A weekly round-up of stuff we’ve read in the papers and things we’ve done. This week; more on the latest iPad, Mashable, Raspberry Pi, Dell, SkypeService that allows cheap and/or free voice calls, instant messaging and video calls via a broadband Internet connection. Great if you have relatives living miles apart or if your phone chats go on and on and on and on and on... In May 2011 Skype was purchased by Microsoft for .5 billion. Skype has 663 million registered users as of September 2011. and homelessness

So there was a new iPad. Oh joy of joys!! Plus some other stuff about Pandora, Bentley, Yahoo…

The best five smartphones out there, apparently. But will they still be flavour of the month next month?

Jonathon Savill suffers an acute case of iPad withdrawal.

When/how will you use your music player? If portability is paramount go for something small and light such as an iPod Shuffle (see pic above).  The sound reproduction might be pants-to-purists and it might not hold that many tunes but through earphones even the crappiest sound quality is okay and how many tunes are you […]

Things change fast in consumer electronics and no more so than in laptops. But there’s now so much choice and so many new models that finding a bargain gets easier by the day.

The Fogey 5 are the best five products in their class by virtue of expert and consumer review from at least 10 respected and authoritative websites. Of all the Fogey 5 categories this one will likely date most rapidly.  New handsets and uprated versions of operating platforms seem to appear weekly.  AppleFruit, record label, world […]

An overview of the smartphoneOpposite of dumbphone. Device with which which to do pretty much anything except make telephone calls. The best smartphone handsets, such as the AppleFruit, record label, world dominator in the slick boy's toys department iPhoneCostly but beautiful smartphone made by Apple. The standard by which all other smartphones are judged. and Samsung Galaxy, are expensive (the iPhone 5 starts at £529) and to get a 'free' phone you have to commit to a 2 year contract. As we know, new phones come crashing onto the market all the time, so today's state-of-the-art handset will be seriously old hat long before that contract expires. market. Do you really need all that funcitonality? Do ‘new’ developments create phones that are that much better than what’s come before? Should you commit to a 24-month contract to get a top handset or pay nearly £500 and be able to upgrade whenever you like?

Back when Brylcreem ruled the waves, personal audio devices were necessarily limited in scope. They played sound. Vision was a peripheral pipedream, and in any case, who’s going to squint at a teensy screen? How Fogies yearn for such innocent times.

    The Fogey 5 are the best five products in their class by virtue of expert and consumer review from at least 10 respected and authoritative websites.         Other eternal optimists make personal media devices – Creative, Sony, Archos, Samsung, Cowon, Microsoft – but AppleFruit, record label, world dominator in the […]