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Welcome to our GadgetSpeak 5x5 Smiley Award Page. This special hall of fame is for those select few products and services that our readers have rated five out of five smiley faces in their reviews.
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Products that just missed a 5x5 award.
Want to cut down on the clutter in your pockets? The Sony Ericsson k800i can replace your phone, iPod, digital camera and personal organiser with a single, neat, light weight gadget!
I've just upgraded (painfully) my venerable . I've had it for over 4 years now and unfortunately the battery is now giving up the ghost. It's cheaper to get a new phone than a new battery - crazy? Probably. My choice this time round is the . I wanted a phone that did everything and was likely to last another four years. This phone meets the former requirement - only time will tell on the latter! Physically the phone is smaller than my old Nokia at 105x47x22mm and a little lighter at 115g.
A popular saying is that great things come in small packages, this certainly seems to be true in the case of this digital camera.
The is 8.5x5.5x2cm and weights only around 200grams. Certainly the images taken with this camera look excellent. It is a 6mega pixel offering and has 4x optical zoom. Canon Ixus 800IS I have only very minor gripes to make about this unit so lets get them out of the way first. Images are stored on an SD card but only a 16MB card is supplied.
Acer AL2021 Panel
Published in Laptops/PCs/Apple
by paul_smart
on 21 Dec 2005
Just six months ago I attached this unit to my main work PC, it is normally in use for around ten hours a day. It has also done stints on other systems and even connected to notebooks.
The Idaptor
Published in Entertainment
by paul_smart
on 16 Oct 2005
This is certainly the best Freeview adapter I have used, it is also the smallest, the easiest to setup and probably one of the cheapest, if case you are unsure I liked it.
Unbelievably it is only a maximum of 8x7x2cm and it fits into the SCART socket on
the back of your TV. It simply is an enlarged SCART plug, it comes with a power adapter
and a small IR adapter so you can change channels from your armchair with the supplied
remote. Definitely a product where the parts are bigger than the whole.
HP PSC 1610
Published in Printers/Scanners
by paul_smart
on 21 June 2005
Multi Function Machines are getting smaller and neater, they now occupy a footprint smaller than an inkjet printer took not that long ago. Sometimes as here they are called All In Ones.
JVC DVD & HDD Video Recorder
Published in Entertainment
by paul_smart
on 30 Apr 2005
No tape involved you can record to DVD either R or RW - or to the built in hard disc certainly a vast improvement on the quality associated with VHS tape.
HP 23inch Flat Panel (f2304)
Published in Laptops/PCs/Apple
by paul_smart
on 2 Mar 2005
Without - hopefully - giving to much away, this to me is an "object of desire" I first saw a pre production unit last summer and I am told I have looked at the first one in the UK. You can see it for yourself during the next three weeks or so on the Abrocour stand at the Ideal Home Show.
5GB USB2 Hard Disc for less than £30
Published in Laptops/PCs/Apple
by paul_smart
on 3 Jan 2005
We all like a bargain especially at this time of year and this one sounded so good I checked the price twice and they even offer free delivery.
Skype Is FREE
Published in Phones
by paul_smart
on 21 Oct 2004
Last November I discovered Skype at version 0.97, it worked well but as with the 'Chicken and the Egg' problem not all that many users. This week Skype for the first time notched one million concurrent users.
Version 1 launched in the early summer and I now spend more time on Skype for no cost than I do using the phone. All you need is the free Skype software, download time from around one minute. Probably another minute to complete the installation and maybe as long to create a basic profile. www.skype.com To run Skype on a PC you need a microphone and some speakers.
InboxShield
Published in Laptops/PCs/Apple
by paul_smart
on 13 Oct 2004
This product came along at a very opportune time as a new version of my current anti spam package had just brought out a new version, for me anyway it turned out to be unusable.
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