standards

Photos: Ears-on with the Klipsch Custom-2 earphones

Crave By our standards, £30 is too little. By most peoples' standards, £500 is too much. There's been an interesting debate on our forums recently regarding how much earphones and headphones should cost. How about £90-ish?

29 July 2008, 13:08

HD DVD players arriving in March, says Toshiba

Crave Toshiba has been shouting about the HD DVD format for a while, fighting off Sony's rival Blu-ray in a bitter standards war. Toshiba's format is supposedly cheaper to produce and has the backing of Microsoft, but so far we've yet to see a non...

Tags: toshiba, hd, dvds, hd dvd

5 January 2006, 9:09

Blu-ray vs HD DVD: Heavyweight title bout

Crave The story that dominated CES this year was the standards war around high-definition DVD. This is no longer a phony war: both Blu-ray and HD DVD players will arrive in less than six months. What's clear from talking to people at the show is that...

Tags: toshiba, hd, high definition, war

9 January 2006, 13:53

HTC S740: Good smart phones can come in small packages

Crave When HTC first ventured into the realm of smart phones that looked like normal phones, we scoffed, because they simply weren't up to the company's usual high standards. We thought that if you wanted a real smart phone experience, you needed...

Tags: htc, keypad, smart phone, compact

26 August 2008, 11:07

Opera Mobile 9.5 beta hands-on

Crave Long overshadowed by Opera Mini -- the light, server-fed browser for Java phones -- Opera Mobile is a robust browser built on Web standards (and written with C and C++) that's known for delivering a full Web experience to Windows Mobile and...

Tags: opera, symbian, beta, browsing

17 July 2008, 10:10

Asus A7J: Multimedia powerhouse

Crave We had the pleasure of playing with one this morning, and it seems to live up to the high standards we expect from Asus. The onslaught of laptops using Intel's new Core Duo processors and next-generation Centrino technology (Napa) continues in...

Tags: asus, intel, core, adaptor

30 January 2006, 10:18

Motorola Rokr E2: It's out... kind of

Crave Its design was also disappointing and didn't meet Motorola or Apple's usual standards. Crave is still recovering from the disappointment of the Motorola Rokr E1. The much-hyped phone, which was launched last year, didn't live up to its promise of...

Tags: motorola, itunes, port, breath

30 August 2006, 12:52

TalkTalk Free Broadband "a disturbing nightmare" says CEO

Crave It's not Crave that's making these accusations, nor is the Advertising Standards Agency, which banned TalkTalk from claiming its service was actually 'free'; nor is it a claim from the myriad Web sites set up to expose TalkTalk's frailties.

Tags: broadband, customer, customers, ceo

8 November 2006, 10:58

Tesco's £18 MP3 player: Is there no legal limit?

Crave Tesco is the famous purveyor of all things oddly affordable, but this time it's really surpassed its own standards of cheap (price being in no way indicative of quality) with a £18 MP3 player. We've all bought a DVD from the dusty man sat on his...

Tags: low end, wedge, man, hands

22 May 2006, 12:10

Photos from IFA 2006: Samsung pushes 1080p televisions

Crave For more on high-definition standards, see our Get Ready for High Definition feature. Visitors to the Samsung stand at IFA 2006 were greeted by a wall of flat-screen televisions. Samsung had one of the largest stands at the show and at least half...

5 September 2006, 9:16

Sonim XP1: Push to talk is back

Crave In the first half of 2005, however, the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), a standards body that consists of all the major mobile manufacturers and network operators, launched a standard called PoC (Push to talk over Cellular) 1.0.

Tags: unlimited, person, talk, manufacturers

9 October 2006, 12:31

Apple Mac: the future of video starts here

Crave For anyone unfamiliar with the hi-def revolution, its basic advantage is that it offers video at a much higher resolution than current standards, such as television and DVD material. The Apple fans currently have some good ammunition against the PC...

Tags: apple uk, def, hi def, bill gates

4 May 2005, 10:24

Loewe Individual: pure original

Crave The Individual range might seem pricy, but it's not too bad by Loewe's usually high standards. Loewe is set to launch the 'Individual' range of LCD TVs this month, and they're the company's snazziest yet.

Tags: loewe, model, definition, range

6 September 2005, 10:37

Canon EOS-1D Mark III: World's fastest digital SLR

Crave The new camera offers a relatively modest (by current standards) resolution of 10.1 megapixels, but can capture full-size JPEG images at 10 frames per second (fps). The hero product of Canon's Spring Collection, announced yesterday, is the Canon...

Tags: canon, iii, mark, sports

23 February 2007, 11:45

What's freesat and how will I get it?

Crave But because the system is based on open standards, purchasing equipment from other companies shouldn't be a problem, as long as you know what to buy. Strongly rumoured to be launching in the next month or so (the semi-official freesat blog claims 5...

Tags: humax, upgrade, house, air

17 April 2008, 12:38