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GADGETS INSIDE! 445

OCTOBER 2011

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CONTENTS

TESTED

44 First test Olympus PEN E-P3

With its sleek metal casing and what is apparently the world’s fastest autofocus, will the new PEN be better than its predecessors? 79 BlackBerry Bold 9900 The slender new Bold packs in a touchscreen and QWERTY keyboard, runs the zippy new BlackBerry 7 OS and looks very smart indeed 81 Budget tablets Arnova 8 ● Binatone HomeSurf 705 Kogan Agora 7in Tablet ● Scroll 7in Tablet PC 87 One-box hi-fi B&W Zeppelin Air ● Eton Soulra XL ● Geneva Model M ● Libratone Beat ● Vita Audio R4i 90 Bike-off: electric Vs pedal-powered Charge Mixer 11 ● Cube EPO FE Strida SX ● Ultra Motor A2B Metro ● Van Nicholas Astraeus ● YikeBike Carbon 102 Supertest Home cinema packages LG HX976TZW ● Panasonic SC-BTT775 Pioneer BCS-414 ● Samsung HT-D6750W Sony BDV-E880 136 Long-term test Apple MacBook Air and Mac OS X Lion Apple’s new OS meets its tastiest ever laptop

REGULARS

113 Win! ● a Sagemcom Sixty phone ● a fast and furious driving experience ● a Sony Bravia 3D TV, home theatre and Hanna Blu-ray 126 Subscribe Save 20% and get a free pair of Sennheiser CX 280 headphones, too

THE ULTIMATE BUYING GUIDE

140Smartphones

143Tablets

NEW LOOK

p139

144Smartphoneapps

145Tabletapps

146Hi-Fi

150TVs

156Homecomputers

161Cameras

147MediaStreaming

152Homecinema

148Headphones

153TVreceivers&recorders

149Blu-rayplayers

155Laptops

158Gaming

162DigitalSLRs

159Sat-nav

160Camcorders

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