With the Vostro 1220 Dell a new has ultra portables notebook with 12,1 tariff large display for the Small Business sector on the market. According to manufacturer its accumulator holds on up to nine hours at the piece.

The Vostro 1220 can be ordered either with Intel Celeron or Intel core 2 duo processor of the newest generation with maximally 3.06 gigahertz clock rate. Slack communication with high data transmission rates are by WLAN 802.11n ensured. Optionally also mobile Broadband is available.

To the safety options a fingerprint sensor with multi-factor authentication and a non removable disk coding belong. In addition the new Vostros is alternatively available with robust SSDs or non removable disks. The main memory amounts to up to eight gigabyte.

With the before-installed software “Dell video chat”, the optionally available integrated Webcam and a microphone receives the user a complete solution for execution of video conferences.

The new Vostro 1220 gives it alternatively with an Linux OS or a Windows Vista in alternatively Obsidian Black or Cherry. Depending upon configuration it is immediately starting from 449 euros available - plus value added tax and dispatch as well as inclusive one year fetching and repair service.

Sanyo offers two new digital cameras starting from August. The VPC-S1275 has the VPC-E1090 twelve megapixels, over ten megapixels. Both cameras are characterized by compact dimensions, offer a three-fold zoom shot and a 2,7-Customs-Display.

Different motive programs, approximately for beach, party or night, are to supply the photograph parameters fitting for each situation. Also for Self Portraits the new cameras are suitable: If the photographer directs the objective toward itself, the face is to be recognized and focused automatically. The camera takes up then the picture independently, without the cause must be operated. Beyond that the insertable Smile & Face Detection are to be able to catch smiling faces. The picture framework function with a selection of nine different motives makes the correct framework available for photos.

Moving moments can be held with the VPC-S1275 and the VPC-E1090 also as videos in VGA dissolution. Both cameras have an internal memory of 16 MByte and should be compatible with SDHC maps (to 16 GByte). The entrance model VPC-S1275 is supplied via two AA-batteries with river, which are VPC-E1090 equipped with a lithium ion accumulator, which is to make sufficiently energy available for up to 220 photographs.

Sanyo calls the VPC-E1090 for the VPC-S1275 a price of 110 euros, is 120 euros to cost. Both cameras are available presumably starting from August.

Philips presented its first LCD television set with LED background lighting, the LED lux. In our test laboratory the number unity candidate had to prove that he is really worth a price of 3,000 euros.

The contrast measurements of the Philips television became quite difficult in the test, since it switches the LEDs off during black picture and switched on dynamic background lighting completely. Therefore we accomplished the maximum contrast measurement both with dynamic background lighting and without them. Result: During static background lighting we obtained a very good, but unspectacular value of 1.991: 1. With activated dynamics however a clearly better value resulted: nearly unbelievable 178.900: 1.

Chessboard contrast in order

Somewhat differently it behaved with the chessboard contrast: Here we did not determine statically 91:1 and dynamically 93:1 - both straight convincing results. Local switching of the background lighting off obviously did not lead to a increased contrast with our chessboard test pattern with black and white rectangles. The measured maximum brightness of the panel is with 479 candela per square meter - a good value.

Good picture with small weaknesses within dark ranges

The picture of the blocked Tuner (similar cable and DVB-T) offers beautiful smooth edges. However double outlines (halos) emerge again and again around moved bodies. During the rendition of DVDs the television overrides somewhat in dark display spaces, whereby an easy color noise arises in the form of color marks. We observed this effect also with Blu ray Discs (BD). Otherwise the television offers however a very plastic picture with mad colors and sharp outlines - both from DVD and from BD.

Ambilight Spectra 2

With Ambilight Spectra 2 radiate LEDs behind the television to the right and left. The light can so the spectator more thereby different colors accept and is in the picture pull in. First the changing lighting irritated; only after many tests we could determine the promised effect also at us and more in the happening on the ground-glass plate were actually merged.

Good clay/tone, habituation-needy remote maintenance

The clay/tone of the LED lux is, as used from Philips, very good: Strong basses and a space-filling sound make mood correct. Switching between DVB T channels is still with 1.6 seconds straight correct. Less well the turning wheel of the remote maintenance pleased us - it reacts for our taste too sensitively. But offer the lux three attitude assistants, who help inexperienced users when optimal configuring of picture, clay/tone and connections.

Very good equipment

Beside the LED background lighting and Ambilight the television under the designation offers „“an integrated Streaming Client to Media gateway. Thus you can receive pictures, videos and MP3s at the television over your home network. Small disadvantage: Philips understands too few formats. It concretely processes only JPEG photos, MPEG films and MP3-Music - it ignores everything else simply.

With the topic there are interfaces nothing too grumble: Under others four HDMI-1.3-Inputs and two Scart sockets permit the connection of various player.

Result

Philips LED lux 42PFL9803H the number one our 40/42-Customs-TV-Leaderboard is current. It offers a good picture and clay/tone quality, paired with mad equipment and a good ergonomics. The LED background lighting provides for mad black values and an insanity contrast - only it harms that this is not passed to one hundred per cent to the image quality. Beyond that the high price of approximately 3,000 euros provides for a bad price performance ratio.

Sport makes equal twice as much fun, if a motivating sound propels you to new maximum output. But only few MP3-Player have that things to the ideal training partner. We say to you, which are that.

The best means for a good bikini or trunk figure is still sport. And the best motivation for the Workout or a Wandertrip is suitable soundtracks. Instead of the forest silence or the tootling in the Fitness studio hear many dear their own training music - and comes from the MP3-Player.

Perfect training partners
Small, easily and above all vibrationlessly the individual music companion is to be. In addition the MP3-Player for some kinds of sport must be protected against water and dirt and stand also times or other impact. Under these conditions the otherwise large number at MP3-Player diminishes fast on a handful. Those are our ideal sport comrades:

For water rats: Memup Kanyon

No matter, ob’s rains or snows, the Kanyon supplies you from its 4 GByte memory in all weather with your favourite music. Even in the swimming pool: Up to 3 meters depth of water do not constitute the small player anything. As addition Memup equips the robust MP3 and WMA player with an outdoor package from waterproof headphones, bracelet and different headphone essays. However you should climb after at the latest 10 hours from the basin and hang the player to a battery charger.
Price: about 50 euros

For long runners: Sony W202

Who disturbs itself at with the sport at the cable from the MP3-Player to headphones and thinks nothing from the Bluetooth radio, is well served with the NWZ-W202: Sony integrated the player in the headphones - like that you are really mobile with the equipment, no cable make nervous when running. The player sits well in the ear and takes part in everything - it should lose the stop nevertheless once when the jogging or wheel driving, falls it its owner reliably around the neck. The player available, however always is in different colors with 2-GByte-Memory. With its 12 hours of running time he holds on also long sport sessions.
Price: about 80 euros

Packard Bell brings a ultraportable computer out with AMD processor for the first time with the Netbook DOT m/a. Mini notebook is to extend the Netbook row with the models DOT s and DOT m.

With the processor it concerns the low-voltage processor AMD Athlon 64 L110, which was developed according to Packard Bell particularly for portable devices. In addition DOT is integrated m/the diagram chip ATI Radeon X1270 in.

The Netbook weighs 1.25 kilograms, the display according to manufacturer measures 11.6 tariff. For a wireless entrance to the net W-LAN is integrated. DOT m/a can be rigged optionally also with Bluetooth and 3G-Modules for the mobile Internet.

In the basic equipment Packard Bell builds a large non removable disk to 160 GByte and a GByte main memory into the computer. The non removable disk can on 320 GByte, which main memories on two GByte are extended.

Packard Bell offers that to DOT m/a with the operating system Windows Vista basic or Windows Vista Home Premium starting from at the end of of June in the colors red or black. The Netbook costs presumably 399 euros.