The Griffin iBeam is one of our top ten iPod accessories. The iBeam set is two attachments, a flashlight and a laser pointer. Both have been reviewed by Pocket-lint. Here is their final verdict: “Cute but more or less pointless, this isn”t an essential buy for the iPod unless you give lots of presentations or as we found like sending the dog crazy trying to catch that red spot on the floor. As for the [...]
Available in the same 10 colors as the Zen Micro, Creative”s Vivid speakers are finally coming to market. It looks like they will offer two different sizes, a single-speaker design, as well as the dual-speaker design shown here. How do they sound? Who knows, but it seems Creative picked up on something amazing: “We found that customers really liked the idea of having a choice of 10 colors,†said Geraldine Lee, European business manager for [...]
Tom’s Hardware has come out with a review for the iRiver H10. Here is their summary “iRiver included an image-browing system in its new H10 jukebox to set it apart from other 5 GB music players. While various limitations make this feature less than ideal, the H10 has some other things going for it: good sound quality, Sennheiser earphones and simple operation. ” [eminimall] Their Final Conclusion: A Keeper Nonetheless One of the most interesting [...]
Napster is going on tour to promote the consumer launch of the world’s first portable subscription service. I think someone in their marketing dept. is watching too much American Idol. Napster will convert “hip venues” in New York, Austin, Los Angeles and Nashville into Napster To Go Cafes and give away “free fills & refills” of digital music along with iriver, Creative and Dell MP3 players. The four city tour will offer music fans free [...]
The iPod shuffle has been out for a little while but the accessory list is starting to built up. The interesting point here is, as the iPod continues to control the MP3 Player market more companies will continue to create iPod gear and applications and it will only strengthen it’s almighty dominance on the competition. PodGear is coming out with the ShuffleStation, a combination portable speaker system/charging dock. It runs off of 4 AAA batteries. [...]
This story has been out for a little while and it has nothing to do with reviews or product news but I could not resist posting it. Next time you have to see a surgeon, you may want to check to see if they have a gaming console in their waiting room. If your surgeon can tell the difference between the XBox from your voice box, or BloodRayne from blood products, you may be in [...]
Thanks to some links from Engadget and Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger, there has been a massive increase in traffic. I’ve decided to re-post one of my personal favorite posts. If you come up with better slogans for the lili mini please post them in the comments. Thanks for visiting Uber-Review Lets say your on a cruise ship partying it up and all of sudden you fall overboard. Lucky for you have your iPod on you [...]
The battery inside the iPod is a lithium polymer and usually lasts around 500 charging cycles. Depending on your usage, your iPod will last between 2 and 3 years. The more you charge the battery the less durable it becomes. Unfortunately you can not change the battery yourself, to have that honor done you need to send $99 and the dead battery to Apple to get a replacement. To delay that process there are some [...]
Rumors are starting to surface about Rio as to when the long overdue Chroma player, the followup to the Karma was going to surface. The latest is that the device will have a 30GB drive (up 10GB from the rumored 20 ), an FM tuner, and Bluetooth, and that it will hit in fall of 2005. (An upgraded version of the Carbon is rumored as well, with a color LCD and higher capacity hard drive.) [...]
SuperBowl Sunday has come and gone and if you had the pleasure to watch the event on a big screen TV it makes watching TV on your 14 inch TV a little unbearable(size does matter). People are always asking what the differences between these TV’s. Don’t worry, Uber-Review to the rescue, here a is a very basic overview which we plan to expand on in the near future. There are three main choices in the [...]
iRiver has two new additions to the H10 line: the 1GB H10 Junior and a larger 20GB model. Both have that vertical touch pad that looks a lot like the Creative Zen Touch: Specs via Engadget “The 1GB H10 is just 2.8 x 1.6 x 0.6-inches in size, weighs 63 grams, and has a 1.2-inch color LCD screen, an aluminum housing, a built-in mic for voice recording, and 60-hour battery life (no, that ain”t a [...]
Creative today announced incredible new pricing for the U.S. market for its family of Zen Micro MP3 players in order to compete with Apple. Its new Zen Micro 4GB MP3 player is priced at a US$179.99 after a $20 mail-in rebate, the Zen Micro 5GB MP3 player at $229.99, and the Zen Micro 6GB at $249.99. “Clearly with the success of the Zen Micro and our shipment of more than two million MP3 players last [...]
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