Brenthaven Fusion MB Black Review

Many people just stuff their laptops, books, work and things into any old bag they happen to have lying about at the time. This is neither good for the things in there, or for your style. Just because you like to frag on the go, doesn’t mean you have to look like a stereotypical geek, does it? So we’ve been spending time with the Brenthaven Fusion MB Black, a very stylish new laptop bag. More after the hop.

Hands-On: TaylorMade TP Red

(Pictures of prototypes have to be slightly blurry – its the law I think)

I recently had a go out with the, as yet unreleased, TaylorMade TP Red balls on a bright, crisp Winter’s morning in the South of England.

As any regular reader will know, I have a love for the Red’s as they are the ball that replaced my German-sourced Nike Double-D Distances’ in my personal bag after all of the latters had strewn themselves in almost every lake, bush and rabbit hole in Hampshire, so these new ones have a lot to live up to. Read on to read my initial reactions…

EVENT – RA @: Southampton Boat Show

First of all, an apology. In September I went to the Press Day of the Southampton Boat show, so that I could cover it on here for you all to see. Now, as you may or may not realise, it is now January, and there has been no peep of coverage on the site so far. This is mainly due to the lack of mega-news from the event, and partly because my laptop wasn’t with me, so live-updating from the show was impossible and sorting through the pictures after the event was/is nigh-on impossible, but nothing to do with the champagne breakfast courtesy of Sealine.

So since it is such a slow month in the new product calendar here is a shot at giving you a glimpse of what happened, so sorry for the lack of pictures of canapes, Press Room coffee and the Sunseeker Private Lounge, but delve into a few carefully selected sneak-shots of what was on offer from the main marine guys, and we’ll be back to cover it in more detail next year. More after the hop.

Here is the launch of the new Sealine SC35

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Orange SPV M3100 Review

 

 

During the summer, I was offered the chance to review one of the, then, new breed of smart-phones with slide-out QWERTY keyboards, the Orange SPV M3100. Now, normally we take a phone out into the real world for a few weeks, and get to know it and its quirks during that time, but with a phone like this, more time was needed. So 6 months later, what did we really think?

Continued after the break…

How is the new RA getting along?

Well, you may have been waiting a while for news, but we know about your pain in anticipation for the launch of RandomlyAccessed v2.0.

We’re getting there, the layout is taking longer than we expected due to us wanting to make it unique, but completely user friendly, and as such the integration of the news and review systems hasn’t been undertaken yet (although this is a relatively easy process when it is begun).

The look and functionality we are aiming for is that of a start-page, so along with our superb content and comment, we are trying to integrate web-search and other useful tools and links so that RA is your launching platform for the web.

We will have 3 distinct content areas; news, reviews and a new blog category. This means we can continue providing you with the latest news and reviews of everything you need to live in this modern world, as well as provide you with previews, opinions and ideas from the land of consumer product testing.

We’ll be teasing you with screenshots of the final layout and the transition process in the very near future!

-Steve

New Computer Supermarket bargain gaming rig

 

It isn’t everyday that my inbox is lighting up with news of a gaming system with 8GB of RAM, Quad-Core Q6600 processor, 750GB HDD, 22″ screen and a 8600GT 512MB graphics card, and thats quite surprising, because the price of this thing makes it an everyday kinda PC; £938 incl VAT (£799 Excl).

You can take home this beaut of a system right now, from their site, and the rest of the stats are after the hop.

[Buy]

PSP finally gets GPS

One of the majorly lacking features of the PSP was the no-show of a GPS unit for it, as it is, after all, about the right size, should always be with you (according to Sony at least…), and has a very nice screen to deal with all of that 3D mapping goodness.

So its a couple of years late to the game, but finally (well, sometime in Spring) we’ll be able to plug in the GPS unit (no, not built in) and go for a wander. Maps are stored on the obligatory UMD disc, and there will be car adaptors and mounting units available in higher priced packs.

It should run you €150 when it hits soon, about bloomin’ time as well!

Any more Sony news this morning? There is…but it’s rather mundane like Blu-Ray selling over a million movies in Europe taking a 73% market share, oh and PS3 firmware 2.10 has been announced. Along with the news that Skype is coming to the new, slim, PSP (but not the older version).

PlayStation store on PC

 

The PlayStation Store is now available on PC with, downloadable games, playable demos, trailers and exclusive non-game content.

This is a rather weird announcement, but a welcome one all the same. No subscription, no joining fees, and with some content thats free, so you can just get the content you want when you want.

Visit it at http://store.playstation.com/, and the full blurb is after the jump.

Sony denies 40% failure rate of 40GB PS3

From the horses mouth:

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) can categorically deny that there is a 40% failure rate on the newly release 40GB PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3) as has been reported on a Dutch website. Having launched in October, the 40GB PS3 has encountered the same industry leading, very low failure rates, comparable to the low level failure rates of the 60GB PS3.

“We are very proud of the quality and reliability of PLAYSTATION 3 and are disappointed that such extremely sloppy journalism has resulted in this totally inaccurate story,” said David Reeves, President, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. “Since launching the 40GB PS3, we have experienced a fantastic jump in sales and the failure rates have remained at the very low level that we not only strive for, but have been achieving since the launch of PS3.”

iTunes Standardized Pricing in Europe

Apple has finally announced plans to bring standardised pricing to Europe after taking a stand saying that they will “reconsider its continuing relationship in the UK with any record label that does not lower its wholesale prices in the UK to the pan-European level within six months.”

This sounds like good news, and Steve Jobs (Apple CEO) was equally thrilled: “This is an important step towards a pan-European marketplace for music, we hope every major record label will take a pan-European view of pricing.”

We still have no idea on pricing yet, but will in the next 6 months anyway!