Category: Hardware

Any posts that pertain to specific hardware, but aren’t being reviewed, can be found under this category.

  • Apple vs. Samsung – The Battle for China [Infographic]

    Apple vs. Samsung – The Battle for China [Infographic]

    With the battle getting hotter by day for Samsung and Apple in the scramble for the Chinese market, none of the tech giants are opting to back down. The battle has become hotter with each of the two deploying different techniques. In a move aimed at precipitating Samsung from the Chinese market where it enjoys a clear lead of 18.3%, Apple is rumoured to have entered a deal with China’s lead telecom company, China Mobile. For the telecom company, this has come with a fall in its shares by 2% following its earnings release. With Apple’s fourth quarter coming into an end this October, the results are hotly anticipated.

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  • What Would Top Your Christmas Wish List With Unlimited Money?

    What Would Top Your Christmas Wish List With Unlimited Money?

    Many of us have to do Christmas on a shoestring budget this year. This means scouring sites like eBay for hidden bargains, trying to take advantage of deals that first started on Black Friday and trying to make the most of what we do have. However, if we all dreamed about having a bottomless pot of cash to spend this season, what would we buy?

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  • How to Gift the Perfect Tablet this Holiday Season

    How to Gift the Perfect Tablet this Holiday Season

    If you’ve been paying attention to the news, you may have heard the ubiquitous tablet being referred to as the “it gift” of the season. Well folks, for once, mainstream media got something right. Tablets are the Tickle Me Elmo of 2013. I’m not saying any store clerks are going to be trampled in a mad dash for a new iPad, but there aren’t many Christmas trees that will be short a tablet nestled beneath their bountiful branches.

    If you’re thinking of buying a tablet for some lucky schmo in your family – or an incredibly fortunate friend – there are a few questions you need to ask yourself before plonking down a few hundred simoleons.

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  • 4 BlackBerry Apps for the Z10 to Get You Organized Fast

    4 BlackBerry Apps for the Z10 to Get You Organized Fast

    People love smart phone devices for professional and personal reasons. Beyond making communication convenient, manufacturer galleries offer an array of applications, helping users do everything from generate and maintain a grocery list to tracking health metrics during a morning jog. BlackBerry, facing fierce competition from iPhone and Android phones, offer users a variety of professional and personal applications. BlackBerry’s new BBM application, with video conferencing abilities, excites scores of faithful fans.

    Organization comes natural to some, yet numbers of people need help introducing structure in their lives. Smart phones are not for communication only, but serve as microcomputers, aiding us with a number of tasks and responsibilities. ‘Life hacking’ has become a popular term within the tech industry, flirting with the notion of leading better and more efficient lives. BlackBerry applications facilitate the process. The following applications help BlackBerry customers and others take ownership of their organization.

    Evernote

    Evernote is a digital worker’s lifesaver, maintaining notes, audio clips, and media files all in one place, acting as a cloud-based file manager. Additionally, it’s useful offline as well; take a picture, record an audio description, and save the media file straight to Evernote for late usage.

    EverNote

    Evernote is great for research, enabling users to clip images, sections of text or entire pages of Web sites, maintaining URLs or bookmarking domains of interest. Keep organization a part of every task; catalog text and information by folders and subfolders.

    Work with friends and peers seamlessly. Emails, phone calls, and faxes are taxing on business time; additionally, information gets lost in translation. Save time and resources by passing and editing information more efficiently.

    Password Keeper

    Security threats and online impersonation run rampant. While the tech age has introduced so many positives, incidents of hacking and identity theft are negative derivatives. It seems each Web site or online platform demands login information, forcing users to maintain families of passwords, making it too easy to lose track of password information, have info stolen, or suffer compromised accounts.

    Password Keeper allows users to store all of their password information in one place. Rather than maintain and remember countless passwords, keep things simple by remembering one. Records are encrypted; threat of hacking or identity theft is eradicated, giving peace of mind to users.

    Password Keeper

    Create, edit, and delete records. Do you have passwords kept from a previous BlackBerry device? Password Keeper allows for easy transfer. Intuitive navigation, strong password suggestion and quick actions are just a few reasons BlackBerry users enjoy better organization and less anxiety.

    Find My BlackBerry

    How many times have you frantically searched your automobile, office, or living space for a misplaced phone? Additionally, the rising costs and popularity of smart phones inspire increased theft. The frequency of theft in large cities remains while police admit possibility of recovery is low. Those who misplace, lose, or have a BlackBerry stolen are shortly out of sorts, possibly having business and personal lives in disarray due to the nature of information stored within the phone. The more we use phones for a variety of purposes, the more we rely on those devices.

    Trace your BlackBerry phone to the corners of the Earth, knowing the app leaves no stone unturned in providing intelligence of the phone’s location. Ensure you’re protected from disorganization and mishaps, downloading Find My BlackBerry, enjoying the peace in knowing such a precious possession is well protected.

    Find My Blackberry

    Talking Clock

    ‘All in a day’s work’ is a broad term. How much does one perform in one day? Surely, planning and organization help get more done per day. The Talking Clock application allows for interval shifts; segment a day in ‘working cells,’ filled with short breaks, long periods of work, and leaving periods open for meetings and immediate needs.

    Choose between a male or female American English voice. Hours and minutes are the cogs that comprise proper organization. Talking Clock allows for a hands-free partner in keeping track of time and using it more efficiently.

    BBM Comes to Town

    BlackBerry’s BBM app is an ace up the company’s sleeve. Despite being direct competitors, Apple and Android allow its consumers to use BlackBerry’s popular application. The app, officially released at the end of September, with people all over the world getting access along with BlackBerry’s newest update. While similar applications function like the BBM app, BlackBerry’s is suited with the company’s efficiency, allowing for easy video conferencing along with the ability to pass along multimedia pictures during the call. The BBM app, coupled with BlackBerry’s newest smart phone, gains the brand mainstream favor.

    BlackBerry Z10

    The BlackBerry Z10 is turning heads with its trove of new features and benefits. The hub feature allows for easy navigation, making the home screen only a swipe away regardless of present application use. Additionally, the keyless keyboard, with autosuggest and molding capabilities, quickly learns users’ habits, making typing easier and intuitive.

    Moreover, the front and back camera lenses offer editing capabilities, capturing images before and after the ‘main’ shot, ensuring a perfect picture each time. The Z10 comes equipped with BlackBerry’s new messaging function. Before, messaging was akin to instant messenger, keeping BlackBerry owners connected, but now, the application allows for video conferencing, ability iPhone and Android users desire, especially given its free-of-charge price tag.

  • Tmart 8GB Simple MP3 Player Review

    Tmart 8GB Simple MP3 Player Review

    I remember way back in the 1990s when MP3 files first started to become popular. Computers back then didn’t have large hard drives, and external drives weren’t as readily available as they are today. Playing music on compact discs was the best way to listen to music. When the MP3 file started to become popular people gravitated to that format because you can easily have good quality music using a fraction of the storage space of a CD.

    When Apple released their iPod music player and iTunes, MP3 files really took off, and soon portable music was easier than ever to enjoy. While the iPods are still popular today, some may not want to spend so much for a music player, and may be looking for a much more affordable option. This is where something like the 8GB Black Simple Fashionable Exterior Plump MP3 Player could fill the needs of some.

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  • Outrun 2 Arcade Machine

    Outrun 2 Arcade Machine

    Through life we are offered a wealth of different investment opportunities; a new boiler, 3D television, overseas property or even in the form of having a child. Investments can be damaging to the wallet, so one must always choose wisely in order to not be financially broken.

    However, when a person sees this awe-inspiring Outrun 2 machine retailing at nearly £68,000 – they simply weigh up their possible investments, turn to their partner and state ‘We don’t really need a kid anyway…do we?’.

    The Outrun franchise is perhaps one of the most well-known arcade racing games there ever was. Owning this machine is a statement of both your past as a youngster pumping his last twenty pence coins into the original game and as the present man who can afford such a grandiose machine for his own home.

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  • Tips On Choosing a Processor For Your Trading Computer

    Tips On Choosing a Processor For Your Trading Computer

    When it comes to a trading computer, your central processing unit is literally the brains to the whole operation. Even if every other component is the top of the line, absolute fastest and most powerful thing on the market, if you have a slow CPU then your PC is only going to do so much. Now if you are shopping for a stock trading computer, for just about any system that you look at one of the first things that they will tell you is what type of CPU is in it.

    But what type of processor should you go with? How do you know it’s the best? And what the heck is a GHz? I thought if might be helpful to demystify all of this for you so that you know what to look for in a CPU when buying a trading computer.

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  • How Smartphone Features are Driving the Cellphone Market

    How Smartphone Features are Driving the Cellphone Market

    The global smartphone market is maturing fast, with over one billion smartphones and tablets expected to be shipped in 2014, according to the IDC. Because of this, the differentiating quality for manufacturers to sell to consumers is all about features. Smartphone shoppers are increasingly faced with more options, more features, more power, more screen and more of just about everything. And manufacturers continue to bring us these features on the new cells.

    In an average good quality smartphone, the features list is amazing: it’s your ultimate communications tool all in one. In your hand resides a:

    • telephone
    • payment device
    • mini-work station
    • entertainment console
    • communications tool
    • medical / emergency alert
    • video and music player

    Mobile phones are simply the center of many of our lives, and we’re paying for that privilege. Samsung’s sales skyrocketed in 2013’s first quarter, to nearly 70 million smartphones sold, according to Forbes.

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