding impression or long-term us – then again, we are curious to see how the metallic grey version of the Tablet moves.

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Samsung Darts review

Getting Started:
Now, Samsung has penetrated into T-Mobile lineup with a handful of mid-and high-end Android smartphones, it is natural to put their attention on the market lower end to balance things. Boasting an easy to swallow on value free Samsung Darts is a base-level powered Android 2.2 Froyo smartphone that packs all the awesome features continuously extend the mobile platform. Although new to the scene, when we excel in many areas to leave the understanding that LG Optimus T today holds the lower range end smartphone T-Mobile.Package includes: Driver Samsung warranty and DartmicroUSB CableWall Charger2GB GuideHealth and safety card Startup microSD

Design:
Sheesh! There is absolutely no love Dart of Samsung design seems quite boring, simple and objective. The composition of the matter is that plastic exterior makes the acoustic feel very cheap – although this compact model, makes it feel very lightweight (3.5 oz) at your fingertips. Since we can't be of conventional design, really can't knock it also because it is a free smartphone – on the other hand, the standards set by LG Optimus T.

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Not surprisingly, upgrade packs Samsung Darts a low grade 3.14 "LCD QVGA (320 x 240) display, suffers from some seriously poor viewing angles, meaningless color brightness, production output and widespread pixelization. Contribution to the even more horrible performance is that the screen is prone to some serious scratching. And seriously, you need to look at straight appearance always 90 degrees angle to clearly see something there!

Find the normal set of Android capacitive buttons at the bottom of the screen, we do not have many problems with pressing them accidentally. In addition, handset Bbq, light and proximity sensors positioned over the touch screen.
Fortunately, both the volume rocker and dedicated power button prominently affected by their environment to ensure distinguishability, when you press. Also, 3.5 mm headphone jack, microUSB port, spot and lanyard enabled card slot microSD spring suit all placed around both sides.
Flip around 3.2 megapixel, fixed-focus camera is highlighted with a chrome trim remove., while the two reeds at the bottom allow melodies which resulted from its internal speaker. In addition, there is a location on the lower edge, which gives us the ability to easily detach from the rear plastic cover – it gives us access to 1200 mAh battery and the SIM card slot.

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Samsung 4 g exhibit review

Getting Started:
Longest now packing smartphones along WVGA display and 1 GHz processors are usually as high-end devices, but as the technology continues to advance, they perceive a time top shelf phones now placed in the category medium. It is odd, precisely where Samsung presents 4 finds himself, with the affordable price of $ 79.99 for the contract must be a clear adversary in space of the product. Some modern hardware under the hood, it combines some of the lovable attributes that can make any system admired immediately, but most importantly, excel must be strongly on all sides to be seen as a strong opponent against its counterparts in higher quality.Package contains: 4GmicroUSB CableWall Charger4GB Samsung exibit microSD card Stereo headphonesStart Guide

Design:
Not as refined as compared with the design of the Samsung Galaxy S 4 G sensor Samsung presents 4 is marked with a soft touch accepted and solid construction. Luckily, plastic exterior is durable enough to withstand some punishment, and at the same time, it helps to give a good balance in weight. In fact, it is not the most beautiful thing that we have seen, and could be seen as a feature phone, but nevertheless, it is appropriate for medium-sized device.
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Change the size with reasonable size 3.5 "LCD screen, we are indeed attracted by the fact that it employs WVGA (480 x 800) resolution details to produce sharp leader – although the colors are rather light tone. Look at it straight, colors retain their appearance, but the headphone even just washing the. Shows, but it is certainly nowhere more than adequate for this scenario is close to the level of AMOLED.

Bucking the trend, employing 4 g exhibit three Capacitive Touch Android buttons with a tactile physical is used to return the homescreen. Additionally, front-line tucks into a VGA camera 0.3 megapixel front for all your video conversation, and self-portrait. On both sides, we can find a dedicated power button, the 3.5 mm headphone jack, microUSB port, microphone and volume rocker, loader slot microSD card. Fortunately, all the buttons quite decent in size and respond when you press.
Rear sport this 3.2 megapixel auto focus camera with LED flash – with three seats to the bottom end of the speaker. Finally, remove the plastic back cover gives access to 1,500 mAh battery and SIM card activated spring.

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HTC sense 4 G review

Since HTC sense 4 G is a faithful copy of the European version, used mainly the same revision, we feel.

Introduction: era of dual core handset is in full swing, especially now more than ever, we see that a large number of entities have come to show their stuff, but the victims continue to build only increase at this time. Call them exclusively or relaxed, but HTC has officially in the game in the US market, despotic smartphones such as the ATRIX Motorola 4 G and T-Mobile G2x above the ladder. Inexplicably you reveal almost out of nowhere, is the feeling of HTC already adorned outer as exhibiting strength, ingenuity and innovative qualities prescribed the Taiwanese company.

Fortunately, HTC sense 4 G looks to arrive stateside through T-Mobile, starting 15. June, where it intends to implement the next generation of HTC devices with neither start this year. Of course, there is an awful lot to like about the impressive handset, even more when you have things like Qualcomm processor 1.2 GHz dual core processor, 4.3 "LCD, qHD screen Super 1080p video capture and the latest version of the term, which runs on top of Android 2.3 Melopswmo, but will perform admirably on all sides in the conflict between the variants there? Most importantly, they will be able to differentiate itself from the package to create an unprecedented new chapter for the venerable company? Let's dive right in and Learn!

Design:

Premium. This will be our word choice to summarize the HTC sense 4 G conception. Oblique glass by looking for the manufacture of aluminium through the word be lathered products throughout this phone. While II the Samsung Galaxy s scored sense our review board, except in the case of objective design, off the bat, we are smitten with HTC 4 G look.

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The screen on the HTC sense is a 4 G qHD (960 x 540)-LCD with a Super version of Gorilla glass, measuring in 4.3 ". Offers greater density of pixel WVGA monitors of the same size as the Samsung Galaxy s II and a larger 16: 9 aspect ratio. Glass is also a version with a slanting smooth ascent towards the edges. We certainly HTC aspect ratio perceive 4 G when viewing of film content, or by using a phone in portrait orientation thanks to narrower. The density of pixels is also significantly better when another Web browsing plus. Thus, while the Super AMOLED screens plus are generally more desirable HTC sense 4 G looks huge, especially for high brightness head offers good contrast and color levels. Unfortunately, the viewing angle can be compared with the Sony Ericsson Xperia arc with colors tend to look a bit washed out when the phone in hand, despite a large main experience.

The inclusion of oblique tubes around the edges of the screen provides several advantages. Most significantly prevents by acting as a protection for the screen, when facing down, scrape against main screen surfaces. Roundup also beveled slibninger thumb when capacitive buttons and serve as a touch pointer when booking guarantee, letting you know that you have reached the edge of the screen. But Samsung gains in the form of screen technology, these intricate design elements taken into consideration gives HTC on the edge when it comes to interaction with the device and the screen.

Overshoot and HTC just keeps giving. The handset itself is expected to be solidly constructed partly from aluminium, seated in hand with proper weighting and an attractive design. The four capacitive buttons below the screen is nuzzled in version of the lowest fees in the tapering tube, while the camera is in front, light sensor and a speaker lie on top of the screen along with some diacritics HTC for the call. On the left side is a volume rocker and microUSB port until the top is Jack sound and a power button below the battery cover release button. 8MP camera, dual LED flash, loudspeaker and 2nd all decoration HTC sense 4 G back out there is called with a trademark three shadow soft touch backup.

The lid of the battery is like a suit of armour, encasing anything except the dashboard glass. When we think about the fear that we experience when output the still fragile super slim II with Samsung Galaxy s battery cover, this is the opposite, delivers a consistent styling, set the secure backup and an even more solid feel to sense HTC 4 G plus another encasing all scratches are back. A principle cover everywhere except version Gorilla glass and you can simply buy a new home.
As I said earlier, we are smitten with the look and feel of HTC sense 4 g. Design is interesting even access sensation is solid yet manageable, while the screen is good, if not great, the little touches like chewing glass Gorilla and the largest aspect ratio separately from the crowd in a good way. This is certainly more sporting character from Samsung's contest, but has more bulk. What is the best choice? While the quality of the screen cannot be so good, and it is not anywhere near as thin or light when it comes to design, HTC sense 4 G definitely has more flare and feels more stable. HTC sense 4 G 360-degree view:

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ChillBed Laptop Cooling Stand Review

One of the problems with laptops is their tendency to overheat, which can damage internal components. Their small size doesn't allow a lot of venting nor big cooling fans to keep down heat. And their portability often means that people are using them places that can block the cooling vents - like on laps or teenagers who use them while lying on the bed. There are a lot of products that try to address the cooling problems inherent with laptops. Some products are as simple as little plastic feet to elevate the back of the laptop and allow airflow on all sides. Some are more elaborate lapdesks or stands with fans to blow air across the laptop, but those often draw their power from the laptop and shorten battery life. ChillBed Industries has an aluminum laptop stand that they say is designed to absorb and dissipate heat without the use of fans. I received a 13" ChillBed for review. Let's give it a closer look.

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The ChillBed laptop stands are made of solid aluminum. They have a Z-shape that's lower in the front. The front and bottom edges are wrapped with rubbery black plastic to prevent scratches to the laptop and the tabletop. The back also has four little silicone feet. The front two also help protect the table, and all four protect your laptop when you are carrying the stand and laptop in a bag. There's a large, green logo on the top; it appears to be silk-screened on. There's also a small "Made in Canada" sticker on the bottom.

The ChillBed stands are available in sizes for 13", 15", and 17" laptops; the ChillBeds themselves are a bit narrower than the stated sizes. ChillBed Industries say their stands are designed "with Mac notebooks in mind, but will keep any laptop running cooler". They are also available in the natural aluminum and in powder-coated jet black. I asked for and received a 13" ChillBed in natural aluminum.

Back "leg" of the ChillBed

The ChillBed stand I received weighs 13.4 oz on my digital scale. It is 12.4" wide, and it is about 0.5" tall in the front and 1.4" tall in the back. My 13" MacBook Pro fits on the stand with only the smallest amount of overhang on both sides. The laptop is very stable on the ChillBed stand. The ChillBed itself can slide around on the table a bit, or at least it does on my molded plastic-topped table I use as my laptop stand and on my retro Formica kitchen table. It doesn't slide as much on my wood coffee table, so the rubber strip and the silicone pads "grip" some surfaces better than others.

I like the angle the ChillBed lifts my laptop. Typing is comfortable, and the angle seems to be a good one to prevent my wrists from tiring quickly. It also lifts my screen up a bit, and that makes the viewing angle more comfortable. I feel I can sit a bit straighter in my chair.

The ChillBed is also designed to travel in your laptop bag and provide some extra protection. You just flip the stand over and lay your laptop screen-side down on those four silicone feet. Put both pieces into your laptop bag, and the aluminum stand provides some extra screen protection. I have a couple of laptop bags now, including a Tom Bihn Zephyr that the ChillBed fits easily. I bought that Zephyr for the 15.4" Dell I used to have, and lately I've been using the Cocoon Kips Bay bag designed for the 13" MacBook Pro. The Kips Bay is much smaller than my other bags, and the laptop compartment is sized just for the laptop. I didn't think there was room for anything else, but you can see the laptop and stand both fit in the compartment. The stand was a bit taller than the compartment, but I was able to close and zip the Cocoon bag with no problem. The Kips Bay bag is hard-sided to protect the laptop, but extra protection never hurts. And I'll have my stand for comfortable typing anywhere I go.

Okay, so it's a comfortable stand and a protective travel companion. It's time to evaluate cooling. I have a MacBook Pro purchased in May 2011. I use it for writing, photo editing, email, and surfing most of the time; in other words, I don't usually use it teetering at the edge of bursting into flames. Even when I am doing something that causes the computer's case to feel warm to the hand, I've never heard a fan.

I needed a way to quantify cooling function, so I found the MagicanPaster application in the Mac App store. In addition to a lot of other parameters, the MagicanPaster application monitors various internal temperatures. I left the MagicanPaster app running in the background while I used the laptop without the ChillBed for several days. I took screenshots of the temperatures randomly as I used the laptop. I then put the laptop on the ChillBed and took temperatures at random times as I used it in my normal patterns. You can see from the tabulated data there isn't a clear pattern of temperature reduction while using the ChillBed.

I decided to find a way to exercise the laptop a bit harder. My husband was watching golf on his computer recently, and the Flash video worked the computer so hard you could burn your hand on the bottom of the aluminum chassis. I had found my method! I took a starting temperature reading, then I took the computer off the stand and ran the video for 9 minutes before checking again. MagicanPaster was showing a red reading for the CPU temp, flagging it as overly hot. I put the laptop on the ChillBed and ran the video for six minutes before checking. The temperature was even higher with the ChillBed. I stopped the test.

Perhaps it was unfair to let the computer get overheated before putting it on the ChillBed. I thought a better test of the ChillBed would be to see if it could prevent the temperature from getting that high. I waited until the next day for the next test to be sure my computer was back to normal - and golf tournaments go on forever, so I could use the same Flash feed for the second test. I again took a starting reading with the computer on the ChillBed, then I started up the golf game video again. I waited six minutes before taking a temperature reading. Again, my CPU reading was in the red. The ChillBed stand didn't prevent the computer from overheating.

I like the ChillBed as a stand for my laptop. It's stable, and it holds my laptop at a comfortable viewing and typing angle. I didn't see any cooling benefit, but my laptop is new and tends to run cool anyway. I think you'll find the ChillBed comfortable to use, and your cooling mileage may vary if you have a laptop with vents on the bottom or a laptop that tends to run hotter than mine.
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Nokia E7 review

Nokia's last gasp Symbian smartphone, the E7, is here. Does it go out in a blaze of glory or is it a damp squib? Julian Prokaza finds out in our review.

Nokia has been having a bit of a hard time of late. The Finnish mobile phone giant recently ditched the ailing Symbian as its mobile operating system of choice (in favour of Windows Phone 7) and then announced 7,000 job losses in April as part of a €1 billion cost-cutting measure. So, with the future of both the company and Symbian still uncertain, now might not seem like an ideal time to invest in a new Symbian smartphone from Nokia, which is unfortunate, as that’s just what the E7 is.

To Nokia’s credit, the E7 is an extremely stylish smartphone. It has a sleek, all-aluminium shell with rounded edges and neatly capped-off ends, along with a 4in screen that fills the entire front of the handset. It sits nicely in the hand too, although the finish does make it rather slippy. At 176g, it isn’t too heavy to tote around in a jacket pocket.

All-screen it may be, but the E7 also packs a physical Qwerty keyboard — although it takes a short while to figure where this lurks. As with similar smartphones from other manufacturers, the keyboard is actually hidden beneath the screen, but the two halves of the case fit together so snugly that it isn’t immediately obvious how to get at it.

Flipping up the E7's screen to reveal the keyboard is a Herculean task.

Unfortunately, even when armed with the requisite knowledge, getting the case to open still isn’t easy. The E7’s smooth, rounded edges don’t give much purchase for a finger and it takes two hands — and two thumbs — to push the screen out of the way. With a firm shove though, the screen slides up (in landscape orientation) to sit at a 30-degree tilt that’s ideal for use while typing.

Sadly, the physical Qwerty keyboard itself isn’t so good. The keys are a reasonable size, but they’re very shallow and not particularly tactile. The keyboard’s width (it stretches across almost the whole case) also means two-thumb typing involves a lot of reaching back and forth, although we suspect this is a matter of personal preference rather than some kind of inherent design flaw.

Keyboard side, the Nokia E7 has a flush-fitting button on its top edge that provides the usual Symbian options for powering off and switching profiles, plus a metallic slider on the left for quickly locking and unlocking the screen. There’s a similar slider on the right for the volume control, plus a button that activates digital camera mode and then works as a shutter release. Lastly, a wide button below the screen returns the Symbian Home screen when pressed in any application, and brings up a list of installed apps when pressed at the Home screen itself.

The image quality of photos taken with camera is best described as average. The eight-megapixel photos look little better than those from lower resolution smartphone cameras.

The 4in AMOLED screen on the E7 looks great. It’s bright and vibrant, but the 640 x 360 pixel resolution seems a little meagre with 800 x 480 displays now commonplace, even if it still renders text relatively crisply. The capacitive glass screen feels fine under the finger, but the super-snappy response that’s a trademark of iOS and (to a lesser degree) Android is absent — and that’s where the E7’s problems really lie.

The shortcomings of Symbian for modern smartphone use are well known, of course – that’s why Nokia has decided to dump it, after all. The version of Symbian^3 used on the E7 has been reworked for touchscreen use and, superficially, it looks the part. Start to use it, however, and it soon becomes an exercise in frustration, with its counter-intuitive controls and cryptic settings squirrelled away in the menu system.

The web browser, for example, feels wholly inadequate and struggles to render some web pages accurately. The screen lacks the resolution to render text-based pages readable in full-page view, but double-tap to zoom in and rather than the main column of body text being enlarged to fit the screen width (a standard feature on other smartphone OSes), the whole page is simply magnified by some seemingly random amount.

Pinch the screen to get a better text fit and everything jerkily steps up and down in size, with embedded images still usually left half off-screen. It’s a similar annoying story with other apps — Maps doggedly refused to download any maps data, despite incessant prompts to do so, for instance. This kind of OS silliness simply has no place on a smartphone in this day and age.

As for other modern smartphone hardware features, the E7 packs them all — including a mini HDMI-out port — and call quality is commendable enough. The non-removable 1200mAh battery is rated by Nokia at up to 9 hours talk time and 430 hours standby, and ran for just over five and a half hours in a video playback test.

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