Hasta La Gadget!

This year SlashGear had 292 product reviews over the 12 months that began with January 2012 with subject matter ranging from smartphones to automobiles, with accessories, computers, and some lovely stand-out apps sprinkled in-between. We’d like to express our extreme gratitude to the PR groups, manufacturers, developers, and every other individual responsible for helping us work with the products and services we need to show you, the readers. Have a peek at what we’ve explored in detail this year!

The most massive category for us this year was Accessory Reviews by a rather sizable margin. With 68 audio products, device cases, power units, and oddities galore, we’ve been working with a set of the coolest tiny (and sometimes massive) products that either assist you in working with your much more expensive products or stand alone as amazing products on their own! One category that broke out this year was Storage Reviews, another was Camera Reviews – never again will we categorize these items as accessories on their own!

The mobile sector continues to bust out as a massively review-friendly sector with Phone Reviews and Tablet Reviews being two more of our largest categories. Every single phone in the phone category was a smartphone, of course, and our total hit 61 while the number of Tablet Reviews we knocked out was a solid 26.

We worked with 20 lovely Laptop Reviews in 2012 while our Desktop Reviews numbered up to 16. In the Software Reviews section we’ve got our epic Windows 8 review as well as 19 other bits of excellent software. This section crosses over into the iOS Review section which this year had a whopping 39 entries on its own.

Another new category for us this year was Sci-fi Movie Reviews with 5 hot-hitting entries. We’re getting into the Entertainment industry with movies galore, too, with not just movies but beasts in gadgety with 14 eye-melting Entertainment Reviews. Another cross-over category this year was Gaming Reviews with a cool 14 entries.

Then one of the most exciting new spaces we’ve got is Car Reviews which stems from our brand new Car Portal – expect one whole heck of a lot more automotive action in 2013 as well!

This year the authors with the most units reviewed through the 12-month period were Chris Davies with 22 reviews, Vincent Nguyen with 28 reviews, and Chris Burns with 178 reviews. In addition to thanking the PR groups, manufacturers, and developers this year, we’d like to thank you, the readers, for making it possible for us to get our hands on these wonderful products so that we might show you what they’re all about.

What we’d like to ask you at this point is what you thought about our reviews this year and what you think we could do better in 2013 – did we leave anything out? Are there products or services you’d like us to cover more extensively in the future? Let us know!

SlashGear’s Product Review Rundown 2012 is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Velocity Micro is refreshing its NoteMagix line of laptops with three 14-inch Ultrabooks: the U430, U450 and U470. These models aren’t the thinnest machines in their category — the aluminum design tips in at four pounds — but all three have enough room for a DVD drive. All three models also feature a 14-inch display with a resolution of 1,366 x 768 — and, notably, none of them come with bloatware. Other specs include a 1.3-MP webcam, integrated Intel HD 4000 Graphics and a rated battery life of six hours.

The $800 NoteMagix U430 is the entry-level model, with a Core i3 CPU, 4GB of RAM, and a 500GB hard drive spinning at 5,400 RPM. The $900 U450 steps up to a Core i5 processor and a 120GB SSD, while the $1,100 U470 runs a Core i7 chip with 240GB of solid-state storage. The Ultrabooks are available now through Velocity Micro’s site — check out the source link for a closer look.

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Looking to save some coin on your tech purchases? Of course you are! In this round-up, we’ll run down a list of the freshest frugal buys, hand-picked with the help of the folks at Slickdeals. You’ll want to act fast, though, as many of these offerings won’t stick around long.

If one of your New Year’s resolutions is to be a bit more frugal with your tech purchases, perhaps we can help you get a jump start on said goal a day early. A Sony stereo gaming headset and Ultimate Ears UE 500 in-ear headphones look to lure those needing audio accessories, while a Pentax K-5 and Garmin Forerunner 110 GPS watch may lend a hand with other 2013 plans. Head on past the break to check out the full lot, but pay careful attention to rebate forms and coupon codes to insure you get the full discount.

Continue reading Slickdeals’ best in tech for December 31st: Sony Pulse headset, UE 500 earbuds and Pentax K-5

Filed under: Cameras, Gaming, Laptops, Portable Audio/Video, Wearables

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Samsung is a big player when it comes to making some of the most popular Android phones, but that doesn’t mean they don’t also like to dabble in their own, Google-free side-projects. According to Japan’s Daily Yomiuri, Samsung aims to launch its first phone running the open-source Tizen operating system sometime in 2013. More »

Note: This holiday season, in lieu of a traditional holiday gift guide, we’ll be featuring a different LGBT organization each day for our “30 Days Of LGBT Giving.” Check back tomorrow for a look at another incredible group that’s working tirelessly on behalf of the LGBT community.

In the summer of 1980, a group of LGBTQ youth saw a need for a support and social group that would be run by youth and for the youth and they started BAGLY — The Boston Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Youth — which has been serving greater Boston’s LGBTQ community for more than three decades.

Today, BAGLY continues to be youth-led with support from encouraging, affirming adults, and is Massachusetts’ oldest LGBT organization and one of the nation’s longest running, as well. The organization provides a variety of services and programs, some of which include leadership development opportunities, through its highly involved Youth Leadership Committee, and health awareness and risk reduction groups. BAGLY also operates a clinic that provides HIV, hepatitis and STD tests two days a week.

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