Monday, June 14, 2010

ASUS N61JV







At first glance,the N61Jv looks like a proffessional or buisiness-like laptop.The black theme ,with a rubberized wrist rest almost makes it feel like the Lenovo Thinkpad.Its built quality and ergonomics are impressive.The keyboard has well spaced but slightly smaller keys.Nvidia's optimus technology improves battery life by automatically switching graphics,which is great feature to have in portable laptops.

N61JV has a powerful hardware,such as an intel core i3 350M processor,an Intel HM55 chipset,4 GB DDR3 RAM and adiscrete Nvidia GeForce GT325M GPU.It is a powerful entertainment laptop.It has a 16-inch HD LED display (1366x768) and the audiophile-quality sound complement the package.The asus SonicMaster and Nvidia Optimus technologies,and the latest USB 3.0 standard make this laptop special.The hard drive is 500GB and a resolution of 1366x768.There are 3 USB ports and a USB/eSATA combo port,a memory card reader,a 2 megapixel webcam,an expansion-card slot,a dual-layer DVD writer,numeric keypad,and a kensigton lock slot.The connectivity options are gigabit ethernet,Wi-Fi N and bluetooth.It is preloaded with windows 7 home premium(64-bit)and bundled with it an optical mouse.

Its dimensions are 384x27x265mm and weighs 2.80kg.Its a good laptop with some good amount of money-Rs.50,490($1074).

Sunday, June 13, 2010

NOKIA N97


Nokia N97 is a great phone with lots of specifications.It has a large 3.5 inch, 360x640 resistive touch screen and Its front bezel which is made akin to a polished black granite looks stylish with just three keys on its facia.The two soft keys on it is for accepting or rejecting calls and a button for for the main menu.N97 has a full QWERTY which slides from the left side;by activating the slide mechanism the screen slids upwards with slight angle maintaining.The 5-megapixel camera quality is good,which is slightly better than the nokia N96 with good detail and colour and its flash is effective upto four feet.It comes with a 32GB inbuilt storage,micro SD expandable.The application named Qik allows streaming of live videos as your camera captures.Music quality is good via the bundled headphones.

The touch interface on the N97 is much less responsive,accurate and usable as the apple iPhones's interface.Qik needs internet(GPRS)to see videos live ,it does not use Wi-Fi.N97's loudspeaker is not up to the mark.
N97 is yours for $769(Rs.36,166).

Thursday, June 10, 2010

SAMSUNG OMNIA PRO B7320


The B7320 is classy buisiness friendly phone.Its internal hardware is farely powerful to run th UI at a decent pace.the key board has well sized keys,but they are hard not intuitive to use.its internet explorer is simply unusable to view full-fledged web sites.It come only with viewers of MS Offfice files,there is no option to create documents.gps works well with google maps.photos from the camera appeared slightly washed out.The phone belts out audio quality and the headset also has a 3.5mm headphone jack.The phone battery lasted 1.5 days under heavy usage.

B7320 is with quad-band GSM and HSDPA at 3.6Mbps.Its diamentions are 111.8x59.6x12.6mm and weighs 110g.Ithas 2.4 inches 320x240 pixel screen.It comes with a Qualcomm MSM 7201A 528 MHz processorand a memory of 256MB RAM,and 256MB ROM.Its operating system is windows mobile 6.1 professional (upgradable to WM 6.5 when released).It uses Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g,bluetooth 2.0,HSDPA,A-GPS for connections.Its camera has 3.2 mp auto focus,Geo-tagging,face and smile detection,video.You can steal it for Rs.16,500($358).

NOKIA E63


Nokia E63 is a cheap alternative to the E71 buisiness phone.The audio quality of this phone is pretty good.The default earphone are average,fortunately the E63 uses a 3.5mm audio jack to plug in any other earphones.There is a 2.0 camera with average quality.This phone does not have GPS like its big brother E71.It diamentions are 113x59x13mm and a weight of 126g.It has a 2.36-inch screen,arm 11369MHz processor,2-MP camer,QWERTY keypad,bluetooth,microSD memory expansion slot, S60 9.2,WiFi 802.11b/g.
The E63's has a good built quality,its keypad is great for messaging and its fingerprint proof.It has a long battery life and its audio quality is good.
some disadvantages are,it camera quality is average. It has no audio focus and no volume keys. the E63's 3.5mm jack cover is not attached to the body.Its yours if you spend Rs.12,699($276)

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

NIKON D3000


The nikon's new D3000 comes with the same standard 18-55 mm VR and 3x optical zoom.its sensor is 10-MP CCD unit. The body is a bit bulkier than the D60 with a larger 3-inch screen.The image quality is good with the default lens.Live view is missing in it,canon has this feature on their cheaper EOS 1000D.

D3000's main specifications are as follows,it has a 10.2-mp ccd sensor (23.6x15.8mm),18-55mm VR lens.It has a shutter speed of 1/4000-30secondsand its iso range is 100-3200,1080mAH li-ion nikon battery.Its size is 126x97x64mm and its weight is 485g.Its price is $862(Rs.39,990).For those who already have a D60 or any other cheap dSLR in this range,this isn't for you .you better buy a sony A330,aD5000 or even the D90 if those fall within your budget.My overall rating of this cam is 7.3 of 10.

FLIP MINO HD


At first look Mino HD looks like an old fashioned pmp but when we comes to know it we understand that its a new generation of camcoders.It has no tapes and needs no FireWires.It records directly to an integrated flash memory.You can flip out the USB to transfer the videos to your computer.

The minoHD stores about 60 minutes of 720p video into its 4 gb flash memory.720p HD is 1280 pixels wide and 720 pixel tall.It has 2x digital zoom.The MinoHD's microphone is omnidirectional.The audio is recorded in mono,encoded in 64 kb/sec AAC.the battery is not removable,it recharges via USB.The MinoHD's 1.5-inch rear screen is tiny,but bright and clear.the rear speaker is quiet but good enough for its job.Its yours for $230(Rs10,604)

ONKYO P3


Atom processors on ion platform make for too tiny as a computer.This new generation of computers are a strange hybrid between netbooks and desktops,its called nettops.It comes with a 160GB hard drive,2GB RAM and a CPU that runs at 1.6GHz.It can get even smaller if you slid take off the DVD-ROM.It comes with a GeForce 9400M G chipset with integrated vedio card.It also includes four USB 2.0 slots,eSATA,HDMI,and a multi-card reader.ONKYO P3 is available for u at $770(Rs.35,500)

SANYO XACTI CG11





This stylish product from sanyo is a great camcoder .It is available in in a range of colours.It is a perfect cam for beginners and women.cg11 comes with a 10 megapixel cmos sensor capable of recording 720p resolution HD videos.It has integrated EyeFi and mini-HDMI connectivity options.Storage of the H.264-encoded MPEG-4 output is handled by SDHC media.It has a 5x optical zoom.The most astonishing feature of cg11 is that it is able to directly upload videos to youtube if threre is a Wi-Fi connectivity around.the most dissapointing feature of cg11 is that it have only 40MB depault storage.The sanyo xacti cg11 is available for $318(Rs.14,600)