BLU S1 - related devices

For instance the attachments for the cable are strong yet flexible, suggesting they’ll last a good while before inevitably giving way. Meanwhile the buttons have a good, solid, discernible click so you’re sure when you’ve pressed them. The base of the CH01 also ticks all the right boxes in terms of design. It’s nicely finished with a matching style, has four grippy rubber feet to prevent slippage and it’s weighted to stop itself being pulled off the desk when yanked by the phone’s cord. We found that if planted on a not-too-slippy desk the phone cable could extend from its standard slack 45cm or so to around 1.5m before starting to pull the base with it. You can use the base as a completely dumb rest and plug the handset straight into your mobile, giving you the option of walking around completely untethered, or you can plug both phone and handset into the base so that the base acts as an anchor for both. What the base doesn’t do, though, is interact with the handset in anyway.

Pick up the handset when your phone’s ringing and it doesn’t connect the call. Put it down and it doesn’t end the call either. Both were features we missed having.

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ONJUNE 27, 2012EDIT "HUMAX TIVIZEN DONGLE FOR IPAD REVIEW" Humax Tivizen Dongle for iPad Review Humax currently offers you two ways to watch live TV on your iOS device. There’s the Tizi, which it has rebranded as the Tivizen, and is selling for around £100. It’s an external, battery powered TV tuner that sets itself up as a Wi-Fi hotspot which you can then use to steam TV to your iOS device via an app. However, if you’ve got an iPhone 4S or an iPad 2 or 3 you can instead opt for the Tivizen Dongle for iPad that we’re looking at here. This is a simpler and cheaper device that plugs into the dock connector on you iOS device to turn it into a portable TV. Thankfully the Tivizen Dongle for iPad (it’s also being sold as the Tizi Go with different software by some other manufacturers) is actually quite small and compact. Finished in gloss white with a small Tivizen logo stamped on the front, it measures just 30mm wide and sticks out by around 50mm from the bottom of your iPad when it’s attached to the dock connector. Unlike the Tizi, it doesn’t have a telescopic aerial, but instead just uses a loop aerial.

This is simply a flexible piece of wire that loops from one side of the bottom edge of the dongle to the other. The dongle doesn’t draw power from your iPad when it’s being used as it has its own Lithium Ion 250mAh battery built-in. You charge this using the supplied USB adaptor cable that plugs into the micro USB port hidden between the two points where the loop aerial connects to the dongle. There’s also a small LED light on the top of the dongle that glows red while it’s charging and turns green once the battery is fully topped up with juice. Charging it via a normal USB port on a computer (there’s no USB charger included in the box) will take around two hours and once it’s fully charged you’ll get around nine hours of TV watching from it. Free app Of course, to use the dongle you first need to download the Tivizen app. This is free and once it’s installed on your iPad it automatically starts up every time you plug the dongle into the bottom of your tablet. When you first run the app you’re asked to choose your country and after you’ve made your selection it scans all the available channels.