http://www.bengamblin.com Blog of Ben Gamblin http://www.bengamblin.com/entry/386/ http://www.bengamblin.com/2012-01-19/sansui-db-100-dab-radio/ Just after Christmas I decided to buy myself a portable DAB radio. I'd been meaning to buy one for a while and having been browsing in John Lewis, I stumbled across this tiny little radio that was, for such a product, relatively inexpensive. The radio i... Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:47:26 +0000 http://www.bengamblin.com/entry/379/ http://www.bengamblin.com/2011-08-29/embracing-the-ebook/ Despite my musings on the subject about 18 months ago, last Tuesday I purchased a Sony PRS-350 ebook reader! For a long time I've been unsure about the latest medium to go digital. I was staunchly pro paper, concerned about the impact of DRM, multiple f... Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:54:40 +0000 http://www.bengamblin.com/entry/369/ http://www.bengamblin.com/2011-03-12/dell-u2311h-ips-monitor/ I picked up my first high resolution widescreen monitor today, a Dell U2311H 23" IPS TFT screen. For what must be roughly 18 months - 2 years, I've been using a 15" 1024x768 TN TFT screen and over the past few months I've been getting increasin... Sat, 12 Mar 2011 20:27:52 +0000 http://www.bengamblin.com/entry/354/ http://www.bengamblin.com/2010-07-30/samsung-n210/ Last Wednesday I added to my collection of computers by purchasing a Samsung N210 netbook - a small, low-power, long-life laptop computer. My primary reason for purchasing such a machine was for a forthcoming holiday, allowing me to backup photographs, v... Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:36:59 +0000 http://www.bengamblin.com/entry/341/ http://www.bengamblin.com/2010-03-23/pure-highway-digital-radio-receiver/ Following my comments about the closure of BBC Radio 6 Music and the availability of DAB receivers for use in the car, I decided to do a bit more research. Whilst my point about the lack of availability still stands, there are options for listening to di... Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:41:07 +0000 http://www.bengamblin.com/entry/332/ http://www.bengamblin.com/2010-01-13/will-i-ever-buy-an-e-book-reader/ There's been a lot written in the technology press recently about e-book readers - tablet like devices with e-ink screens used primarily for reading e-books but also, in some cases, as a basic media player. Whilst the concept of e-books has been around f... Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:01:59 +0000 http://www.bengamblin.com/entry/331/ http://www.bengamblin.com/2009-12-31/review-of-the-decade/ As is tradition, here is my final blog entry for the year - and this time, the final one for the decade. Blogs all over the internet seem to be doing it, so I thought I'd jump on the bandwagon and take a look back over the last ten years, from a personal... Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:03:09 +0000 http://www.bengamblin.com/entry/323/ http://www.bengamblin.com/2009-06-27/a-review-of-android-applications/ I've had my Android phone for nearly four months now, and I thought it might be a good idea to run through my idea of essential applications. These are all available through the Android Market. Some are free, and some are not. I've only given brief des... Sat, 27 Jun 2009 11:01:45 +0000 http://www.bengamblin.com/entry/310/ http://www.bengamblin.com/2009-03-16/review-t-mobile-g1-htc-dream/ A little more than one week ago, I took delivery of the T-Mobile G1 (otherwise known as the HTC Dream); a smartphone available in the UK exclusively from T-Mobile. It runs the brand new and shiny Android operating system developed by Google and the Open ... Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:36:48 +0000 http://www.bengamblin.com/entry/302/ http://www.bengamblin.com/2008-10-08/gadget-show-pmp-review/ For the second time I feel compelled to write about a review broadcast on the TV tech programme The Gadget Show, which I believe was unfair. The review was a comparison of three touch screen based portable media players (PMPs) - the iPod Touch, iRiver Sp... Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:55:12 +0000