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Video Projector Review: Epson EH-TW5910
Pierre-Jean Alzieu - Video Projectors - 22/05/13 13:31Today we're reviewing the Epson EH-TW5910 3D video projector, the follow-up to last year's Epson EH-TW6000. Epson's hitting hard with the EH-TW5910, an £899 3LCD projector. The Japanese brand is...
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PlayStation 4 Design To Be Revealed 10 June
Fabien Pionneau - Game Consoles - 22/05/13 11:07Sony first presented PlayStation 4 on 20 February, but what the console will look like remains a mystery. In the hours preceding Microsoft's Xbox One press conference, Sony tried to...
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Microsoft Unveils XBOX ONE New-Gen Games Console
Fabien Pionneau - Game Consoles - 22/05/13 09:24After all of the suspense and the swelling rumours, Microsoft has finally presented its latest XBOX console. The XBOX ONE was unveiled at a special event yesterday evening. Let's take...
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Review: Logitech G500s Laser Gaming Mouse
Alexandre Botella - Computer Mice - 22/05/13 09:16The Logitech G500s has some pretty big shoes to fill. It's the successor to the Logitech G500, which has been the top mouse in our buyer's guide for the past...
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Pentax-Ricoh GR: Hands-On Preview
Bruno Labarbere - Cameras - 21/05/13 14:46Announced barely more than a month ago, the Pentax - Ricoh GR is a camera that's got plenty of people talking. For starters, no-one seems able to agree on its...
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Review: Panasonic Lumix GF6 Mirrorless Interchangeable Lens Camera
Catherine Barraclough - Digital Cameras - 21/05/13 14:07Panasonic is boosting its "geek-appeal" with an updated version of the Lumix G entry-level mirrorless camera that's packed with a load of extra tech. Although it's not all necessarily cutting-edge...
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a-Jays Five: Earbuds for iOS, Windows and Android
Tristan François - Headphones - 21/05/13 12:28Jays, the Swedish audio accessory brand known for its in-ear earphones, has decided to take the OS multiverse head-on with a range of OS-dedicated earbuds. Jays is releasing three different...
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This Week's Reviews & Last Week's Top Fives: Epson EH-TW5910
Catherine Barraclough - Gaming & More - 21/05/13 10:01There are loads of great products up for review this week on DigitalVersus, including original new cameras from Canon and Panasonic. Scroll down for the full line-up. Last Week's...
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Camera Review: Canon PowerShot N
Catherine Barraclough - Digital Cameras - 21/05/13 09:07Canon's PowerShot N is a fresh new take on the digital camera, rolling a tilt-touchscreen, a minimalist interface and onboard Wi-Fi into a sleek pocket snapper with an original design....
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Microsoft Surface Pro Hitting UK Thursday
Rémi Jacquet / Alexandre Botella - Laptops - 20/05/13 14:45The Microsoft Surface Pro will (finally) be landing in the UK this Thursday, 23 May. The 64 GB model will cost £719 and the 128 GB will cost £799. ...
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Monitor Review: Philips 272P4QPJKEB
Alexandre Botella - LCD Monitors - 20/05/13 12:06In spite of its rather obscure name, the Philips 272P4QPJKEB is a monitor that's definitely worth a look. On paper, this 27" display has load of plus points, including a...
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Microsoft Surface Pro: Screen Test Results
Alexandre Botella / Rémi Jacquet - Laptops - 20/05/13 09:10The Microsoft Surface Pro hybrid tablet/laptop has now arrived for testing in our labs. Ahead of the full review, we thought we'd give you a sneak peek at some of...
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Camera Buyer's Guides Updated
Catherine Barraclough - Digital Cameras - 19/05/13 13:53We've tested some great cameras recently on DigitalVersus, so it was about time we updated our pick of the best compacts, bridges, mirrorless cameras and SLRs. As the price...
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Recap: Last Week's Tests and Articles
Hugh Ehreth - Gaming & More - 18/05/13 09:17Here's a recap of all this week's reviews just in case you missed anything. We'll be back on Monday with more news and product tests straight from our labs. Article...
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Review: HP Envy TouchSmart Ultrabook 4
Alexandre Botella - Laptops - 17/05/13 14:43The HP Envy TouchSmart Ultrabook 4 is a 14-inch ultrabook that sells for around £800. The main thing we're looking at today is how it compares with last year's HP...
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BlackBerry Q5: Hands-On, Photos & Details
Romain Thuret - Mobiles & Smartphones - 17/05/13 13:12The BlackBerry Q5 is BlackBerry adding depth to its BlackBerry 10 OS smartphone range. Here's a hands-on view of this new handset, which has been officially confirmed for the UK...
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ZTE Presents Grand X2 In Intel-Powered 4.5" Smartphone
Florence Legrand - Mobiles & Smartphones - 17/05/13 10:50ZTE has announced a new Android Jelly Bean smartphone with a 4.5" screen and a 2 GHz Intel Atom Z2580 dual-core processor. ZTE, the world's fourth largest smartphone-seller as of...
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Review: Roccat Lua Low-Cost Gaming Mouse
Alexandre Botella - Computer Mice - 17/05/13 09:04The Roccat Lua is a gaming mouse with a budget price tag. It's suitable for left- or right-handed users and has a 2000 dpi sensor plus a polling rate of...
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NVIDIA Shield Gets a Price and (Almost) a Release Date
Fabien Pionneau - Game Consoles - 16/05/13 14:12First presented in January at CES 2013, the Nvidia Shield portable gaming console will be available for pre-order in the States on 20 May. But you'll need $349 (£230) to...
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TouchWiz on the Samsung Galaxy S4: What's Useful... And What's Useless
Romain Thuret - Mobiles & Smartphones - 16/05/13 10:42Last week we reviewed the Samsung Galaxy S4; now we thought we'd take a deeper look into the various features Samsung introduced with the new version of TouchWiz: Air...
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Google Unveils Nexus Version of Samsung's Galaxy S4!
Romain Thuret - Mobiles & Smartphones - 16/05/13 10:38Web-search giant Google unveiled its own version of the Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone at its I/O conference yesterday. This alternative version of Samsung's star handset has been stripped of...
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Microsoft Surface Pro: Feeling Hot, Hot, Hot
Rémi Jacquet - Laptops - 16/05/13 09:00The Microsoft Surface Pro has now arrived for testing in our labs. Ahead of a full review, we thought we'd give you a sneak peek at some of the initial...
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Deal of the Day: Up to £85 Cashback on Pentax Cameras
Hugh Ehreth - Cameras - 15/05/13 15:47Photogs of all shapes and sizes, we've sniffed out a deal for you. Pentax is running a cashback offer on five of its cameras, two of which we reviewed...
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Headphone Review: t-Jays Four
Tristan François - Headphones - 15/05/13 11:12After the pricey q-Jays and d-Jays, not long ago Jays AB started releasing the more accessibly priced a-Jays and t-Jays. Whereas the a-Jays' defining feature was the flat cable, the...
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BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) Coming to iOS and Android This Summer
Romain Thuret - Mobiles & Smartphones - 15/05/13 09:25As this year's BlackBerry Live conference drew to a close, the only real announcement of the day looked to be the Q5 handset for emerging markets. But then—bam—BlackBerry CEO, Thorsten...
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BlackBerry Announces Q5 Handset with Physical Keyboard
Romain Thuret - Mobiles & Smartphones - 15/05/13 09:10There were relatively few surprises on the hardware front at this year's BlackBerry Live conference. However, the Canadian phone-maker did announce one new handset, the Q5, aimed at emerging markets....
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Nokia Lumia 925: "The Best Smartphone Ever" (Photos)
Florence Legrand - Mobiles & Smartphones - 14/05/13 15:14Nokia presented the Lumia 925 Windows Phone at the brand's press conference today in London, declaring it "the best smartphone ever". But, as you may have guessed, the real star...
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Camera Review: Canon PowerShot SX280 HS
Catherine Barraclough - Digital Cameras - 14/05/13 14:19Following last year's attractive SX260 HS, Canon's SX280 HS is an updated superzoom compact for 2013. But Canon hasn't made a whole lot of changes this time around, as the...
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Electronic Arts to Develop Future Star Wars Video Games
Fabien Pionneau - Video Games - 14/05/13 12:40Following the closure of the LucasArts studio, The Walt Disney Company and Electronic Arts have announced an agreement to develop and publish upcoming Star Wars video games. The world's...
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Sony Xperia ZR: an Xperia Z "Mini"
Gaëtan Alzieu - Mobiles & Smartphones - 14/05/13 09:48Sony just announced the Xperia ZR, a new smartphone it says will hit stores by July. The new handset is a compact version of the Xperia Z smartphone, which has...
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Camera Review: Panasonic Lumix TZ40 Superzoom Compact
Catherine Barraclough - Digital Cameras - 14/05/13 09:06The Lumix TZ40 is brimming with Panasonic's ambition to bring its TZ range of compacts back to the forefront of the high-end superzoom compact market. To do so, Panasonic has...
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Samsung Galaxy Core vs. Acer Liquid E2 Duo
Gaëtan Alzieu - Mobiles & Smartphones - 13/05/13 14:12The Galaxy Core, Samsung's new 4.3-inch mid-market smartphone is set for UK release this July. Samsung hasn't released the price yet, but it will be coming in two versions: single-SIM...
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Asha 501: Nokia's Less-Than-Entry-Level Smartphone
Gaëtan Alzieu - Mobiles & Smartphones - 13/05/13 10:47Nokia's back with a new low-end smartphone, the Asha 501. Running the company's in-house operating system, the Asha 501 will be released in the UK this summer. Its recommended US...
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This Week's Reviews & Last Week's Top Fives: Pana TZ40, Canon SX280 HS
Catherine Barraclough - Gaming & More - 13/05/13 10:14There are loads of great products up for review this week on DigitalVersus, including two of this year's star superzoom compacts, the Panasonic Lumix TZ40 and Canon's PowerShot SX280...
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SSD Reviews: Corsair Neutron Series & Neutron Series GTX
Rémi Jacquet - SSD - 13/05/13 09:04Corsair recently released the Neutron Series, a 2.5" solid-state drive with a SATA 3 interface (6 GB/s), an LAMD controller and 25nm flash memory by Micron. The Neutron Series GTX...
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Laptop Review: Toshiba Satellite P845T
Alexandre Botella - Laptops - 10/05/13 14:07Toshiba's Satellite P845T is a 14" laptop with a touchscreen, a Blu-ray drive and a dedicated graphics card (exact specs vary according to models). Due to its weight (2 kg)...
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Microsoft Envisions the Living Room of the Future (Video)
Vincent Alzieu - Trends on the Web - 10/05/13 11:56"In the next five to ten years, the digital and the physical will come together", says the voice-over... As Microsoft envisions the coming decade, our living rooms will have...
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Review: Razer Sabertooth XBOX 360 and PC Games Controller
Fabien Pionneau - Game Controllers - 10/05/13 09:07Had enough of the D-pad on the official XBOX 360 controller? Need more buttons for fast-fingered action? The Razer Sabertooth controller could be just the trick! After the four-star Onza...
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Texas Instruments Invents the Dashboard of the Future
Romain Thuret - Gaming & More - 09/05/13 14:02Texas Instruments' DLP technology is good for more than just projectors and pico projectors; they recently gave us a demonstration of one of their latest lines of research, aimed at...
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It Isn't "OK Glass, Take a Picture" Anymore. Now Just Blink.
Vincent Alzieu - Head-mounted display - 09/05/13 11:20One of Google's developers, Mike DiGiovanni, showed off a new Google Glass function on his Google+ page. And the plug-in is already available online. Instead of the normal method of...
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Smartphone Review: Samsung Galaxy S4
Romain Thuret - Mobiles & Smartphones - 09/05/13 09:13Today we're reviewing the already-mythic Samsung Galaxy S4, the follow-up to last year's flagship Galaxy S3. On the outside, the Galaxy S4 is not radically different from the S3, but...
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About Schmidt's Claims that YouTube Has Buried the Television
Vincent Alzieu - Trends on the Web - 08/05/13 15:02Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, claimed last week that YouTube has already overtaken TV: "That's already happened". And, according to him, the website's one billion unique visitors per month is...
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Printer Review: Canon i-SENSYS LBP6020B
Marine Goy - Printers - 08/05/13 11:35The Canon i-SENSYS LBP6020B is an entry-level mono laser printer that also comes in white under the model number i-SENSYS LBP6020. Designed for home use, the LBP6020B's most distinctive feature...
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DigitalVersus in Chinese!
Vincent Alzieu - Trends on the Web - 08/05/13 09:12Although DigitalVersus already has a high-flying French counterpart, called Les Numériques, we recently found out that our content is also available in Chinese on a Chinese website. While we're glad...
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Camera Review: Fujifilm X20 Excellent Expert Compact
Bruno Labarbere - Digital Cameras - 07/05/13 14:10The Fuji X10 was the leader of the retro revolution currently under way in the world of expert compacts, sealing its success with a sleek and original old-school look and...
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Samsung NX2000 Mirrorless Camera: It's All About the Touchscreen
Bruno Labarbere - Digital Cameras - 07/05/13 11:47After announcing the NX300 in January, Samsung is updating last year's entry-level mirrorless hybrid, the NX1000, with the NX2000, carrying its Smart Camera concept a step further. The first time...
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Review: Lexar 32 GB Class 10 UHS-1 Micro SDHC Memory Card
Morgane Alzieu - Memory Cards - 07/05/13 09:05Although we weren't able to review Lexar's previous generation of micro SDHC memory cards, the arrival of an updated product line was the perfect opportunity for us to get a...
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Acer Iconia A1: Android 4.2 and 7.9" IPS Display for £149
Romain Thuret - Tablets - 06/05/13 14:41After presenting the Iconia B1-A71 tablet (£99) at MWC this year, Acer has announced the Iconia A1, a 7.9-inch Android tablet (with 4:3 dimensions, just like the Apple iPad Mini)...
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TV Review: Samsung UE46F6650
Pierre-Jean Alzieu - TVs - 06/05/13 12:12For the past several weeks, Boulanger Aubervilliers has been letting us run TV tests in their store, and we would like to thank them for their help. This time we...
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This Week's Reviews & Last Week's Top Fives: Samsung Galaxy S4
Hugh Ehreth - Gaming & More - 06/05/13 10:29We've got loads of great products up for review this week on DigitalVersus, including the Samsung Galaxy S4 and the Fujifilm X20 expert compact. Scroll down for the full...
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