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New Archos 5 Internet Tablet Does Media, Web

THE ARCHOS 5 Internet
Tablet—sporting Google’s
Android mobile operating
system—is a touchscreen
media player that stands out
from the crowd. (It comes in
various capacities. A 160GB
hard-drive model is $430; an
8GB P ash-drive one is $250.)
S e Web-centric Android
OS includes a powerful
Flash Lite browser that
will default to a Website’s
mobile version if one is
available. S e Internet Tablet
also comes with free apps
for IM, Twitter, Wikipedia,
and other online services.
S e Android interface
shines on this device, and
the generous (4.8 inches),
800-by-480-pixel display is
well suited to navigating an
assortment of apps.
S e player supports 720p
MPEG-4 HD video, among
other formats; footage looks
beautiful on the unit’s glossy
display. S e on-screen controls
make it easy to pause,rewind, or jump forward.
You can download media
from the Archos Media Club
store over the built-in Wi-Fi,
or sync the device to your
libraries with Windows
Media Player 11 or higher.
S e unit has a DVR capability,
but using it requires a
DVR kit that sells for $140.
Another option (costing
$50) lets you play content
from the Archos on your TV.
S e built-in GPS ob en
failed to pinpoint my location
well, and the feature
requires a subscription.
S e cost of such useful
add-ons may discourage
some potential buyers, but
the unit remains an intriguing
choice as a media player
and mobile browsing device.

article source : pc world
—Robert Strohmeyer

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Acer’s New Aspire One Comes With Two OSs

THE LATEST in the Aspire
One netbook line,
the D250-1613 has
a 1.6GHz Intel
Atom CPU, 1GB of
RAM, a 160GB hard drive, a
tiny keyboard, and a microscopic
multitouch pad. It’s a
dual-boot system, with both
Windows XP and Android.
But Google’s OS isn’t suacient to make it a winner.
Upon your 2 rst boot-up of
the D250-1613, it goes into
Windows XP. Once you 2 nd
and use the Android con2 guration
tool, and re boot, it
loads the Acer H avor of An -
droid in about 18 seconds.
K e main interface is clean.
By default, a few apps line
the bottom; you can drag
and drop others from a pullout
menu that sits on the
right side of the screen. Of
course, it has hooks into
Gmail, so you have access to
all your contacts, calendaring,
and e-mail oO ine.
Change any information
locally, and the next time
you’re online, it syncs up
with your Google account.
A big disappointment is
the lack of useful preinstalled
soS ware such as a
word processor. K e ability
to browse a USB thumbdrive
would be nice, too, as
would printer support.
K is Aspire is a little smaller
than earlier models (10.2by 8.0 by 1.0 inches and a
light 2.7 pounds). K e keyboard
is a bit cramped even
by netbook standards. And
the touchpad is tiny.
At least the display is reasonably
big and colorful.
With brightness cranked up,
test videos ran nicely.
In subjective tests, battery
life was a little over 6 hours.

article source : pc world
Darren Gladstone

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GPS: More Screen

GPS: More Screen for Less Money

NOT LONG AGO, most GPS
devices had 3.5-inch
screens. Today, a
4.3-inch screen is
standard, and some
displays are even bigger—
4.7 inches (Magellan’s Road-
Mate 1470), 5.0 inches (Tom-
Tom’s XXL 540S), and even
7.0 inches (Magellan’s Road-
Mate 1700), for instance.
M e devices are getting less
expensive, too. You can Q nd
full-featured portable units
with text-to-speech, lane
assist, and big screens for
not much more than $100.
And they’re getting more
connected. Both Garmin and TomTom released Internetconnected
devices in 2009. A
GPS device with a live Net
connection lets you search
for fuel prices, weather data,
airport departure/arrival info,
and points of interest (POIs),
using Google’s Live search.
Still, smartphones continue
to grab the lion’s share of
the connected GPS market.
AZ er changing how people
think about smartphones,
can Apple’s iPhone do the
same for the portable gps market? New iPhone GPS
apps from TomTom, Navigon,
and others have
changed the GPS landscape.
M ese apps cost from $35 to
$100—cheap enough to convince
people that they don’t
need a dedicated GPS.
Google’s recent announcement
of a full-featured free
navigation application could
disrupt the GPS market even
more as additional Android
phones start to ship.
M ough 2010 is likely to be
tough for manufacturers of
dedicated GPS devices, some
excellent personal navigators
are on the market today.
TomTom XXL 540S
If a 4.3-inch screen feels too
small, you’ll love the TomTom
XXL 540’s 5-inch display.
M e XXL 540S uses Tom-
Tom’s IQ Routes feature to
calculate routes and estimate
time of arrival based on historical
tra] c data rather than
on speed limits. In my testing,
the routes it generated
were the ones I’d normally
take. And ETA projections
were fairly accurate, even without a live tra- c receiver
(a $60 extra; that price in -
cludes a year’s subscription
to tra- c data, which costs
$60 per year therea> er).
A> er generating a route,
the 540S provides excellent
route-viewing options, in -
cluding browsing a turn-byturn
list of directions, viewing
maneuvers as images,
showing a route summary,
and demonstrating the trip.
H e 540S was a bit slow at
initially calculating routes
for longer trips, but recalculations
a> er missed turns
were I ne. H e device pronounced
street names clearly
and at a volume adjusted
to the vehicle’s speed.
Garmin Nuvi 1690
H e Nuvi 1690, Garmin’s I rst
connected GPS device, is a
good start but has room to
improve. It oQ ers Bluetooth
phone connectivity, text-tospeech
conversion, a built-in
cellular radio, lane assist with
junction view (showing simulated
highway signs), a 4.3-
inch screen, and optimized
multisegment routing.
H e 1690’s menu structure
matches that on other Nuvi
models, but with connected
services sprinkled throughout
the menus in (for the
most part) appropriate locations.
For example,
the connected services
in the tools menu are
Flight Status, Weather,
Ciao, and Currency.
Other connected
services appear in the
Where To menu. H e
I rst screen oQ ers
Google Local search
and White pages as
options. Google Local
provides online access
to the same 13 POI
categories as does the
‘Points of Interest’ icon. Just
as when you’re searching the
POI database, you can use
Google Local to search areas
nearby, in a diQ erent city,
close to a recent or a favorite
destination, or (if you have
an active route) along the
route you’re currently on।



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Give your iPhone, 3G, 3GS, BlackBerry

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Barnes & Noble’s Nook: More Than the Basics

DON’T WRITE OFF Barnes
& Noble’s Nook (bn.com) as
just another e-reader. @is is
no thoughtlessly slappedtogether
oEering—it’s the
bookseller’s attempt to capitalize
on all the mistakes it
believes Amazon has made
with the Kindle, in the form
of a better product at the
exact same price.
In the Nook, all of the
things you’d expect—Wi-Fi,
an online bookstore, the
ability to mark notes—are
paired with unusual features,
such as a touchscreen, a color
navigation display, and a way
to lend e-books to friends.
Its $259 price is important
at a time when e-readers are
trying to break into the
mainstream. @ough Amazon
popularized e-readers,
rivals such as iRex, Plastic
Logic, and Sony are trying
to muscle in. Sony oEers
three diEerent models, with
progressively better features
and larger screens. @e other
two companies are vying for
customers with deep pockets,
oEering a magazine-style
experience on screens the
size of computer paper.
In contrast, the Nook is
geared toward the average
user. It isn’t a high-priced
business tool, and it isn’t
feature-deXcient, either. But
it does give the e-reader
market a kick in the pants.
Here are just a few of its
most intriguing features।
Big Battery, Decent Storage
BARNES & NOBLE claims that the Nook lasts ten days on a charge.
It’s not clear how the company arrived at that calculation and whether
Wi-Fi was on for the duration, but it’s safe to say that you could
take this device on a long flight. As for storage, the Nook’s 2GB can
carry up 1500 e-books, same as the Kindle.
Powering the Nook is Android 1.5. Users can stop reading on the
device and then resume on select BlackBerry and Motorola phones
with a free Barnes & Noble e-reader application. I also like the ability
to load photos onto the Nook to serve as screensavers.
Touchscreen Navigation
NOT ALL OF the Nook’s screen
is touchable. The top portion is
a regular E-Ink display, but the
bottom part is like the touchscreen
of a smartphone, allowing
you to navigate menus and
giving you a virtual keyboard for
typing in your notes.
By including a color touchscreen,
the Nook stands out
next to the bland gray hues of
other e-readers. When you
browse through your library,
the e-books scroll by in a way
reminiscent of the iPod’s Cover
Flow feature. The Nook also
works as an MP3 player.
The Form
THE NOOK MEASURES 7.7 by
4.9 by 0.5 inches, giving it similar
dimensions to the Kindle
(Amazon’s product is a little
taller and wider, but slightly
thinner). The actual screen real
estate, however, is the same 6
inches after you account for the
navigation touchscreen.
Accessorize!
IT’S NOT UNHEARD of to throw a
cover on an e-reader to make it more
book-like, but the Nook is getting
fancy with contributions from Kate
Spade New York, Jack Spade, Tahari,
and Jonathan Adler (pictured). With
Nook in hand, you just might become
part of the newest fashion trend.

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Seagate Momentus 7200,4 500GB

 

ower savings is the big idea behind Seagate's newest consumer laptop drive, but don't think for a moment that its performance isn't up to scratch. Although it won't make recent SSDs scurty for cover, there's a lot to like in the Morncntus 7200.4's benchmark results. (That is, if you can push Seagate's recent firmware debacle with the Barracuda 7200.11 and other drives out of your mind.) The dollars-per-GB ratio still heavily favors hard drives such as this one, even if an SSD such as Solidata's X2­512 can match it in capacity. And although eminent tech journalists have rightfully

declared that a good SSD is currently the PC upgrade with the most notice­able across-the-board performance boost, most users would still rather pay $145 for 500GB than $1,999. With fluid dynamic bear­ings, a head offload ramp, and various power manage­ment techniques, the 7200.4 manages to eke out a living on slightly more than a cou­ple of watts. In fact, Seagate claims that it's the most power-sipping 7,200rpm laptop drive around. Like its 160GB, 250GB, and 320GB brethren, this 500GB Momentus 7200.4 (model ST9500420AS) features a 16MB cache .

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