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Review: Teufel MediaStation 6

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Teufel's MediaStation 6 is huge, heavy and highly specified versus its rivals. The sturdy box is about half the size of a standard DVD player and features a built-in TV tuner and 1TB hard-drive recorder.</div>
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On the back are HDMI, component video out, composite video/stereo audio in/out, RF in/out, optical and coaxial digital audio out, and LAN sockets.</div>
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Power is from an external supply, and there are two USB Host and one USB Device sockets on the side, plus an SD card slot. If you opt for the Wi-Fi version, a dongle is supplied.</div>
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While there are some useful time-shifting and pause-and-rewind tools, there's only a single tuner and it's standard-def.</div>
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The operating system isn't too smart either; while you're recording, you can't browse other channels, and the program guide shows you only a single channel at a time. Timer programming doesn't offer a simple way to resolve programme clashes, and recordings are saved in folders by channel, not by title.</div>
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Meanwhile, Red Button functions aren't supported. Internet functions including YouTube, Picasa, Flickr, Youku, Weather and News are supported, but there are no UK catch-up TV services, and the Shoutcast internet radio option is poor on UK stations.</div>
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Media playback functions, though, are excellent, with comprehensive file support and superb play quality, while providing a useful BitTorrent client function. It's also well built, and playback quality is superb.</div>
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Also, it comes with a bundle of cables for all connection eventualities, a huge remote control and stick aerial.</div>
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However, This seems like a product designed for the German market which hasn't been properly configured for the UK broadcasting environment.</div>
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Review: Teufel MediaStation 6

Teufel's MediaStation 6 is huge, heavy and highly specified versus its rivals. The sturdy box is about half the size of a standard...

HTC Wildfire S Review

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Welcome to the smallest member of the HTC Android family, one that
fits directly in the palm of your hand, comes in at least a couple of
cool color combinations, and beats out the whole rest of the world in
mid-range competition. This is the HTC Wildfire S, the newest in a
lovely line of HTC devices announced back in February, plus more since,
these being thus: myTouch 4G Slide, Sensation, Flyer (tablet), and
Facebook phones – ChaCha (aka Status on AT&T) and Salsa. Will the
HTC Wildfire S stand up with the impressive lineup HTC has already
released this summer season? Let’s take a look!<br />

Before we continue, let’s have a look at our hands-on video so you
know how incredibly handheld this device is, how the UI is looking, and
what’s under the boot. This video shows yours truly taking the device
out of the box for the first time as well as starting it up and
exploring the contents:<br />

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Hardware</h4>
This being the smallest HTC device on the block, one might think
that it’s squished, tinier than it aught to be, too small for Android.
While this may be true of the competition whose devices are essentially
the same size with basically have the pixel resolution in the display,
here the HTC crew have provided a start screen for such a small device
on a TFT display that looks rather bright and nice. The only complaint
I’ve got about interactivity is the small area in which now the four
Android menu buttons and the buttons at the bottom of the display (for
apps, phonecalls, whatever you might put there.) This area has many
different things now in very close proximity, a situation where a
person with above-average sized fingers might find tapping to be rather
inaccurate.<br />

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On the other hand, the rest of the display is just the right size
for tiny computing. As this device is rolling out with a 600Mhz
processor on a single-core chip, we won’t be using it for too many
high-quality apps. On the other hand, its size and its ability to use
music apps like Spotify and DoubleTwist (a shortcut for DoubleTwist is
included on the device out of the box), this handset is perfect for
day-to-day media interaction. The speaker is loud, the construction is
creak-free, and the plastic making up most of the casing is not quite
as nice as HTC usually comes out with, but isn’t the worst we’ve seen
as far as quality goes either. Having the ability to get a different
color combination in this device is a plus as well.<br />

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Software and Performance</h4>
In your apps drawer, you’ll find your usual set of Google-set items
including the Android Market, FM radio, Camera and Camcorder, and easy
to use apps such as Gallery, Calculator,Music, Phone, and Peep for your
Twitter activity. You’ve also got Slacker radio built in for some
streaming music action, HTC’s Weather app for some excellent and
totally simple GPS-location-based weather reports, and “My Device”
which will give you, the new-to-smartphones user a full guide on how to
get acquainted with your new device.<br />

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You’ll find that you’re able to run the simplest apps plus a few
slightly-higher-functioning apps like Angry Birds without a hitch.
Unfortunately the internal storage on this device is relatively low,
and it’s not immediately apparent to brand NEW to Android users how to
push their content over to their external memory, that being the 2GB
microSD card that comes with the device. Once they DO figure out such a
thing, then do the smart thing and upgrade to a much larger 32GB card,
they’ll be doing just fine from that point forward.<br />

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As far as performance goes, you’ll not find the Wildfire S winning
any contests, but the results are certainly OK for a 600Mhz
single-core, that’s for sure.<br />

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<i>Qualcomm</i><i> </i><br />

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<i>AnTuTu</i><i> </i><br />

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<i>Linpack Pro</i><i> </i><br />

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<i>Smartbench 2011</i><i> </i><br />

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<i>Vellamo</i><i> </i><br />

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Camera and Battery</h4>
The camera quality is OK, certainly no competition for the
higher-range 8 megapixel cameras we’ve seen come out over the past few
months. A 5-megapixel camera on the back of the device takes decent
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HTC Wildfire S Review

Welcome to the smallest member of the HTC Android family, one that fits directly in the palm of your hand, comes in at least a couple of ...

Stormy 7 V2 coming soon with added hail storms

<p style="text-align: center;"></p><br/><img align="right" alt="stormy71" border="0" class="aligncenter" height="400" src="http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/354/stormy71.jpg" style="background-image: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;" title="stormy71" width="240" />Stormy7 has really been th<br/><br/>e only Windows Phone 7 application to impress my daughter, and the new update in the works, to version 2.0, should ensure this remains the case.<br/><br/>The app simulates a steamed up window looking onto a stormy weather scene, which can be a stored picture or one taken with the camera, and allows one to doodle in the mist.<br/><br/>The new version includes multi-touch support, faster performance, new weather options like hail and better accelerometer support.<br/><br/>The full new feature list in v2.0 :<br/><ul><br/>	<li>Multi-touch support.</li><br/>	<li>New blow dryer icon for quick wiping.</li><br/>	<li>Added Hail storm.</li><br/>	<li>The rain and hail can now move with the accelerometer (landscape support).</li><br/>	<li>Added text to write on the steam.</li><br/>	<li>Added save button.</li><br/>	<li>Increased performance by 50% when wiping.</li><br/></ul><br/>Story7 is free and ad-supported and should appear in Marketplace soon.<br/><br/>Via <a href="http://www.wpsauce.com/2011/06/first-look-at-stormy7-v20-for-windows.html" target="_blank">WPSauce.com</a>

Stormy 7 V2 coming soon with added hail storms

Stormy7 has really been th e only Windows Phone 7 application to impress my daughter, and the new update in the works, to version 2.0, shoul...