Review

  • Review: Samba Mobile – Ad supported mobile broadband (updated)

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    Advertising-supported services for various things have been around almost as long as the advertising needed to support them has. Over the years various companies have experimented with offering a full gamut of services from advertising-supported mobile phones through to PCs and internet access. For various reasons, many of those services are now not around any [...]

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  • Revisited – Apple IPad Smart Case

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    After using Apple’s new Smart Case on an iPad 3 for the last week, I thought I’d collect a few initial thoughts together for anyone considering buying one. Firstly, I should say that although it’s perhaps not Apple’s best product ever, it’s still firmly wrapped around my iPad and is highly likely to stay there [...]

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  • First impressions – new 2010 Macbook Air 13″ (2.13Ghz, 4Gb)

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    Having taken the plunge, I’m writing this on a shiny new 2010 Macbook Air 13″ (2.13Ghz Core2Duo, 4Gb ram & 256Gb SSD) – which UPS kindly delivered earlier today. Link to this post!

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  • Hardware review… Huawei E585 3G Wifi Router

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    I’m not normally one to “review” new pieces of hardware writing about my experience while doing so, but thought I’d break with tradition so far and document my thoughts on this mobile broadband router or “MiFi” as it’s been termed. The Huawei E585 is a mobile broadband data dongle with a difference – in that [...]

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