Archive for August, 2007
Hands-on with the Archos 105 “super-dim” DAP
Filed under: Features, Portable Audio
Let’s not beat around the bush here: the Archos 105’s OLED screen sucks. Sure it’s a 1.5-incher, meant only for the most rudimentary of song browsing activities, but we wouldn’t risk our precious eyesight spending another five minutes looking at the dim, pixelated thing. We’re not really crazy about the control […]
LG’s KS20 and KU990 vs. the iPhone
Filed under: Cellphones, Features
The silent, yet eerily palpable rivalry betwixt LG and Apple continues, secretly, growing subtlety with every new phone release (as you can see in the Windows Mobile-based KS20). Or maybe these two companies just love this design — certainly Nokia is fond of it. It’s hard to say really, but what isn’t […]
Hands-on with Sony’s new T200 and T70 touchscreen cameras
Filed under: Digital Cameras, Features
Sure, smile-detection might smell of gimmickry, but we like Sony’s new touchscreen T200 and T70 cameras all the same. Normally we’d say bigger is better for LCDs, but the T200 looks like someone did a shoddy job of scaling the T70’s screen up to size — same amount of pixels, now […]
Sony’s IFA booth tour
Filed under: Features
The Sony booth screamed “budget cuts” after the Samsung and LG extravagance we had just witnessed — at its worst moments, we though we were looking at Best Buy shelves — but Sony isn’t really putting out a lot of new product at this year’s show, so it’s understandable. We’ve already seen the […]
