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Nokia's N-Gage is coming back -- but not as you know it
Crave Nokia's N-Gage range was a noble first attempt by a mobile phone manufacturer to make dedicated gaming phones. But there simply wasn't a big enough customer demand to lift it off the ground. Unfortunately, this marked the end for N-Gage handsets...
Tags: nokia, console, dedicated, gaming
28 March 2006, 10:10
BLCX to that: ROK gives you TV on your smart phone
Crave For the past couple of years, almost every mobile manufacturer and network in the UK has been whispering about DVB-H and DMB -- that's TV on your mobile to you and me. They're taking their time to set it up, though, and in the meantime we can only...
Tags: fi, wi fi, channels, box
23 March 2006, 13:12
Sharp BD-HP10: Meet Sharp's bargain-basement Blu-ray player
Crave One thing Blu-ray has always had in its favour is that there's more than one manufacturer making players. With HD DVD, if you aren't a fan of Toshiba, you're stuck -- at least for the time being. It's taken Sharp a while to announce its Blu-ray...
Tags: sharp, ray, blu, blu ray
16 October 2007, 11:34
Mirai LCD TVs: New kids on the block
Crave Asian LCD manufacturer Mirai is better known for its computer monitors, but like many other companies it's getting bored of making displays for Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations, and is branching out into the television market.
3 February 2006, 10:21
HTC Shift: Smart phone morphs into Vista UMPC
Crave Every now and then a mobile phone manufacturer makes you sit up in your seat and have a really good look at your computer screen. When we were sent this photo of HTC's Shift by its PR company, we stared at our screens for a very long time indeed.
Tags: htc, hard drive, shift, band
27 March 2007, 10:50
Freecom MusicPal: Video won't kill this radio star review
Crave Freecom may not be the household name for music streamers, but the Dutch manufacturer has come out with an attractive £100 solution for the home. The MusicPal can pull MP3s and WAV files from a PC (or a Mac) over your home network, and can suck Net...
Tags: freecom, streamers, feeds, kit
1 November 2007, 9:08
Medison Celebrity: Swedish company offers laptop for £77
Crave Swedish manufacturer Medison has announced a laptop costing an insanely low £77. Yup, we find it hard to believe too and we certainly suggest you take this with a pinch of salt. But if genuine, this level of rock-bottom, bargain-basement cheapness...
Tags: press, laptop, conference, celebrity
26 July 2007, 10:46
Sony back on the campaign trail
Crave So, Sony, you badass consumer electronics manufacturer, what are you planning to hurl at the iPod next? Ah, a new Walkman is it? Hmm, this one doesn't look bad at all. Maybe there's something to this.
Tags: sony uk, store, walkman, plan
12 September 2005, 10:52
Nabaztag: Router Rabbit
Crave Hot on the leather-clad heels of Ann Summers, electronics manufacturer Violet has just unveiled its own gizmo cunningly disguised as a rabbit. It's a bunny-shaped broadband router with built-in 802.11b/g Wi-Fi and not, as some may think, an adult toy.
Tags: fi, stock, wi fi, router
30 March 2006, 11:32
HTC Touch 3G and Touch Viva unveiled
Crave As if giving birth to the Touch HD wasn't an epic enough afternoon for the Taiwanese manufacturer, it has pelvic-thrusted another set of twins out into the open -- the HTC Touch 3G and Touch Viva handsets.
15 September 2008, 17:43
Sagem's new gear: The my700X, SH1 and car kit
Crave It's a little known fact that tech manufacturer Sagem used to make military equipment. That division has now been spun off into a separate company, so the only harm posed by a Sagem phone nowadays is if you use it to call your ex after a night out...
Tags: sagem, bluetooth, talk, press
31 July 2006, 12:46
Samsung E900 vs. LG Chocolate phone: Slider showdown
Crave It's no secret that LG and Samsung are sworn enemies in the battle to be the best consumer technology manufacturer in the world. One sector where the two South Korean giants are fighting it out like Godzilla and Mothra is the mobile phone industry.
Tags: samsung, mobile phone, megapixel, lg
22 May 2006, 12:42
Toyota to launch solar-powered Prius
Crave We applaud any car manufacturer that harnesses the power of technology -- particularly if it helps fuel economy, driving fun, or makes us look cool. That's why we launched Car Tech. So our ears perked up when we heard Toyota is upgrading its Prius.
7 July 2008, 11:41
Crave Talk: Creative vs Apple -- why sue now?
Crave MP3 player manufacturer Creative has filed two legal actions against Apple, claiming that the iPod infringes on a patent for hierarchical menus Creative applied for in 2001 and was awarded in August 2005.
Tags: creative, case, art, summer
16 May 2006, 12:00
Sony Ericsson W880: What are you?
Crave In an unusual move for Sony Ericsson, or indeed any mobile phone manufacturer for that matter, the company has released two photographs of a new Walkman phone called the W880. Weirdly, that's it: just two photographs of the top corner and side of...
Tags: sony ericsson, sony, mobile phone, released
16 January 2007, 10:59

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