Archive of entries posted on January 2008

Episode 481

Garmin Nüvi 880
GPS
Link: Garmin
 
The Garmin Nüvi 880 is a new GPS from Garmin that is expected to hit the market in the 2nd quarter of this year.  Apart from the usual GPS functions, it is capable of speech recognition to take voice commands, such as "Find Address", "Where am I?" and "Get Food".  You also [...]

Episode 472

Amazon Kindle
Electronic Book Reader
Link: Amazon
Turn-The-Tables-Tuesday
 
 
On New Year's Day, Leo finally reviews the Kindle (which Leo first mentioned in Episode 437).  It uses the same e-ink as the Sony Reader (Episode 437), and suffers the same problems such as the greyish background and the page-turning "flash".  The design and the case are not as slick as [...]