The M530W is another entry level PDA phone from ASUS- it lacks a touch screen, but includes a full QWERTY thumb board. The M530W goes head with the Motorola Moto Q and the Nokia E61i right down to the slim design.
The ASUS M530W is offered in two colours white and black. We got the pearly white for review, and the photographs don’t do it justice it may look like the old Sony Ericsson T100, but the white body with orange detailing manages to look quite appealing. The navigational buttons are well laid out- they are large, comfortable to use and have good tactile feedback. However, the numeric keys have an orange glow thanks to the backlight, and the screen printed numbers on them are not easily legible.
The M530W’s multimedia features especially music are just passable. It supports MP3 and video playback, but entry level phones from other makers will easily beat the M530w at this. The 2 Megapixel camera is quite similar to one on the P256, and deliver decent photographs nothing particularly remarkable here.
The ASUS P750 is top of the line, 3G capable PDA phone that has every possible feature you’d ever want. The design is gorgeous, and the phone looks great in its matt black outfit.
Though oriented towards executives, the P750 lacks a QWERTY keypad; it does have touch screen, which in combination with windows mobile 6 makes up for the lack. There are five input options available, and the XT9 option works like a charm-it can predict words better than the old T9 dictionary most other cell phones have.
The P750 comes loaded with an abundance of pre-installed applications- Microsoft Office 6.1, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Notes and Calendar, is the highlight. The P750 also features GPS, a business card reader, UR time home screen, Remote presenter, Java, ASUS launcher, etc-this phone is a treasure trove.
The P750 performed admirably. The signal reception was good; in low reception areas calls weren’t dropped. Voice clarity is great, and the speaker-phone is loud and clear. Most importantly, the P750 deliver in the area that matters the most-usability.
The P526 is an affordable PDA phone that goes head-to-head with Sony Ericsson P1i and Nokia E61i. The headset’s design is very similar to its high-end sibling, the P526. The P526 is well proportioned, and feels more comfortable to hold than Nokia’s E61i.
The P526 is also comes bundled with the necessary applications- Mobile Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. PIM functions include a meeting Time Planner, Remote Presenter, Voice commander, business card recognition and Java support. The phone also includes GPS, but the corresponding software needs to be installed separately.
The P526 doesn’t have a joystick, and completely relies on the touch screen for navigation, which isn’t very intuitive. The soft menu buttons and two dedicated buttons are in the form of a small thin strip, and are difficult to operate. The keypad is well spaced, and offers good tactile feedback.
The ASUS P526 has good signal reception, and we had no problem with dropped calls or static. Voice clarity was good, and two days on 45 minutes of talk, GPRS usage and tinkering around with GPS.
The Belkin laptop cooler has a fresh and unique looking design that is made to be practical. It is built rather well and doesn’t come with a metal body to absorb heat like the others we’ve seen from its competitors.
Even throgh it has a plastic body, it is still pretty well built. It is smooth, shaped well and has two strips of rubber-like grips at the top and bottom of the upper surface of the platform. This is to help your laptop stay in place. The bottom has a grip to stop it from sliding around on your table.
The fan, unfortunately, has no throttle control, so you’re with one single full-speed setting. The lowest point on the laptop is at the same level as the fan itself. This simply means, that the fan is blocked by what ever surface you place it on. This is also gives the fan some breathing space. The other flap at the bottom opens up into a small compartment that can be used to store the small USB cable supplied with it.
Antex is an equality well know brand as cooler master and the rest. We have already tested one of their entry-level cases – the NSK4400. The Antec Three Hundres is more robust and well-built case.
The body design is somewhat like the Antec Nine Hundred, but is a little simpler looking. Three are two fans – one at the top and one at the rear. Both fans have throttle control switches to control their speed. Two more fans can be added to the front and one to the side of cabinet. The cabinet doen’t comes with an inbuilt power supply, and when you do buy a power supply, you will find that it fits into the bottom of the case.
Six hard drives can be installed inside this cabinet, and there is space for three optical drives. The cabinet has two USB ports, the audio connectors nd the power and reset switches on the top of the cabinet.
The glossy black front with shiny metal accents looks good on the LG KC550 while the matte rubber finished at the back of it helps handling and adds on to the good looks. The glossy front is, however, a smudge magnet.
The phone is still a triband phone, and that’s just sad. However, the signal reception of this phone is good, and you will not get disconnected every now and then in areas of lower signal strength.
The KC550 sports a 5 megapixel autofocus camera with a power LED flash and a self portrait mirror. It’s capable of capturing images with a maximum resolution. The camera uses Schneider-Kreuznach certified optics, and is protected by a sleek shutter with a stylish brown metallic accent.
The KC550 has a 900 mAh battery which can take up to 3 days of moderate usage with just a single charge.
Specifications:
2.4-inch colour display, 5MP autofocus camera, 1GB memory card bundled, loudspeaker, FM, MP3 Player.
Intel IT-10500W are a pair of floorstanders that look like some of the more well know brands seen in most electronics showrooms. These are floor standers, so ther’s no sepatrate woofer unit.
The speakers perform fine through all of the tests. there is a little distortion when the volume is turned up beyond the 80 percent mark. The hard drum beats come out really well, and the boomy bass is present as well. The crisp highs are not as prominent as in some of the high-end speakers. The tone in general isn’t very neutral either. The sound is more inclined towards the higher mid-range frequencies.
A big wireless microphone is bundled, and the speaker have a volume and echo control for the microphone. Quality is average, but it is a nice feature to have for karaoke.
They might not have the best sound, but with the output power and the compactness that these speakes have, they could supplement the average TV’s inbuilt speaker.
When it comes to slim laptops, the new P300 from LG surely is oe of the ‘top few’. Complete with a glossy top andbrushed aluminium finished keyboard, palm-rest and touchpad, this is a product that wants to take on the much hyped Mac Book Air. The P300 has a 13.3 inch LED backlit LCD display, with a maximum resolution of 1280 * 720. It also sports a 2.1 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 4 GB of Ram, 250 GB HDD and NVIDIA ge force 8400m GS graphics to top it up.This laptop is capable of handling jobs that range from basic internet browsing, to mid-level computting. The 4 GB Ram really comes in handy when viewing HD videos; plus if you want a bigger screen, the onboard HDMI compatile device.Even though there are so many plusses to this neat laptop, we would have preferred to have an internal optical drive reather than an external one. Finally, to sum it all up, the LG P300 comes as a compact notebook that surpises with its performance and features that are enough to take care ofyour daily computing, and all this as an ultraportable. Specification: Intel Core 2 Duo processor 2.1 GHz, 4GB DDR2 Ram, 250 GB HDD, 13.3 inch LED backlit display, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, External DVD burner.
The Epson Stylus Photo 1390 is not exactly meant for home-based printing that is why we think the company has paid lesser importance to the looks and beautification of this mammoth printer.
To start with the Epson Stylus Photo 1390 gets its big size due to its ability to print A3 borderless prints. The printer utilises Epson Stylus Photo 1390. The Epson Stylus Photo 1390 offers print resolutions of up to maximum of 5,760*1,440 dpi, along with advanced variable sized Droplet Technology, which allows the printer to utilises different size ink drolets as per the job requirement.
Printing speed is good and speedy enough to finish your chores in time, the Epson Stylus Photo 1390 took 34.1 seconds to print a full A4 page text and images in colour, while an A4 photo print took just 2 minutes and 25 second to complete.
So finally to sum it all up Epson Stylus Photo 1390 is a photo class printer that per-forms jobs at the best possible time and gives you a plethora of features and is surely to be on the top list of photo enthusiasts.
The SCX-4300 is the latest in the successful SCX series of multi-function devices from Samsung.
The SCX-4300 looks terrific in the black outfit and will definitely look good on any desk. The wider and deeper SCX-4300 now allows buttons and two lines, 16 character LCD display on the front console. The paper cassette has healthy 250 page capacity and the output tray can hold around 50 sheets.
The scanner unit on the SCX-4300 is moderately fast at scanning and takes around 20 seconds to complete a 150 dpi A4 colour photograph. The scanner output quality is moderate; nothing to write home about. Details are captured well sharpness kept within check
The SCX-4300 is an excellent buy for the features on offer. If you want a sturdy, low volume laser MF device then Samsung SCX-4300 makes good sense and we recommend it.
Specification:
19PPM,600*600 dpi resolution, 1-99 copy, 600*2400 dpi scanner, scan to PC, 250 sheet cassette, 8MB buffer, 10,000 monthly dutty cycle, 21kg.
