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The Doro WT89 fulfills your secret agent fantasies

The Doro WT89 is a walkie-talkie. It does what any other two-way radio does–transmit signals to another radio within the range of a particular frequency, and receive similar signals.

So, what’s the fuss all about?

Well, the Doro WT89 is definitely not your ordinary walkie-talkie. Although it performs like one (with exceptionally clair audio, one must add) it doesn’t look like one. In fact, it looks rather like a rugged sports watch–the kind of watch one would wear while skiing or while doing some other similar outdoor activity. It doesn’t give any visual clues as to its real identity as a two-way radio until it starts crackling.

And that’s what hooks you into the WT89–the almost James Bond-like feeling you get when you wear it and use it, fulfilling all little boys’ (and for that matter, grown boys, too) fantasies of being a secret agent.

Don’t worry, though, after you get over the secret thrill, the Doro WT89 still delivers in the features department, with an advertised range of up to 3 kilometres, making it ideal for a variety of outdoor pursuits–running, skiing, hiking, sky diving, you name it.

On testing we managed to get 2km range out of the watches with a good reception, which is a lot more than we’ve seen in the past from similar models. Communication is free, and no licence is needed. The 8 selectable channels and 38 sub codes to each channel increases privacy through channel selection which gives over 300 different channel combinations. Definitely a piece of electronics good enough even for James Bond.

The Philips PhotoFrame is Best in Class

Compared to its competitors, the Philips PhotoFrame seems almost too simple. One competitor boasts Wi-Fi capabilities; another competitor can play MP3s; while yet another competitor plays .avi videos. The PhotoFrame has none of these fancy bells and whistles. Then again, though all those special features are all well and good, none of the competition can beat the Philips PhotoFrame what it’s meant to do: display your digital photos.

The PhotoFrame has a bright seven-inch LCD (800 x 480 pixels), surrounded by a matte-silver border. It supports SD, MMC, MS, CF, and xD Cards. We loaded our photos with an SD Card and were very impressed with how vibrant they looked on the frame. The PhotoFrame automatically detects the orientation of an image and rotates it accordingly. A built-in PhotoEffect Wizard lets you crop, zoom, and create collages. The PhotoFrame can also display the time and date along with your photos.

In contrast, Competitor 1 has a comparably good LCD screen, but has a great number of hidden costs–such as for the Wi-Fi feature–that are nearly superfluous. Competitor 2 is ok, but has problems reading certain file formats. Competitor 3’s LCD display is dark, the colors come out dull and lifeless, and is smaller than the advertised 7-inches.

The Philips Photoframe doesn’t skimp on the small details, either. With its controls hidden at the back, the frame itself looks sleek and lovely. The PhotoFrame is made from materials of the best quality, so one needn’t worry about buying a short-lived home electronic product that was merely a waste of money. The interface and controls are intuitive and thus easy to operate, which adds even more value to an already great product.

The Philips PhotoFrame is certainly the best digital photo display available today. There’s something great to be said about simplicity, after all.

Access Wi Fi Networks With Ease and then Some

A disaffection with the inconvenient afflicts a great many of us. This is also the primary reason why there are still people out there who don’t make any discernible effort whatsoever to own a Wifi Phone and nor do some of them have the inclination to do so, in the first place. Why? There seems to be a pervading belief that acquiring a connection to Wi Fi networks is a wee bit difficult to establish.

Follows then that the next thing that the big guys and gals in the Digital industry are going to get busy over are devices that would perk these things up, gadgets that would facilitate the hook-up procedure so that it could get a move on, much more quickly—without the nagging delays, the troublesome dial-up mishaps and general misfortunes that accompany such tedious encounters.
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Tech Addiction: So? Part Two

This is often the result that one expects from claims that fail to reach a commendable and satisfying resolution. Indeed, such statements must be reconsidered, lest they be swallowed by some e-consumers out there. Awareness of such concerns shape and play a crucial role in how we perceive technologies and of how we locate ourselves in relation to them, which is, in turn, essential to how we can build a society steeped with digitally conscious individuals.

Thus, the tech addiction that the average consumer experiences from is simply a noticeable effect that springs from the inevitable exposure to current and still emerging technologies. In a world that changes and shifts with the wind, one cannot expect to steer one’s choices by such things but one can learn to adapt. And that is exactly what we are doing.
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Tech Addiction: So?

In one article loosely describing the typical sort of tech addiction prevalent in a great number of individuals in countless societies around the world today, especially among college crowds—and of how it induces a great many of those individuals to engage in bouts of destructive envy—it becomes quite clear that this trend is being sternly frowned upon rather than enjoyed.

With the mounting reliance most of us have on the gadgets we live with—from cordless phones, headsets, web cameras and scores of other e-devices that we keep in that trusty bag of e-gears we lug around with us wherever we chance to go—the fact that some still view such dependence in a negative way speaks volumes of how most of us still keep to a decidedly skewed perspective on such things.
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Old Skype and New

If you woke up this morning, wishing to get an inkling on the newest Skype product that’s causing e-consumer circles to enjoy a great deal of cordless phone connectivity freedom, there is none better to serve your interests than the MobiGater. This piece of ingenious gateway technology lets you link up to any of these two gadgets you can’t live without: your cell phone and your PC right into your Skype account. The connection is also established in a jiff so you won’t have to fear that decades will descend before you even get a chance to use it. The many advantages of the unit include free Skype calls that you can receive on your mobile unit if you happen to be a fair amount of distance from your PC, expense-free calls that you can place to any Skype contact you have, wherever said contact is residing in the world, at anytime you wish, and international calls at unbelievably low prices. These and a whole lot of distinctive features are certain to turn this incredible device into the next must-have bridge gadget for many consumers.
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The Perfect Bluetooth Headset for your IPODS

Ever since the arrival of wireless music in our lives, made hugely popular by IPODS and other gadgets of its ilk, there have been news items involving the construction of headsets able to provide clear and incredible audio performance to match the glorious IPOD and its—albeit a bit less fashionable—cousin, the MP3 Player on the sound stage.

Etymotic, one of the most exciting companies for hearing devices have seen it fit to regale the world with another one of its performance headsets. With already a considerable number of units counted among the ranks of commercially wireless headsets in the market, Etymotic’s Ety8—with it’s Bluetooth support—is slated to garner more than adequate success in the market for the said company.
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Web Cameras Ice Down a Hot Situation

With a host of tasks that e-gears are widely known for these days, especially devices like cordless phones and headsets, somehow learning that web cameras—aside from providing us with a portable and extremely handy means of creating photographs as well as allowing us with the delightful side-benny of being able to lug around our treasured picture galleries with us every which way or place we go—are now fulfilling another purpose.
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Two Is Always Better: Panasonic’s 8120 and an Internet Phone

High end sound is always a thing of achievement. This is to say then that most phone units that exist in the market, especially those in average consumer queues, often lack a bit of soul when it comes to their sound environment. Usually, it’s damnably hard for phones to sustain a call without a single interference occurring in the middle of the transaction. This is the most common concern that cripples a great number of phone models. With the range of roles that a phone is expected to fulfill nowadays, there doesn’t seem to be enough space left over to improve the audio performance of these communication devices.

The solution then proposed by some experts in the field involved the combination of two equipments. Instead of the usual solo arrangement, some suggested putting together the Panasonic 8120 and Internet phone wizard.
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Improving Your Skype Audio

One of the most widely known technologies to have emerged in cordless phones over the years is that of Skype functionality. But though a lot of progress has certainly been made, a few snags in the system still found their way into the picture. One of the most common were audio woes. Skype users had at one time or another been forced to experience unclear audio. Distortions in the sound space were not uncommon and thus, were rarely a cause for concern. However, if you were quite particular with the level of performance you demand from your equipment, these little snags were a bit too difficult to stomach, much less swallow.

Which was why the Polycom Communicator C100 S was launched. As a recognized Skype product, you could be assured that using it with your Skype-functional phone wouldn’t cause any insurmountable troubles. Neither would incompatibility issues be raised. All Skype items are practically kin, after all.
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