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Options for musicians are plentiful, these days.

When it comes to music, there’s nothing more important than a good set of headphones.

In today’s world of Smartphones, you’d be forgiven for forgetting that once upon a time, you had to use an antenna to get a radio signal.

Sonoro are fast becoming one of my favourite audio-tech producers. Having reviewed the cubodock a while back, it was with great interest I unpacked the new Troy model, a smaller, more desk-friendly model in the Sonoro range. The first thing that strikes you, is how stylish it looks. Available in a large range of colour combinations, the one I unpacked was a combination of red and white. At the front, [...]

To celebrate Xperia Unleashed, we’ve teamed up with Sony to give Sporkings readers the exclusive chance to win an Xperia U!

When it comes to listening to music these days, the consumer is presented with a plethora of options; almost too many. Whether it’s a simple case of throwing some headphones in and listening solo, or streaming music from a personal computer to a media server like an Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3, whatever you choose to do, most people have an option in their home already. It’s with that in [...]

If ever there were a product that followed trends, if would be the mobile phone market. For a while, smartphones were getting smaller and smaller, trying to squeeze as much out of as small a device as possible. Then Apple (the trend setter, let us not kid ourselves) released the iPad and slowly but surely, mobile phone manufacturers decided that they would quite like to utilise the large screen size [...]

Product: Blackberry Playbook 2.0 Price: Starts at £169.99 The tablet market is a funny one in many ways. The undisputed king is Apple, with the luxurious (and expensive) iPad and they aren’t going anywhere. But everyone wants a piece of that pie, and now Blackberry have their newest Playbook model – 2.0 – that is offered at a cheaper price and thus presents a lower barrier to entry. But [...]