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IT Reviews and ITProPortal Merge

IT Reviews Staff — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 09:34:03 GMT

IT Reviews and ITProPortal Merge Over the past few months we’ve been consolidating our...

Lenovo IdeaPad U300s Ultrabook review

Riyad Emeran — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 21:55:00 GMT

Lenovo turns its considerable talents to the Ultrabook market.

I still don't fully understand why Intel needed to create the Ultrabook platform. Surely the concept of an affordable thin-and-light notebook with great battery life would have seemed like a good idea to manufacturers without Intel creating the blueprint? After all, Apple has been cleaning up with...

D-Link DIR-657 Wireless N HD Media Router review

Kelvyn Taylor — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:33:00 GMT

A single-band wireless router with some interesting features

Users are spoiled for choice when it comes to...

Kid Icarus: Uprising review

Tobias Henry — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:59:00 GMT

Kid Icarus comes back from the dead in this 3D extravaganza!

As that great actor, James Caan, said a long time ago, "You know the old saying, absence makes the heart grow fonder? Absence makes them think you're dead." That's been the problem for Nintendo's Kid Icarus for the last nineteen years. Once upon a time he was part of the gang, partying with Mario...

Devolo dLAN 500 AVplus Starter Kit review

Kelvyn Taylor — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:25:00 GMT

High-speed Homeplug adapters with a ‘piggyback’ design that means you don’t lose a wall socket

The popularity of Homeplug networking over power-lines continues to grow, with more and more manufacturers moving to the 500AV standard, which offers link speeds of up to 500Mbps. Devolo’s latest product, the dLAN 500 AVplus, has a ‘piggyback’ design, with a filtered pass-through...

MoviePlus X6 review

Rob Beattie — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:21:00 GMT

The latest version of Serif's home video editing program adds new features designed to appeal to users who want to create movies with the minimum of effort and a number of extras designed to enhance its appeal to more serious enthusiasts. In this way, the program continues to serve the needs of...

Archos 101 G9 Turbo ICS review

Hugo Jobling — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:53:00 GMT

The Archos 101 G9 gets a speed bump and a helping of Ice Cream Sandwich.

Archos has had its 101 G9 tablet on sale for a while now, running Android 3.2 "Honeycomb" and it proved a capable, if not exceptional, device. With the launch of Android 4.0, a.k.a. "Ice Cream Sandwich," Archos has taken the opportunity to upgrade its 10.1in tablet with not only the much improved...

Sony Xperia S Full Review review

Sandra Vogel — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 18:23:00 GMT

Sony goes after the high-end smartphone market with the new Xperia S.

Sony is now producing smartphones under its own label, having split with Ericsson last year. Its new line, the NXT series, has retained the Xperia name from the Sony Ericsson days, at least for now, and a number of new Xperia handsets have been announced. The first to appear in retail is the Sony...

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX90 review

Cliff Smith — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 12:56:00 GMT

Can the Lumix DMC-FX90's image quality match it's long list of features?

Since introducing its first digital camera as long ago as 1997, Panasonic has built its Lumix brand into a market leader with a solid reputation for quality and technical innovation. I've reviewed well over a hundred different Panasonic cameras over the years, and I've become accustomed to finding...

Kogeto Dot review

Darren Allan — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 19:00:00 GMT

A clip-on fish-eye lens for the iPhone 4 that facilitates panoramic 360 degree video

Kogeto’s Dot gadget is built to offer iPhone 4 and 4S owners a different kind of video recording experience. It has a fish-eye lens (with an anti-reflective coating) that is built into a plastic holder, which snaps around the body of your iPhone. This fish-eye lens is then positioned, to fit...

Samsung Galaxy Extreme Xcover S5690 review

Sandra Vogel — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:25:00 GMT

Samsung has plenty of phones in its portfolio, but the Samsung Galaxy Extreme Xcover S5690 is a bit different from the rest. Not only because of it’s got a super long name, but because it is rugged. Its nearest competitor is the Motorola Defy range, the Defy, newer Defy Plus, and the...

Samsung Series 7 Chronos

Sandra Vogel — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 17:32:00 GMT

Samsung’s Series 7 Chronos is takes a leaf or two out of Apple’s book and in doing so comes up with a laptop that is very appealing both in looks, usability and what’s under the hood. If you are a MacBook Pro fan looking for a Windows based equivalent, then you might want to look...

Gentoo Linux 12 review

Simon Brew — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:35:00 GMT

Gentoo isn’t the highest profile Linux distribution. But that doesn’t mean you should ignore it

To the novice user, moving across from Windows to Linux for the first time, the desktop screen of Gentoo Linux will have a more familiar feel than most other versions of the...

Toshiba Qosmio X770-136 review

Darren Allan — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 18:49:00 GMT

17.3 inch desktop replacement gaming laptop with active 3D glasses

The Qosmio X770 is expensive, let’s make that clear up front. It tips the scales at the best part of two grand, and for that sort of money, you’d expect something special. Exactly how special is this high-end Toshiba offering? And what sort of value for money does it represent, at...

Quiet PC Serenity Z68 Gamer Xtreme review

IT Reviews Staff — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:06:00 GMT

A very quiet gaming PC featuring an overclocked Core i5 2500K processor

As we noted when we last looked at a Quiet PC system, gaming PCs are the most notorious machines – when it comes to making a racket. What with super-sized graphics cards bristling with multiple fans, they can make a noise not too dissimilar to an incoming hovercraft, on a windy day at Dover...

Sony Vaio VPC-L22Z1E review

Darren Allan — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:21:00 GMT

All-in-one PC with a 24 inch touchscreen display and active 3D glasses

Sony’s all-in-one PC might not have a very sleek name – as the VPC-L22Z1E doesn’t so much roll off the tongue, as stumble and fall flat on its face – but it does feature some smart and sleek lines. It’s one of the thinner all-in-ones we’ve seen, measuring just...

Samsung Omnia W review

Sandra Vogel — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:00:00 GMT

Windows Phone is now firmly established as a smartphone operating system, while being well into its first major update. Hardware partners are bringing out more handsets, and Nokia has even said it will concentrate on the OS going forward. Samsung’s second Windows Phone, the Omnia W is small...

Mario & Sonic At The London 2012 Olympic Games review

Simon Brew — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 20:35:00 GMT

Can Mario and Sonic bring their sporting lunacy successful to London?

There was a sense of hell freezing over when Nintendo and Sega’s respective mascots, Mario and Sonic, first appeared alongside one another in a videogame. But few things build bridges faster than a pile of cash, and the commercial success of Mario & Sonic At The Olympic Games, back in...

Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 review

Simon Williams — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:08:00 GMT

Adobe updates its consumer image editing suite.

Only part of Adobe’s brief for Photoshop Elements is producing fancy photos. The other part is organising and distributing them through a variety of media conduits. Elements 10 shows Adobe’s concentration on the second part of this brief, though there are some interesting changes to its...

LG Prada 3.0 review

Sandra Vogel — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:05:00 GMT

Slim, stylish and minimalistic - LG and Prada seem to be ticking all the right boxes.

LG and Prada have teamed up before to produce Prada branded handsets. There have been three outings including this current one, and they are few and far between. The first collaboration was in 2007, then again in 2009, and now the third joint handset has just swayed down the catwalk. The idea is...

Hauppauge myTV 2GO review

IT Reviews Staff — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 09:00:00 GMT

The myTV 2GO is a neat USB-powered Freeview receiver about the size of two Zippo lighters stuck together, with a small, extendable aerial that's designed to fire a live digital TV signal over a wireless network to any iPhone or iPad running the free myTV 2GO app. It includes a camera-sized...

Panasonic KX-MB1520 review

Martyn Clayden — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:06:00 GMT

Panasonic showcase a speedy, compact mono MFP that is let down by bad controls

When you think of multifunction printers for use at home or in small businesses, you generally think about the heavyweights in the industry such as Canon, Brother, Kodak, Epson and HP. However, Panasonic has recently started making inroads, at the lower end of the cost scale and the Panasonic...

Synology Diskstation DS212j review

Kelvyn Taylor — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:56:00 GMT

A mid-priced two-bay NAS enclosure with a great interface and plenty of advanced options

Network storage has come a long way in recent years, with advanced features now on offer – from even modest devices. Synology’s Diskstation DS212j is another good example, offering some industrial-strength capabilities, in an affordable two-bay enclosure. With its white...

Kodak Hero 9.1 All in One Printer review

Martyn Clayden — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:19:00 GMT

Kodak's top of the range Hero is truly multifunctional but has quality issues

We've looked at a few of Kodak's...

Kodak 9.1 review

Martyn Clayden — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:19:00 GMT

Kodak's top of the range Hero is truly multifunctional but has quality issues

We've looked at a few of Kodak's new Hero multifunction printers and we were therefore hoping that the Hero 9.1 – being the flagship model of the range – would embody all of the series' finest points. It's certainly the most costly of the set, at £199.99 (although Amazon is...