Recently E-Book readers have been the talk of the gadget world. With big retail shops starting to push sales, including Amazons own Kindle product, it comes at no surprise that they are one of the must have gadgets this Christmas.
The popular products include:
- Barnes and Noble Nook
- Amazon Kindle
- Sony E-Reader
All of these have one thing in common and that is they aren’t cheap. They start at around $250 and rise depending on the size of the screen.
All of these have similar format support for yourE-Books and each one has a similar subscription system for the purchasing of books, which download straight to your Readers device.
At the moment we recommend the Kindle for the Large Amazon range of books available and the flexible subscription system.
Thats the news this X-mas, with these smaller and less powerful laptops getting cheaper and cheaper.
From £250-300 you can pick up a quite well specced netbook which is capable of all your office / photo collection work.
By having a 12-13″ screen and a decent battery, netbooks are famed for having very long battery life times when you are out on the move. Used to 2-3 hours? Well with a larger 8 cell battery expect netbooks to last upwards of 11 hours or more.
If your loved one is asking for a new laptop for x-mas, why not consider a netbook? They certainly look the part.
As you may of noticed recently, there are a lot of GPS related phone app’s. From the usual Tom-Tom’s to Garmin, to the more lesser known, navicon and recently Googles offering.
They all have one thing in common except one stand out, which is that they all cost ALOT. The Tom Tom iPhone cradle is 100£ and the app itself with UK and Ireland only is 69.99£.
Google Navigation on the other hand is free. Once Navigation makes it too the iPhone and possibly Blackberry / Windows Mobile, it makes you wonder if this influx of other GPS apps will survive.
Only time will tell, and Navigation has to get through Apples content approval first!
The latest rumours to emerge from Apple insiders is that the Apple tablet will feature a 10″ LCD screen of a 9″ OLED screen which was found from dealings with LG.
If this is true, you can expect the OLED version of the tablet to be significantly more expensive due to the technology being relatively new and still exclusive for sizes bigger than a mobile phone. For example the Sony 15″ OLED screen is around £5500.
It is still unclear whether the tablet in question will sport the iPhones OS or a modified version of OS X.
Stay tuned for more Apple info!
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