Vango Venture 500

Advantages: Good Size, Brilliant Value, High Quality, Sturdy, Easy to Erect
Disadvantages: None that I can think of!

...I purchased my Vango Venture 500 towards the end of 2006. For the bargain price of £85.00 and I haven't looked back since! Numourus camping trips have bee happily spent in this tent and it will see many more! The frame consists of 2 large poles crossing over to make the main dome, and a 3rd smaller pole creating a loop for the porch area. Once erect, with all pegs and guide ropes in place the tent is extremely strong and stable. We have camped in strong winds and strong rain and it has stood strong throughout. As long as there are two of you, erecting the tent is a swift and easy process. Funnily enough you tend to erect it faster when its raining! And packing it back into the bag is an art the first time but you tend to remember how to do it from then onwards and it's easy enough. When packaged, the tent is relatively heavy...

PaulineLees 20.07.2007 (03.05.2008) · Read review
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Review of Vango Venture 500

Very Affordable Holiday Home!!

Advantages: Good size, quite high, sturdy, easy to put up
Disadvantages: Large and quite heavy when packed

...We bought this tent at the beginning of the summer 2005 from Gaynor Sports in Ambleside. It was only ever intended for use by two of us (my wife and myself) and our dog, but we wanted a bit of room to get dressed in and store stuff and most importantly we wanted to be able to stand up it. The Vango Venture 500 was set up and was a winner as soon as we looked at it. Dimensions and Layout The tent measures approximately 12' X 8' and is about 5'10" high at the highest point. There is a large porch at the front which takes up about a third of the length of the tent, and the rest is taken up by the bedroom. The Porch The porch is a good enough size to set up a table and two chairs to eat if required, as we have done in the past, and it has two entrances, a large one to the front of the tent or a smaller one to...

johnny040676 28.05.2008 · Read review
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Vango's Erections

Advantages: Lightweight, spacious, well made
Disadvantages: fiddly to put up

...It?s only an op about a tent??honestly! Who?s that fella Vango anyway????.?! I consider myself a hardened camper. My experiences range from a bivvy bag above the Boulder Ruckle in Swanage, to a budget Millets 2-pole tent on the Orkneys, from family holidays in Harlech under a vast canvas and steel construction to New Years Eve in a Vango Force Ten Mk5 in Langdale, as well as several seasons in the Swiss Alps, plus many, many other trips. I have camped in rain, wind, sleet, snow, sun and thunderstorms. I have pitched a tent halfway up a mountain, in tropical jungle, in a lay-by and on the beach. I have had my tents blown away, been soaked to the skin, eaten by midges, infested by ants (and once a hedgehog) and still come back for more. Right, we thought, it?s time to introduce the children to this fabulous pastime...

sdwill 28.06.2002 · Read review
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Review of Vango TBS Equinox 600 Tunnel Tent

Vango Predator 450

Advantages: Warm, Extreme
Disadvantages: Size

...The Vango Predator 450 is a flagship synthetic bag packed with features to make this one of the best bags proving plenty of bang, for your buck. "The Predator range of sleeping bags is designed for use at the extreme limit. Available in mummy or square. Predators will be used by experienced campers, mountaineers and expedition members who will only use the highest performance sleeping bag suitable for the most hostile environments. Highly compressible Dupont Thermolite Extra is used in conjunction with Thermolite Micro for the ultimate warmth to weight ratio." As stated this bag is for use in slightly more 'wild' conditions, where some down bags would provide to much heat and most synthetic bags wouldnt provide enough. Although this bag has the disadvantage with most synthetic bags, the size, it does hold most of the properties...

chriscookson 04.06.2003 · Read review
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Review of Vango 400 Predator

The LG Cookie KP500 is a good quality, touchscreen mobile

Advantages: Very good value for money, good build quality, good touchscreen, decent (3mp) camera
Disadvantages: Battery life (and meter) is not very good, camera does not have flash, limited games and apps

...I have had this mobile for about 7 months so far. It has been (one of the) best mobiles I have bought. It was very good value for money and the build quality is very good (although for some reason the pink version is more 'plasticky' than the black one). The features on the mobile are what you would expect on a mobile in the price range of the KP500; not too bad but could do with more applications and games. I have however had to send it back once for repair because of a software problem; whenever I went to the music player the mobile froze. This was solved by a firmware update. The 3 inch (not too big, not too small) touchscreen is also very good for what it cost; it is responsive but not as good as the iPhone. Another problem is the battery life. It drains rather quickly and the battery meter does not work very well. It will stay...

oli949 16.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of LG Cookie KP500

  D500- A technophobe's guide

Advantages: fantastic features for such a small phone
Disadvantages: not entirely user friendly

...INTRODUCTION I have read some cracking reviews on this phone, and they even managed to persuade me to buy one. I've had mine for a few weeks now and I thought I'd let you know what I think of it. I have decided to write a technophobes guide to the phone. I don't really understand all that technical stuff and I think there are plenty of reviews covering that side of things that give all the technical info you need. So I'm going to let you know the main features, benefits and problems I have found in simple terms. I've broken it down into categories, so you can just look at the bits that interest you rather than trawling through all of it. I'll start off with a general overview of the phone. GENERAL OVERVIEW The D500 is a sleek little dark metallic grey mobile phone that opens with a slider instead of a flip up front. This is...

NATI 11.06.2005 · Read review
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Review of Samsung SGH D500

Samsung D500

Advantages: Quality camera, good memory and easy to use.
Disadvantages: None (that i can think of)

...Samsung D500 Well the Samsung D500 is quite an awesome phone; it has the ability to do pretty much whatever you want well excluding things like making a cup of tea of course. It has so much that you can do. There are thousands of people who have bought one of these phones, it can be used as a personal phone for yourself but there are also lots of companies out there who supply them to their employees because they are such good phones. I used to have one of these phones before I upgraded to a D600 which I will also be writing a review about. I had no trouble what so ever using this phone, and it allowed me to do everything I needed to, at the time it was the top of the range phone and I was quite chuffed with the value for money because it's such a great phone. Here are all of the features that can be used with the phone: •...

iamthebest1 29.12.2006 · Read review
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Review of Samsung SGH D500

GPZ500s - real world review

Advantages: fast, light, cheap to insure and run
Disadvantages: lumpy at low revs, needs good tyres and regular servicing

...on our roads. If you are a fat overweight biker then you will need stiffer forks. Or just go buy a ZXR400 if you like rock hard track like handling. I have found the forks perfect but then again I weigh 10stone as I don't live on junk food. Right, now the review........ A dry GPZ500s weighs 176kg. It does 0-60mph in 3.76 seconds and has an indicated top speed of 130mph (optimistic speedo - really 125mph). Fuel economy is around 60mpg sticking to legal speeds or around 50mpg at silly speeds. The bike puts out 60bhp at the crank or 54rwhp (rear wheel horse power). It's a bit lumpy at low revs (under 3000rpm) smooth to 7000rpm then really takes off above that to the redline (11,000rpm). Insurance is only group 8. So, its fast.......light...........and cheap! The early EX500 A models from 1987 have 16" wheels and drum brakes. Newer EX500 D...

tomsmith500 21.01.2004 (06.12.2009) · Read review
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Review of Kawasaki GPZ500s

KP500

Advantages: Full Touch Functionality - QWERTY Keyboard Layout - 3MP Camera
Disadvantages: Lack of Customization - Handset Crashes Occasionally

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Izzy207 20.01.2009 · Read review
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Review of LG Cookie KP500

Vango Hurricane

Advantages: A great robust and easy to use tent
Disadvantages: Ground sheet could be thicker

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peter3117 22.01.2009 · Read review
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