How about the sound quality? So amazing. Sony not only offers 2 custom modes, but also 4 preset modes, namely Pop, Heavy, Unique, and Jazz. It supports WMA, MP3, ATRAC3, WAV, and ATRAC3plus format.

Sony NW-A1200 also gives the users longer time for listening to music than others. You can listen to music for 20 hours without stopping.

Strengths:

• Sony NW-A1200 produces good-quality sounds
• The design is so stylish
• It is very light (about 109 g)

Weaknesses:

• Sony doesn’t protect its body from scratch
• You can not find a FM tuner
• Even, the users are not able to record their voice

Price:

$69.99

Lenovo ThinkPad T400 has Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 14 inch screen. It has GB DDR3 memory and 160GB RAM. It is 13.2 x 9.4 x 1.47/1.12 inches.

The keyboard was redesigned. Lenovo cut the weight, so the users will not enjoy typing on it. Actually, I disagree with Lenovo’s action. As we know, people think that Lenovo has great keyboard. With cutting the keyboard’s weight, the users will lose their comfort of typing.

Lenovo ThinkPad T400 is suitable for business laptop, for doing everyday use. The officers also will enjoy play games with this laptop for killing time.

Like other business laptops, Lenovo T400 does not pay too much attention to audio quality. Even, the users can not up the level of volume. Fortunately, the headphones are good.

The main thing of Lenovo T400 is its long battery life. You can use laptop till 10 hours without attaching a huge battery to the case bottom.

Strengths

• With 9-cell battery, you can use it till 10 hours. Wow!
• It is quiet and cool under normal condition
• The LED backlit LCD is very bright

Weakness:

The users will not enjoy use this keyboard

Price: $2,189

]]> http://www.sebarin.com/computer/lenovo-thinkpad-t400.htm/feed http://www.sebarin.com/gadget/samsung-omnia-i900-wm61.htm http://www.sebarin.com/gadget/samsung-omnia-i900-wm61.htm#comments Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:05:56 +0000 padmajani http://www.sebarin.com/?p=408 Samsung Onmia i900 seems to be iPhone’s rival. It has a 3.2-inch touchscreen. The features offered are WiFi, 3G, and GPS. There are two kinds of storage capacity: 16GB and 8GB.

Samsung Omnia i900 has a great build quality. It is solid with 127 g weight. In the box, there are a handsfree and an AC adaptor.

The 3.2-inch screen does not have rich colors. But, it is bright. You can change picture format from portrait to landscape by using the accelerometer. There is a haptic feedback above the handset. If you touch the screen, it will vibrate quickly.

Like HTC, Samsung uses a great graphical interface which is “user-friendly” to Windows Mobile.

Omnia will be great entertaining smartphone from Samsung because of the existence of its great entertainment functionality. Windows Media Player is replaced by the ‘Touch Player’. There are also an FM radio, TV out cable, and a bevy of video codecs. Omnia also produces great quality sounds.

Different with iPhone 3G and the Touch Diamond, Omnia has a microSDHC slot content.

However, Omnia has less responsive screen. Compared with iPhone’s, Omnia’s screen is less sensitive. Therefore, it makes inaccurate and jerky handset. It means that the users have to gesture it in a regular pressure degree.

Apple offers three kinds of storage capacity, include: 2GB, 8GB, and 4GB. It supports WAV, MP3, AAC, AIFF, and MP3 VBR formats. If you use the 2GB version, you can save 500 songs. If you use the 4GB version, you are able to save up to 1000 songs, while you can save 2000 songs if you prefer to use the 8GB version.

How about the battery life? You can play music till 24 hours.

Strengths

• The design is slim
• Apple iPod Nano “Second Generation”’s screen is bright
• It produces high quality sounds
• You are able to search content by typing keyword if you use search
• Apple adds some features, namely audiobooks, podcasts, and view photo slideshows

Weaknesses:

• You can not find FM radio there
• The recording capability is unavailable

Price

2GB :$149

4GB: $199

8GB: $249

Strengths:
a.    Dell Latitude E6400 has good design
b.    It is suitable for businessmen/women because of the existence of great features for business
c.    The battery life is excellent
Weaknesses:
a.    Dell Latitude E6400’s performance is average
b.    It is heavy.
Price : $1,681.00

You also are able to use Toshiba Qosmio X305-Q701 not only as a computer, but also as a stereo because of the existence of built-in subwoofer and four Harmon Kardon speakers. Beside these two great features, an eSATA port and an HDMI port are other great features. Compare with other laptops which have four USB ports, Qosmio X305-Q701 only has three USB ports. Fortunately, it is facilitated with Bluetooth, so we will not be so regret.

Strengths:
a.    The lid design is unique
b.    Qosmio X305-Q701 is sold at low price
c.    It can produces great sound quality
d.    eSATA and HDMI ports are great features
e.    You can use USB ports although this laptop is off
Weaknesses:
a.    It has big screen and so heavy. Therefore, you will not enjoy bring it to school and campus
b.    The screen resolution is low
c.    It has short battery life.
Price: $1,399.99

Price: $49.95 (£25 approx)

Is your computer infected by viruses? I’m sure, you are disturbed, annoyed, and maybe angry. Uh! Don’t worry, just believe your computer protection to Agnitum Outpost Security Suite 2009. Maybe you are more familiar with McAffee and Norton, but this anti virus gives a lot of benefits, include the inexpensive price and great performance.
Agnitum is your comprehensive computer protection, include: anti-virus, a firewall, anti-spam, and anti-spyware. Besides, protecting PC in online ways is so easy. So complete, yeah!
For controlling Agnitum Outpost Security Suite 2009, you have two options: advanced and standard. There two views at the bottom left of the screen, i.e. ‘expert’ and ‘simple’.
Related to firewall, there are some options offered, include: Allow Most, Block Most, and use the Rules Wizard. You can see these three kinds of options in we control tools and anti-malware too. Therefore, you do not get any difficulty in choosing security level.
The users also allowed to know more about the threats.
How about spam? Often we are bored and disturbed with so many spams come to our emails. With Agnitum you are able to block some emails you don’t want, notify websites you have visited that maybe has harmful contents, and you also have choice whether you want to browse this website or not.
However, the users maybe will get difficuly in performing two functions together. For example, Magnitum allow you to use anti-malware and anti-virus together. Almost of the users will be disturbed with this because they usually choose perform only one function.

Micro Express JFT2500 performs great. It is one of good ultraportable laptop. The JFT2500 is fast and light, but it has low battery life.
Actually, you can compare its performance with these three laptops, namely: Eurocom D900C, Micro Express NP9261, and HP Voodoo Envy M:152. All of these three laptops have great performances, nearly same with Micro Express JFT2500.
It has 4 GB RAM and 2.4-GHz Core 2 Duo T7700 processor. How about the weight? JFT2500 is light, just about 4.4 pounds. It has12.1-inch display with 280×800 pixels resolution. Therefore, the display is bright. It means that the users will enjoy using this laptop. In addition, you will enjoy using the keyboard too. It is small. You are able to type quickly. However, there are some keys deleted, include: Del, Ctrl, Page Down, and Page Up.

If you are business professionals, Lenovo ThinkPad X200 will be suitable for you. This laptop uses Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 2.4 GHz processor with 2GB memory and 160GB hard drive. It supports Windows Vista and has 12.1-inch screen.

ThinkPad X200 is made for replacing Lenovo ThinkPad X61. This ThinkPad X200 is suitable for whom like travelling because its weight (about 2.95 pounds). It offers 9-cell battery; therefore, the battery life is added, but it also adds the weight. The battery can live till 8 hours 47 minutes.

If we look the screen, we will enjoy it because of its sufficient brightness.

Tare are some ports offered, include: monitor-out, 3 USB ports, ExpressCard 54 mm slot, Gigabit Ethernet, WLAN, and Bluetooth. Besides, you have to choose between SD card slot or a media reader. Upgrading the hard drive till 320GB is possible too.

There are some new features added, namely: biometric finger print reader, spill flow keyboard, webcam, LED light for dark environments, and the availability of GPS WWAN services through Telus, Vodafone, and Verizon.

Strengths:

a. Because of its luxurious design, it is suitable for businessmen/women.

b. The battery can live till 8 hours 47 minutes (longer than before) because of the existence of 9-cell battery

c. Lenovo ThinkPad X200 offers some great features

Weaknesses:

1. Because of its big battery, the Lenovo’s weight is added.
2. You can not find optical drive option
3. The Graphics Options are minimal
4. The upgrade options are awkward

Price : $1434

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Boston offers two colors: black and silver. The design is so simple, with three buttons (volume down, volume up, and power) on the entire device.

It has solid iPod playback. Producing good bass sound is possible for this device. In fact, rock musics can be played through this iPod speaker system well.

Compare with other models, Horizon i-DS2 from Boston Acoustics produces a beefier and better sound. However, with the price about $180, I think it’s too expensive. I recommend Boston Acoustic Horizon Duo-is for you because it has more features and has low price (about $141).

Strengths:

a. It is solid iPod speaker and has solid iPod playback

b. The speaker grille can be replaced easily

c. The remote is also replacable

Weaknesses:

a. You can not find alarm there

b. There is no AM/FM radio

c. Clock is unavailable

d. The price is too expensive

Price: $179.00

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