Design
Available in black, green, light brown, and white, the uniquely designed Bone Horn Stand Sony VGP-BPS13 battery is compatible with the original iPhone, the iPhone 3G/3GS, and the iPhone 4. We like its soft-touch, rubbery texture, and its light weight Sony VGP-BPS13A/B Battery (just 3.2 ounces compared to 11.2 ounces for the Griffin AirCurve and 1.2 pounds for the Clingo Universal Parabolic Sound Sphere) makes it easy to toss in your bag (or jacket pocket) and take Sony VGP-BPS9/S Battery with you.

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Verdict
The Bone Horn Stand amplifier for the iPhone offers a clever, compact way to Sony VGP-BPS9 Battery boost your tunes. The accessory added as much as 12 decibels to our music. Overall, we prefer the sound quality offered by the $19.99 Griffin sony vgp-bps13b/q battery AirCurve, but if you're looking for something you can stuff in your pocket, the Bone Horn is the way to go

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Performance
The Bone Horn is rated to increase your iPhone's sound by 13 decibels, and--to our pleasant surprise--it delivered plenty of volume. Sony VGP-BPS2C Battery "Hong Kong Garden" by Siouxsie and the Banshees registered 8 decibels louder (90dB versus 82 without the speaker). Sony VGP-BPS2 Battery In fact, unlike the Sound Sphere, this speaker reliably boosted every song we played. Blasting Michael Jackson's "Billy Jean" gave us a 10 decibel Sony VGP-BPS2B Battery advantage over the iPhone's speaker (66dB versus 76dB), though the track sounded warped. However, the $19.99 Griffin AirCurve delivered 86dB for the same song--and the bass sounded toshiba pa3535u-1brs battery clearer.

Loudness is one thing, but sound quality is another. Toshiba PA3534U-1BRS Battery While the Bone Horn Stand Amplifier offers a significant boost in decibels, it does have a limited range. Thanks to the speaker's horn shape (which acts as a sort of funnel), your amped-up music won't travel very far beyond the speaker itself. Sony VGP-BPS22 Battery Additionally, we detected a fair amount of tinniness when using the speaker, and bass-heavy tracks often sounded muffled and distorted. Sony VGP-BPS22A Battery If you're planning on listening to your music while doing a task nearby (such as cooking dinner), the amplifier should add the necessary sony vgp-bps21a battery decibels to enjoy your beats. Still, the Griffin AirCurve reliably bested the Bone Horn Stand by as much as 10dB--and its sound traveled farther.

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Computer World’s source credited the decision to the current state of the mobile device sony vgp-bps21b battery market, which currently skews upward for tablets while netbook sales are declining.

The company told Computer World that its new line of tablets - sony vgp-bps21 battery 7-and 10-inch slates with Android’s Honeycomb OS for tablets and set to debut the first half of this year – will initiate a paradigm shift in the company’s approach to smaller notebooks. Namely, “they are aimed at phasing out netbooks,” sony vgp-bps21a/b battery an unidentified sales manager told Computer World.

Erasing the drawing board on its netbook lineup may sound extreme, but Acer’s new tablets thinkpad r61 battery (demo’ed briefly in November) may feature Intel’s next-generation Sandy Bridge processors. Those CPU’s are typically reserved for faster thinkpad t400 battery computing in full-sized Windows 7 notebooks and netbooks, but Acer will feature the chips inside the types of Android tablets that otherwise would be powered by low-voltage ARM T410 Battery chips.

But the tablet market isn’t even a year-old, and though a fleet of tablets are planned for 2011, the market for thinkpad t500 battery the touch-ready, highly-mobile gadgets could cool just as suddenly as netbooks did in 2010. Of course, that will depend on the performance thinkpad t61 battery and practicality of the oncoming tablet fleet. And we won’t know that until Acer and others begin releasing them

The Horn Stand can hold an iPhone both vertically and horizontally; while it can accommodate a rubber iPhone 4 bumper, bulkier cases thinkpad t60 battery will have to be removed first. When an iPhone 4 inserted, we could easily connect our sync cable, and a raised rubber home button made thinkpad t60p battery it easy to activate that function. Unfortunately, the amplifier tipped over with the cable inserted; without the cable Bone Horne stood thinkpad r60 battery upright.

The HP Envy line of notebooks has been a solid performer to date. So naturally, anytime we see a price drop, we immediately thinkpad r60e battery put out a buy recommendation quicker than sales of Apple stock.

With a gimmicky design that evokes an old-school gramophone, the Bone Horn Stand Amplifier thinkpad x60 battery offers an impressive sound boost considering its diminutive size. This passive iPhone amplifier ($24.95) provides more volume than you'd expect for thinkpad X60S battery such a small package, and it doesn't use any battery life. What's not to like?

Design
Both the lid and the deck of the Aspire 5742 are a matte black that resists fingerprints. It has grid-like indentations patterned thinkpad t40 battery to look like diamond plating. Looks-wise, it's on a par with less expensive Toshiba Satellites, such as the L or C series, but not as attractive as the pricier thinkpad t42 battery Samsung SF510 ($629), which has a distinctive wave design, ivory lid, and chocolate x200 battery brown interior.

As with most budget notebooks, the 5742 is otherwise unadorned thinkpad t43 battery with stylized accents or special buttons. Above the keyboard is a nondescript speaker grille; on the left are a power button and status lights for the hard drive 3000 v100 battery and Wi-Fi.

Keyboard x300 battery and Touchpad
The 5742 uses Acer's now-standard FineTip keyboard, which has flat, island-style keys. While it's not as comfortable as 3000 v200 battery a Lenovo keyboard, we appreciated the large keys, as well as the full-size number pad on the 3000 n100 battery right.

The 3.2 x 1.8-inch touchpad was a decent size and friction-free, but given all the space on the deck, it 3000 n200 battery could have been larger. The mouse buttons are combined into a single bar, which worked fine, but we prefer discrete buttons. Even an indentation in the 3000 c200 battery middle would help.

Weighing 5 pounds even, the 5742 is fairly portable for a 3000 y410 battery 15-inch notebook. While you probably wouldn't want to lug this laptop on a business trip, it's thin and light enough to carry around the house with r51e battery ease.

Heat
After streaming a Hulu video at full screen for 15 minutes, the Aspire 5742's touchpad was r50e battery just 89 degrees Fahrenheit, the space between the G and H keys was 90 degrees, and the middle of the underside was a cool 79 degrees. All spots are well below what good battery we consider uncomfortable (95 degrees and higher), although the area by the vent on the left side did reach a hot 103 degrees.