Panasonic G520 - A very good Phone

Advantages: Easy to use, vibrate alert, small and light.
Disadvantages: No games, lacking in ringtones.

...I brought the Panasonic G520 on Vodafone Pay as You Talk quite recently costing me only £39.99. It is quite a small phone and is easy to use. It has one touch access to the phone book and an easy navigation system. Extras include a Vibrate Alert. The screen is big enough to fit three lines of text so you aren't forever scrolling through when reading text messages. The screen gives you information on battery life, signal strength and the ability to make emergency calls. This is a phone for people that use mobiles as a phone, it doesn't have loads or ringtones or games but it also doesn't give you a headache or cost as much as phones like the Nokia 5110....

eep362 12.07.2000 · Read review
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D-Link AirPlus Xtreme G DWL G520

Advantages: Very quick and easy to set up,
Disadvantages: Shorter than claimed 100m Range, Some configuration problems in Windows XP, No Linux Support

...After recently purchasing a new computer, I decided to jump on the bandwaggon of Wireless Networking. After a rather failed attempt with a previous setup , I discovered the new offering from D-Link - the DWL G520. I bought two for the fairly hefty price of about £120, and they installed without a problem. However problems started occuring when one of the computers was moved slightly further away, the cards failed to find each other. After a quick e-mail to the D-Link customer support this soon was fixed, by decreasing the speed to around 48Mb/s. This didn't make much of a change to the performance. However when i decided to move one computer downstairs over the opposite side of the house, the cards failed to find each other even by reducing the speeds to 1Mb/s, this distance is much less than 100m. Any e-mails sent to D-Link, were no...

canalla 24.03.2004 · Read review
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Tom Tom Go520

Advantages: Bigger, Slimmer, All round better!
Disadvantages: None

...This a fabulous tool to have on the road. The ease of use and added features make it one of the best gps systems i have found on the market. In my line of work it is essential that I arrive at various locations throughout the country, and as well as instant point of interest access i also require the ability to pre-plan all of my journeys. This device can supply all of my needs and many more. The larger screen makes the typing in of locations and settings much easier than previous models. And the flexibility to practically design your own screen layout with the information you require on a daily basis makes using the Tom Tom Go520 so much easier. That fact that this model is also much slimmer that all of the previous models means that it can be used hand held when out of the vehicle. Get yourself one today!...

tomsonshow73 16.07.2008 · Read review
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G650+ G520+ and their US counterparts

Advantages: good performance
Disadvantages: no linux support *** no 108Mbps

...After some adds of the 108Mbps capabilities of the DWL-G650 and DWL-520 cards I decided to buy one. Unlucky me! I received the DWL-G650+ and DWL-520+. Apparently, these are the versions D-Link reserves for out-side the US. Trying to upgrade to 108Mbps as promised in the adds was unsuccessful. I didn't even find any info on the G650+ cards on the .COM website. Mails to D-Link remained unanswered. After some research in the newsgroups, I found out the following : The DWL-G650+ and DWL-520+ are using a different chipset than the G650 (the "+" is very important). You will not find this info on the D-Link website because the "+" has two major implications : 1:because the G650+ uses a cheaper chipset (Motorola) it has currently no 108Mbps support as its bigger brother does (G650, no "+"). 2:because of this chipset it has a very...

D-Kill 27.02.2004 · Read review
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  Samsung G600

Advantages: Stylish, Radio
Disadvantages: Camera

...The G600 is one of the new phones from the Samsung line. With the company being known to have great phones and be famously free with contracts nationwide I couldn't help but get this as my most recent upgrade. Contents When purchasing the G600 you get several different items within the box. Starting with a 1GB memory card which normally retails at £10 this is the first bargain. Next you have a Bluetooth headset with the Samsung logo. Most of these will start at £15 if they are branded. You get earphones with a power part in the middle to pick up local radio signals, a charger for your phone and your Bluetooth headset, software CD which serves as an instruction manual and links your phone to your computer so you can download music, photos etc. This leads to the final item - a USB cable so you can connect the two. Look...

ovetta2001 10.02.2008 · Read review
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Solid 108G Wireless Card

Advantages: Good reception, good drivers, good file transfer speed
Disadvantages: No Vista support

...Having become very disillusioned with the stability of USB Wireless devices while doing more than just web browsing, I decided to turn to a PCI solution. My home router supports 108Mbps MIMO, so bought a PCI card which can make full use of this - namely the D-Link AirPlus XtremeG GWL G520M. At the time of writing this, they're available for £40-£50 from most online shops, but Tesco.com bucks this trend and is selling it for £19.97 plus £4.85 for next day delivery. A totally flawless purchase, which also earned me some Clubcard points. The device installs easily into a spare PCI slot. The enclosed design adds to the feeling of quality. The drivers on the CD are the latest available, and identical to the ones from Windows Update's online repository. Having owned 2 Atheros based USB devices before I was a little bit nervous...

robosapien 23.12.2007 · Read review
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  The Dell E520 - build your own PC

Advantages: Choose your own specs, reasonable price, good customer service
Disadvantages: Sneaky sales tactics in places

...Let's get one thing straight from the off; I'm not a technical expert and I can't tell you the ins and outs of the technical aspects of this PC in any great detail. But what I can and will tell you all about is my experience using this PC and how well it's been able to satisfy my needs so far. Firstly, let's talk about why I chose this particular PC. Well I have to be honest, I chose the E520 mainly because I already have a perfectly good 17" flat panel Dell monitor from my old PC. What does that matter? The E520 was one of only 2 PCs I could find that allowed me to make my purchase minus a monitor. I was rather annoyed at being forced to fork out for a mouse and keyboard I didn't want or need though! But whilst that was my main reason for opting for the E520; I think I may well have made this purchase with a monitor if I had...

Lizamabug 19.02.2007 (07.03.2007) · Read review
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TomTom GO 520

Advantages: Easy to use, large screen
Disadvantages: Traffic alerts, recognition of speed limits

...The TomTom Go 520 has a good size screen and is very easy to use. Its packed with features and my favourite is the bluetooth connection to your mobile, even allowing the extraction of numbers contained within your phone book (its handy to note you can duplicate your phone book onto the TomTom, meaning a back up of your phone contacts). When making a call the sound quality is pretty good. The navigation is easy to use and I have had no problem with GPS signal (unlike my previous sat nav). It identifies safety cameras and also alerts you if you are breaking the speed limit, however this feature is also the only drawback I have found. Occasionally it will get the speed limit you are in wrong (the other day I was on a dual carriage and it instead the speed limit was 30m.p.h.). It comes with an RDS reciever for traffic alerts, although...

line0 04.12.2007 · Read review
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iPhone 3G S will have you stunned!

Advantages: It's advanced technology and huge variety of features.
Disadvantages: The very low and quickly decreasing battery life.

...The iPhone 3G S is an amazing piece of palm-sized technology. It has everything you could possibly ask of a mobile phone (except Blue-tooth data exchange), and much more! I was shocked at it's ease of use considering its a smart phone! However, although it does have a few new features from its predecessor, the iPhone 3G, but it didn't seem as much of a technological breakthrough considering the transition of the original iPhone to the iPhone 3G, which is one of the reasons I gave it 4, and not 5 stars. First of all, there is the biggest thing about the iPhone 3G S, is the addition if the S to the title. It stands for speed, and they're not lying. I compared my friends iPhone 3G to my iPhone 3G S, and I noticed how much quicker internet pages load, applications load up, and even basic things like sending a text (which may have been due...

Faehndrich 29.08.2009 · Read review
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The Best Of Both Worlds

Advantages: Dual fuel, good performance and features
Disadvantages: No gas cut off, horrible grill pan

...When choosing a new cooker when I moved home I was faced with the choice of an electric or gas cooker. Gas cookers are generally cheaper to run with the flame better for cooking on the hob and electric cookers are cleaner with faster oven heating times. Dual fuel cookers give you the best of both worlds with an instantly responsive gas hob and superior electric oven. I bought my Indesit K6G520XG dual fuel cooker around two years ago and it is currently available for around £300. Let's see how it has performed in a domestic environment since I bought it. When you buy a gas cooker you need to have it installed by a corgi professional, in this instance the £90 for installation by the shop would have been a good deal as when phoning round for quotes I was told as much as £150 but in the end was lucky enough to have a corgi registered...

wigglylittleworm 01.09.2009 · Read review
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