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4 Comments Belkin Bluetooth Music Receiver
- For iPhone 3G, iPhone 3G S, iPod touch 2G
- The F8Z492 Bluetooth receiver from Belkin allows you to play tracks stored on your iPod or iPhone directly on your HiFi system.
- This receiver has a range of 10 metres.
- 12-month UK manufacturer’s warranty included.
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List Price: £39.99
Price: £20.95
- BlackBerry – PlayBook Tablet with 16GB Memory
- PRD-38548-001
Blackberry Playbook is a breathtaking multimedia tablet with HD video and display rich stereo sound and hard core gaming. Professional grade performance high speed connections rich application ecosystem and crystal clear high resolution video calling.——Features: —– BlackBerry Tablet OS with support for symmetric multiprocessing— 7? LCD capacitive touch screen with full multi-touch support— 1 GHz dual-core processor— 1 GB RAM— Memory: 16GB 32GB and 64GB — 5300mAh battery— Dual HD cameras- 3 MP front facing 5 MP back facing— Video playback: 1080p HD Video H.264 MPEG DivX WMV— Audio playback: MP3 AAC WMA— HDMI video output— Wi-Fi – 802.11— Bluetooth 2.1— Connectors: microHDMI microUSB— Open flexible application platform with support for WebKit/HTML-5 Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Adobe Mobile AIR Adobe Reader POSIX OpenGL Java— Ultra thin and portable— RIM intends to also offer 3G and 4G models in the future—-Dimensions:— Hight: 130mm (5.1 inches)— Width: 194mm (7.6 inches)— Depth: 10mm (0.4 inches)–Weight:— 425 g (0.94 pounds)–
List Price: £199.95
Price: £199.95
Use it as a receiver for your car,
Many cars will offer you a built in bluetooth receiver facility for about 200-500 quids. Consider this: the day you sell the car, you lose the receiver. Also before adding a built in bluetooth option in your car, remember that many cars do not have a A2DP receiver, which is what you need for stereo music.
So, this is a brilliant cheaper option for your car, provided your car has a 12 v output, and an auxillary input socket – most new Ford, Audi and BMW will have these features. [Some customized stereos have an auxillary/mike in option as well.]
You then need a nokia car charger – small pin, and you can connect the bluetooth receiver to your car’s speakers and play music through your phone/bluetooth enabled iphone etc.
If your phone allows you to channel telephone conversation output to a music receiver then you can also use this as a handsfree setup for your phone. Your mounted phone will have to act as the mike. If your phone does not allow this option, then I am afraid this setup will only work as a music receiver and not work for phone calls.
I will agree with other reviewers in that is a neat looking gadget, and considering the price it is a brilliant buy for the casual listener. The quality is tinny and seems to have a hollow echo as mentioned, which is why I quickly gave up using it as a home streaming device, and looked for other ways of using it. I am very satisfied with my bluetooth ‘car’ music receiver. I hope Belkin pays me when they take inspiration from this idea!
The only genuine alternative to this product for use in a car is the motormouth [or motorman??] series of products – which will cost about 60 to 90 quids.
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|does what it says on the tin! But…,
…it’s not perfect.
If you’re an audiophile you’ll quickly notice the drop-off in sound quality when connected to your AV Receiver via this kit. I bought it as a cheap solution to working around the house and having my phone handy! the range is limited to around 15ft through wallsceilings, but it’s good enough around my house to allow me to have the phone nearby, rather than on my docking station in the living room. Setup is simply a case of plugging in and pairing your device, it worked first time. Shame about the loss of fidelity.
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|A day in the life of…..,
This little miracle of design and technology has created its own niche of indispensability in my life. It has become so useful that it now accompanies me everywhere and is used dozens of times a day, for many different purposes. I am going to tell you how it has seamlessly integrated with my life, and become a valued and intuitively functional companion and everyday tool.
I write this review in the middle of Blackberry’s very own storm -not the phone model, but the appalling outage crisis of October 10-11-12. I am still a BB fan and have been very happy with several BB phones -currently the Bold 9700. I waited patiently for this tablet to come out, watching the news on the UK release from about a year ago and steadfastly ignoring the temptation to jump ship to another platform. I bought mine shortly after UK release and have been completely, utterly happy with it ever since. Tonight I want to support RIM who are very down at the moment with falling share prices and all the rest. Many people are flaming them tonight so in a small way I will try to add support, and without knocking rival products either -no need for that kind of slanging. Each to his/her own.
Many other reviews here give you all the tech data and advice on which model to buy, so I won’t reiterate these well-written pieces, but instead I will tell you how useful it is to me every day. Bear in mind that owning a BB handset makes the Playbook its most useful and functional. It would still shine without a BB handset, but it really comes into its own when you do own one.
A typical day: Playbook comes off its desk charger (see my review at BlackBerry Playbook 12V Rapid Charging Stand) in the morning, and I might set it up in its PDair case (see my review at PDair BX2 Black Leather Case for BlackBerry PlayBook) on the breakfast table and log on to the Times website via the email newsletter delivered to my BB Bold overnight. No need to log in to the Times website -tapping through the email it is all seamless. Using a touchscreen stylus (see my review at 2 x Universal Capacitive Stylus Pen for ipad 1&2, iPhone 4, HTC, Tablet pc, Asus Tablets, Advent, Samsung Galaxy, Mobile Phones, PC, Blackberry Playbook & Phones, Android and all other Capacitive Screens Devices – Universal Stylus Touchscreen pen with S…) means I leave no marmalade on the screen. Scan the headlines and dip into news articles while waking up with morning coffee. Pack it up and off to work.
At work it lives quietly on my desk, closed in its leather case, but even in standby mode it is bridged to my Bold and it knows when emails arrive and tells me with a discreet “bing”. I can read them easily on the slick, fast, ultra clear screen any time I want, with a few taps. Reading word, spreadsheet or powerpoint type attachments is as easy as tapping the icon. Playbook handles it easily. I am secure in the knowledge that if I leave my room with the phone, no one can read the emails as they disappear from the Playbook when the connection breaks. Just the same with the bridged contacts and agenda. No need to synchronise these programs as the Playbook is simply an extension of the Bold for these apps. Complete security!
I might want to browse the web off my work PC during the day -on the Playbook, easily done, without wifi, through my phone and the data plan I already pay for. No second data plan charge for me. No issues there about using work PC for non work purposes. Great for checking personal things like banking for example. Knowing the RIM security policies, I can relax about security again. As safe as I can be from hackers and spyware.
I don’t get on very well with touchscreen keyboards on any device, though the Playbook one is the best I have used. I prefer a physical keyboard and have paired a Freedom Pro bluetooth keyboard (see my review at Freedom Pro Bluetooth Folding Keyboard) which works perfectly on the Playbook for data entry, and also the Bold, on which it has more functionality. A Logitech Bluetooth mouse (see my reviews at Logitech V470 Wireless Bluetooth Laser Laptop Mouse (Blue) and…
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|Best tablet on the Market.,
Having owned an iPad 2 and the Playbook for a few weeks now, i have to say i am happy i returned the iPad and kept this.
Granted, the iPad has waaay more apps etc but to me thats not too important.
I need a tablet with a capable web browser and nice UI and the playbook beats the iPad hands down.
This is a fantastic tablet!!!
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