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Producing a well-contrasted picture is perhaps the most important task any television can tackle, and the Samsung LN52A750 ($3,999.99 list) delivered the best contrast results we’ve encountered in an LCD HDTV. This 52-inch set’s out-of-the-box color quality was outstanding, and it handled standard and high-definition video well by preserving fine detail while minimizing distracting image [...]
The very highly anticipated 3G iPhone has just been announced by Steve Jobs at Apple’s annual WWDC. This time around, the iPhone is everything the old one was but better and amazingly, a lot cheaper. It has thinner edges, a full black plastic back, flush headphone jack, and it will be 36% faster than Nokia’s [...]
RIM may have scored a bull’s-eye with the Pearl. But it was the Curve that brought multimedia enhancements to corporate and power users who needed a full QWERTY keyboard. Alas, Verizon and Sprint subscribers were left out of the action—until now. Curve fans finally have CDMA versions available on both carriers. (Also check out our [...]
Some people don’t need smartphones or PDAs with all the bells and whistles; they just need a simple, dependable phone for making calls. After all, isn’t that why the telephone was invented? A simple voice phone needs to do three things: be easy to use, make decent phone calls, and have good battery life. Although [...]
No flat-panel LCD manufacturer does color better than Sony. By “doing color” I mean accurately displaying hues the way they are meant to be seen as defined by the HD spec. The Sony Bravia KDL-52XBR4 ($3,799.99 list) continues this tradition of accurate color reproduction—if you use its correct picture setting. The 52XBR4 proved itself on [...]