Considering how similar they are, it’s inevitable that the Lumia 710, Nokia’s budget smartphone offering, draws comparisons to its flashier and pricier sibling, the Lumia 800. Boasting most of the same features as the 800, the biggest impediment to the 710’s widespread uptake is going to be exactly the same as that facing the 800: brand
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The Motorola Defy+ (officially, the MB526) is in many ways an incremental update to its rugged and unpretentious midrange precursor, but it’s also a reminder that the smartest thing about smartphones is that you don’t need the best features to keep abreast of the rest. The original Motorola Defy (the MB525) marked the US company’s return
At just under 2,3kg, Samsung’s Series 7 Chronos is a hefty machine, inside and out, but one that’s sure to turn heads. But with an equally hefty price, it will be interesting to see how well it competes with some of the slimmer competitors on the market, including Samsung’s own ultraportable Series 9 range. In SA, the Series 7 carries a sizeable
Let me say this up front: if you’ve held out for a tablet, Apple’s new iPad is the one to get. But if you’re an iPad 2 owner and perfectly content with its lesser screen, the decision to upgrade is much tougher. Yet again, Apple is basically competing with itself in the tablet arena. Android tablets, aside from the cheap US$199 Kindle Fire, continue to bombard consumers with
With consumers tiring of incremental resolution and contrast ratio improvements, Samsung is now asking itself what else it can make a screen do that might just make you buy it. With its CA550, available in 23- or 27-inch models, the Korean electronics giant has decided to place its bets on connectivity, lots of it
Windows 8 shows a design sensibility and a clarity of purpose not often seen in a Microsoft product. I’ve spent about a week with the “consumer preview” of Windows 8, which is now available to the public free of charge. I’ve been testing it on a Samsung tablet, with a separate wireless keyboard and mouse
There are countless iDevice docks on the market, and Philips has a full range of offerings from budget to bank-balance bending. The Fidelio DS9000 falls squarely into the latter category. Priced at R3 999 and weighing 6,5kg, it’s heavy in many senses, including on the eyes, but is it worthy of the space it
The Xperia Neo V, one of the last handsets to carry both Sony and Ericsson’s names following the break-up of the years-long partnership between the two companies, is a relatively inexpensive smartphone that offers much of the same operational functionality of more expensive models but with less of the hardware
I’ve always been a fan of Nokia handsets. Well, I was, until a few years ago when the company broke what to me was its best series of keyboard-based smartphones, the E-Series. When it was released in 2008, the E71 was one of the best phones on the market. Then Nokia ruined it
We really like the Samsung Galaxy Y Pro Android-powered smartphone for one simple reason: its price. Although it is incredibly cheap at just R1 499, it doesn’t have the nastiness that so often accompanies budget handsets. For the price you get a physical keyboard, combined with a full-colour touch display