reviews: January 2003 Archives

t68i review

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Fine phone, nice and small and light. It was the only phone that can do the Address Book synchronization via iSync. It also comes bundled with a clip on camera and does GRPS. You can now get other phones that offer this, but they are all Sony Ericsson However it has a few flaws that make it a pain to use as a day to day phone. First of all it is slow, moving from screen to screen takes 1-2 seconds, so to go from voicemail to locking the phone takes a noticeable amount of time. The screen isn't terribly colour accurate and a bit grainy, but the camera takes reasonable pictures.

Having a clip on camera is okay, but you have to remember to bring it and to then get it out, not the most spontaneous thing to do.

So on the whole not too bad, the iSync feature is really useful, as you can have one address book. However there are much better phones around now, it is a 2 year old design.

cool laptop case

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I bought a new TiBook recently and ordered a bag for it from WillowField Designs. I bought two sleeve cases and gear pouches, one for Lucy's iBook and one for my Powerbook.
The bags are great, well made, protective and have enhanced my life immensely - why ? the slipcase is open-ended, with just a velcro strap over the end of the laptop, so to get out my bag, I just reach into my rucksack and pull it out, with MacOS X and instant on, it means that even 5-10 minutes can be productive time.
Really friendly customer service too, got a personal e-mail a few days after I ordered asking about how I found out, bags also came from SF to London in 5 days or so. See rest of entry for longer review

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