The Gadget Monkey Archives: February 2008
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26 February 2008
Dalek Behemoth
Doctor Who fans take note!
The 18″ version of the radio controlled Dalek - selling for £100 before Christmas - has been spotted for astonishingly low prices, with Play.com flogging the sentry-functioning cat-scarer for £79, Tesco’s shipping it off for just £50!
A perfect companion to the shorter 12″ little brother, it is certainly sturdier and well […]
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26 February 2008
Bad Move Creative?
The social scourge that is “kids who think they know music so play it on their phones on buses and tubes” is set to take a step towards pervasiveness as Creative have announced an MP3 player with a built in speaker.
The lightweight Zen Stone and Zen Stone Plus MP3 players will both come with built […]
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25 February 2008
When not to play Doom…
There’s a right time and a wrong time to play video games on your portable device.
Right time:
possibly on the bus or some other form of public transport
in the garden
in bed
while in a pub on your own (we’ve all done it)
wrong time:
At work, in front of your manager’s glass-walled office…
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24 February 2008
O2 Broadband
It came as a surprise to learn that my wife’s mobile provider was offering broadband access via the landline.
As a customer of Be, I was interested to learn that their parent company O2 was offering ADSL2 for £10 less – and it was a bit of a no brainer to make a switch.
With Be […]
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24 February 2008
iPhone. uPhone.
As portable hardware goes, the Apple iPhone is the hot item of the day.
You could be mistaken for thinking it is all snazzy graphics and no substance, but you would be wrong.
Currently I’m the owner of a T-Mobile Vario II, and until I actually handled the iPhone, that was the way things were going to […]
