Device Information:

The lustrous Sony PS Vita has a 5-inch OLED multi-touch screen and with a resolution of 960×544. The rear of the device has a capacitive multi-touch pad as well as a rear camera and a front camera at a maximum resolution of 640×480. Moving onto sound the device as stereo speakers, built-in microphone, and bluetooth 2.1. There is also a six-axis motion sensing system (three-axis gyroscope, three-axis accelerometer), and three-axis electronic compass. The PS Vita comes in two models the 3G/Wi-Fi model which will cost you $299.99 and the Wi-Fi model which will cost you $249.99. The approximate weight of the 3g/Wi-Fi model is 279g and the approximate weight of the Wi-Fi model is 260g. The device has a built-in lithium-ion battery (non-removable) and the battery life is 3-5 hours while playing games, 5 hours watching a video, and 9 hours listening to music while in standby mode. It will take 2 hours and 40 minutes to charge your Vita from a completely depleted state to 100% battery life. The device has an ARM Cortex-A9 core (4 core). The main memory is 512MB and VRAM is 128MB. Moving onto the dimensions of the device, the width is 7.2 inches; the height is 3.3 inches; and the thickness is 0.7 inches.

Pros:

• Great hardware quality
• Solid feeling
• Dual joy-sticks
• Quality screen OLED 5″ 960×544
• Responsive touch screen (Capacitive)
• Many hardware controls
• Light weight, easy to hold for extended periods of time
• Loud speakers

Cons:

• The backtouch screen is not 1:1 with the front because of the dual joy sticks
• Can not play all PSP-GO games on Vita
• Browser: no copy and paste
• Browser: double tap zoom is broken on many sites
• Browser: poor compatibility, even simple javascript
• OS: App Management: no way to organize apps into folders
• OS: Multitasking: The browser can not run without first closing the game

Personal Opinion:

My personal opinion on the Sony PS Vita is that it is worth the money. I like how the Vita has a 5″ OLED multi-touch screen and also how it has dual joy sticks. The design of the device is well thought out, making the Vita look sleek and slim. On the downside I don’t like how you can not play PSP-GO games on the Vita. Overall I would say the PS Vita is a good buy.

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The Razer Salmosa is an entry level gaming mouse that tries to bring all the great things about Razer’s mice to those folks who are on a tight budget. This latest mouse features Razer’s 3G infrared sensor, which has by default a resolution of 1800dpi. This is adjustable via both software are hardware to three separate settings. It also has adjustable polling times. All this is packaged into an amdextrious design that should suit both righties and lefties.

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The Beats Pro headphones have bright white ear-cup cushions with a bright white headband to match. Every thing else is a matte silver finish, save the signature red Monster logo and headphone cable. There is also a version with black ear-cup and headband padding. The Pro’s ear cushions are well padded, though we wouldn’t go so far to say that they were super plush. They also happen to be washable — a good thing considering the white version will no doubt get dingy over time.

The headband stood out to us as rather under-cushioned. The two thin metal bands that span between earphones can easily be felt along the edges and the underside of the headband isn’t nearly as well padded as it ought to be considering the weight of the headphones.

The earphones are hinged so that they can move vertically, but there isn’t a whole lot of play there. They move just enough to accommodate a small range of different ear angles and leave the rest up to the padding in the ear-phones. Another hinge found just above the ear-phones’ suspension allows both sides to be rotated toward the headband 180 degrees for more compact storage.

The headphone’s 1.8-meter cable is coiled like an old-school telephone cord — as is often the case with studio headphones — and can be extended to 2.1 meters. The end that connects to the headphones can be inserted into either the left or right hand side of the phones, depending on the direction the cord needs to go in-another studio-inspired feature.

The size of the drivers inside the ear-cups is not disclosed. We’re not sure why, and we won’t take time to speculate, but we thought that an interesting omission on Monster’s part. Suffice it to say that they appear to be on the larger end of the spectrum and certainly sound that way as well.

As a side note, we have to take a moment to mention the amount of attention these headphones got us. Every time we pulled these headphones out, teenagers started staring. Several of those onlookers even went out of their way to ask us if they could check them out. It was clear by the reaction we witnessed that this set of headphones has already earned a reputation for itself.

Performance

To audition the Beats Pro we used our trusty test bench of equipment comprised of an iphone, ipod touch, Pioneer turntable with Ortofon OM5E cartridge, Bellari phono pre-amp, HeadRoom micro DAC and HeadRoom micro amp.

As we began our listening tests, we knew immediately that we were in for an involved evaluation period. Each song we listened to sounded vastly different than the one before. We have to attribute that experience to the fact that the Beats Pro seem to stay very true to the recording. Poorly mixed and mastered recordings sounded poor. Likewise, elaborately mixed and mastered tunes sounded very good. However, beyond sounding loyal to the process, the Pro’s gave a sort of “insider’s look” into some of the processing that goes on behind the scenes at a recording studio. Poorly punched-in and layered tracks were suddenly blatantly obvious in tunes that we’d heard several times before and background noises in recordings were clearly distinguishable where we’d never heard them before. It was an engaging experience that we feel would entertain almost any listener.

Of course, all of this sonic exposure and transparency can’t be pulled off unless the headphones can execute midrange and treble frequencies with some accuracy as well. The Beats Pro do both.

Midrange frequencies are very well handled by the Beats Pro headphones. No cloudiness, coloration or even a hint of softening was present to impair us from enjoying accurate reproduction of vocals or instrumentation. There is, quite frankly, nothing more to say. The mids were just flat out fantastic.

The high frequencies, somewhat surprisingly, were equally impressive. We recall from our reviews of some of Monster’s other products that the highs were a bit on the aggressive side. Not so with the Beats Pro. Cymbals, brass, strings and vocal sibilance was startlingly accurate and a real pleasure to listen to.

If only we could continue with the accolades. Alas, we can not, as the bass response of the Beats Pro headphones is just plain over-the-top. On the plus side, the bass is punchy instead of boomy, and there is a growl to the way the Pros would reproduce electric bass that one doesn’t often find in a pair of headphones, regardless of their size. The problem we had with the Pro’s bass response wasn’t an issue of quality, rather it was a matter of quantity. For our tastes, the headphones just pumped out too much bass. That said, we think bass-heads will love these cans. If you want your head pounded, the Pros will do the job for you.

Our only other hang-up for the Beats Pro proved to be a house divided on comfort. Some testers felt the earpads and headband exerted too much pressure, leading them to take breaks four or five times per hour. Others had no problem listening for hours at a time without complaint. It’s a subjective matter, to be sure, but here’s on objective warning sign: The Beats Pro weigh a ton. Even among those who found them comfortable, they aren’t exactly the type of headphones you can forget you’re wearing.

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by Jude Gimeno