standards

Apple in trouble over iPhone advert

Crave The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned an iPhone ad after consumers complained it exaggerated the speed of the device. A recent TV ad for the iPhone 3G stated: "So what's so great about 3G?

Tags: apple, iphone, ad, complained

27 November 2008, 9:02

Intel Core i7 CPU tested

Crave Intel's Skulltrail platform of last year supported both standards as well, but the specialised CPUs that made the board worthwhile were prohibitively expensive. Intel's powerful new Core i7 desktop processor family, formerly known as Nehalem, is...

12 November 2008, 16:47

WHDi: Wireless HD video demoed

Crave There are two competing standards: WirelessHD (check out a demonstration here) and WHDi. The people behind both the WHDi and WirelessHD standards say there will be many more companies showing products for the US market at the super-size electronics...

Tags: wireless, market, products, standards

24 October 2008, 9:59

Google patent could spark network bidding war

Crave The patent, which was filed in March 2007 but was only published by the US Patent Office last Thursday, would also let devices choose between normal phone standards such as GSM and CDMA, as well as rival technologies such as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and...

Tags: published, session, locked, portable

30 September 2008, 9:14

TalkTalk slammed over 'free' broadband ad

Crave The Advertising Standards Authority has rapped Carphone Warehouse's TalkTalk unit over a recent TV advert that promised free broadband, even though it was not available to all customers. The TV ad in question said: "At TalkTalk we believe broadband...

Tags: broadband, ads, customers, ad

26 September 2008, 9:18

From IFA with love: Crave goes wild in Berlin

Crave Hyundai may have had its stand raided by customs officers, but we feel trading standards officers could have a field day here too. It's always the same: you wait ages for the world's first 200Hz TV and then two come along at once.

3 September 2008, 10:34

Photos: LG Netbook X110, free with a Phones4U contract?

Crave Because the X110 is relatively large -- by netbook standards -- LG has been able to cram in a decent-sized keyboard. As much as we love netbooks, it's difficult not to be cynical when we see a new one arrive in the UK.

2 September 2008, 11:16

Photos: Hands-on with the GPS-enabled iRiver M3

Crave You probably wouldn't want to carry this thing around, though -- it's pretty massive by MP3 player standards. Back in April, Archos broke the PMP mould by announcing a GPS add-on to its popular range of Generation 6 video players.

2 September 2008, 11:03

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, 10:07

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, 12:08

Vauxhall Insignia: The car that can see

Crave We've yet to test the accuracy of the system, but it'll depend on how closely the road signs in question follow the standards laid out in the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals. Crave popped down to the British International Motor Show...

25 July 2008, 12:21

Panasonic DMR-EX88 DVD PVR: Don't let TV boss you around

Crave It also has support for all the blank DVD standards, including DVD-RAM; this format is especially useful for recording TV because it allows flexible writing, deleting and can be re-written up to 100,000 times.

Tags: panasonic, television, recorder, disc

23 July 2008, 10:54

Photos: More gadget goodies from Pioneer's UK headquarters

Crave Something Pioneer wants to emphasise is its consistent design standards. We got a first look at Pioneer's LCD TVs on Friday, but that wasn't enough. While at the company's head office, we had a poke around to see what other technological goodies...

21 July 2008, 12:01

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, 9:10

Firefox 3: Reviewed

Crave The test, designed by the Web Standards Project, is designed to encourage designers to follow HTML and CSS 2.0 specifications. After months of testing, Firefox 3 is available for download -- here. With its new Gekko 1.9 engine, the browser rocks...

Tags: add ons, star, ons, places

18 June 2008, 14:39