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Hands-on with the Ricoh R10: None more black

Crave Functions are controlled by a flattened joystick, for the thumb of the right hand. 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...

13 November 2008, 10:58

Best of the forums this week: Why Earth hasn't imploded

Crave So if I can make five shelf loads of CD's disappear into my laptop, or a thumb-drive, then that makes me really happy. As if all the iTunes news this week wasn't enough, our forums have been burning with musical discussion with the fury of a...

Tags: physics, hole, drm, steve jobs

15 September 2008, 10:23

Photos: Hands-on with the Sony Ericsson W902

Crave On the W902, play and skip buttons feature down the right-hand side and are comfortable to use with the thumb. If last month's posts about the new Sony Ericsson W902 and W595 Walkman phones had you excited, wait 'til you see what we've got for you...

4 August 2008, 11:31

Hands-on with the Samsung VP-HMX20: Flash! Ah-aaah!

Crave Speaking of which, the HMX20 has a neat swivelling grip, which allows you to switch grips from thumb backwards to thumb forwards without taking your hand out of the grip -- if you're smooth enough, perhaps even while shooting.

23 May 2008, 16:07

The TAD: A ring that helps you ring

Crave It's pretty simple really, you insert the pointy bit and then slip the ring over your thumb -- hey presto, you've got a pointy thumb. This is not a sex toy, this is the TAD, a mobile phone accessory for the long-nailed or keypad-confounded.

Tags: ring, thumb, tad, sports

15 May 2008, 10:17

Photos: Hands-on with the Fujifilm FinePix S100FS

Crave You get raw shooting, a thumb dial for adjusting exposure and manual control over the lens -- you turn it and it zooms. The Fujifilm S100FS is at the top of the Finepix tree. It's an 11-megapixel bridge camera with a 14x zoom.

14 May 2008, 10:05

Photos: Hands-on with the HTC Touch Diamond

Crave Click on the next page to see more photos of the Diamond and HTC's new interface -- TouchFLO 3D -- which aims to make using Windows Mobile a little more thumb-friendly.Update: Read our full HTC Touch Diamond review.

6 May 2008, 17:01

Hands-on with the Panasonic SDR-S7: A small gift

Crave But even with our big hands it fits snugly into the palm, and includes a second record button should you wish to grip it thumb-forward than thumb at the back. Christmas 1989. This Craver had been good all year, and all we wanted was Batman for the...

16 April 2008, 11:10

Hands-on with the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FS20: Purely belter

Crave It's controlled via a small joystick, flattened into a mushroom shape for maximum thumb-related grippiness. Compact cameras: we love 'em. They slip in your pocket, you whip them out, you take a picture, put the picture on Facebook.

15 April 2008, 9:54

Sony Ericsson W890i: Hands-on with the lean Walkman phone

Crave When we first got our hands on the Sony Ericsson W880i, we thought, "Great phone, shame about the keypad" -- which is why we're delighted to see its successor, the Sony Ericsson W890i Walkman phone. Wave goodbye to your metacarpal worries, Walkman...

Tags: sony ericsson, sony, pair, ericsson

13 March 2008, 11:27

Hands on with the Ricoh R8: Putting the R8 in gr8?

Crave The R7's nippy joystick has been squashed and flattened -- like a cartoon character having an anvil dropped on their head -- to make a more thumb-friendly control. The thumb control gives you one-touch access to exposure compensation, white balance...

Tags: ricoh, modes, zoom, compact

21 February 2008, 11:10

Photos: Samsung F480, G810, i780, F490 and Soul

Crave The Qwerty keypad felt easy to press and there's an optical sensor in place of a four-way mechanical key, allowing you to scroll through emails or contacts by just brushing your thumb against it. We've simply never seen so many handsets being...

18 February 2008, 14:04

Photos: Motorola's sexy new Rokr E8 and Z10

Crave The E8 vibrates just under your thumb rather than the whole handset. Let's not beat around the bush. We went out to the Mobile World Congress expecting Motorola to be a little depressed post-lacklustre 2007 financial results and the loss of its CEO...

18 February 2008, 10:04

Samsung Q1 Ultra HSDPA: UMPC broadband on the go

Crave The thumb-operated split keyboard on either side of the 7-inch screen is fiddly as hell to operate, the mouse takes some getting used to, and the whole unit is actually quite large -- you'll need a bag to carry it in.

Tags: samsung, battery, broadband, keyboard

19 December 2007, 12:12

Christmas gift guide: Great presents from £15 to £150

Crave It slots on to the bottom of your 360's gamepad and gives you a full Qwerty thumb pad that makes tapping out messages a breeze. The curse of Christmas is traipsing around the shops on Christmas Eve, wasting your money on naff slippers, rubbish...

11 December 2007, 16:02