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Motorola Xoom Review

Jan29
2012 Leave a Comment Written by Mauldor

The Motorola Xoom is a 10.1” Tablet that runs Android 3.2 (honeycomb) with Ice-cream Sandwich (4.0.3) coming to the UK Soon. This started life as a £399 device competing again the iPad 2 but came with a default of 32GIG storage instead of 16GIG. It first dropped to £329 (which it currently retails at) but for a short period of time, a couple of stores had it for £249, which made it somewhat of a bargain. I managed to get the last on in stock while passing Carphone Warehouse, would this have the same issues as the Blackberry Playbook or would I end off keeping this device?

Posted in Review - Tagged 3.2, carephone, honeycomb, ICS, motorola, tablet, warehouse, xoom

Motorola Xoom Drops to £249

Jan21
2012 Written by Mauldor

The Motorola Xoom started life as a £399 10 inch tablet, competing against the iPad 2, the theory was it had double the ram for the same price as the baseline iPad 2. Sales were bad and soon they dropped the price down to £329 and in November 2011 brought out the Xoom 2. Recently a few retailers have slashed the price down to £249, such as PCWorld & Carphone warehouse (the same people who also slashed the prices of Blackberry Playbook). I thought I would pop along to local PCWorld and see if they had any in, online stated they had none in stock.

Posted in Tech - Tagged 3.2, 32gig, Apple, honycomb, ICS, ipad, motorola, tablet, xoom

Blackberry Playbook 32GIG Review

Jan08
2012 Written by Mauldor

BlackBerry Playbook

I currently own an iPad 1, wife has an iPhone 4S and I have a Windows Mobile 7 Phone, so I have enough devices to do what I need on the go. I have been looking at tablets for a while now and a few caught my eye such as Sony Tablet S, Blackberry Playbook and the Motorola Xoom. The end choice is always about money, splashing out £400 for an iPad 2 was too much money in my books and even the £329 price points of Android Tablets seem a bit high. The two machines that are at the £200 price point are the Blackberry Playbook and Arnova 9 G2.

Posted in Review - Tagged Apple, archos, beta, blackberry, DDPBInstaller, ios, ipad, playbook, rim, sideload, twitter, xoom

Smartphone Smackdown

Dec27
2011 Written by Mauldor

The three main smartphone’s out there at the moment are Android, Apple and Windows Phone 7, of course there is a lot of makers of these phones (apart from the iPhone, only Apple make them). It just so happens that I have to hand three phones to compare, this been the HTC Hero (Running Android 2.1), a slow and small phone by today’s standards but it does give me a chance to compare. The wife has the iPhone 4S and I got a new work phone, the HTC Trophy, A Windows 7.5 phone. Is there a clear winner here? Will the iPhone wipe the floor with the rest? Onward to battle.

Posted in Review - Tagged Apple, iphone, mobile, phone, portable, smart, smartphone, windows, wp7

Time for a New Smartphone

Apr03
2011 Written by Mauldor

On the 4th April 2011 (or shortly afterwards) I shall be calling T-Mobile and saying with great Joy “I wish to give you my one month’s notice” and that will be the last payment from them. I have one month to use the phone and then it will stop. Originally I was going to just use my work phone until the iPhone 5 comes out but I have been hearing there is no such thing this year, this means I have to think about which platform I need to buy into, for how long and who with.

Posted in Personal - Tagged Apple, applications, appstore, blackberry, contract, htc, iphone, LG, nokia, samsung, sense, smartphone, speed

Preparing to Leave T-Mobile

Mar09
2011 Written by Mauldor

If every there was a time I am happy I made at last one good decision and it was when I choose to only be locked into a mobile contract for 18 Months instead of 24. In my time so far with T-Mobile and buying into the Android market, I have disappointed by both and this has made me turn to buying into the competition. As I have not had a contract mobile before, I went into the local T-Mobile store and once he worked out that I already was a customer and was asking about leaving, his whole attitude towards me changed, not the jolly salesman any-more. He asked me to send a text message to 150 with the word UP and it tells you what it runs out. As it turns out, on the 4th April 2011, I have to call them up and give them a month’s notice.

Posted in Personal - Tagged contract, orange, shop, store, t-mobile, termination

iPad gets cheaper, new iPad 2 to come soon

Mar02
2011 Written by Mauldor

Apple today announced a brand new iPad called the iPad 2 funny enough, what they have done is make the device thinner, lighter, more powerful (dual core A5) and fitted a couple of camera’s – none of this was of any surprise to people waiting for this to happen but they made the price the same as the previous generation and in turn – took off a chuck of money from the older version. This puts a bit of a different spin now on the tablet market because we have a 16GIG Basic Model (version 1) for £329 or $399 to the USA Market. On the surface seems not a great deal has changed but to think outside of the box – what other “half decent” tablet can you get for £329 that is as good as the iPad? Already the Xoom has been spotted at costing £500 and others about the same, yes there is cheap tablets but they are pretty bad let me tell you.

Posted in Apple - Tagged Apple, coindozer, ipad, ipad2, marketplace, synology, tablet, xoom

Galaxy Tab drops in Price

Jan26
2011 Written by Mauldor

One of the failing I always felt of the Galaxy Tab as a supposed iPad Killer was the price – it was about the same. The device while it had some features missing (such as the screen size been smaller than the iPad), it did come with stuff that the iPad just did not have – these been the dual cameras (Skype Video Calling), a browser that supported Flash, a lot of Free apps that did the job very well indeed (compared to the mostly paid-for apps on the iPad) and of course the ability to take a Sim which means you can use it on the go and as a phone. It seems that the price has indeed dropped and you can now pick this up for £359.20 Sim Free from Tesco or the same price from Amazon.

Posted in Tech - Tagged 3G, cheap, fast, galaxy, ipad, portable, tab, tablet, VGA

HTC Hero Camera is useless

Dec20
2010 Written by Mauldor

The HTC Hero (my current contract phone) comes with a 5 megapixel camera – what a large number that sounds, much better then say the 3 megapixel that the iPhone 3 comes with right? The problem comes when you want to take some pictures with it, if you have a lot of light, then this works great but the second it gets even a little dark, you might as well forget using it.

Posted in Tech - Tagged bad, camera, crap, dark, flash, iphone, megapixel, night, sunny

Elonex eTouch 10″ Android Tablet PC

Dec18
2010 Written by Mauldor

I like the idea of a Tablet computer and today I went into Toys-R-Us to look at what prices they were charging for PS3 games and came across a stand offering a 7″ Tablet for £89.99 while they had the much bigger 10″ Tablet for £149.99. I checked the box of the 7″ model, limited memory combined with android 1.6 and not something I wanted. I checked the specifications of the 10″ Model and it had Android 2.1, 1024×600 screen and other good stuff.

Posted in Review - Tagged addon, elonex, keyboard, tablet, toys-r-us

Posts tagged android

Motorola Xoom Review

Motorola Xoom Drops to £249

Blackberry Playbook 32GIG Review

Smartphone Smackdown

Time for a New Smartphone

Preparing to Leave T-Mobile

iPad gets cheaper, new iPad 2 to come soon

Galaxy Tab drops in Price

HTC Hero Camera is useless

Elonex eTouch 10″ Android Tablet PC

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