metal

Mobile industry not green enough, report says

Crave Nokia says that up to 60 per cent of the metal in its available handsets comes from recycled materials. Makers of mobile phones produce few 'green' models with biodegradable, recycled, or fully recyclable materials.

Tags: ericsson, electronics, mobile phones, cent

4 December 2008, 9:22

Hands-on with the Fujifilm FinePix Z200fd

Crave It does bring a slightly more polished air to the Z100's youthful exuberance with a brushed metal fascia. Pinch, punch, first of the month -- no returnsies! Today's wintry Crave is the 10-megapixel Fujifilm FinePix Z200fd, the latest in Fuji's line...

1 December 2008, 10:06

Nokia to announce new phone next week

Crave It would also boast a sharp screen, HSDPA, Wi-Fi, GPS and a solid metal casing -- here's to hoping. A while ago we got a mysterious phone call from someone claiming that they had inside knowledge of an exciting new Nokia handset coming out at the...

Tags: nokia, fi, wi fi, handset

27 November 2008, 12:07

Asus unveils upmarket Eee PC 1002HA

Crave At a media preview event Thursday night in New York, Asus showed off for the first time a new brushed-metal design for the 10-inch Eee PC netbook. The new Eee PC 1002HA has essentially the same components as the Eee PC 1000 -- Intel Atom CPU, 1GB...

Tags: metal, eee, eee pc, brushed

21 November 2008, 10:51

Photos: Extensive ears-on with Sennheiser IE 8

Crave Our own Ian 'If it ain't happy hardcore, it ain't music' Morris appeared to have fallen in love when they were passed over to him, and us metalheads can't get enough of the explosive bass that booms from the drums of the finest death-metal bands.

19 November 2008, 11:46

Hands-on with the Ricoh R10: None more black

Crave The all-metal -- or should that be metaaalllll! Bow, mortals! Bow before the satanic majesty of the Ricoh R10, a camera as black as the depths of your soul. This 10-megapixel point-and-shoot is the Johnny Cash of cameras: the cam in black, if you...

13 November 2008, 10:58

Hands-on with the Datz Music Lounge

Crave Choosing to browse the metal genre just brought up a list of several thousand songs in no obvious order, with no choice to filter or sort by a range of options. Unlimited MP3 downloads from major labels for an entire year, for a one-off £99...

10 November 2008, 10:57

Photos: Cracking open the Fujifilm FinePix Z1

Crave The small metal cage that holds the battery, meanwhile, appears on the right side of this image. Our sister site, TechRepublic, runs a regular series called "Cracking Open", in which it takes a look inside a variety of gadgets.

10 November 2008, 10:37

Photos: Hands-on with the BlackBerry Storm

Crave A large touchscreen is surrounded by a solid casing and metal back. Below you can see the metal battery cover. Today the BlackBerry Vodafone press minibus turned up at Crave Towers to give us a sneak peek at the new BlackBerry Storm.

6 November 2008, 17:04

Nokia E63: Qwerty hits the comeback trail

Crave Annoyingly it's rumoured to be made out of plastic instead of the E71's luscious metal, which was part of the reason we liked it so much. We love the Nokia E71: it's the best email phone around. So when we found out there might be a successor...

Tags: nokia, keypad, handsets, touchscreen

23 October 2008, 11:22

Audio Technica ATH-A2000X and ATH-A1000X: UK bound '09

Crave But it's likely the metal enclosures will offer different sonic characteristics over the W series, as should the driver of unknown material, too. Audio Technica just gave us some hot info about two high-end models from its new range of headphones...

Tags: audio technica, input, frame, driver

23 October 2008, 11:03

Hands-on: Apple's new MacBooks

Crave The brick comes from a 1-kilo piece of aluminium (in the case of the Air), which is literally whittled down to 0.2 kilos, meaning the internal frame is part of the same piece of metal as the chassis. Tuesday's announcement of new and updated...

Tags: dedicated, gaming, edge, air

15 October 2008, 9:39

New Apple MacBook: Thinner, faster, shinier

Crave It's also got the same glass trackpad and LED-backlit display as the Pro, but Apple will continue to sell the existing plastic MacBook, at the reduced US price of $999 -- we'll update with UK deets as soon as the store's back online.The new metal...

Tags: hard drive, models, apple, ram

14 October 2008, 17:54

Photos: Hands-on with the 3MOS Panasonic HDC-HS100

Crave It's a three CMOS model, or '3MOS' -- ooh, that's clever -- because it utilises three, 1/6-inch 'Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor' imaging sensors. The Panasonic HDC-HS100 we first met in Monte Carlo has arrived in Crave Towers with a raft...

30 September 2008, 10:14

Photos: Ears-on with the Audio Technica ATH-CK10 earphones

Crave Listening to metal, for example, with heaps of loud cymbals and screeching guitars, becomes fatiguing after a while. It was in May of this year that we first talked about Audio Technica's £250 ATH-CK10 earphones.

29 September 2008, 11:35