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Reviews (9)
19 April 2016
Pocket-sized phone for talk and text, huge battery life
Like many people I've got a smartphone, and like many I find the battery barely lasts the day. That's OK when I'm at home but what if I'm away for the weekend, or longer? This is where a basic talk and text phone like this comes into its own.
Samsung might be best known for their Galaxy range of smartphones, but they have been making basic dumb phones forever and the GT-E1200 from 2012 is typical of the line. Voice quality is good, texting is straightforward (although there's no predictive text so you'll have to keep those thumbs moving), the tiny screen is clear and the battery will last weeks between charges. My example has one game - sudoku - but this may vary between models.
This phone is 2G only so won't work with on Three's network; slightly posher models do include 3G but since there are no data services at all it's hardly worth the bother. As a family we have three similar Samsungs; my wife has an older GT-E1080 from 2009 while my daughter carries a 2010-vintage GT-E1150 flip-phone. They all share the same user interface and mostly the same features.
It's not going to win any performance awards but you can be sure that it's going to still have charge when you've spent a week camping, at a rock festival or on a bicycle!
25 January 2011
Basic, but works well and does dial-up too.
Back in the stone age before broadband, we had an unlimited free dial-up account via our local cable company. This was all well and good when there was only one computer in the house, but when my wife bought a machine of her own we had a problem! For a while we managed to time-share between her modem and mine, but it was far from ideal.
So in about 2002 we bought one of these, our first router. While it's intended for use with an ethernet-connected WAN device such as a cable modem, it has a serial port intended for use with a modem and that's what we used. We set the router up with our dial-up account details, plugged it all together and away we went. The four LAN 10/100 ethernet ports became the heart of my first home network, feeding the computers in two bedrooms and the TiVo in the lounge downstairs. Dial-up was slow, but we could share it seamlessly between the various networked devices and with the addition of a download manager like GetRight multi-megabyte files were within our grasp.
Given the vintage of the device, it shouldn't be any surprise that - while it's a perfectly good router with a built-in web-based configuration - there's few bells and whistles. There's no firewall and no content filtering, for example. But what it does, it does well.
Come 2005 and ADSL arrived at our exchange, within my budget. We bought a new ADSL router and the USR one was handed down to a friend who had stuck with cable.
But last year our ADSL went on the blink, and I really missed the option of falling back to routed dial-up. So I've been keeping an eye on eBay for another USR 8000A, just in case ...
22 February 2010
A big hit with my children!
My children are big fans of Thomas the Tank Engine, and this DVD does exactly waht it says on the label. Here are the 26 episodes that make up Series 6. The episodes are presented in 16:9 widescreen, unlike the DVDs in the boxed set of Series 1-5 which are all 4:3. The cinematography too is improved compared to the earlier episodes, presumably resulting from the switch from film to digital cameras.