DVD burners are always a tough choice to make as finding a perfect DVD burner is next to impossible as almost all DVD burners have some problem or the other ranging from incompatibility of media to dismal performance.Sony DVD burners are known for good quality drives and have good reputation among users.

Here are its specs:

• Device Type: DVD±RW (±R DL) / DVD-RAM drive
• Type : DVD±RW (±R DL) / DVD-RAM - 5.25″ x 1/2H
• Read Speed : 48x (CD) / 16x (DVD)
• Write Speed : 48x (CD)/ 18x (DVD)
• Buffer Size : 2 MB

The phones supports all the major formats.The system requirements are modest and the burner is supported with all major operating systems.The face plates can also be changed to suit your cabinet color.Nero 7 comes bundled with the package. 18x is the maximum DVD-R burning speed supported by the writer.

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Smartphones are the obvious choice when buying a cellphone but not many of us prefer PDAs in that category.But that might change with Sony Ericsson P1i which combines functionality and also fulfills downsides that older PDAs have.  Sony Ericsson is expert at manufacturing excellent PDAs which put their Nokia counterparts to shame.

Have a look at its specs:

• Dimensions: 106 x 55 x 17 mm
• Weight : 124 gms
• 2.6″ Display 240 x 320 resolution
• QWERTY keyboard
• 3.2 MP Camera with Autofocus
• GPRS, HSCSD,3G
• Wi-Fi 802.11b
• Bluetooth v2.0 ,Infrared
• Symbian OS v9.1, UIQ 3.0

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Creative Zen  players have always giving a strong competition to the iPod family. Creative Zen Vision:M promises to do the same and more. The Creative Zen Vision series is aimed at users who want to carry their entire music collection with them. They combine style and performance to fulfill every need of a music listener.

Here are its specs:

• Dimensions: 2.4 x 0.7 x4.1 ” (W x D x H)
• Weight : 5.7 oz
• Storage : 30 GB
• Voice Recording, Radio
• Audio formats supported : MP3, WAV, WMA, ADPCM, Protected WMA (DRM)
• Video formats supported : DivX 4, DivX 5, XviD5, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, WMV9, MPEG
• Image formats supported :  JPEG,BMP,GIF,TIFF
• 2.5″ Display with 320 x 240 resolution

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Dell was recently reported to have lost a bit in laptop market share but that doesn’t take anything away from the great laptops that it manufactures.Dell laptops are a boon for geeks who want even their laptops to be custom built! Dell Inspiron 1520 is one of the most successful laptop to be launched by Dell and still continues to rule.

Some general specs:

• Intel® CoreTM 2 Duo Processor
• 15.4″ Widescreen WXGA Display
• Upto 4GB RAM
• Integrated 2.0 MP Webcam
• Upto 8600GTgraphics card
• 8 available top panel colors

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In the world of digital cameras, Canon is the king. Their cameras have been getting smaller in size and larger in the picture size. Canon has a number of different lines of digital cameras, ranging from their Digital SLR’s to their affordable PowerShot series.

The Canon PowerShot SD750 is one of their more high-end cameras in the PowerShot line. The SD750 has an enormous 3-inch LCD screen. The features are otherwise fairly basic: 7.1 megapixels, a 3x optical zoom lens, and automatic exposure modes that make the SD750 very easy to use.

There is more to the Canon SD750 than its LCD. For being such a small camera, the SD750 performs very well. It creates realistic and accurately-colored pictures whether in bright light or the dark night. Face detection is one of its highlighted features: this automatically detects and focuses on faces in view, so all you have to do is push the button and capture the moment.

Here are a few of the technical specifications for the PowerShot SD750:

• Street price: $259
• 3″ LCD screen
• 7.1 MP
• 3x optical zoom lens
• Face detection software

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The Apple Airport Express is probably the smallest and most compact 802.11 G wi-fi access point on the market being only slightly bigger than a deck of cards. It features a 10/100 Ethernet port for plugging into you computer or cable modern and a integrated USB print server for sharing you printer on the network.

One thing that is great about this device is that it features a mini stereo jack for streaming audio across your network, which is something I haven’t seen on any other similar devices. The Airport Express also features a built in power adapter adding to this devices compact all in one design.

Here are some specs:

• Wireless protocol 802.11
• Up to 54mps wireless transfer rate
• Dimensions: 3.7 inches (94.01mm) x 2.95 inches (75.00mm) x 1.12 inches (28.5mm)
• Weight: 6.7 ounces (189 grams)⁽³⁾
• Wi-Fi protected access (WPA/WPA2)
• Wireless security (WEP) configurable for 40-bit and 128-bit encryption
• MAC address filtering
• NAT firewall
• Price $99.00

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When I first hear about Sony I think about the Playstation 3 and their great TV’s. Lately however, Sony has been getting into the home audio market and they’ve been doing a great job. This past summer Sony released a iPod speaker dock with a clock radio built in.

Sony’s iPod Dock with Clock (yes this is what it’s called) is a really cool iPod dock with a built in clock radio. It features a great adjustable backstop for iPods so you can fit all different types (not the iPod Touch however), a digital AM/FM tuner, dual alarms and the ability to charge you iPod as you play.

The great thing about this system is that you can get it for under $100. Most of the time with Sony products you pay a large premium but this seems to be competitively priced for once.

Here are a few of the technical specifications for the Sony iPod Dock:

• Street price: $99.95
• Dual Alarm
• AM/FM Tuner
• Adjustable iPod dock and charger
• FM: 87.5 - 108 MHz, AM: 530 -1710 kHz

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Nokia 5610 XpressMusic is the latest addition to the Nokia mobile phones.You must have seen this phone in the latest ads released by Nokia and we will see if it manages to fulfill the hype that has been created around it for a while.So is this a perfect mobile phone to gift yourself this new year..Lets find out!

Here are its specs:

• Dimensions: 98.5 x 48.5 x 17 mm
• Weight: 111gms
• 2.2″ TFT QVGA display, 16M colors
• GPRS,HSCSD,EDGE and 3G compatible
• Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP
• 3.15MP Camera with Autofocus

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If you think high-end gaming PC you usually think Alienware, Voodoo PC or even Dell, but there is one computer hidden away that will shock and awe most people. It is the Blackbird 002 from HP.

HP has generally been known for their inexpensive home and business computers. With the increase in the number of gamers in the world HP thought it’d be a good time to get into the gaming market. Whether or not this was a good decision will become apparent with time but for now the Blackbird 002 is a good attempt to crack into that market.

The Blackbird is completely customizable, but some options are Quad-Core processors, upwards of 4 GB of memory, dual GeForce 8800GTS, 1 TB of storage and more. Prices start at $2,400.

Here are a few of the technical specifications for the Blackbird:

• Street price: $2700.00 (base price)
• Water cooling available
• Up to 1TB of hard drives
• 900W or 1100W PSU’s
• Up to 4GB of RAM
• Nvidia 8800 graphics card

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Pen drives are available at dime-a-dozen.The latest trend has shifted from buying a 2GB pen drive to a 4GB pen drive as 4GB pen drives have become very reasonable in price and are currently the sweetest spot for spending when buying a pen drive.Apart from just carrying files around these ensure that you can also take backup of your sensitive data and or carrying around your favourite applications with you all the time!

Lets look at the specs first:

• Capacity: 4GB
• Interface: High-Speed USB 2.0
• OS Compatibility:Windows 2000,ME,XP, Apple OS 9.1 or later
• U3 Compatible

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