Month: July 2005
Radio controlled plane for indoors
We are seriously getting into radio controlled planes at the mo. The X-plane, which includes a camera so you can snoop on your neighbours/take beautiful airborne shots, is a firm favourite and we really like the sound of the…
Sony Ericsson Walkman W800i phone hits UK in August
Ok, so we might not yet have the Apple/Motorola iTunes phone yet, but the other most talked about music playing handset – the Sony Ericsson W800i Walkman – is set to land in the UK on Friday August 12th….
2Meg standard on BT Broadband Basic
From today noon (that's now then) BT is upgrading customers on its £17.99 entry level service, BT Broadband Basic, from 1Mb to 2Mb. New customers will now receive 2Mb as standard while existing customers will get the upgrade free of…
Humax's LCD TV with PVR and 3 TV tuners
One thing you can say about Humax Digital, come one you must have heard of them by now, is that they are triers. Take the company's latest 26inch LCD TV, the LGB26T-PVR. Not only is it HD ready -…
JVC plans High Def Everio camcorders
It doesn’t look like we’ll have too long to wait before we see a High Definition Video version of JVC’s hard disk based camcorder the Everio. The company has told TD that its long-term strategy for HDV is based…
BlackBerry rival heading for Nokia/Windows phones
From a consumer perspective we have never really been convinced by BlackBerry. Sure it works as push email solution, but in the UK at least you can wait anything between 5-15 minutes for the message that's landed on your server…
SurfKitchen goes Orange
One of the coolest British based mobile phone applications companies is the fantastically named SurfKitchen which specialises in what it calls dynamic user interfaces. Orange customers will soon be able to see exactly what it means by that as…
NHJ 5500 Bluetooth music player on sale
Nearly two years we read an astonishing prediction in a UK national newspaper that Bluetooth headsets for music players would be the must have item for 2004. Ok, so we were out by a year or so, but the…
I predict an O2 Kaiser Chiefs ticket riot
Yesterday O2 secured a huge £390 million deal to provide the UK emergency services with a new communication system. It's a good job too as the UK network has already spent much of that dosh on sponsoring music gigs…
Panny's other new cameras
Also new from Panasonic today is the Lumix DMC-FX9, a top-end compact snapper that according to our spies looks really rather cool in the flesh. It is a 6-Megapixel model and includes a 2.5-inch large LCD, has 14scene modes…
