Archive for Charlie Brewer
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Laptops 3.5 out of 5FIELD TECH - Panasonic CF-18 Toughbook review
2 May 2006Welcome to this, the first, of Pocket-lint's new "Field Tech" Column. Every month we will be looking at technology specifically designed to carry on working even in the harshest of conditions, and we've decided to start with the world's toughest Tablet...
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Audio 4.5 out of 5Scandyna the dock iPod speaker system review
6 April 2006It seems that trying to borrow an iPod these day is no easier that it was when these coveted devices were few and far between. You'd think by now I'd have dug deep, bought early and be pining for an upgrade of the device blessed with reviving Apple's...
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Audio 3.5 out of 5Oregon Scientific Music Sphere review
26 October 2005American technology manufacturer, Oregon Scientific, have opted to enter the music technology market with their newly created StyleFi brand. The launch consists of four products, a music centre, two takes on a wireless speaker solution and a portable...
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Cameras 0 out of 5Lexmark P450 - FIRST LOOK review
24 October 2005A damp evening in London was brightened up by the presentation of the new Lexmark P450, accompanied by a talk from music photographer Benjamin Johnson. Compact in size, the P450 bares a similarity in design to its larger siblings in the Lexmark ‘P'...
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Phones 3.5 out of 5Orange Nokia 9300 Communicator SmartPhone review
20 October 2005The Nokia 9300, the latest in Nokia's 'communicator' business phone range offers familiar features in a considerably smaller package. Sadly Orange only make it available to their Blackberry business users, while Vodafone offer the more open version. The...
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Phones 0 out of 5Sony Ericsson W900 - FIRST LOOK review
19 October 2005The canapés might have been scoffed, but the UK launch of the latest offerings from Sony Ericsson more than made up for it. Riding high on the success of the W800i ‘Walkman' phone Sony Ericsson's latest launch combines not only the Walkman brand, but...
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Gadgets 3.5 out of 5Oregon Scientific STARK Music Medium Clock review
19 October 2005Available in four formats, two sizes and the three colours there is certainly plenty of choice in the Philippe Stark designed range of clock-radio weather stations created in collaboration with American technology brand Oregon Scientific. The Medium Music...
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Online 4 out of 5Jessica Ogden TomTom handbag review
18 October 2005Renowned clothing and accessory designer Jessica Odgen has teamed up with GPS navigation supremos TomTom to make a designer shoulder bag for a piece of technology that's not an iPod! Paris based Ogden has been a leading couture designer for the last decade...
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Online 3 out of 5Wanadoo LiveBox network box review
27 September 2005Wanadoo is hoping that by sprucing up its internet router, more customers will be tempted to use the service, but is it a case of style over substance? Pocket-lint gets connected to find out. The ‘all-in-one’ solution from French ISP Wanadoo is an...
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Cameras 4 out of 5Lexmark P4350 All-in-One Photo Printer review
13 September 2005Coming in for a well-deserved silver medal, behind Lexmark’s new top of the range P6350, the 4350 all-in-one photo printer, scanner and copier takes some beating when it comes to the price-functionality ratio. Launched in June 2005, the P4350 offers...
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Gadgets 4 out of 5ONeill H2 series CommEnt Jacket review
26 August 2005Adding to the H2 smart clothing range, the CommEnts jacket offers a tantalising combination of style, function and technology. Like the rucksacks in the CommEnts range, the core of the jackets operating system is the H2 control hub, operated by the left-arm...
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Phones 4 out of 5Sony Ericsson W800i mobile phone review
25 August 2005In a recent review we pointed out Sony Ericsson’s expertise in creating one phone core and then placing numerous bodies around it, well just as the K750i and the D750i are effectively the same handset with the minor cosmetic alteration to the shutter...
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Gadgets 4 out of 5ONeill H2 series CommEnt Solar Backpack (Limited Edition) review
18 August 2005Sports equipment supplier O'Neill seem to believe that what every snow boarder needs is the ability to securely attach a board to their backs, ascend a mountain and then hurtle back down the same mountain at break-neck speeds, jumping moguls and zig-zagging...
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Phones 3.5 out of 5Orange SPV M500 Smartphone review
11 August 2005Once you place the Orange SPV M500 and T-Mobile's MDA compact next to each other you might be surprised to see how similar the two devices are. This may be a little less surprising though when you discover that the same company in Taiwan makes both products,...
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Gadgets 3.5 out of 5ACECAD DigiMemo A501 Digital notepad review
9 August 2005It's been given loads of different names, but my favourite one is ‘Gerard's syndrome', named after a chap I used to work with. This office-bound aliment is the pest of many an overworked office-type, who spends so much time in meetings, feverishly scribbling...
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Home Cinema 3.5 out of 5BOSE 321 GS Series II DVD home entertainment system review
21 July 2005Like some remote theological concept, sometimes the more you search for an explanation for something, the harder it becomes to find. Understanding why American audio R and D guru's BOSE have chosen Ted Rogers' famous catch phrase, 3.2.1, for their latest...
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Online 3.5 out of 5Pakuma Choroka K1 Laptop Bag review
20 July 2005Created by the same family as the Casetec brand, Pakuma strives to move away from more traditional designs and offer an entirely new, rugged, and carefully conceived laptop carrying solutions. The bags' concepts come from Christian Drew who, while living...
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Phones 4.5 out of 5Sony Ericsson K750i Mobile Phone review
7 July 2005It seems that Sony Ericsson have been hard at work on their latest batch of handsets announcing no less than seven new models at the recent UK press event. Always the chameleon, Sony Ericsson seem to have perfected the art of squeezing the same technology...
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Cameras 4 out of 5Pentax Optio 50 Digital Camera review
4 July 2005The model 50 is the 14th camera to be launched in Pentax’s Optio digital range and with prices going down, and features going up, it offers a glimpse of the tough competition other manufactures will face in the second half of 2005 and the Christmas...
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Gadgets 3.5 out of 5NHJ VTV-201 Wristwatch Colour TV review
14 June 2005Nothing says gadget quite like a wrist-watch that does more than tell the time, and nothing wastes time like watching TV, therefore a watch that is a TV is somewhat of a paradox. Newly arrived in the UK, Japanese consumer technology company NHJ is treating...
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Cameras 3.5 out of 5Fujitsu fi-5110EOX2 ScanSnap Scanner review
8 June 2005Looking rather like Fujitsu have gutted a batch of bubblejet printers, ScanSnap brings new technology to a familiar package, and although the model number is longer than that of a Star Wars robot, this is the third iteration of this device. This latest...
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Phones 3.5 out of 5
O2 X4 3G review
26 May 2005Picking up the baton of O2's ‘X’ range of products, the X4 is the first to offer 3G but will it offer enough features and is the usability any good? We test the dog and bone to find out. Of the four 3G handsets currently supplied by O2, three are...
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Cameras 4.5 out of 5Nikon Coolpix S1 Digital Camera review
9 May 2005With the Coolpix S1, Nikon finally adds the missing link from its compact digital camera range, a truly compact digital camera. Once again Nikon has proved being last to market, can be an advantageous, learning from competitors' expensive mistakes. The...
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Gadgets 4 out of 5Oregon Scientific Easy Thermo Projecting Clock review
4 May 2005Time is important. Look around your house and you'll have lots of timepieces, whether it's the one on your wall, on your video recorder, wrist, phone, PDA… It's a pretty safe bet they are all telling different times, even if only within minutes. In...
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Sports Fitness 3.5 out of 5Navman R300 sport.tool review
27 April 2005For runners, stats are everything, how fast am I going? How far have I run? How long is there left? Are questions we all ask ourselves as we pound that pavement or country path. While Garmin offer the Forerunner, a beast of a unit, Navman has opted for...