Seeing as many MP3 players come with cheap headphones so frightful that they make LCD Soundsystem sound like a drunk busker, spending a few bob on a decent pair can make a real difference to your sonic pleasure.
Devices
New devices to consumer digital media
Review: Sennheiser CX 300 In-Ear Budget Headphones (88%)
Review: Eton FR140 Microlink Wind-Up/Solar Powered Radio With Torch And Charger (86%)
Looking rather natty in an all black, rubberised case, the Eton FR140 radio aims to be the perfect companion for deep forays into the countryside or as a handy take-everywhere travel gadget for the self sufficient.Insiders View of Palm Pre (Video)
Are you looking for an inside view on the highly impressive Palm Pre, beyond our Full Palm Pre review?Roger McNamee — his Elevation Partners invested 20% ($425m) of their fund in Palm two years ago when the WebOS and the Palm Pre were taking shape — spills the beans on how they got involved and importantly how Palm turned itself around from the dark days when even hard-bitten Palm fans struggled to find good news about them.
It’s an interesting interview with great quotes like … “The important things to realise is that this is just the first product.”
Well worth watching.
(after the jump)Sony Vaio P Review: Hands On With The Netbook/Lifestyle PC (Part 2/2)
Part one of our Sony Vaio P Review was wowed at shiny colours; initial impressions on opening it and amazing screen resolution. Here’s the concluding section.
Keyboard impresses
If the display didn’t exactly knock us out, the keyboard was an unexpected treat. Although it’s clearly substantially smaller than a full laptop keyboard (Sony say that it’s 88 percent the size of their Sony Vaio TT keyboard, which is already smaller than a regular keyboard), it’s extremely well designed. We managed to get up a fair rate of knots on the thing with few errors and would feel comfortable typing out quite a few emails on it.Best of CES 2009: Our Choice
With the dust settling on last week’s annual CES tech fest, we take a look at some of the gadgets and gizmos that caught our eye.Top of the pile – and incidentally a recipient of CNet’s ‘Best In Show’ and ‘Peoples’ Voice’ awards – is the hugely innovative and exciting Palm Pre smartphone. Just when we thought Palm were ready to slide into oblivion, they pulled out a stunning new phone with an interface that makes even the iPhone look out of date.
BlackBerry Curve 8900 Hits Vodafone UK, T-Mobile US
The latest from the Blackberry stable, the Curve 8900, is now available on UK Vodafone and T-Mobile will have it in the US.The Curve builds on the success of previous models – some people are even declaring it a combination of Curve, Bold and Storm.
With the screen from the Bold (high-res 2.4-inch 360×480), the 3.2Mpx camera from the Curve, WiFi, GPS and a very strong audio and video player, including divx playback, it’s going to be one to watch.
Big excitement
We’re hugely excited about getting our hands on the Blackberry Curve 8900.Peek Email Device: Hands On
We managed to get a brief hands on with the Peek email gadget at the WiredStore in New York and thought we’d share a few impressions.This little fella is designed for one thing only – accessing mobile email over the GPRS data network – and comes with a full keypad and a 240 x 320 pixels colour screen (with a rather small font size).
Our Gadgets On The Streets Of New York (Part Two)
In part one we rated the Palm Centro, the Asus Eee 901 netbook and LG GSA-E5ON portable CD/DVD rewriter as travelling companions. Read on for our round up.Maxtor OneTouch 4 Mini
With only 12GB of storage available on the Eee 901, we needed to back up our precious photo files on to this handy USB portable hard drive (as well as backing up to a 16GB memory card in the Eee).Our Gadgets On The Streets Of New York (Part One)
We’ve just spent a fortnight in New York, and being the tech freaks we are, we dutifully packed our bags full of out latest gadgets. Sadly. not all of them managed to impress. Check out our report to find the winners and losers.
Looking rather natty in an all black, rubberised case, the Eton FR140 radio aims to be the perfect companion for deep forays into the countryside or as a handy take-everywhere travel gadget for the self sufficient.
Are you looking for an inside view on the highly impressive Palm Pre, beyond our 
Keyboard impresses
With the dust settling on last week’s annual CES tech fest, we take a look at some of the gadgets and gizmos that caught our eye.
You may well have seen our enthusiastic story on the first viewing of the 
The latest from the Blackberry stable, the Curve 8900, is now available on UK Vodafone and T-Mobile will have it in the US.
We managed to get a brief hands on with the Peek email gadget at the WiredStore in New York and thought we’d share a few impressions.
In part one we rated the Palm Centro, the Asus Eee 901 netbook and LG GSA-E5ON portable CD/DVD rewriter as travelling companions. Read on for our round up.
We’ve just spent a fortnight in New York, and being the tech freaks we are, we dutifully packed our bags full of out latest gadgets. Sadly. not all of them managed to impress. Check out our report to find the winners and losers.