Fogey Friday 16th March

Mar 16, 2012 No Comments

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, Skype and homelessness

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Fogey Friday 9th March

Mar 09, 2012 No Comments

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

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FOGEY 5 Smartphones

Aug 18, 2011 No Comments

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

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Apple to the Core

Jul 28, 2011 No Comments

Jonathon Savill suffers an acute case of iPad withdrawal.

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MP3 Players buying guide

Jan 28, 2011 No Comments

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 […]

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Laptops overview

Jan 27, 2011 1 Comment

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.

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FOGEY 5 Smartphones (older)

Jan 27, 2011 No Comments

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 […]

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Smartphones overview

Jan 27, 2011 No Comments

An overview of the smartphone 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?

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MP3 Players overview

Jan 11, 2011 No Comments

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.

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FOGEY 5 MP3 Players

Jan 11, 2011 No Comments

    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 […]

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