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Out of the box: BenQ-Siemens GO Phone
Crave The last device included in the box is the mobile phone cradle that can be stuck to the dashboard of your car with the provided adhesive pads or clipped to an air vent. There's a new mobile player in town and he's shooting from the hip.
Tags: benq-siemens, mobile phone, package, siemens
20 June 2006, 12:32
Panasonic TUCTH100: Bad name, nice box
Crave Sure, the strangely named TUCTH100 might not do anything different to Sagem's box, but it's got one major advantage -- it looks good. We're not convinced that a nicer design is worth such a premium, but if you're after a big-name Freeview box, make...
Tags: panasonic, recorder, hard drive, box
11 August 2005, 11:20
Vita Audio R1 DAB: Box of delights, or casket of frights?
Crave Who cares if they're selling me something worse than FM dressed in a fancy box, tarted up like a muddy tramp forced into a too-small Billabong wetsuit? Just when you thought DABs were a substandard replacement for FM, they go and make them look all...
Tags: stations, christmas, station, box
17 November 2006, 11:58
Panasonic DMR-EH60D: Freeview DVD/HDD in one box
Crave The Freeview tuner's integration into the box means that everything is linked into the electronic programme guide -- so you can schedule your recordings without having to type in 23-digit VideoPlus codes from the Radio Times.
Tags: panasonic, hard drive, recording, tuner
8 December 2005, 10:38
Out of the box with the Intempo Digital iDS-01
Crave Inside the box is a sealed user guide and a clear plastic tray containing the main Intempo speaker unit, a USB connector, a mains adaptor and an audio cable with two mini-jacks, and some baffling plastic widgets which Crave is guessing are what...
Tags: box, station, cable, mini
19 July 2005, 11:53
mobiBLU Boxon: Little black box
Crave mobiBLU likes to box clever with its MP3 players, out-quirking the Goliaths of the market. The DAH-1500i -- aka the Cube -- was the world's smallest MP3 player until party-pooper Apple came along with the new Shuffle.
Tags: mobiblu, playback, error, downloaded
6 August 2007, 17:06
The box of delights: Apple iPod Hi-Fi
Crave Subtle points, but perhaps not to an 'audiophile'.These are high demands for a small unit, and on the whole we're impressed by Apple's stylish white box. Now that the furore over last week's Apple launch has died down, crash investigators have...
9 March 2006, 11:20
Canon Selphy ES1: From box to print in 9½ minutes
Crave The bottom of the box contains the printer itself, in a protective shell of egg-carton material. Yesterday an ES1 thunked on to our desk, so let's see how quickly we can get it printing.am Open box. When we first saw the Canon Selphy ES1 photo...
Tags: canon, insert, sort, hand
15 November 2006, 8:46
iPlayer+: BT phone box
Crave What is BT doing making a Freeview box? But, spotting a telephone line port on the rear, it all became horrifyingly clear -- the iPlayer+ has been butchered to make it a telephone box in disguise. As a Freeview box, it offers a few bonuses.
5 October 2005, 12:31
Shuttle SD11G5 causes box envy
Crave Yesterday we outdid ourselves with news of the very latest bag, but today we're upping the ante to bring you essential information on (drum roll please) a box. Before you close your browser window and report us to the loony police, we should...
Tags: processor, laptops, case, box
23 November 2005, 14:00
Out of the box with the iDeck iPod sound system
Crave We recently took an Intempo Digital iDS-01 iPod accessory out of the box, a cheap-and-cheerful £40 speaker system for your little white devil. We took it out of the box, ignored the instructions and tried to see how quickly an excited Crave monkey...
Tags: love, volume, mini, speakers
26 August 2005, 10:51
Idaptor: The Freeview box that isn't there
Crave But the opportunity to get rid of a box from under the television -- that's what we call a real evolution. Bush's Idaptor is the smallest Freeview box we've seen (outside of the PC arena) -- it's only slightly bigger than a normal Scart adaptor.
Tags: bush, box, cables, evolution
28 November 2005, 10:29
Sky's £299 HD box to launch in May
Crave But the Internet abhors a vacuum, so rumours circulating about Sky's biggest project since its launch in 1989 mean that there was little surprise when the company announced a £299 price point for the box, a £10-a-month subscription fee and a May...
27 March 2006, 12:29
Sky+ Remote Record: Control your Sky+ box from anywhere
Crave Meanwhile, your perfectly formed Sky+ box is sitting on its perfectly formed posterior, doing absolutely nothing because you forgot to program it. You can find out what's on, select a programme to record and send a message to your Sky+ box to kick...
6 July 2006, 14:33
Evesham iplayer: Smartest set-top box ever?
Crave Good news for anyone who likes to veg out in front of the telly: Evesham has just released a super-cool new set-top box that can do pretty much everything. It's basically a Freeview box with a shed-load of extra tricks up its sleeve, though you...
Tags: evesham, hard drive, definition, box
6 December 2006, 10:59


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