BlackBerry Bold Review

The BlackBerry Bold is a smartphone with a physical (miniature) keyboard that is currently on sell for $299. Besides a keyboard for interaction, there is also a trackball to go through the screen options. The trackball is a fast way to get around and proves effective and the keyboard feels solid. On the downside, the keyboard is a bit slick.

Bold also proves to be a nice media phone. It does music, photos, and videos. The on-board camera captures at 2M pixels, and you can record videos.

Generic e-mail setup is very simple. Webmail isn’t terribly hard either.

The phone sits nice in your palm, and one-handed typing is a easy. It able to use the 3G network and WiFi networks.

The new BlackBerry Bold is a excellent offering for interested smartphone buyers. Old BlackBerry users will be very comfortable in using it and quickly grasp the hardware and software.

Website Review: ForiSearch – Foreign Image Search

ForiSearch is website designed so users can quickly search for images that have their descriptions and names in another language. Currently, the ForiSearch supports 35 languages which you can begin or end your search with.

To explain, the process goes like this:

1. You type a word or phrase in your language (default setting is English).
2. You select the language you want to search and click the “Translate & Search” button.
3. The system will automatically translate your word and give you image results.

You will notice that it’s not just the language you search that is customizable. You can also choose which search engine you want to look at (either Google (default), Yahoo, MSN, or Youtube (for videos). This is very robust, flexible and useful for many reasons.

For a list of supported languages, you can find the following currently: Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.

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Samsung X460-44P Review

The Samsung X460-44P proves to be a good start for make laptops for the US market. It is 4.2lbs, has 14-inch LED wide-screen panel, a duel layer DVD-RW drive, and a decent design. Other aspects are highly customizable.

It operates pretty good for its class and sets a standard for future Samsung laptops. Its design is unique and stands out against other competitors (pending on opinion). As far as purchasing, this is for users that are looking for a middle of the road offering and like the Samsung style. It punch no less than its weight and customers should be satisfied with the hardware.

HP HDX18 laptop review: Powerful Multimedia Laptop

If you want a laptop that is a suitable desktop replacement, the HDX18 is an excellent proformer with many multimedia options. The HP HDX series is geared for multimedia. It has a full keyboard (including a number pad) and is slightly bigger (in more than one way) to its smaller brother the HDX16.

It can contain a 2.8-GHz Core2 Duo CPU (T9600), 4GB of RAM, nVidia’s 512MB GeForce 9600M GT GPU which does excellent on almost any heavy software.

The HDX18 is very big: 8.9-pounds with a 17×11.26×1.72 inch casing with a 18.4-inch display (glossy, the new style, not the matted look) able to show fullsize HD video.

The keyboard has a  metallic feel to it because it’s coated and it has engraved letters on each key. There are some extra multimedia buttons that line up on the top of the keyboard which you can tweak. The touch pad is very shiny (like a mirror) and smooth. The mouse buttons are long and sturdy metallic buttons.

Ports available:

• eSATA
• HDMI
• 4 USB 2.0 ports
• 1 4-pin FireWire port
• Multi-format flashcard reader
• PC Express external-card slot
• BD-ROM drive
• HD or coax cable tuner.

The battery life lasts 2H 42Min with an 8-cell battery. With a 6-cell battery, the time will be closer to 2 hours.

The baseline model costs about $1400.

Source: PC Mag

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