Oregon Scientific DP-200

Advantages: Motion sensor, Radio controlled, Bright projection
Disadvantages: Cost £85 - £100, Radio signal dependant on weather

...I have been using a previous Oregon Scientific projection clock for the past couple of years, and I have been very pleased with it. I decided to get this model because one of the main points is that the projection is strong enough to be seen in daylight. Even on a really bright day, it is still possible to see the time on the ceiling or wall, unlike previous models. As with previous models, it has the radio controlled time feature, meaning that it is always up to date, and requires no manual changes. Although it is possible to turn the radio signal receiver off, and do it manually. This may have to be done if you are using it in an area of weak or no signal. With this clock, it has a switch so that it can be taken anywhere in Europe, and it should continue to work. The clock also came with an outdoor temperature sensor which...

bindie 29.07.2008 · Read review
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Review of Oregon Scientific DP 200

Oregon Scientific DS9300 - Get what you pay for

Advantages: Price, Extras
Disadvantages: Performance, Robustness

...My Experience? I've had the Oregon Scientific digital camera for around 2 years now, and overall I have been disappointed. However I have a little relief in the fact that I paid very little for it through a TV bidding channel, Bid-up TV, I recall that it was about £100 along with an array of free image editing and gallery software. Ever since I received the camera it has gone down hill consistently. I know others have had good experiences with this camera, so it would appear to be on an individual basis, but do take heed. Also as other owners have reported the camera will often freeze on random occasions. To resolve, remove the batteries and replace them, this usually makes the camera work again. Even the slightest little tap will crash the camera and it will turn off. Schematics? The camera has a very simple, conventional...

liam_coops 22.02.2006 · Read review
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Review of Oregon Scientific DS 9300

The Oregon Scientific mp3 player. orange. 128 MB

Advantages: Very Handy in size,self-charge ,compact, very discreet, and quite cool looking. simplicity at its finest.
Disadvantages: delicate, could be potentially easily broken without the right amount of care.

...feature, I was amazed. This Mp3 Player (the Oregon scientific) has different sound settings, for example, the ''Rock'' setting??this one has a more significant bassy theme to it. Where as the ''classical'' setting had more of an easy-listening theme going on. You can choose which you prefer to suits your tastes from around three or four of these different settings. Rock, Blues, Pop, Classical and Jazz. To navigate this mp3 player is very simple. There is a cursor to the left of the main screen and if you press it down in the middle, your menu appears. You can easily navigate from there flicking the cursor left, right, up or down to choose what your looking for switching between tracks and even deleting a few along the way. You can set it to ''Random'' or you can select tracks to put into a list. Another amazing feature is that...

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Review of Oregon Scientific MP100 128 MB

A Little PC That Fits In Your Pocket

Advantages: Battery indicator, compact, comes with software to sync with PC.
Disadvantages: No power adaptor (need to buy seperatly). The size of the keyboard takes a bit of getting used to.

.... >Extras, including a world time facility, a dictionary and thesaurus, crossword assistant and a couple of basic games. The main programs above all function similar to the world’s leading brands of ‘office’ software and can be imported/exported (synchronised) with your own software through the PDA’s PC interface. The Osaris uses the EPOC operating system. It seems very reliable and stable. The PDA came free with an EPOC Connect disk and a data cable, which connected through a USB port. The software was easy to install and allow me to back up files on my PC and edit the files I had created on the PDA within my Office Software. SPECIFICATIONS: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >The PDA is approx. 7 * 3.5 inches and is about an inch deep. >Has a full QWERTY keyboard, including a function button for third-key commands...

darrenloud 21.08.2001 · Read review
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Review of Oregon Scientific Osaris 8mg Organiser

Alarmingly Good!

Advantages: Alarm gets me out of bed every morning
Disadvantages: Build quality and design don't look the best.

...Of all the things I expected when I upgraded my mobile phone, the need to buy a new alarm clock wasn't among them. Unfortunately, for all the things my new phone does bigger and better than the old one, the alarm on the Nokia was far better than the one on the Sony Ericsson. I'll never know whether I slept through the alarm or inadvertently turned it off when I was trying to set it, but within a few days of having changed my mobile phone, the new one failed to wake me up, which was something the alarm on the old one never did. I decided on the Oregon Scientific projection alarm clock largely because my flatmate had one and it looked pretty funky with the time displayed on the bedroom ceiling. I'm not normally one for fancy gadgets, but that did seem like a pretty cool feature. In addition, she sleeps quite deeply, as do I...

Soho_Black 19.11.2006 · Read review
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Review of Oregon Scientific RM 313 P

Movies should be seen... But not heard?

Advantages: Very sturdy; Great picture quality; Price
Disadvantages: Microphone is awful; Eats batteries; Slightly fiddly buttons

...and 15 frames per second (the higher number giving a much smoother picture). At the highest resolution, and filming at 30fps, a 2GB SD card will give you an hour of recording time. Downloading your creations to your PC is as simple as it gets. Attach a USB cable into the back of the unit, and the other end into your computer, and the computer will immediately treat the camera as a removable drive, just like a memory stick. Videos (in .avi format) can then be copied or cut and pasted to wherever you want. The picture quality from the camera is pretty high, especially at 30fps, and I find recording in the middle resolution serves my purposes perfectly well. The picture runs pretty smoothly, and the definition is reasonably high (though less so when playing through a large television screen). It's also easy to operate, with one button to...

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Review of Oregon Scientific ATC-2000

An Organiser By Any Other Name

Advantages: Looks a lot dearer than it is. Links to PC for proper typing
Disadvantages: Currency converter limited to ?.

...When I had an office job, I always used to have a personal electronic organiser, back in the days when they had minuscule keyboards. This tended to render them practically useless for data input, so something with a data cable to link to a PC was very desirable, allowing use of a ?proper? keyboard. I tinkered with various budget brands, Sharp, Oregon etc, all promising the PC link as an optional extra, but which, on trying to get hold of one from the original dealer, always failed to materialise. To a certain extent, this didn?t matter too much since I only ever wanted an organiser to act as an address book for me, and possibly a currency translator. Losing my data and having to start all over again at a later date was a bit of a chore though. Then things started to get silly. Organisers became PDAs, personal digital...

BNibbles 05.11.2002 (08.11.2002) · Read review
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Review of Oregon Scientific PDA 188

21 hours a day

Advantages: Communicate, for free, in any condition
Disadvantages: Instruction's bill not very user friendly

...kind of matter, my choice fall to the Oregon Scientific Atlanta PMR TP-329, its specifications (skills) going over the avarage standards. It is stupendous, having a trip with friends with several cars and getting in touch each other with these fabulous devices. Even along the ski run, or inside supermarkets, for a walk on the mountain, every time you could surely find the usefulness of these radios.. Personally, me and my wife, often use them when we go at the shopping mall to get in touch each other: she fills the shopping chart while I search specific produces that interest me.. lol.. The quality of the loudspeacker is wonderful. With a dimension and look of a bar soap, this little and cute station could find place in any pocket. Batteries, 3 x AAA and 700mAh each, rechargeable and supplied, last 21 hours. Inside their lodging...

ik2xnw- 11.02.2006 (12.02.2006) · Read review
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Review of Oregon Scientific TP329 8-channel PMR

This year's tag for non-offenders!

Advantages: sleek design, built-in clock, light, effective alarm, safe clip, measures steps and distance, adjustable sensitivity
Disadvantages: too easily reset to zero, sometimes not sensitive enough, questionable calorie calculations

...2004 was the year of the ?stepometer?! Thousands of people in the UK, with no previously expressed interest in measuring their fitness level, responded to freebie offers and kitted themselves out with simple pedometers to determine how many steps they took each day. I was among them. 2005, I now declare, is the year the ?pedometer?! Pedometers typically display the distance travelled on foot not just the number of steps taken. And thanks to a lot of clever marketing people, many do much more besides. Some of them will talk to you; others have built-in radios; while The Oregon Scientific Sport pedometer (PE319(N)) is one of a number to have incorporated both a clock and a panic alarm for personal safety. I have recently seen pedometers on sale at prices ranging from as little as £3.50 to as much as £35. At a recommended retail...

Discerna 22.01.2005 · Read review
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Review of Oregon Scientific Personal Safety Pedometer with Panic Alarm

The bedroom ceiling just got better

Advantages: Easy seen time display. Ease of setup and use. Self setting
Disadvantages: No excuse for being late. Dependant on wall colours for brightness.

...: Usability The oregon scientific is a reasonably ease of use product which once set up should keep running with no or very little to do in the way of setups and controlling comands. Excellent for people with eyesight trouble. The time projection arm is able to move independantly so you can choose where to show the time. Options of 12/24 hour times adds to its features and all in all i would say a great and usefull product. Only problem you can't blame power cuts or clock changes on late appointments!! The dimansions of the product are approx 150mm long, 100mm in height and 50 mm in depth so it doesn,t take to much room up on your already full bedside cabinet....

rushy17 08.06.2001 (18.08.2001) · Read review
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