Amik Tech » unboxing http://www.amiktech.com Technology news and Reviews Fri, 18 Feb 2011 14:30:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Dell Mini 3i unboxed in China, capacitive stylus included http://www.amiktech.com/2009/11/dell-mini-3i-unboxed-in-china-capacitive-stylus-included/ http://www.amiktech.com/2009/11/dell-mini-3i-unboxed-in-china-capacitive-stylus-included/#comments Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:48:09 +0000 Mylo http://www.amiktech.com/?p=94 dell-mini-3i-china-box-11-13-2009-j3-1258121842

One lucky Chinese blogger was kind enough to share his Dell Mini 3i unboxing experience beyond the Great Firewall, just a tad before Dell officially announced their first-ever smartphone. What’s interesting is that the China Mobile version comes with a special stylus for the capacitive touchscreen — a very handy tool for writing Chinese — but there’s been no mention of this accessory for the Brazilian 3iX. Dell’s also bundled a 3.5mm adapter for the mini-USB port in case their handsfree isn’t good enough for your audiophilic ears. Yeah, too bad about the missing headphone jack, but don’t let this deter you from checking out the Mini 3i’s full glory after the break.
]]> http://www.amiktech.com/2009/11/dell-mini-3i-unboxed-in-china-capacitive-stylus-included/feed/ 1 HP Envy 15 unboxing and hands-on http://www.amiktech.com/2009/11/hp-envy-15-unboxing-and-hands-on/ http://www.amiktech.com/2009/11/hp-envy-15-unboxing-and-hands-on/#comments Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:23:53 +0000 Mylo http://www.amiktech.com/?p=107 After our mixed feelings on the HP Envy 13, we were excited but also a little bit scared to see the 13’s big brother, the Envy 15. It’s running a Core i7 processor clocked at 1.6GHz, and has 1GB ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4830 discrete graphics fronted by a 1920 x 1080 15.6-inch display despite the fact that it doesn’t have a built-in disc drive. Luckily there’s an external Blu-ray packed into the box (that’s a $225 option on top of the $1,800 base price), but most games and apps these days are available via download anyway, so it’s not that big of knock on your power-user cred. The unboxing experience is actually identical to that of the Envy 13 (quite elegant), and we were happy to see that when we fired up the laptop the trackpad seemed better configured than that of the pre-update Envy 13 we reviewed. We were less enthused to see that the IE comes pre-installed with HP and Norton toolbars — pretty janky for a premium machine — but luckily we rarely have to see the ugly sight of IE more than once on a new machine. For the most part this is just an Envy 13 bigged up, and that’s nothing to complain about.hp-envy-15-unbox-top

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