Korea’s LG Electronics has long had to play second fiddle to rival and country mate Samsung, but with its new range of smartphones the company is displaying its mettle and making it clear it can create products that not only stand up to the opposition’s offerings in terms
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First the good: the BlackBerry PlayBook is infinitely more fun than expected. It’s sleek, it’s sexy, and it shamelessly aims to answer the complaints consumers have levelled at its — and every other tablet manufacturers’ — biggest rival, the iPad. Its maker
Every major mobile device manufacturer has, or is, releasing a tablet, and HTC’s first offering is the Flyer — a 7-inch Android tablet that distinctly resembles an oversized Desire HD. In fact, because the Flyer runs Android 2.3.3 (rather than the tablet-specific
NEC’s new MultiSync EX231W monitor is squarely aimed at corporate users, particularly those in the financial sector. It is fully height adjustable and can be rotated from landscape to portrait mode, making it ideal as a secondary display, particularly for those
Neotel this week unveiled a new “fixed-wireless” handset aimed at the retail consumer market. TechCentral put the device, made by China’s ZTE, through its paces. The handset, which uses Neotel’s wireless code division multiple access
Toshiba, theUS$70bn-revenue Japanese electronics giant, has always built robust Windows laptops. Its new ultra-portable, the Portégé R700-15X (an uninspired name if there ever was one), continues this
It’s thinner and lighter and has a front-facing camera for video calls. But is it worth shelling out the cash for Apple’s latest tablet computer, the iPad 2, which went on sale in SA last Friday? TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod spent
The E7 is proof that Nokia still makes great phone hardware. The huge, 4-inch Amoled screen, excellent slide-out Qwerty keyboard and sturdy design are all excellent. However, as we stumbled our way around the clumsy
Motorola’s MB525 Android smartphone, better known as the Defy, or Motodefy, is another example of how the US handset and tablet manufacturer is rising Phoenix-like from the ashes. Just 18 months ago
Vodacom on Monday officially took the wraps off its television Internet device, the Vodafone WebBox, which it hopes will extend Internet access to poorer South Africans