Saitek - X-52 flight control system review

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throttle and joystick for flight sims (31/01/2005)
Flight simulation games have always had a firm following amongst wannabe pilots who want to relive WWII dogfights or experience more modern jet warfare. Essential to this air combat are a decent joystick and throttle control and while there have been many recent advances in design and functionality, none has totally managed that bridge between authenticity and gameplay compatibility. Until now.

Logitech - Precision USB Gamepad review

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simple game controller (20/12/2004)
That said, the Logitech Precision USB Pad is perhaps not your best choice of the three devices on show here if you're looking for a controller capable of matching what the PlayStation 2 item has to offer.

Microsoft - Wireless Optical Executive Edition

Here's a question for you. How much would you pay for a keyboard and mouse set? In days gone by, you might be tempted to stretch to £50 or £60, perhaps, assuming the right combination of features and comfort. Yet to have the pleasure of a Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop Executive Edition in front of you, Mr Gates' empire will be looking to relieve you of a cool £119.99.

Microsoft - Entertainment Desktop 8000

Make no mistake about it: manufacturers are increasingly keen to move your computing away from a standard desk and into the domain of media and lounge-based computing. Microsoft's latest keyboard and mouse set, the Entertainment Desktop 8000, attempts to straddle both environments, but ultimately struggles to satisfy either.
The package itself, on top of the stylish keyboard and mouse themselves - both wireless, thanks to Bluetooth technology - features a recharging station, and it's this box of tricks that Microsoft is pinning a good deal of its hopes on.
The station connects both to the mains and a spare USB port, and by resting the keyboard on it, the unit charges up. Likewise, there's a pad built onto the station that the mouse can sit on to charge up, and a couple of USB ports are mounted onto it for good measure. The station also comes with a USB port into which you need to fit the supplied USB Bluetooth adapter. It's a box of talents, albeit one that would be an odd fit for the average living room.

Genius - Ergo 555 Laser review

The gaming mouse has been around for a while but is constantly being tweaked and refined to offer that extra competitive edge. Genius has been pretty active in this market. Its latest offering is the Ergo 555 Laser, capable of a handling a range of dpi settings from 400 up to an impressive 3,200. It's a wired USB mouse featuring a cloth cabling that's supposed to be more flexible and less likely to restrict your movement at that critical juncture.
The rest of the admittedly stylish design includes a smooth rubber grip, a total of 10 control buttons with scroll wheel and an innovative OLED display that reports the current profile settings. Our first impressions were that the mouse was extremely light, and there's no provision here for adding weight as seen in some rival products in this range. This is something you get used to, though, and few but the most finicky of gamers would find it has much of an impact on performance.

Microsoft - Sidewinder Mouse review

The first rule of Sidewinder Mouse? Download software from the Web. With no disc included in the otherwise comprehensive packaging, the bright startup guide is insistent that that's where you start. It's a 14MB download you need, and cleverly it's grouped with standard mice rather than the gaming menu under Microsoft's tree structure.
This, then, is Microsoft's long-promised re-entry into the PC gaming hardware sector, to which it made a token gesture with the release of an Xbox 360 gamepad for PC, but otherwise left alone since abandoning the original Sidewinder gaming line many years ago. The new Sidewinder Mouse is promised to be the first in a line-up of accessories aimed very much at the serious gamer

Saitek - P3200 Rumble review

With the rise and rise of console gaming, there isn't an Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 player who doesn't feel at home punching the buttons and triggers on their controller. So when the same gamers wanted to try out the joys of PC gaming, the manufacturers obliged by producing gamepads designed along the same lines, so they wouldn't feel lost figuring out combinations of keypads and mice.
Saitek has been at the forefront of PC gaming peripherals for some time and its latest forays into this area have produced the P3200 Rumble and the Cyborg Rumble. Both are designed to support both classic PC gamepad configurations and Microsoft's new Xbox 360 controller standard (although it's virtually identical to the PS3 controller) but the Cyborg contains extra features like an FPS button for shooter lovers and Precision Mode to decrease sensitivity.

Gembird - EL720 Slim Illuminated Aluminium Keyboard review

In contrast to the majority of computer components and peripherals, the humble keyboard has quietly undergone a revolution over the past half-decade or so. Previously the last thing you cared about, and more often than not stuffed in the sub-£5 box at the local computer fair, the keyboard has been a major beneficiary of several shifts in computing.
For one, it's benefited from the media revolution, giving keyboard makers the world over a simple excuse to smack an array of media-related keys and extra buttons onto their boards. Secondly, people have become more health-aware, and thus the keyboard is rarely treated - except by the laptop market - as an afterthought any more.
And finally there's been the aesthetic overhaul of the PC, with eroding price margins forcing manufacturers to big-up the looks of their equipment to help snag a sale. End result? A good quality keyboard now at least demands £20-30, and it's not unreasonable to spend more.

ASUS Santa Rosa F3Sc-T7250 Notebook

Asus has been launch their new notebook series with Santa Rosa based notebook PC. The multimedia notebook called Asus F3Sc-T7250 which adopting 15.4 inch LCD display with 1280×800 maximum resolution which featuring up to 4GB DDII 667 MHz.
The video memory can be expand up to 384MB which is use ASUS Splendid Video Enhancement Technology. The graphic card powered by NVidia GeForce 8400M G and support DirectX 10. The power management inside Asus F3Sc-T7250 featuring with Power4 Gear Extreme. The price is not known yet and will be available next month.

Toshiba DynaBook SS RX1/TAE Wide Notebook PC

TOSHIBA will release their new wide notebook pc DynaBook SS RX1/TAE with 12 inch wide screen display like previous DynaBook RX1 at the market in Japan, which is equipped with 128GB DSS.
Running on Core 2 Duo U7600 (1.20GHz) CPU more powerful rather than DynaBook AX/57A with Operating System included Windows Vista Business, the DynaBook SS RX1/TAE supports 1280 x 800 (WXGA) resolution and up to 12.5 hours of battery life. Toshiba Dynabook should be available in the middle of April 2008 with the price about 400,000 Yen Japan.

Acer Aspire 9800 Review

Acer Aspire 9800 has huge size is the fact that it has a 20-inch screen. Yes, that’s twenty inches. Measuring 490 x 380 x 60mm (W x D x H) and weighing in at a hefty 8.5kg (including the huge power brick), there’s no way you’ll be lugging this monster of a laptop around.
Despite the size of the screen, its resolution is a disappointing 1,680 by 1,050 pixels, which is low when you consider that you can get 1,920 by 1,200 on some 17-inch displays. The graphics adapter is an Nvidia GeForce Go 7600 using 256MB of memory, and there is also a 1.3-megapixel camera mounted in the top of the screen.
As standard the Aspire 9802WKMi comes with one of Intel’s T2300 Core Duo processors, clocked at 1.66GHz, and a 5,400rpm, 100GB hard drive. Our system had the storage option offered with the more powerful 9804WKMi with its T2500 (2.0GHz Core Duo), namely a RAID array of two disks.
The Aspire 9800 series uses Intel’s i945PM Express chipset with its DDR2 memory support. In the case of the review system this meant 1GB of 667MHz memory, but if that isn’t enough the motherboard can support up to 4GB via two SODIMM slots

Panasonic ToughBook W7 Convertible Tablet PC

Panasonic has been launch their new convertibel tablet PC Panasonic ToughBook 19 - next generation afer Panasonic ToughBook W7 with 10.4 inch screen display which empowered by Intel Core 2 Duo U7500 (1.06GHz).
Some feature also included at ToughBook 19 like 80 HDD storage with sextensible memory which is up to 4GB DDR3. The ToughBook 10 also support 1024×768 (XGA) pixel resolution with 2 megapixel camera on the top of screen with LED flash. The price on the market will be around 3,199 USD

Averatec 8400 Notebook Using AMD Turion Dual Core

TG Sambo from Trigem Korea has been launch their new notebook which is named Averatec 8400 with 15.4 inch display on Korea market. Featuring high glossy blue-black color with pearl like Lenovo Thinkpad R61, they use AMD Turion™64×2 TL-64(2.2GHz) as the processor.
The Averatec 8400 also called N8475KFHK featuring with WXGA AveraBrite TFT LCD (1280×800 pixel) with width 39.1 cm. The memory capacity 2048 MB DDR II 667 MHz can run all of your business application like Microsoft Office and Macromedia Dreamweaver and Fireworks. The disk storage have 160 GB SATA can use to store all of your files which can split into some partition. If you a gamer, I guess you will disappointed because Averatec only used ATi Mobility Radeon HD2400.
For internet connection Averatec 8400 completely with wireless network 802.11 b/g (54 Mbps), LAN 10/100 Base-TX/Modem and other feature like express card slot, USB 2.0 (4 port), IEEE 1394 and Mic. The weight just 2.8 kg with measurement 365×264.5×35.8 millimeter. Also you can get Windows Vista Home Premium bundled. There’s no price available yet.

Flybook V5 New Tablet PC With Vista Business Edition

Flybook as one of the electronic company showcase their new tablet PC which is called Flybook V5 with swivel magic during CeBIT 2008. It’s support Core Duo U2500 with CPU speed 1060 MHz.
For business oriented, this tablet PC is a good choice come with Windows Vista Business Edition, graphic card integrated using Intel GMA 950. The display size only 8.9 inch with 1024×600 pixel CCFl b/l. The memory using 2 GB with storage device only 80 GB.
The measurement size is 235×163x30 millimeter with weight just 1200 gram, it’s pretty light tablet PC. Flybook V5 already feature with 802.11 a/b/g but not using the latest 802.11 n technology but it’s support HSDPA.
The other specification is built-in camera, AC adapto, mic array, stereo speakers, fingerprint reader, scroll/thumb wheel. The other interface features of Flybook V5 are gigabit ethernet, video-out, RJ-11 for modem, USB 2.0 and express card 54/1. The price is $3100 and it’s already available on the US market.

Sony Ericsson T303 Compact Slider Phone

Published April 2, 2008 in Sony Ericsson, Cellular Phone 0 Comment
The Sony Ericsson T303 is a basic 128 x 160 pixels, the TFT screen 1.3-megapixel camera, Bluetooth technology and an FM radio. Overall, the size is 83 x 47 x 15mm and weighs 93 grams T303.

The Sony Ericsson T303 comes with a media player, but only 8 megabytes of memory non-extensible. Yes, we did not say megabytes and gigabytes. Enough for about a single song, and no longer, so really the Media Player will be useful in the management of MP3 ringtones. More sense, the FM radio with TrackID has determined that the song is played.

Nokia N81

Nokia did not give up on the idea of the avançé mobile play, and now it is behind with a revenge on Nokia N81 plus some other devices on smartphone in the chain of Nokia.
This is a slide block 3G with a display of 2.4 ” 240 X 320 pixel which functions in orientations (large) of landscape (to far) and portrait. On the back of 2 megapixel is a camera, and N81 also has the connectivity of WiFi and Bluetooth which can also be employed for the play. There is a FM radio also, and N81 exploits the operating software of Symbian S60, making him a smartphone capable.
It has a web browser there and the customer and Nokia N81 of email can also place calls of VOIP (if your carrier did not neutralize the functionality). There is a wheel of navigation, and of N81 had a revision to return it more dynamique.
Nokia said N81 should be available during the October 2007 at an estimated cost before tax and the subsidy around €360/de £250.

Sony Ericsson W610i Review

Sony Ericsson W610i is a very slim monoblock phone with a thickness of just 14mm, it comes with a 1.9″ 176×220 pixel display, 2 megapixel digital camera, an FM radio and expandable memory using Memory Stick Micro cards. Sony Ericsson include a 512Mb card in the box which is enough for about 8 albums worth of high-quality MP3s.
Only Ericsson W610i has gone a bit glossy, but it’s not just a slimmed-down version of the old W800i - the software has been upgraded since the original incarnation of the Walkman phone, making this a more polished device underneath too.
In much the same way that the original Sony Ericsson W800i “Walkman” phone was a version of the K750i camera phone, the Sony Ericsson W610i is a “Walkmanised” version of the K550i Cyber-shot phone. Do we really need another Walkman phone? We’ve begun to lose count of exactly how many W-series devices that Sony Ericsson have come up with, but if you regard the W610i as a more interesting replacement for the less-than-successful W700i then it makes a certain amount of sense.
Sony Ericsson W610i Specification:Network: GSM 850/900/1800/1900Data: GPRS + EDGEScreen: 176×220 pixels, 262k coloursCamera: 2 megapixelsSize: Medium monoblock, 102 x 46 x 14mm / weight tbcBluetooth: YesMemory card: Memory Stick MicroInfra-red: YesPolyphonic: YesJava: YesBattery life: 7 hours talk / 14 days standby
One final oddity - Sony Ericsson are making the W610i available in “Plush Orange” and “Satin Black”, these colours are on the back of the phones. The Plush Orange is the black phone in the picture, the Satin Black one is the white one

Sony Ericsson W550i MP3 Player

A very narrow relative of W600, Sony Ericsson W550 is almost identical in terms of specifications. W550 comes the same digital camera from 1.3 megapixel, display of playback of multi-media, Pixel 176×220 more 265Mb of storage internal (more or less like a compact player MP3), web browser, customer of email, Bluetooth and a radio of FM.
W550 does not have any support of EDGE, unlike W600, but it comes with a service pair to pair game faciity (similar to Nokia N-Gage the series). Another minor difference between the handset is color, W550 comes in blue, white or orange (W600 is Orange-only).
Moreover, W600i is band of quadruple, W550 is only tri-band GSM 900/1800/1900. Still, the 256Mb of the memory means that it is not a killer of iPod, but the packed up applications make it rather easy to transfer the music starting from CD to the player from music. He looks at completely fresh however, which always will be important for a marked device of “walkman”.
Sony Ericsson W550 will be available in two configurations, W550c for China and W550i for the rest of the world. At the same time, W600a is retitré W600i and will be released in the whole world.

Sony Ericsson W380 in 3 Different Version

Sony Ericsson W380 looks a bit dull. It is a “Walkman” brand clamshell GSM phone with a 1.3 megapixel camera and a 176×220 pixel screen. The model number relatively low (for example, 380) says that it is a low-end phone. It come with series W380i, W380a and W380c.
Sony Ericsson W380 has a few features that actually make it a surprising phone very cool. First, it is a Walkman phone, you know that it will have good multimedia capabilities but there is more. Maybe the smart thing in the W380 is a motion detector that allows you to wave your hand over the phone to alarm or an alarm to silence an incoming call.
Stereo Bluetooth, an FM radio and Memory Stick Micro expandable memory (512 MB in-box) are the main features like S500i, Z558i or P990. There is a mail client, browser, RSS reader and all the usual things one expects to find in a Sony Ericsson.

Nokia 6300i Support Wifi and VoIP Calls

Nokia 6300i on the market with the same specification as the original but now is include WiFi support and VoIP calls (internet phone).
The original Nokia 6300 was a very good portable, the 6300i and reserves the 2 inch with 240 x 320 pixel display and 2-megapixel camera. Although these are 2008, 2 million pixels, the cameras are a bit basic and video capture resolution is only 176 x 144 pixels at 15 frames per second. There is no 3G, but the 6300i comes with a FM radio.