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Sony BDP-S350: Sony strikes Blu gold

Crave For those interested in Blu-ray load speeds, the S350 manages to load our benchmark movie, Vantage Point, in 1 minute 9 seconds. We've never been slow to criticise stand-alone Blu-ray players, and particularly Sony hardware.

Tags: sony, profile, players, blu

2 December 2008, 11:20

Hands-on with the Samsung NV9: Cooler King

Crave But the Samsung NV9, a 10.2-megapixel point-and-shoot, sports a look and packs a bunch of features that make it as cool as the Cooler King himself. Ice-blue eyes coldly meet the rear-view mirror. Engines rev.

2 December 2008, 10:55

Hands-on with the Fujifilm FinePix Z200fd

Crave 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 of sliding cover-style compacts. The diagonally-sliding cover and light up 'Z' were new and exciting on...

1 December 2008, 10:06

Does Twitter help with Mumbai coverage?

Crave Obviously, at some point someone has to check the facts, confirm reports, analyse the outcome, and so on. As the tragic events unfolded in Mumbai, India, the Internet backchannel came to the foreground with messages, photos and videos from the...

Tags: reporting, events, draft, confirm

28 November 2008, 8:43

Photos: Hands-on with the Sony Ericsson W705 Walkman

Crave At this point, our model is not fit for reviewing, as the software is still subject to change. Earlier this month we wrote about Sony Ericsson's latest Walkman slider phone, and it's a stunner. Released next year, the W705 is perhaps the most...

27 November 2008, 13:34

The CNET UK Blu-ray player speed challenge

Crave We then pop our Vantage Point disc in the tray. To benchmark the players, we use a copy of the movie Vantage Point. From there, we time how long it takes for a player to ingest the disc and start playing it -- for the PS3 we started the clock at...

Tags: pioneer, tray, blu, disc

27 November 2008, 11:51

Twitter rejects $500m Facebook friendship?

Crave The microblogging service competes directly with Facebook's own 'status' feature, to the point where many Twitter users have configured their Facebook statuses to display their 'tweets'. Maybe it wasn't just egregious Silicon Valley gossip-baiting...

Tags: board, stock, ceo, facebook

25 November 2008, 9:44

Ears-on with the Atomic Floyd AirJax earphones

Crave At least at this point in our testing, the best reason to consider these earphones is if you don't like the silicone-tipped sound-isolating designs so many high-end earphones employ, and if you listen to plenty of vocal and acoustic music.

18 November 2008, 11:47

Hands-on with the Ricoh R10: None more black

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

13 November 2008, 10:58

Intel Core i7 CPU tested

Crave Nvidia has not been shy to point out this fact (its beta drivers have worked fine), but we also find it telling that all three of the high-priced Core i7 gaming desktops we're currently looking at come with multicard AMD configurations.h2>

12 November 2008, 16:47

Apple considering carbon-fibre MacBook Air?

Crave That may not sound like much, but it's within shouting distance of 10 per cent, and could make for a really smart marketing slogan at some point in the future. Apple may be searching for ways to make the MacBook Air even lighter.

Tags: air, sort, weight, chassis

12 November 2008, 9:28

Great Christmas gadgets under £100

Crave Yes, we find it confusing too, but that's the point. We can't do much about the first three, but we can help you out on the last one by providing you with some great gift ideas. So here, without further ado, is our festive run-down of the top 20...

11 November 2008, 16:50

Hands-on with the Fujifilm FinePix J150w

Crave Hard luck then for the Fujifilm FinePix J150w, a perfectly serviceable 10-megapixel point-and-shoot camera that should have clocked what kind of mood we were in and sidled back out before we noticed it.

Tags: fujifilm, christmas, cent, lens

7 November 2008, 11:02

Olympus E-30: 30-something gets out the vote

Crave It has the same 11-point autofocus system as the E-3, and a slightly larger 69mm (2.7-inch) screen. Those sneaky scamps over at Olympus. While the rest of the camera world scrambled to punt out entire new line-ups before Photokina had even opened...

Tags: olympus, panasonic, art, nikon

5 November 2008, 4:00

Photos: Hands-on with the Samsung NV40

Crave It's a 10.5-megapixel point-and-shoot, and a clever one at that. Full manual control in an easy-to-use point-and-shoot usually demands a premium, so at a jaw-dropping £110 online, the Samsung NV40 is a solid-gold bargain.

3 November 2008, 11:24