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“3D Ready” to replace “HD Ready”?

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 [...]

Acer Aspire One £170.34… bargain

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 …

Bag of hurt… Apple October Event

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 …

Over 3 million iPhone recalls?

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 …

Detaching the Elonex ONE

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 [...]

Elonex ONE… finally dispatched

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 [...]

Elonex ONE… will dispatch soon

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 [...]

Nokia E71, 5 days later

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 [...]

Finally, Elonex ONE progress

After much delay we’ve received a promising email from Elonex,
“Pre-ordered ONE or ONE+ deliveries are scheduled to commence towards the end of June. You will shortly receive a further e-mail advising you of your projected delivery date and requesting the outstanding balance. You will also be invited you to purchase from our range of accessories, [...]

Elonex ONE is coming! Is Elonex ready?

The Elonex ONE (shown left) is the UK’s first sub £100 laptop. It’s a competitor to ultra portable cheap laptops such as the Asus Eee PC which comes in at around 2-3 times the cost.
Back in February we reserved ours for £10. Only very recently have we heard anything from the people at Elonex [...]