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Here the daily reviews roundup with 17 new reviews:

- BlackBerry Bold 9650 Smartphone Review
- Cooler Master NotePal U2 Notebook Stand Review
- OCZ Vertex 2 50GB Solid State Drive Review
- Kingston HyperX Blu 4GB DDR3-1600 Review
- Philips 5.6 Inch Digital PhotoFrame 6FF3FPW Review
- Argosy HV676 MediaPlay USB Media Player Review
- EVGA GeForce GTX 460 768MB Superclocked DirectX 11 Video Card Review
- ASUS VW266H Monitor Review
- Sparkle GeForce GTX 465 Video Card Review
- Samsung Galaxy S Smartphone Review
- Nvidia's GeForce GTX 460 graphics processor
- ION Tailgater Review
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SLI Review
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB and 1GB Video Card Reviews
- MSI N460GTX Cyclone 768D5/OC Video Card Review
- Motorola Droid X Review
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB and 1GB Video Card Reviews



BlackBerry Bold 9650 Smartphone Review
TestFreaks posted a review on the BlackBerry Bold 9650 smartphone

Verizon has sent me over the BlackBerry Bold 9650 Smartphone for review today, and for me it’s treat, it’s my first BlackBerry ever, popped my berry as it were! Seriously though the Bold 9650 is a world phone, so inside you’ll also find a sim card, something which you don’t find on many Verizon phones, but in this case it’s necessary. Included with the phone you’ll find a power adapter with tips for several parts of the world and a nice carrying case, along with a wired headset. The phone itself is interesting to use, and as a first time user I feel it’s decent, it’s a phone for business people, so it doesn’t exactly feel friendly for the average person., but then again it’s not meant to be a phone for the average person is it?
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Cooler Master NotePal U2 Notebook Stand Review
OCIA.net has posted their review of the Cooler Master NotePal U2 Notebook Stand

The NotePal U2 comes equipped with a pair of 80mm low profile fans measuring only 10mm thick. They also have a grill on the intake side to prevent injury from the fan blades. The unique advantage this unit has over many competitors is the ability to move the fans to a more advantageous position like under an inlet vent or where a hot hard drive sits. Worth considering is that many notebook manufacturers pay little to the cooling of the hard drive which can significantly shorten its lifespan. The ability to cool this area of the notebook could increase its life.
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OCZ Vertex 2 50GB Solid State Drive Review
OCIA.net has posted their review of the OCZ Vertex 2 50GB Solid State Drive

The drive we have for evaluation today is the OCZ Vertex 2 50GB, the successor to the popular Indilinx-based Vertex we looked at a year ago. As you may have guessed, the Vertex 2 uses the SandForce SF-1200 which is now used in several other drives from other manufacturers besides OCZ. But what makes the OCZ drive unique is a custom firmware from SandForce that is optimized for maximum IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per Second).
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Kingston HyperX Blu 4GB DDR3-1600 Review
PureOverclock posted a review of the Kingston HyperX Blu 4GB DDR3-1600 memory modules

These Kingston HyperX Blu 4GB DDR3-1600 memory modules are their new budget offering, bringing the respected HyperX name in an affordable package to the masses. Does budget mean cheap or slow with these modules? Well, that is exactly what we're about to find out. The budget sticks have a couple surprises in store, not the least of which is overclocking headroom. How high can they go? Read on to find out.
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Philips 5.6 Inch Digital PhotoFrame 6FF3FPW Review
iGadget Life posted a review on the Philips 5.6 Inch Digital PhotoFrame 6FF3FPW

Digital photo frames are one of those things that are nice to have really. These days when everything is pretty much digital and printing all of your pictures can get costly, photo frames offer a quick and easy way to show off your pictures quickly and easily. Today for review our friends at MobileFun have sent me over the Philips 6FF3FPW 5.6” digital photo frame for review. This frame is a fairly basic one, but it gets the job done and it does have some decent features like the ability to use it as a clock and calendar while viewing your photos. To use it you can just pop one of many supported types of memory cards in it or even just use a regular USB drive, so read on to learn more…
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Argosy HV676 MediaPlay USB Media Player Review
Bona Fide Reviews posted a review on the Argosy HV676 MediaPlay USB Media Player

Today for review our friends at Geeks.com have sent me over the Argosy HV676 HD Media Player for review. This is a small portable little device that let’s you play music and videos and even look at your pictures on your TV via HDMI, component or composite connections. This product just has quite a few problems with it, I won’t spoil the surprise, you’ll have to read on to learn more..
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EVGA GeForce GTX 460 768MB Superclocked DirectX 11 Video Card Review
Hi Tech Legion posted a review on the EVGA GeForce GTX 460 768MB Superclocked DirectX 11 Video Card

The EVGA GeForce GTX 460 DirectX 11 Video Card contains NVIDIAs' latest GPU the GF104. The EVGA Geforce GTX 460 can be purchased with either 786 MB or 1GB of memory and starts at a price point of $199.99 USD. At its price point the EVGA GTX 460 falls in the middle of the "Sweet Spot" for mainstream gamers.
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ASUS VW266H Monitor Review
Overclock3D have just published a new article titled: ASUS VW266H Monitor Review

The last Asus monitor we looked at had a great panel and an abysmal design. How does this latest one fair?
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Sparkle GeForce GTX 465 Video Card Review
TechwareLabs has a review of the Sparkle GeForce GTX 465 Video Card

$500 is not much to pay for someone determined to have the best of the best video card, but this only describes a handful of well-off individuals. The rest of us have to make trade-offs; naturally, we want the biggest bang for our buck. Cards like the GeForce GTX 465 exist to fill that niche; they offer performance that's fairly close to their top-end brethren for a more reasonable price. Sparkle has sent us a card that looks to be gunning for that market of enthusiastic-gamer-who-isn't-filthy-rich, based on the GeForce GTX 465 using nVidia's reference design.
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Samsung Galaxy S Smartphone Review
t-break posted Samsung Galaxy S Smartphone Review

The top-spec'ed Android handset arrives to the Middle East.
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Nvidia's GeForce GTX 460 graphics processor
The Tech Report posted a review on Nvidia's GeForce GTX 460 graphics processor

The Fermi architecture has shed much of its fat in the GF104, a new chip focused intently on graphics. The result? Perhaps the best $199 video card available.
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ION Tailgater Review
TechReviewSource.com posted a review on the ION Tailgater

The Tailgater from ION Audio does exactly what the name suggests, it provides a portable audio solution. It's a single speaker system with microphone, musical instrument, auxiliary inputs, and an iPod/iPhone dock connection to play audio from a variety of sources.
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SLI Review
techPowerUp posted a review on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SLI

NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 460 has been released today with big success. The cards improve on power and noise, offering great performance considering the price. This brings up the obvious question: how do these cards handle SLI? At $460 total the 2-way SLI config is cheaper than NVIDIA's flagship GTX 480, but is it worth it?
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB and 1GB Video Card Reviews
Legit Reviews posted NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB and 1GB Video Card Reviews

NVIDIA was late to the DirectX 11 party, but can their first DX11 graphics card below the $200 price point bring them back to the top? This is the sweet spot for the graphics card industry as most gamers are willing to pay $199 for a gaming graphics card that is able to play the latest game titles. Read on to see how the GeForce GTX 460 768MB and 1GB video cards perform!

After using both the GeForce GTX 460 768MB and GeForce GTX 460 1GB the GeForce GTX 460 1GB is clearly the way to go for gamers. With most gamers running 1920x1080 or 1920x1200 resolutions the extra memory and increased bus speed is well worth the extra $30 MSRP. The GeForce GTX 460 1GB is also faster, cooler and less power hungry than the GeForce GTX 465 in our testing. This makes it the card of choice for anyone looking for an NVIDIA card under $300. After looking back at the benchmark performance numbers, we wouldn't understand why anyone would want the GeForce GTX 465 over the GeForce GTX 460 from the gaming perspective...
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MSI N460GTX Cyclone 768D5/OC Video Card Review
Hardware Secrets posted MSI N460GTX Cyclone 768D5/OC Video Card Review

The GeForce GTX 460, which is being released today, is the latest DirectX 11-based graphics chip from NVIDIA. Video cards based on this new GPU will be available between USD 200 (768 MB version) and USD 229 (1 GB version), making them the most affordable DirectX 11 video cards based on an NVIDIA solution. With recent price cuts conducted by AMD/ATI, this new graphics processor competes directly with Radeon HD 5830. Let's see how this factory-overclocked version from MSI dubbed N460GTX Cyclone 768D5/OC fared in our tests.
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Motorola Droid X Review
TestFreaks posted a review on the Motorola Droid X

For review today I’ve got the Motorola Droid X for Verizon Wireless. So I’ve had my time with the Droid X, about a week and a half to play with it, and I’ve come away with several thoughts on it, and the majority of them are very good. The Droid X is a big phone, there’s not doubt about that, but big is nice sometimes, and for this phone, big is the way to go. The Droid X has a big beautiful screen that just makes doing everything that much more enjoyable. The phone itself is very responsive, it’s fast, never once did it slow down no matter what I did. I generally don’t think of phones as gaming platform really, but the Droid X does games, and it does them very well, that large screen is just great for gaming truly. The Droid X is one of the nicest phones I’ve ever had a chance to review.
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB and 1GB Video Card Reviews
Legit Reviews posted NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB and 1GB Video Card Reviews

NVIDIA was late to the DirectX 11 party, but can their first DX11 graphics card below the $200 price point bring them back to the top? This is the sweet spot for the graphics card industry as most gamers are willing to pay $199 for a gaming graphics card that is able to play the latest game titles. Read on to see how the GeForce GTX 460 768MB and 1GB video cards perform!

After using both the GeForce GTX 460 768MB and GeForce GTX 460 1GB the GeForce GTX 460 1GB is clearly the way to go for gamers. With most gamers running 1920x1080 or 1920x1200 resolutions the extra memory and increased bus speed is well worth the extra $30 MSRP. The GeForce GTX 460 1GB is also faster, cooler and less power hungry than the GeForce GTX 465 in our testing. This makes it the card of choice for anyone looking for an NVIDIA card under $300. After looking back at the benchmark performance numbers, we wouldn't understand why anyone would want the GeForce GTX 465 over the GeForce GTX 460 from the gaming perspective...
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