Last year I picked up an HP Touchpad in the fire sale that resulted in the model, and all of HP’s tablet plans, being discontinued.  Now RIM appear to be doing similiar with their Playbook tablet, with prices being slashed around the world.  You might think then that now would be the right time to pick [...]

Categories: Hardware

In the first year since Microsoft’s Windows Phone smartphones first launched I’ve tested and reviewed a fair few handsets and I’ve been able to get a good insight into how the operating system translates onto different hardware types.  Of the current crop of phones none have been more hotly anticipated than Nokia’s first outing with [...]

Categories: Hardware

The HP TouchPad is dead, long live the HP TouchPad!  It feels very odd reviewing a product that you can’t buy any more.  When you factor in though that this new tablet computer is brand new out and still in its review period, and that many people will this week be taking delivery of their [...]

Categories: Hardware

A few days ago I took delivery of a Samsung Chromebook to test, I’ll be writing my full review of the Chromebook in a few days, but I wanted to see how easy it would be to live with the Chromebook as my main PC for a week.  You can read that first article here. To [...]

Categories: Google

As people are using PCs for many more things at home and the computer itself has become, in a few cases, an objet d’art in the case of some all-in-one devices companies are putting much more effort into peripherals.  In this review I want to look at two of these high-end devices, Logitech’s illuminated keyboards. Let’s start [...]

Categories: Hardware

So the time has come!  I’ve had my HTC Mozart review handset for a week now and I’ve written here about various aspects of Microsoft’s new smartphone operating system. If you missed any of the previous parts of this review, you can catch up with them here… Windows Phone 7 Review, Part 1 – Unboxing [...]

Categories: Microsoft

So far in this review series I’ve covered the main OS, the handset I’ve been provided with by Microsoft and the main apps.  But what’s a Windows Phone like to live with on a day to day basis?  This after all is the most important factor to any consumer when deciding whether to buy one [...]

Categories: Microsoft

My week with my test Windows Phone from Microsoft continues and I have to say I got used to using the phone very quickly.  In this part of the review I thought I’d write about the main applications that are built into the core operating system. The main way these apps work is through panels.  [...]

Categories: Microsoft

Yesterday I published part one of my hands on review with Windows Phone 7, and this isn’t like the early hands on where people played with one at a Microsoft event, I got the Redmond giant to send me a phone so I could give you all a real understanding of the OS and what [...]

Categories: Microsoft