The Register - Personal: ReviewsBiting the hand that feeds ITLeadtek Xeye movie-viewing goggles- September 30, 2005 Films in your face Review Many dubious products have stumbled on the rocky road to true innovation. Before the mobile phone reached mass-market saturation, yuppies lugged around lumps of plastic that were closer to army field radios than items of desirable personal technology, writes Jonathan Bray.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/30/review_leadtek_xeye/ i-mate Jasjar PocketPC phone- September 30, 2005 Wireless wonder Review HTC has been tempting its fans with the Universal handset since the beginning of the year. The prospect not only of Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and GSMGPRS connectivity but also 3G, and with them a landscape-oriented display and full QWERTY keyboard, not to mention Windows Mobile 5.0, has fuelled interest in the machine since T-Mobile announced in February that it would be offering the machine on its network.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/30/review_imate_jasjar/ iRiver T10 1GB digital music player- September 30, 2005 One for the road Review iRiver's Flash-based T10 is one of the chunkier digital music players I've seen. It's clearly pitched at a more sporty audience - it's got yellow trim, always visual shorthand for a 'sport' model - and both its size and heft are intended to appeal to folk who maintain an 'active' lifestyle, whatever that is.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/30/review_iriver_t10/ iRiver T20 512MB digital music player- September 29, 2005 Too small Review You've got to hand it to iRiver. Faced with Apple's iconic iPod, the company hasn't tried to emulate its rival by devising a single, clear product identity around which to build its range. Instead, it's gone for a scattergun approach: fire off lots of different models and hope some of them stick to consumers.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/29/review_iriver_t20/ ATI CrossFire multi-GPU platform- September 28, 2005 Worth the wait Review If you have even a passing interest in 3D graphics, you've probably been waiting for the appearance of ATI's dual-GPU solution. It seems like aeons ago that ATI announced that it would produce a platform to rival Nvidia's tremendously successful SLi, but now, finally I have a CrossFire system in front of me and it's time to see if it was worth the wait, writes Riyad Emeran.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/28/review_ati_crossfire/ Navman iCN 320 low-cost GPS navigator- September 23, 2005 Too many corners cut Review Navman is hoping to win back business from its PDA-based GPS rivals by creating a new range of budget units that offer a scaled down version of its advanced rigs but at a fraction of the cost. One of the first, the Navman iCN 320 is for the GPS newcomer. There's no large touchscreen, and everything is controlled from buttons placed on either side of the screen. As for the screen itself, although fairly large, it looks incredibly small compared to the unit, writes...http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/23/review_navman_icn320/ Panasonic Toughbook CF-51 semi-rugged notebook- September 22, 2005 The Captain Scarlet of mobile PCs Review Panasonic has been making notebooks for a long time, but you may not have come across the Toughbook brand before. The reason for this is that Toughbooks tend to attract a buyer who is more concerned with durability than design and performance. To get an idea of who the Toughbooks appeal to, next time you see a BT engineer working on a junction box in the street, take a look over his shoulder. It's a near certainty that he'll be working on a Toughbook,...http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/22/review_panasonic_cf-51/ 955X-based mobo shoot-out- September 21, 2005 We test the top LGA755 motherboards Review Which motherboard to buy Determining the answer to this question is, arguably, the most important of all hardware choices. The choice of motherboard defines, in part, just how future-proof a system will be. Making a bad choice can lead to problems that aren't apparent for, say, CPUs and processors. Having to replace a motherboard usually necessitates a long-winded process of reinstalling an OS, programs and data. In short, your motherboard has to be...http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/21/review_955x_mobos/ Orange SPV C550 music phone- September 19, 2005 iPod Nano need not panic Review In the early days of Windows Mobile smart phones Orange was the UK's leading light, launching the first UK device way back at the tail end of 2002. Since then Orange has been joined by other operators and by operator-agnostic vendors, but the company has kept its own line flowing with a steady range of new entrants. The latest of these is the SPV C550, a blatant attempt to jump on the music bandwagon, but with a few other nice plus points too, writes Sandra Vogel.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/19/review_spv_c550/ HP iPaq hw6515 Mobile Messenger- September 15, 2005 Treo-beater Review Just as the great unwashed now think that all MP3 players are called an iPod, so there was a time when all handheld devices were simply known as iPaqs. This must have annoyed most vendors, especially Palm, but HP was never heard to complain, writes Stephen Patrick.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/15/review_ipaq_hw6515/ |