Somewhat conveniently, our Wireless Mighty Mouse died just as soon as the one-year warranty came to its end. After spending a few hours trying to get the mouse to connect, we gave up. Confusingly the mouse could be found by Bluetooth but is unable to connect. The mouse is probably the worst piece of Apple [...]
Written on February 28, 2009 | Posted in
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Sony teased us with a hidden website in December 2008 that stated, “On the 9th of January you will change the way you look at laptops. Forever.”. The website was quickly removed. However, yesterday at CES …
Written on January 8, 2009 | Posted in
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The phrase “3D Ready” hasn’t been thrown around commercially yet, due to there not actually being any “3D Ready” televisions in the shops (in the UK at least). The problem with “HD Ready” was that nine out of ten people had no clue what that meant, knowing only that HD is a good thing. They’d [...]
Written on December 19, 2008 | Posted in
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Netbooks should be cheap, they should work and they should be portable. Unfortunately the Elonex ONE only ticked the first and the last (marginally) of those options. They worked towards an unachievable target …
Written on December 9, 2008 | Posted in
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Apple’s “spotlight turns to notebooks” event finished up a few minutes ago. Some analysts believed that due to the economic climate Apple would release a low-cost netbook to combat the likes of …
Written on October 14, 2008 | Posted in
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In its first month Apple has sold over 3 million 3G iPhones. Recently the Blogosphere has been reporting less than satisfactory 3G from the latest iPhone, the iPhone 3G with reports of abrupt service interruptions and weak connections …
Written on August 14, 2008 | Posted in
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Two days ago we unboxed an Elonex ONE for a first look review, you could say the tone was pessimistic and the overall conclusion was one of negativity. However, after detaching the Elonex ONE’s screen which relies more on brute force than any sort of clever mechanism. Detaching transforms the 70s looking laptop to something [...]
Written on August 7, 2008 | Posted in
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DoesWhat has been following the (troubled) progress of the Elonex ONE. It’s sub-notebook to rival the likes of the Asus Eee. The device was hailed as the first sub £100 laptop (sub $200 roughly), however in total with the addition of delivery the laptop costs £110.
Originally we weren’t sure if Elonex was up to the job. They [...]
Written on July 31, 2008 | Posted in
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If you read DoesWhat then you’ll know that we’ve been observing the Elonex ONE’s progress. The Elonex ONE is a sub-notebook and the UK’s first sub £100 notebook (not really, as they charged us £10 on top for delivery which wasn’t optional, so £110 really). We have had our worries, but it seems that Elonex [...]
Written on July 11, 2008 | Posted in
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After over 5 days of using the Nokia E71 it’s charm has not yet warn off. The E71 is Nokia’s answer to the Blackberry, over the past few days the bombardment of; “is that a Blackberry” has become somewhat of an annoyance. But really, this is a Blackberry… but better (clearly not literally, it’s a [...]
Written on July 7, 2008 | Posted in
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