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62 Huawei Ascend G330
Has the Ascend G300 just becomea
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64Popcom Hour A-400
66 Gizmo Explorer Kit
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x86 market what the RasPi has faooeeepmenste
done for the ARM mark
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Software Get this. Itwon't disappoint
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Review
Huawei Ascend G330
Huawei
Ascend
G330 £179.99
Huawei updates
its popular
Ascend G300
with anew
budget handset,
the G330...
‘One of the more popular budget smartphones of 2012 was
Huawer's Ascond 6300 £100 SIV- feet packed ina inch
soreen ard 1GHe processor bath atthe time oflaunen were
speceations worthyafmore@cersivesmartphones.
oping o capitalise onthe sucness ofthe G300, the Aston
.6230jsinfactoniya minor upgrade, andone whieh fallstosteal
the timelightin quite the same way thetits predecessor di
‘The Huawe' Ascend G380 features en updated processor in
the shape a dual-oar 1GH2 model, Butthisis Supported by
the same 512M of RAM found n the handset’ predecessor
This means that while runs smoothly for workday tasks, if
you Find you need to push the multimedia capabilites of the
‘hone, oF are a power user switching between multe apps
atthe semetime, it maycamplain and juddar.
rage snot strong aul ofthis phone ether With G2
‘on board, the initial vibe is good, but infact only 25GB of
this i user aocessble, You may well find you need to use a
microSD card to augment that, and unfortunately Huawei
has not made the best job of locating the microSD card sot.
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FEBtUndermeath the back cover and you have to remove the
batterytogetiatthe sot. basically eansyou willnged tofit
inas large a cardes you Gan gst, Because you won't want to
‘ever find yoursefugalingcards onthe go.
The ould qual of the G220 i good in thatthe phone is
relatively solid and toh, But aesthetically things arent great
Yes: the back is rubberiod to assist with gi, but overall the
Impression isrot ofa device thats pushing the boundries ot
industrial dose,
‘At east the doch aereen with Is 420s800 pies is sharp
and right. Tris in fact tho same spocfcation as found onthe
(6300, Butitis sila petty good specas the budget end ofthe
‘market til eluttred with far lower-resolution screens, oven
inthe hands of some ofthe inetry's most pratigious names
le Samsung Weld love to see a 43-inch sc
intothe budget sector butfor the time-being this will sue.
Under the hood, Huewehas chosen to go with Android 40,
loe Cream Sandwich. Sightly behind the times, as Android
4 Jelly Bean is very much in the wld, ie tila pleasure to©The 4-inch screen
with its 480x800 pixels
is sharp and bright
With ust 2.568 of
ser storage built
in,youare probably
geingtoneeda
microSD card
‘The locky design
right ookblandto
some eyes. tdoos to
ours anyway
Technical specs
comming Sten Ando
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‘00 this version of the OS ina budget phone. And Huawei has
‘added a few tweaks of ts ovm without obscuring Androids
‘nn prima goacness,
Huaweimakesabsttoomuchofthefactthat the BEC Payer
‘np is pre-installed, I's not particularly cfeut to download
this rom the Play tere ento other handsets. Perhaps peorle
wil be more impressed by EA Games’ The Sims Freeplay, but
hereto0 wearenonplussed. Togettothegameyouhaveto pass
screen advertising tial versione of other EA games, and The
‘Sims Freepay'salso downloadable from Googie Play.
What we do ik is theinlusion of a LNA app, fle manager
andallackypishichcanbeusedtoback upyourSIM, contacts
and ather information, There's flashlight aop too, which
you can acoass by ang-pressing the Home butten beneath
the dieplay when yourwin the lock screen, This ste one true
innovation evident onthe 6390 and isa feature we really ko
and wouldloveto se other manufacturers emulate
itis easy to change the number of hame sorean on offer—
youcan gobetween three andfive, anda neat lack ereen eves
Huawei Ascend G330
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youguicklaunch nt thecall lg, messagingand camera pos,
‘zewollasthe abit tocontol musiplaybackand thatalready
rotedtoch feature
BEES ows ve nee sont
(G330 represents a reasonably effective update of the
6300, but as we've seen with other landmark budget
devices (lke the famous Orange San Francisco, itis very
difficutto pull off the same trick twice, With last year's,
phone, any weaknesses were easily overlooked due to
the handset’ incredible value. This time around, not so
‘much. It be fine for someone on a very limited budget,
but i's not a groundbreaking phone likely to grab any
tion from the wider Android worl,
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> wawulinuxuser co.ukReview Popcorn Hour A-400
Popcorn
Hour
A-400
The newest version of one
of the most popular HTPCs
‘The Popcorn Hour A400 the latest in the line
is here, and with a few Pyepatabetany of Syabas devices to use the fi
neppene
notable additions over the — asm ee
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A-300, is ittime to upgrade? asia renee
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by symbol
major adtion to the hardware is
‘30 port, allowing for Supe
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Latest media-streaming HTPC
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© Able to play just about
‘The remote has plenty
cof functions, although
itisalittleawkwardto
getusedto
Youcanconnectthe
Popcorm Hour any way
youwant to
The Popcom Hours come with remates that seem to
be designed for use with the ene range, and net just the
ingvidval products. Evidence for this comes in the form of
ect buttons forks — yet there are no dise trays or las on
the A400. Redundant buttons aside it a fairy nice remote
with lent factions, anditeven ight upseyouscan soe what
yeuie pressing The layout ard buttons seem a touch odd,
though: the home button sin an award poston from the
«pad, anc the pay and pause buttons are onthe same rocker
bar for an unkown reason. I's defintely serviceable and you
can ether use acifferent remote yeu prefer, or download
the Android ori0S contro app
Te mostimportant partof the system, though isof course
theplaybackfunctons, and these praved generally very ood
The A~400 was aboto lay just about every typeof fie form
fcould throw atit- MK. MP4 A WMV ete Whetheritusec
H.264,0ggor DiXcompresson, twas abet playitperfectly
with the only exception we could findbeingHiN0p/10-bit.264
‘media. This is not so commonly used, however, although its
slowly gaining traction and may ba @ necessity inthe near
future for more than just watching anime. Something Uke
that can be Fired via afemare update, though, somathi
the Popoarn Hour can do while connected to the internat or
via USB storage allowing problems to be fixed forthe box
cover tin
Unfortunately, dung a netwock error the system hung
up on us. We wore eventually forced to pull the plug which
every type of file format we
could throw at it
Aslock design that
fitsneatly into many
‘entertainmentcentres
caused Ito nar enaugh stop working Input selaction neds
regularly to see anything, ad trying to alter the
juoninansttomptofixitcausedt to crash again,
Theres nohardwareresetouttontofixtnisether Wecannat te
certain how commen a problem tis could be, but dying when
themediaisnotplayingas texpocts itil.
‘Another drawback isthe number of apps available. We
wore sorely disappointed to find a tiny selection of around
60, manyofwhich were newsreaders, RSS readersandsocial
network apps. There wasnt even aNetflixapo.
Ire a shame then that what was otherwise @ pleasant
fexoarience, abit one not notably better than XEMC, was
hampered by technical sues. For now though stick withthe
previous version or use yourcwn with XBMC.
BBS ner 2 wos ve »
fantastic piece of kit with only small issues warranting
attention. However, the lack of apps is a problem and
‘the instability of the hardware is an even bigger one.
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Gizmo
Ex
Kit
£157
If the Raspberry Pi
doesn’t have the grunt for
your proj
— a 64-bit x86 AMD APU-
based development board
— might be the answer
Gizmo Explorer Kit
Gigabitethemet
andavery capable
processor make the
Gimoanextremely
powerfuldevice
plorer
($199)
ject, the Gizmo
The Gizmo Is undeniably remarkable. A joint
venture from several firms including AMD and
‘Sage Electronic Engineering, i'saclear attempt
todo forthe x86 market what the Raspberry i
andsimilarhave dane for the ARM market
The board itsetT is compact, measuring
1018mmona side, witha pairofsmal heat sinks
rising up to just below the level of the combined USB and
Ethernet pots. These heatsinks disguise the real power of
the board: an AMD G-TAOE accelerated processing unit (APU)
combining two 64-bit x88 precessing cares running at 1GH
with an AMO Radeon HD 6520 GPU offering a claimed 628
{8@AFLOPS of fosting-point performance,
Tho fst thingyou notioe about the Gizme, however isthe
bundled accessories. Ae well asthe board tel, the purchase
price includes a handy breakout board dubbed the Explorer,
as well as a hardware TAG debuggor with USB and Ethernet
connectivity ~ the Sage SmartProbe, The lat
specially for AMD processor, offers fine-grained analysis.
fand contol ever the CPU, GPU, chiaset and connected
peripherals, but comes with a serous restriction: after 20
hours'useitstops operating
The same is true for the Sage EDK, an integrated
evelapment environment (DE) for embedded systems: the
a
Easily accessible
analogue VGA.display
utputisjoinedbya
DisplayPortoutputon the
High-Speed Connector
ASATA3.06b/6 port,
plus nearby 5V power
supply, makes iteasy
toaddhigh-capacity
storage tothe Gizmo
bundled copy is any vali for 30 days from registration. In
both eases, oncethetimelimithas exe youll need tobuya
licence ~butnen-cemmercialuserscandosastadiecounted
rate of $280 (around £237 including VAT fora year’s EDK and
unlimited SmartProbe use. Commercial users, however, wll
have tpay Sages ful etal price of $1,350 (araund £1,088)
Licensing costs aside, the Gizmo and Explorer bundle is
an impressive way to get started. The add-on Explorer board
snc tothe Gzro's Low Speed Connector = 36-pin PCI
Express edge connector ~ and provides a small LCO splay,
motor controller, prototyping area and full access to the
board’ general-purpose input-output (G0) capabilities. An
included matricieypad and demonstration programs loaded
into Sage's customised cocabact BIOS, help guide the us
throughmaking best use othe Gizmo in embeded projects.
‘The high-speed port, meanwhile, offers serious xpanion
potential, carrying two FCI Express lanes, a SATA itarface,
two USE 20 interfaces and a DisplayPort intetace for
connection toa digtal display. Those ae alin alton tothe
two USB 20 ports, tree analogue audio pert, SATA port,
Gigabit Ethernet port and VGA ports brought outon the Gizmo
board tse
‘As the list of ports suggests, the Gizmo is
usable asa mierocomputar as wal as a develop‘TheGizmo's
heatsinks are
entirely passive,
andbarely get
warm even during
‘extended use
‘Themioro-dieplay,
coupled witha
bundled matrix
keypad, canbeused
forheadless projects
generous
prototyping area
‘onthe Explorar
boards provided for
electroniocircuits
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Discannecting the Explorer board provides a compact
foctprin, and the passive heat sinks mean silent operation
with peak power draw of ust 10W-The AMD APU offers ull
‘AMDB4 x85 compatibility, meaning the board can easly boot
‘any Linux distribution from a USB drive, PXE boot or a SATA-
Connected storagedavice~ and ts even possbletoinstllthe
proprotaryAMD Catalyst diver package for surprisingly high
performing 0 acceleration
Benchmarking shawe the true capable of the Gizmo
compared to ARW-based development boards: while the
Raspoerry Pi may be far cheaper, its 85th percentie time
cof 61.46ms in the SysBench CPU tests blown away by the
Gizmo's @.87ms, For users looking to buld a compact web
server or NAS, the Gizmos impressive processor and Gigabit
Exhernetcapabilties wll surely shine,
Coupled with the GizmoSpiere ~ a community of Gizmo
enthusiasts and onners who share projects, coda and
Gizmo Explorer Kit
64-bit x86-based development board
a
© The first thing you notice
about the Gizmo, however, is
the bundled accessories
ideas
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Gizmo onalevel with ARM-based development boards,
‘you get 2 full 64-bit x86 microcomputer with powerful
graphics, and the multi-purpose connectors. offer
great expansion possiblities. While the inclusion of
‘time-limited trials forthe SOKand debugginghardware
rankles, upgrading to the full release comes with a
hefty discount fr Gizmo owners.
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Raspberry Pi distros ~ in that it's available
‘on the Foundation’s download page. Joning
aspbian as the only other Linux distro, this
Arch ARM bullae includes the hard oat, and
is aimed towards the more veteran Linux user,
Arch i a citro you buld youre, almst from
scratch, with the system already configured to
atleast boot toa command-in interface. From
here you eustamise the systom to your exact
specifications withaut any of the extra boat
youidget rom something tke Ubuntu
The Pi image is the same way, with Arch
booting into a command tine. There's no
desktop, and ne users other than root. There's
nothing more than the standard tools and
packages that make up part ofthe Linux kernel
From here you need to start buiding up your
system using the pacman package manager, or
rab Yaourt to access source code frem AUR.
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Ue Arch allaw you to really tweak the software
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Fedora
718 Remix
The Pi remixes of Fedora
haven't had the best time
nile originally one of the first recommended
Pr distros, the Fedora Remix fell out of favour
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‘stoped people from continuing to work onthe
lato, andthe Federa 12 Remi i beginning to
see the light of day. The image forthe remix is
‘the largest inthis test ~ and at $GB yout need
to make sure you upgrade your SD card before
attempting o use it. 468 SD cards are fairly ow
pricad these days, butts stil one extra tingto
{getor your supposedty cheap min-PC.
Luke the thors, the image neods to be
manually transferred to an SD card with
whatever method you prefer. However, on frst
boot, Fedora Remix has the same graphical
setup as the full desktop version. From here
you set up users, locales and more, and it
definitely looks and flows a bit better then
the commarci-line equivalent on Raspbian,
‘although you doc nearly have quite the same
levelof customisation
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notice once they gt to logins that Xie is now
the pcefered desktap, and there is no option
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best you dort though, as oven with Xfce and a
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for Rasptian. At the very least, however, being
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@ SliTaz 4
Distro Super Test - Pi Edition
Atiny distro supposedly for use on desktop and on server
With the smallest image in the test, SUaz is
‘quick to download, install and boot. in fact
it shows off on startup that it tok only three
seconds to get tothe command ine ~ the fastest
inthis test. SITaz\sin ta fourth version, reloased
in the middle of last year. AS an independent
sito, nat based on anything else itis one ofthe
genuine few that support hara float operations
without boing based on Raspbian. Clocking in at
nly 600NB onthe SD card, is cartainly a feat 10
havethis full werkingsystem onthe P.
That lw storage foctorint comes at a price,
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fgrand total of 17 packages pre-installed, isan
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version only has 268. These are mostly utilities,
‘and you cart installa desktop envranment from
the repos, However, there is access to Xorg, and
al the tools neaded to compile it yourset. SiTaz
has Its own package manager. tazokg. with a
{20d search function t find what packages are
‘valle in liu of graphical manager. While you
can also search the website for packages, You
cant fiterby what's avaible on Pior not.
SiTazon Pi then is very fooused on being used
1s some kind of heacass server, and admitedly
tharks tothe lackof packages itis fast, ant wil
raw vary litle power. The preblam i, somthing
lie Arch is basicaly as fast and the repositories
are ful of software that wll allow you to also
‘makeitintoa server. Also you canals very easly
tur Arch ito desktop systar, something that
Sia isveryraticeably lacking,
‘SiTaz defintely hs its place, and asa server
itisquickto set up andhas a lower footprint than
the others. just lacks the flexi inherent in
the Raspberry Pitt.
1s There are graphical spins of the fullversion of Taz, but none for PiDistro Super Test - Pi Edition
Six Raspberry Pi distros go head to head
Gentoo =
Using Gentoo is not for the faint-hearted.
While all the distros on thislist wil let you
an image to disc and then have the Raspberry
i boot just fine from it, Gentoo has
‘manually setting the SD ¢
om layout, adding a 5
to the asc, before adding Por
package manager) and the Linux and kerne
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problems down the lina, is sila lot of werk along you to get absolutely every aunce of
to got the cistro installed in te frst place. As power possible from the system and have it
hing can cause Like Arch, Gentoois fr theultimate tweak
Gentoo provides the pre-compied kernel, you 0 anything ary other similary powered Linux
dorit get theextra customisation availabe from computer can achiove. You can then hide it
Ccompling it direct. This means there's nat a away almost anjahere thanks to the size ofthe
hing, From servers to media streamers and
huge amaunt more streamlining you can do oe
something ke Arch unless you decide ta start even desktops, you ean make a Gentao Pi do
jourcwvn P-based
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wolinuxuser co.ukGroup Test
RISC OS
The OS of British schools in
the ’90s is still alive for the Pi
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Distro Super Test - Pi Edition
mRISCsdesign
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modern systoms
4
Soe
FISCOS should be familiar fr anyone who went
‘to school in the UKin the Nineties, when Acorn
‘computers were ubiquitous in the classroom.
‘The software that powered them was RISC 0S,
and wile Acorn Computes! main legacy is ARM,
ISC OS is stil being maintained, i recently
‘bscame avalabefor the Pia RSCOS Open, and
isoffeially promotedas a recommended Fi0S.
Orignaly designed forthe eatest ARM chs,
ISO OS has ainays looked fairy basic. With
‘more simplistic ans and art style throughout
‘the interface, lot more work has gone ints how
you interact with RISC than its aesthetic, lesving
it smooth and responsive. Ths is ulirately
‘more important, and is ony really a step behind
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‘The now there sults openSUSE well
openSUSE 12.3
Is there a specific area in which openSUSE 12.3 shines? No, but it adds
some polish and consistency to the distro’s already firm foundations
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digkem3 0igmuchaett cessingof mages, KDE's
resources when indexing
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can now configure colour management per-moritor. ther
KDE imprevernenta are the new Print Manager and
bettor Bustocth intagration with the Plasma Desktop. And
some ofthe new features are realy small but time: savers. For
instance, Korscla has anew teminthe Edit menu tosend your
aystrokes to all tbe simultaneous. This means that you
coulceasiy execute the sare cermmandon different et
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Other desktop environments arent ftin the cold. NOME
ssboon updates toversion2.6,andXfoe4.10isalsoavalatle
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manager for power users and Sawtish,
false has some intresting
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‘even experimental support for Secure Boot-endbled
hardware. The version bump from Lindx 34 to 87 is also
sponsible for seme new and improved functionality, such
openSUSE 12.3
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OpenSUSE 12.3 does!
Enlightenment 17 desktop onionment
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complete, whichmeans
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closing the lid of your laptop now even puts your system
when you are not logged in, OpenSUSE also uses
for log ofall system services
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install the package eystoma:-logger al logs will be written in
journals binary format.
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releases, the latest openSUSE 12.3 could be
scribed as ‘a bit boring’, because it just builds
upon already existing foundations. However, after
the development issues of the previous release, it
was probably a wise decision to focus on polish,
consistency and breadth of functionality now. The
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sbayon sawel- presented, accesible version of Gentoo
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rep outofyour system.
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iydoalotwerse than Parteus
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and install packages to on the fly, which sets it
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system is fantastic, while the 32-bit Razor desktop
environmentisonecfthe better lightweight desktops
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Ive got an inating problem on my Liteedttion
Witer’35, which fr present on my other Writer
on a diferent computar. fm nat sure why fm
having ths problem as theyre both running the
samme distro, and set them upat the sar time,
Tm tying to hide borders in specific table
calls (ot the whale table But myTable toolbar
does not have any ‘Borders button, or any way
of adding one, How ean | hide ton an bottom
bordersinone particular cellofatable?
Well we know that in LibreOfice
40, that button should exist and
be avaiable for you after instal
We would euggest upgrading to
LibreOice 4.0 anyway, asi fces
© few bugs over 35 ond adds some great
new Features.
1 There are mary methods to get an image to your Pi
Allyour technical problems solved
What you can do is highlight the entire table,
‘atoll, then choose Table. You should then be
‘ble toed the borders ina Bordertob,
Otherwise, you may need to add the button to
the Tobles toolbar by editing it and adding it rom
thelistof buttons.
(ne ofthese solutions wil hopefully work out
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