Ancient by phone standards, but I still use it!

Advantages: Small, robust, easy to use, nice screen, Microsoft Smartphone suprisingly good!
Disadvantages: Quite dated, but still a smartphone.

...It seems there are many people out there who are always looking for a new phone, you might even have several 'old' ones lying around in your own home! The truth is I've had this one for nearly 3 years and it still works for me. It was over £300 when it came out, £100 when I brought it and god knows how cheap now. It has a nice large screen which is very easy to see and plays videos well. The buttons feel good and are well placed, if a tad cramped. It has a camera, but its not good enough to be any use to me to be honest. Its nice and compact even by today's standards, a good pocket size. Microsoft Smartphone 2003 is dated but includes lots of features and is very easy to use. You can plug it into your PC via USB and fill it with pictures music and games, videos and software, and has a headphone socket and a speaker to listen to it all...

RossUK1 23.02.2009 · Read review
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Review of I-Mate SP3

Cup Of Coffee Mate?

Advantages: A quick easy way to a creamy cup of coffee.
Disadvantages: Nothing major

...How many times have you been caught out? The milk is running low and there's no time to nip out to the shops and then the doorbell rings, this is when a jar of Nestle Coffeemate is worth its weight in gold. I used to keep some of those individual pots of coffee cream in for the unexpected but to be honest Coffeemate is a far better proposition. Nestle have more than one Coffeemate to offer us nowadays, there is the ordinary version, the virtually fat free type , Coffeemate original and Coffeemate Latte Creations Vanilla. I had never even heard of the last one on the list! But it is a whitening agent with sugar and vanilla flavouring that you add to your coffee to make a tasty latte apparently. I use the original Nestle Coffeemate, a 200g tub comes in at around £1.14p, sometimes you can manage to find it a touch cheaper but not...

Sarahjh1 17.04.2009 · Read review
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Review of Nestle Coffee-mate Original

Get yer Mates round...

Advantages: Comfortable, not too restrictive
Disadvantages: Can stifle a little feeling...

...other brands he has tried. I didn’t go into details to ascertain which other brands he’d tried, or more importantly, who with! But he seems very happy with this particular brand and feels he isn’t losing too much feeling or sensitivity whilst wearing them. These particular condoms are also coated in a spermicide for added protection, and are very similar to the basic Durex standard range with one major advantage, I have no reaction to these! I’ve found with some of the Durex products that I...er….suffer a little, an allergic reaction is all I’m saying! And the Mates range are also a little cheaper too, so an added bonus. All in all, my man and I recommend these, they do the ‘job’ admirably, are comfortable, not too restrictive and we are so impressed, we might even recommend them to my...

Squiggles 28.02.2001 · Read review
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Review of Mates Natural

SEX, MATES, and IMAGINATION

Advantages: Protection from disease and pregnancy, easy to open packet, quite cheap
Disadvantages: May cause irritation to some users

...can see the condom, take hold of it between your lips and pull. There you have it, one unwrapped and ready to roll condom, hands free. As for putting it on.... the art of hands free condom application is not so easy. But it’s a lot of fun trying for both partners concerned. As I stated previously, Mates Sensitive are lubricated with a non-spermicidal lubricant. They are not heavily covered in it, and the smell and taste is quite inoffensive so oral activities are not spoilt by these condoms. The above is of course an optional alternative to the standard application method. However you choose to open and apply your condom remember that damage can be done with sharp nails, jewellery and indeed teeth so observe some caution in which ever way you use it. The recommended (and realistically safest) method is described on the leaflet...

wiggglypufff 08.06.2001 (28.01.2002) · Read review
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Review of Mates Sensity

12 Mates, and a Rubber Fetish

Advantages: Cheap, reliable, comfortable
Disadvantages: Taste disgusting

...Well, my condom using days are soon to be up. Hubby's had the op (a vasectomy), and in January of 2002 condoms will (hopefully) no longer be required in the bedroom... or anywhere else in the house for that matter. But, until then, it's service as normal, so here comes condom op number 8. It's a little concerning that manufacturers ever had the nerve to call one of their product lines Natural. Tell me, what the hell is natural about a condom? Manufactured bits of rubber latex, or is it latex rubber? (I really should know by now), either way whatever you call it, you can hardly call it natural. Anyway, Mates do offer a Natural condom in their range, available in packs of 3 and 12. They come in less than inspiring packages... a predominantly red box with a dull mauve bubble pattern on it or the standard Mates silver/grey box...

wiggglypufff 23.10.2001 (28.01.2002) · Read review
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Review of Mates Natural

iTouch

Advantages: Brilliant
Disadvantages: Nono

...I am not going toi pretend that I can inform you of everythng there is to know on the iPod Touch, they are so extensive in there functions i think it would just be boring you anyway! Let me start from the beginnning, I saved up for the christmas just gone, and i wanted to buy my two younger brothers something which they would really appreciate and enjoy. A friend said why don't i buy them one of these, now don't get me wrong, i know what an iPod is, but i had no idea about an iTouch, therefore I was reluctant to spend £170 each on them. When I first saw them, I was a little disappointed, I would have thought that Apple would offer you some inclusive accessories with the £170 iPod that you are buying, but really i was just a black thing in a small clear case. On inspection of the item i realised that it is a very smart and very...

amyloop 31.01.2009 · Read review
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Review of Apple iPod touch 8 GB

iTouch!

Advantages: Packed with applications, very handy and easy to use.
Disadvantages: Keyboard is hard to use, no flash player and not very durable without a case.

...If it was not for the fact that I needed more than 16GB at the time of buying my 160GB iPod Classic, I would've bought one of these. Obviously now, there is the 32GB iPod Touch, but this is still not enough. The iPod touch therefore is for people who have some money to spend and just want to put their CD's onto the iPod. It is packed with features and in essence is a PDA without the office applications. It comes pre-loaded with Safari (Apple's own web browser), the iTunes store, built in iPod, a special YouTube application for viewing Youtube videos and many other features. Firstly, while I'm thinking about it, the iPod touch doesn't come with a flash player, which is the reason why there's a special YouTube application. This means that when browsing safari, you can't watch embedded video clips or clips off other video sharing sites...

Timothij 18.08.2008 · Read review
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Review of Apple iPod touch 8 GB

the apple of my "I"

Advantages: touch screen, lightweight, good battery life
Disadvantages: possibility of getting the screen or the shiny back scratched

...I purchased this product in November 2008, as a Christmas present for my fiancé. She had hinted at getting a new ipod, as her previous one was the 2 GB ipod nano from a few years back. I walked into the apple shop that had recently opened up in Belfast, surrounded by the whole apple range I looked at a couple different models from the new 8 GB nano to the ipod classic. But my eyes finally came to a halt upon the shiny surface of the 8 GB ipod touch. I knew instantly that this was the present that I was to buy her. So I went to the counter, the cashier asked me what I wanted and I placed my order, at which point he turned his back to me and started looking through some drawers, a few seconds later he turned around and handed me a very small rectangular box with curved edges. Hmmm, I thought to myself, it?s rather small? so I handed...

garyt84 28.05.2009 · Read review
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Review of Apple iPod touch 8 GB

Nestle Coffee Mate not just for your coffee

Advantages: lasts long, makes my coffee smooth and delicious
Disadvantages: none

...I bought Nestle?s Coffee Mate Original about a month ago in Sainsbury's. I use it regularly but today is the day when I have enough time to write a review about it. I wanted to bake Hokkaido milk-loaf and I needed some milk powder in it. I was wondering which brand to choose, but as I trust Nestle products I decided to buy this one. At the end of my review I will share the recipe of this wonderful milk-loaf. Unfortunately I have no photos, but next time I bake it I will make some photos and I?ll enclose. So back to this great product, I tried it in coffee as well. It has very nice texture. Some of the milk powders collect moisture from the air and become sticky. This won?t happen to Coffee Mate, or at least not in a month. I use it when I bake buns, so I open the tub 2-3 times a day. It is still perfect. It has no smell at all...

D_i_a_n_e 02.09.2009 · Read review
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Review of Nestle Coffee-mate Original

I`d love a coffee-mate!

Advantages: It makes the coffee taste creamy
Disadvantages: n/a

...I only drink coffee on the very odd occasion but I only ever liked cream in it. I have found a great substitute for it now called coffee mate that has a longer life than cream but tastes just as good. It comes in a red plastic container or a red box depending on the one you buy, it also comes in a blue box which is apparently coffee mate light. Inside the container you will find what looks like a creamy coloured flour and there is a distinct dairy smell on opening of the lid. If you buy the box then you get a foil bag inside containing the powder, I would say that this probably keeps the powder fresher for longer. You put two or three spoonfuls of this into your cup of coffee in place of milk and then stir, you must be careful though because milk tends to cool the coffee down a little but coffee mate is just a powder so it...

murch57 16.09.2003 · Read review
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Review of Nestle Coffee-mate Original