Feb 29

Nokia E51If you are an executive in the marker for a suitable call phone, Nokia’s E serise offers the best bang for the buck. the Nokia E51 is the latest from the venerable E serise, and an apt successor to the hugely popular E50 model, which it will eventually replace. The E51 brings in new features at a price that’s hard to beat. The keypad is completely revised, with dedicated keys for Contacts, Calendar, E-mail and Home. The softmenu keys, however, are too small for comfort. The rest of the keypad is a delight good tactile feedback, and key spacing is immaculate. The rebberised keys for volume up / down, push-to-talk and power are head to operate,though.
The E51 feels peppy-it uses the processor as on the flagship N95. With 130 MB of memory on board, you can do lot of multitasking without the phone getting sluggish, and the memory can be expanded to 4 GBvia the microSD slot (a 512 MB card comes bundled). The E51 runs on Symbian OS Series 60, and crams in lot of features besides the standard set. Most of these will go down well with executives-for example, the Advance call manager

lets you manage incoming and outgoing calls efficiently. In addition, WorldMate, an application for frequent fliers, comes bundled. The E51 is a 3G, quad-band phone with HSDPA, Wi-Fi (820.11g) Bluetooth, Micro USB and an infrared port. There’s a switch to turn bluetooth on and off on the main keypad. Multimedia features include a good MP3 player, a 2MP camera with still and video shooting, and FM radio.
Signal reception is good, as is voice clarity. Internet browsing speeds are faster then with the E50 or E61, thanks to the revised Web browser. The camera is above average, but loses performance in low- light conditions, with little or no echo on the recipient’s side. We got around three days of battery life with nominal usage and a terrific seven days of standby time. The Nokia E5 retails at $375 ; it is, we think, a must- buy.

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Feb 15

Asus has brought up their full line-up of PDA phones and the P525 is a PDA with a number pad, sometimes of a rarity. Its a touch screen running Windows Mobile 5 and the charcoal grey that made the P525 such a good looker makes another appearance. The P525 is a beautiful beast, all smokey gray with chrome buttons down the side panel in sharp contrast. We also liked the screen-crisp, clear and good contrast, visible even in direct sunlight.
The number keys look like sculpted buttons that have been integrated into the body. They Asus P525give just the right amount of feedback when used, and never feel tacky.We don’t like the joystick though; its too small and smooth and theres insufficient tactile feedback. We also didn’t like the fact that the joysctick’s in between the number keys 2 and 5. this affects access to the number 2.
Voice commander makes another appearance, a really excellent piece of code, this-that allows you to do so much more with the voice commands. The excellent business card scanner is also preinstalled. Theres also a password protected security application called My Secrets that allows you to protect your files by encrypting them. All the usual Windows Mobile applications are present as well.
There is a dedicated button for the camera, which is surprisingly good for a PDA. The volume button is very ergonomic, as is the hold button which prevents keypad, button and screen use.
While the loud speaker offers decent volume, we lament the volume levels on the hands free kit, its just too low, be it music or a voice call. While on the topic of calls, signal quality could have been better, a parent weakness of most of the PDAs. If you need a good phone, please look elsewhere.
Where the P525 scores is in PDA functionality (even though it forgoes a QWERTY keypad), looks nobody will disagree here and, of course, the software package that improves productivity by quite an extent. At $500 the ASUS P525 is a good PDA, but a strictly avarage phone. Its flashy for sure, and will draw glances anywhere. You’ll have to decide what is more important to you - PDA features or just a Mobile Phone.

Feb 15

We were drawn to the Xerox Phaser 6110 by the rather non-office looks and its price tag, which is quite attractive. Its considerably compact when compared to any laser MFD, but its 20.5kg weight is somewhat high, we think. The easy front loading toners go straight inside the body vertically rather than horizontally, so theres little chance of your hands getting dirty.
The input tray capacity is 150 sheets-comfortable for any SoHo, and if that is not enough, an optional tray can support an additional 250 sheets. The ADF can hold 50 sheets and makes life easier while copying multiple documents using the flatbed cum sheetfeed scanner. The scanner supports up to legal size paper. The control panel is very asy to use and the 16 character, 2 line display gives a lot of information. At the front is a USB port that lets you plug in a USB stick and print its contents. You can even connect a PictBridge camera to this port using its data cable to print photos without a PC.
Print quality is good and crisp in both black-and-white and color prints. It was pretty fast, too, taking just 11 seconds for black and 14.9 for the color print. The scanner performed flawlessly, displaying excellent color recognition and capturing fine details well. Scanning a 600 dpi, A4 photo took just 45.3 seconds. It was a bit slow at copying, 14.8 seconds for black and 35.5 seconds for color, but the copies were so good that it was hard to distinguish between the original and the copy.
It features USB as well as network interface. The fax has 4MB of memory for storing received faxes in standby mode. Bundled along is the maintenance utility that lets you perform routine maintenance tasks, and a utility to setup the device over a network. The price is surprisingly affordable of $1000, and that makes the Xerox Phaser 6110 MFP a highly recommended product.

Printer:
Resolution : 2,400×600 dpi (effective)
Input Tray : 150 Sheets (Optional Tray of 250 Sheets)
Output Tray : 100 Sheets
Buffer Memory : 128MB

Scanner:
Type : Flatbed and Sheetfeed
Resolution : 600×1200 dpi (Optical)
Media Size : Legal
ADF : 50 Sheets

FAX:
Speed : 33.6 Kbps
Memory : 4MB
Speed Dialing : up to 240numbers

General Specifications:
Dimenssions : 46.6 (W) x 42.9 (D) x 48.6 (H) mm
Weight : 20.5 kg

Power Consumption:
Max : 350 W
Standby : 30W

Duty Cycle : 24,000 prints per month
Black Toner : 2,000 pages
Color Toner : 1,000 pages

Xerox Phaser 6110 MFP

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