Nokia’s powerhouse N97 touchscreen, QWERTY keyboard-packing smartphone may have arrived to mixed reviews, but its new, rescaled Nokia N97 Mini stablemate offers a refreshed take on the device. Its ‘Mini’ moniker doesn’t mean this is a heavily stripped down version of the original N97, however. While it does pare down some elements of the N97 [...]
While Motorola might have been feeling pretty happy about actually releasing a phone again in the Dext, it clearly wasn’t the handset to re-launch the brand. So step forward the Milestone (Droid to our US users), the latest Android phone – but can it be Moto’s greatest? The first thing you’ll notice about the Motorola [...]
The latest addition to the Nokia family is the first device running Maemo 5, a new OS that takes the best of Nokia’s internet tablet range and stuffs it into a phone-sized chassis. Featuring a huge 3.5-inch screen and full slide-out QWERTY keyboard, it’s also packing a seriously strong engine under the hood to power [...]
Compare the pain of dragging three thickset Booker Prize candidates to the south of France with you with the 220g weight of the Sony Reader Pocket Edition and you’re halfway to understanding the appeal of eBooks. But with Amazon’s Kindle arriving in the UK imminently, should you burn your bookshelves just yet? Small, light and [...]
Archos is usually the first name on the lips of avowed video junkies, but the French company’s media players have often been hamstrung by arcane menus and fiddly interfaces. So the Archos 5 Internet Tablet, which runs Google’s lovely Android OS is, in theory, a match made in PMP heaven. With its huge 4.8 in, [...]
A poptart of a mobile phone It shows how far the mobile world has come when even the most budget-friendly phones can pack some touchscreen action. We’ve seen a few devices try and go down the smartphone route on the cheap (the HTC Tattoo) and some offering bog- standard touch at rock-bottom prices (Orange Vegas [...]
Samsung’s latest flagship handset, the Samsung Jet S8000, was released to massive fanfare around the world, and the General Manager for the UK said that he thought it was better than the Apple iPhone 3GS – but can a non-smartphone really compete? The Samsung Jet S8000 is billed as ‘Smarter than Smartphone’, a direct comment [...]
Sony Ericsson has brought out another version of its Xperia line up, the Xperia X2, and hopes to capture the interest of those looking for a phone that crosses the line between business and leisure. The new phone echoes the design of the original X1, but improves in nearly every area, with Sony Ericsson taking [...]
Sony’s first PlayStation Portable PSP handheld gaming console was first announced at E3 way back in 2003 and first arrived in UK stores in September 2005. Fast forward four and a bit years and Sony has finally released a pocket-sized version of the PSP, dropping the hugely unpopular Universal Media Disc (UMD) format in favour [...]
