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Sony Xperia S Ultrastylish and eye-catchy phone
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Onkyo TX-NR818 Have your very own home cinema.
6 Samsung Galaxy S III The newest best launch
52 Klipsch G-17 AirPlay speaker The wireless rocking speaker
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LG Optimus L7 (P700) Really smart midlevel phone
53 Panasonic SC-BTT775 The having the panache Blu-Ray Player.
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HTC OneX A top notch android smartphone
54 Pioneer BDP-LX55 The delightful Pioneer Blu-ray player.
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Meizu MX Attractive and compact iPhone clone
55 Panasonic DMP-BDT310 The multi-talented home cinema beast
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LG Optimus Hub Handy and affordable smartphone
56 Yamaha YSP-22 Effective surround sound in one piece
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Top 15 Android apps
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Top 15 iPad apps
57 LG 47LM960V Top Range 3D LED TV
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Top 5 Tablets
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Sony KDL-46HX850 Glam your little theatre
24 ASUS Transformer Pad TF300TG The best alternative to iPad
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Toshiba 55ZL2 Packed with technology but also heavy price tag
26 Apple Macbook Air 2 The most anticipated product of the year
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Samsung UE46ES8000 World’s number one TV brand still in
28 Asus Zenbook UX31 The total ZEN of the laptops
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Sony Handycam NEX-VG20 Just the cut on your radar!
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Fujifilm FinePix X10 Well built and amazing camera
Apple iMac Best desktop solution for every application
32 HP Folio 13 The heart-winning ultrabook at a startling low cost
71 Canon EOS 5D Mark III The real cannon between SLRs
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73 Sony NEX-7 The Royal camera of the coming years.
Dell XPS One An all-in-one beauty!
36 Asus Xonar U3 The solid enhancement to the laptop sound
75 Sony NEX F3 The camera-King-to-be!
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Thermaltake Tt eSPORTS MEKA G-UNIT Macro heaven at gaming design
77 Sumo Gigantor Oversized Bean Bags
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Corsair Force GT A high-star rated drive;
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Ion Air Pro WiFi Your adrenaline recorder
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Mass Effect 3 Absolutely amazing game
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Lexus CT200h Luxury hybrid drive
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Diablo III Great game went average
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Vauxhall Ampera Are we changing our Prius?
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XBOX 360 Want to have a fun?
83 Tesla Model S Speed-enthusiasts buckle your seatbelts!
43 Sony XBA-4ip The excellent piece for hearing music on the go
85 Tomtom Go live 1005 Navigation with social networking?
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Samsung Chromebox A little sweetheart computer.
87 Iceland The amazing country
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D-link Boxee Box Unbox the true potential of your TV experience
93 Underwater Accessories The exotic world beneath
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Sonos Multiroom System A wireless music speaker!
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MOBILE PHONE
SAMSUNG GALAXY S III THE NEWEST BEST LAUNCH.
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MOBILE PHONE
SAMSUNG GALAXY S III THE NEWEST BEST LAUNCH.
Samsung Galaxy S III may not be the revolutionary, but surely it’s on the top of the evolutionary pile, proving to be the first phone to be lauded better than the iPhones in many regards. There are several many other top phones battling to be the number one in the market, yet Galaxy S III outshone all. Samsung S III has 1280 x 720 resolution screen, using the latest version of Android. With Bluetooth 4, 16GB and microSD card slot, Near Field Communication chip (compatible for banking services), 8 megapixel camera and full HD video, all day long battery; it’s all so much in one! Our Samsung GalaxyS III, being classy and slim, is available in dark blue or white, with a silver band going round it. The back is just as flimsy as the previous Galaxy phones yet it’s very pliable and feels firm when attached to the rest of the phone, which also means reaching the battery easily, unlike some. It also offers good color and contrast screen. Samsung S III has three buttons below the screen, two touchsensitive while a main ‘home’ push button. Those three buttons might seem a trivial issue, but without the dedication menu, it’s very annoying to use the rest of the phone for you rely on them more than anything else, so it’s a relief that only Samsung S III has got them right.
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It also offers its own availing tweaks, like the screen doesn’t go dark while reading something for a longer period of time, without touching the screen at intervals to keep it alive. Plus, the facility to automatically phone the contact on the screen by merely moving the phone to your ear is all more charming. Samsung S III, no need to say, is an extremely fast and responsive phone without any delay, lags, hiccups or even burps whatsoever interfering with your work, such as while using any software application. Our Samsung S III can shoot full tilt more than 20 shots even while shooting a video along. It offers High Dynamic Range photographs and fast processing speed, making these features all much a more joy. It has 8 megapixels on the back and 1.9 megapixels at front, with video recorded in Full HD, fabulously sharp for a phone. Our Samsung GalaxyS III also offers S Voice which lets you talk to the phone in a Siri like way, while other iPhones could hardly make this work as easily as it does. Our Samsung S has outplayed the excellent HTC One X in many areas with kickers like better battery and navigation buttons, being the new all-rounder best phone in the present market.
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Boxee Box
MEDIA PLAYER
Unbox the true potential of your TV experience
Boxee Box seeks to revolutionize the viewing of internet television on the television and make it incredibly uncomplicated and hassle free. Internet is such a great source of videos,TV shows and movies but the problem lies in the inability of this internet entertainment to be captured on a big screen or a television where the viewing experience would be better than on a desktop or a laptop. Also the other good thing about using the internet is that, one has to pay only for the stuff that they want to view. So it gives us the liberty and freedom to choose and pay only for what we use. Boxee Box facilitates all that. It brings internet videos to the television with the click of a button on the remote. And to add it all, it does it in the simplest way possible. Plus with Boxee Box providing the user access to one of the largest collections of HD videos, there is no reason why the user would ever want to watch anything that is not in HD. For using Boxee Box the only requirements that are needed of the TV are that it has to have a HDMI input and an internet connection. The Boxee Box has a mammoth number of connectivity options for connecting to other devices. Card slots for expanding memory and USB ports are just some of them. This is what makes Boxee Box so effortless while transmitting internet videos through a television. Boxee Box streams internet videos absolutely with ease. Netflix provides the user with a huge collection of videos and movies. And that is with a month of free trial. Browsing through thousands of videos is absolutely effortless. And the advantage lies in being
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able to watch the videos whenever one wants to, in the comfort of one’s own living room. Plus the Netflix 3.0 makes everything a whole lot easier and interactive. It tracks and takes care of one’s preferences and provides suggestions which come really handy. Boxee Box makes viewing HD videos easier, better and cheaper. Using the preinstalled applications on the Boxee Box provides one with easy access to a large collection of HD videos. And that too at a very cheap rental price. Plus the HD viewing is greatly improved with the Dolby Digital sound enhancement and being able to connect to a 5.1 sound system in all comfort. So, viewing HD is effortless and inexpensive. Boxee Box also brings the excitement of the Live TV, broadcasting sports, news from different channels live. And it does it all via an HD antenna. Hence the excitement of the Live TV is provided in better quality and convenience. The Boxee Box is very easy to use. Its remote regulates all its functionalities. The remote is even armed with a full QWERTY keypad for typing in video searches on the internet. Users also have the option to use their Android devices or the i-Phone to operate the Boxee Box. Boxee Box is thus a deeply fulfilling product; it promises to lift the convenience of the user quite high and succeeds in doing just that. It even manages to enhance the viewing experience. And all that without any kind of fuss.
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OnkyoTX-NR818
AV RECEIVER
Have your very own home cinema. Onkyo TX Amplifier, the name sounds a little difficult to remember but not to worry! Nickname it cute, ONKYO, your very own home cinema. The theatre is available in two colors, classic black or glossy silver, whatever suits your cinema room.
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Now let’s talk about what this darling is capable of! It excels in the most demanding three areas, ultra-high video performance, unmatched audio efficiency, and setup flexibility. A good ‘Wow’.
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OnkyoTX-NR818
AV RECEIVER
Have your very own home cinema.
Our Onkyo network receiver has video performance that is truly beyond any comparison. There is an ISF (Imaging Science Foundation) system that adjusts the video from all inputs to cinematic effect as well as processors which upscale the minutest content to full HD, now imagine the spectacular picture on the screen. Moreover, we find the audio performance incomparable. The associated certification is specified for rooms with the viewing distance of minimum three to four meters. To achieve THX Select2 Plus certificate, Onkyo TX-NR818 had had to meet the world’s most demanding standards for home-cinema audio quality performance, which it indeed did.
access to internet radio channels with the widest range possible. It comes with the best connectivity in its class. This streaming flexibility makes TXNR818 something more than just an A/V receiver. Yes, it makes it a complete advanced music server. What else is to come? Our Onkyo TXNR818 have three of the best video processing and enhancement systems, included to guarantee smooth and sharp images on your HDTV.
We can also play sound formats including MP3,AAC,Apple Lossless and etc. stored in our PC, iPhones, iPods and our Androids by connecting them directly to front panel USB port. The Onkyo home cinema system is no doubt easy to handle.You can also enjoy easy
This receiver is alone built to deliver superb sound quality. The sound received is decisively pure and rich, even under heavy loads. Get prepared to bring the super luxurious Onkyo TR-NR818-AV Amplifier and make your abode lavish.
Stocked and decorated with many more astonishing features, including PLL (Phase Locked Loop) for jitter-cleaning, distributed audio playback in as many rooms as your home consists, advanced music enhancer with many sound modes, and the list yet goes on. Its connecting features include 8 High Definition Multichip Interconnections Input (1 front/7 rear) and 2 outputs while there are 2 USB ports (1 front/1 rear).
This beauty only costs $889; it’s just the cut out for the ones who take home cinema facility as much more than a mere past time. Below are the pictures that least matches the real bloom; what it does look like can only be found out by buying the real thing, and get blown away by its charms.
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TELEVISION
Samsung UE46ES8000 World’s number one TV brand still in. Samsung, being the number one TV best brand around the globe, has once again retained its position with the new flagship product UE46ES8000F (as known in the US), covering all the TV angles with the overwhelming bedazzling looks of its ultra thin silver bezel. It also offers a better viewing experience than the previous’ and is just the cut out for anybody looking for latest technology at an unbeatable price. It is a sleek glossy finish that also offers us to change its picture setting in an instant, quite convenient for the users since many of us face problems with the brightness and richness of the picture quality that is quite irritating to deal with. It displays much fresh and deeper black colors with minimum shadow detail crushing, and so we enjoy a more subtle and emphatic color range. Moreover, this new Samsung exquisiteness, impressively connected, is having the best of all fascinating features that most of us could hardly
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TELEVISION
Samsung UE46ES8000 World’s number one TV brand still in. need in all our eternity. Its picture quality exaggerates the deadexcellent color accuracy. Toppling it over, it has smart TV capabilities, with the 3D playback being an active rather than passive 3D system. It is also all too well-stocked with picture adjustments, and is a multimedia canny, playing back most of the key life formats via either USB cards or networked desktops. This luxury also comes with another feature, Motion Plus system, designed to reduce the jitters and quacks, with various ‘strength’ settings. It mightily impresses us with high-speed and powerful processing, made possible by the dual-core engine to do an exquisite job. The 3D picture is high-
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ly up-to mark and displays rich and vivid bright colors. It leaves us free to enjoy all the detail and brilliance that defines the Full HD active shutter technology. Easily set up, it lets us enjoy the blissful experience without any further bothers. Bringing loads of features along, like; digital audio out, three USB ports, Ethernet and Wi-Fi, HDMI, LED/LCD display type, Digital tuner, ‘800’ Refresh rates and many more, Samsung UE46ES8000 costs only EUR1520 to EUR1897 to make your TV time as charming as a dream. Our Samsung knockout’s boldly highlighted charm is its threesome of the alternative control solutions; propped on gestures, voice recognition, touchpad remote, IR blaster, and four pairs of 3D glasses. With many other models coming up the way, we shall see Samsung UE46ES8000 live up to more years seated as the on-paper appeal.
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Lexus CT 200h
CAR
Luxury hybrid drive
Launched in the month of September 2010 in Europe, the CT 200h is the first compact car from Lexus. But apart from being the first compact car from the company, CT 200h is also the first full hybrid luxury car in compact form in world. The car has been manufactured in the Eco Factory of the company located in Kyushu, Japan. It is powered by the latest generation of Lexus Hybrid Drive Technology that combines the 1.8 litre petrol engine with an electric motor, compact battery and an innovative energy management system. The car through all its technicalities ensures an amazing driving experience and an amazingly balanced and agile drive. Even though it’s the most efficient car aerodynamically in its class, the CT 200h still boasts of accommodating five people and two large suitcases. As an option on SE-L Premier grade, the car also
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features the company’s exquisite Pre-Crash Safety system that has helped it in achieving the Euro NCAP’s highest standard for safety. The ultimate and amazing audio experience is guaranteed by car audio system from Mark Levinson that provides the feel of home-theatre on the Premier interior of SE-L which also features beautifully crafted eye-pleasing bio-sourced materials. The five door Lexus CT200h that has been unveiled during the motor show at Geneva, utilises the CVT gearbox and 1.8L petrol electric hybrid powertrain from Toyota Prius, even though the car is created on a complete different front drive platform that promises to offer more sporty drive than its counterpart Prius. With buttons for various drive modes like Sport, Eco and EV, the car indeed offers different environment for varied driving styles. The best part of the car can be considered as its handling and
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MODEL of OCTOBER
ASHLEY BULGARI EXCLUSIVE COVER GIRL
exclusive photo produced by RAYPHOTO STUDIO www.rayphoto.dphoto.com , Jozef Studeny
age : 25 starsign : scorpion height : 172 cm weight : 57 kg drink : B52, white wine Martini food : chinese cuisine, sushi movie : Forest Gump sport : F1 favorite : Apple hate : liars hobbies : relaxing, shopping, travelling, my job, fitness, my family
Born September 28, 1986 in the Czech Republic. Now living in Germany. Before modeling she worked as a croupier. She said : “Be yourself and have the courage to do it all”. www.dirtyashlyn.com
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