If you are driven by Need for Speed or Grand Turismo, this 11-inch wheel will take you as close to a racing-car experience as you can get while playing a video game on your computer. The 90º wheel rotation enables users to go 2.5 times around lock to lock. The dual motor force feedback enables you to feel every inch of the road and subtle feedback from the car. The six-speed shifter helps select exactly the right gear for the turn or straight way. The push-down reverse gear lets you back up realistically. And with a D-Pad that has 16 programmable buttons, you can personalise everything to how you like it. It can be used with a PC like any other PS2/PS3 device.
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24 April 2010
Olive Zipbook
If you can’t wait for 3G, or would rather have a CDMA data connection, try this EVDO-R enabled netbook.
Atom 1.6 N270 processor | 1 GB RAM | 160 GB hard disc | EVDO-R ready
Rs 17,999
I adore netbooks. I can carry a machine that is under a kilogram, and still write my stories and do most of my work on them. But netbooks aren’t so great once you are on the road, without a Wi-Fi hotspot. Yes, you can use those USB data cards, but that means carrying an additional device all the time.
Though many netbooks and laptops are 3G ready now, the high-speed GSM network is still a rarity. The Olive Convergence was launched near 2009-end. It is similar to any other Atom-based netbook—Atom 1.6 N270 processor, 1 GB RAM, 160 GB hard disc, Windows XP—except that it is the first netbook that is EVDO Revision ready. And because it comes bundled with a Tata Photon+ wireless connection, you no longer need to carry the additional USB dongle. On the design front, this machine will not score. And it has a battery time of only 1.5 hours, far less than what you would expect of a netbook. For all its negatives, this machine is up really quickly, 40 seconds to boot up and another 10 seconds to go online. It’s biggest plus is that you won’t have to carry that additional device for mobile connectivity.
Right now the Zipbook comes with a single data plan only, which allows you free 15 GB of data per month. This offer will expire after two months, and then you will have to choose a new Tata plan.
Gadget Buzz
24 Apr 2010 - 30 Apr 2010
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Rs 19,990Nüvifone combines an Asus platform with the latest Windows Mobile 6.5 and has many of the applications that you will find on any Windows Mobile phone. But it is a GPS first and a phone next. It has a sleek design with a 3.5-inch WVGA display and a finger-friendly user interface. The billboard feature displays the most important information so users can review everything at a glance. An intuitive 3D task manager also allows users to switch easily between running applications, keeping the phone responsive and the navigation smooth. And the battery lasts roughly two days. It also comes with a windshield cradle, and its screen is specifically designed to work well both in sunlight and the dark.
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Rs 14,990SSDs (solid state drives) make more sense because they are faster and lower failure rates. Also, you can easily replace the conventional hard discs with these. They’ll make your laptop run faster than the hard disc’s motor could allow. Right now only Strontium sells these in India but soon other companies will follow suit. They are priced at Rs 9,500 for 64 GB and Rs 14,990 for a 128 GB SSD. What you pay for in an SSD is not capacity, but speed. Their ‘read’ per second speed is 236 MBps and ‘write’ speed is 160 MBps. A 7,200 RPM Sata hard drive can read and write at about 150 MBps only. And because it has no moving parts, it also consumes less energy, increasing your battery time a bit.
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