SAMSUNG GALAXY Note - Tablet or Phone?

THE SAMSUNG GALAXY Note ($300 with a two-year contract), a 5.3-inch phone with a stylus—like pen, runs exclusively on AT&T’s 4G LTE network. Its “S Pen” works quite well, with the user interface, but I wish that the device had more apps for the pen.

Tablet or Phone?
The 5.3-inch display puts the Note in an interesting spot between a phone and a tablet. It is light enough, but I found it a bit too wide for my hands. It measures 5.78 by 3.27 by 0.38 inches, and weighs 6.28 ounces. The

Samsung Wave Y

Samsung Wave series already has three sturdy, good looking and performing hendset. S5380 aka Y is the latest addition to this series. What is significant is it’s low price. Wave Y looks pretty good with rounded corners and sturdy body. Measuring 110 x 58.2 x 12.3mm it weighs only 104gm. The front is occupied by a 3.2in capacitive touchscreen with a resoltion of 480x320 pixels.

Like its predecessors Bada 2.0 OS does duty on Wave Y. A 832MHz processor with 150 MB of internal memory is good enough for a phone at this price. Bada is quite similar to android in operation yet seems more responsive and neat.The display is decent and displays photos, videos and Internet sites adequately. Accelerometer and proximity sensors aid in game play and are accurate.

Wave Y has a 2.0 megapixel camera, capable of clicking images at l600x l200 pixels, it is good enough for sharing picture on social networks. The camera shoots video at 640x480 at 30 frame per second, the quality is smooth for this high frame rate. It also has a front facing VGA camera but unfortunately BADA app store does not have an app for video chat as yet.

Specs Tech
832MHz Processor
External Memory: Support microSDHC™ card (up to 32GB)
Camera: 2.0 MP
Resolution: 480 x 320 pixel
Size: 3.2"
57.9 x 12.3 x 110.1 (WDH)

The battery lit is very good, we got a talk time of three hours, four hours of video and around live hours of audio on one charge. It also had long standby time.

All in all. Wave Y is a decent and stable phone with good performance and a decent battery life. If you’re confused among Wave Y and Galaxy Y our choice is Wave Y for its bigger screen, better resolution support and decent performance. Go for it unless you are smitten with the vast Android Market.

Motorola Xoom review

The original Motorola Xoom was the first of the Android tablets, and had to bear the huge expectations of a fledgling industry. Alas, when it finally arrived, it just couldn’t live up to the hype. If anything, the rush to be first was its undoing, as several more-polished Android tablets bettered it only weeks later. So Motorola has taken its time to follow up the Xoom with a thinner, lighter sequel, and that patience looks to have paid dividends.

PS Vita Review

Handheld gaming has had an impressive resurgence of late, with people in record numbers discover the joys of gaming on the move. Much of this love has come from smartphones, with dedicated mobile gaming devices having a relatively hard time of it.

Like the 3DS before it, Sony’s PS Vita hopes to break out of the mould, offering full user experience that delves beyond gaming into a broader canyon of Internet and media related activities. And, like the 3DS

Samsung 7 Series

Whatever your opinion of the technology, there’s no doubt that 3D is here to stay, thanks to a stream of TVs in the shops, films in the cinema and Blu-Rays on the shelves. The technology is steadily infiltrating other aspects of tech as well, as the latest entertainment Laptop from Samsung proves.

This beast of a machine comes with a pair of active-shutter 3D glasses in the box and couples that with an AMD Radeon HD 6970M mobile graphics chipset. Combined with TriDef’s software and 3D drivers, this

HP Envy 14 Spectre

Glossy black lids are a laptop cliché, but HP’s first Ultrabook doesn’t rely on the usual plastic or brushed metal. Instead, the Envy 14 Spectre comes wrapped in scratch-resistant Gorilla Glass. It hoardes fingerprints, but feels reassuringly strong, is easy to clean, and sets a tone of elegance.

The silver and black interior calls to mind Apple’s MacBook Pro, but with more Gorilla Glass across the

Data Monitoring Apps

DATA IS THE AREA WHERE MANY PEOPLE GET CAUGHT - IT’S EASY TO FORGET THAT THOSE GAMES AND YOUTUBE CLIPS CAN ADD UP. JENNETH ORANTIA LOOKS AT A FEW OF THE APPS THAT CAN HELP YOU MONITOR YOUR USAGE

Dell XPS 13

Of the Ultrabooks released so far, the Asus Zenbook UX31 has been the best. Despite the terrible track pad, it offers Core-17 goodness and a fantastic design for £999, while you can get the 11.6-inch UX21 version for £800.

Dell hasn’t been quick to get into the market, but it has waited for rivals to make their move-something that

BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0

Research in Motion (RIM) has launched the much awaited and anticipated PlayBook
2.0, its next generation operating system (OS) for its PlayBook tablet. We’re fairly impressed but the update is far too late and somewhat uninspiring.

The Messages app is by tar the best of the three additions and includes email and integration with social

Lenovo ThinkPad X

Lenovo's ThinkPad X is a convertible tablet PC in an ultraportable format, offering professional users a system that can capture pen input or be used just like a standard laptop as necessary. The X is slightly larger. mainly to accommodate the swivelling hinge that allows the screen to twist 180 degrees and fold back over the keyboard. enabling the system to operate as a slate-mode device.

Samsung Galaxy Y

The Samsung Galaxy Y sports a lovely black facia with a textured silver effect at the back which enhances the grip. Its light weight is certainly a result of using low grade plastic, however, the construction appears solid enough and it feels great to hold for longer periods.

Powering up the device does require a hefty press of the on/off button and it can take a while for the OS to

LG Prada

When two worlds collide, you get a marriage between fashion and tech. LG’s third and latest collaboration with Prada is one such example. Dubbed “Prada Phone by LG 3.0”, this Android smartphone might be targeted at the fashion crowd, but it does have some impressive hardware along for the ride.

We were half-expecting a hard tine with the Prada phone’s generous 43-inch display. Fortunately, the device

Sony Xperia S

A smartphone is a very personal thing. It has your contacts, your messages, your photos, your music, your games, your apps, and every day, you put more of your life into it. It is the first device you look at when you wake up. It is the last device you put down at the end of the day. And if you had to choose, it is the only device you wouldn’t leave home without—yes, and cash, and keys, and identification papers—but , the your smartphone is at the center of’ everything you do today whether you realize it or not.

Zenbook UX31

If the Ultrabook is all about marrying beauty with brawn, then Asus’ Zenbook UX31 would seem to be the perfect poster child for the breed. Despite housing the fastest processor of the current crop, and a Lightning-fast SandForce SSD, Asus has managed to produce a thing of rare beauty.

Clad in sheets of machined aluminium, the Zenbook UX31 is a visual treat. While paying homage to the

Toshiba AT200

Toshiba’s third tablet is billed as the thinnest 10in slate in the world - and at just 7.7mm deep it makes the new iPad look porky. But there’s more to Stuffs tablet tests than whipping out the calipers. Here’s the real skinny on the dual-core Android Honeycomb- running AT 200.

The AT200 may be 1.7mm thinner than the Pad, but it’s also cut like a block rather than tapering at the edges, which actually makes it feel larger than many rivals. That said, unlike the Pad and Samsung Galaxy Tab

Sat nav versus App Nav

SAT NAV

Navman Panoramic

You could mistake the Panoramic for a tablet, such is the presence of its 7in display. That makes it better suited to bigger cars, vans and lorries (there’s even a Truck Mode, £70 for a lifetime activation), and the advantage is a better overview of your surroundings. Anyone hoping for a ‘large type’ mode will be disappointed, but then they probably shouldn’t be driving anyway. Speed camera info is yours for £20 a year but you’ll also need an antenna (E36) to receive TMC traffic data.

Nokia Lumia 710

Nokia’s smartphone travails are well documented, but with estimates that the Lumia 800 has sold over one million units since its November launch, things seem to be looking up. The Finnish manufacturer is now looking to consolidate that success with the Lumia 710.

As with the Lumia 800 (and all Nokia smartphones from here on in) the 710 runs on Windows Phone 7.5; the difference is in the design and the specification. This is a phone for budget conscious users, and therefore

Acer S5 thinner than The Macbook Air

Acer is currently winning the War on Thickness with the Aspire S5, the most fat-free Laptop ever produced. But how many features can you cram into a slender Ultrabook shell?
Acer was first at the Windows Ultrabook table with the impressive Aspire S3, and it’s really got its premium range onto the cross-trainers. Cresting just 15mm at its thickest point, this slimline laptop is a full 2mm thinner than the MacBook Air, and its sleek black magnesium alloy shell keeps it light.

Top Tablet - April

Apple iPad 3
With its Retina Display, 1080p video and quad-core graphics, the new iPad – or iPad 3, whatever you want to call it – is without a doubt the best tablet you can buy. Apple's new iPad is set to take your tablet experience to a whole new level. Coupled with a 5MP camera, 1080p video and 4G connectivity, but with the very same price as the iPad 2, is the so-called Retina Display enough to keep Apple ahead of the baying Android pack?

Best smartphone for April

Best For Cinema Goers 

Samsung Galaxy Beam

While we’re grateful to physics for keeping our feet on the ground and our internal organs tucked safely inside our bodies, it’s easy to curse it for not allowing us to carry a home cinema in our pockets. Samsung’s Galaxy Beam, however, bends physics’ draconian rules. Its 4in 800x480 

LCD slips into your trousers easily, but thanks to a built-in 15 lumen projector it also contains the equivalent of a 50in TV. A 5MP cam even allows you to shoot your own 720p footage to blast on to a nearby wall,

Asus Padfone

With the Padfone you get a powerful smartphone which slots into a 10.1in, 1280x800-screened tablet, which itself hooks up to a keyboard dock to create a netbook. All three devices use the phone’s Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich brain and the OS manages the different components. changing battery drain and tinkering with layout depending on how you’re using it.

Nokia 808 PureView

Nokia’s new blower packs more pixels than most DSLRs, but Its Symbian operating system hails from the dawn of time. Can Its mammoth snapper make up for the lack of a modern smartphone OS?. Nokia won many fans with the N8 and its 12MP snapper, but the 808 takes camphones to a new level. It’s kitted out with a four-element Carl Zeiss lens and huge, 41MP, 1/1.2in sensor that’s more than two times the size of that in the iPhone 45. It’s only a tad smaller than the CX sensor in Nikon’s 1 series interchangeable lens cameras.