Canon i-Sensys LBP6230dw review

Last month, I buy the new photo printer, Canon i-Sensys LBP6230dw so today I will review it for you to give you more information about it.Canon i-Sensys LBP6230dw review: easy to useOne area the Canon doesn't excel in is user-friendliness. For a start, there's a rather arcane setup process that involves removing various pieces of safety plastic. We're used to extracting these, of course,but the Canon seems to delight in hiding them away as much as possible. And the diagrammatic instructions aren't as useful as they might be. A better guide is available in HTML online, but we miss the days of full printed documentation.The control panel itself isn't much easier to grasp. Three lights and four buttons (five if you count the rear-mounted reset switch) are plastered across the printer. But the actual use of these isn't so clear. And the 'on' switch is lcoated at the front rather than in the more natural-seeming position of the top of the Canon. For the most part, you won't need to deal with many of these keys - they mostly allow you to cancel jobs, restart after paper issues, or set up the Wi-Fi. As with most lasers and business models, though, the LBP6230dw lacks warmth.Connectivity can still be an issue for small to medium offices. Ethernet remains the most workable solution for the typical office. But Wi-Fi offers increased flexibility, even if at the expense of speed and reliability. Whatever your firm's setup, the Canon slots perfectly in, touting both ethernet and the wireless 802.11b/g/n. There's no Bluetooth support, but this is very much a niche product in today's business world. There's no support, either, for memory cards, although you can hook up to the Canon through mobile devices. (See also: best printers of 2015.)And so to performance. 64MB of RAM is built in, so the Canon should be able to handle fairly sizeable tasks. It's quoted for 25 pages per minute. We couldn't squeeze out more than 22.2ppm, but this is close enough to make it a smart performer for the money. In contrast, the Samsung Xpress M2070W could manage just 17.1ppm. Even A4 graphic images could be produced at a faster rate of 17.7ppm on the Canon. It's also fairly strong when it comes to automatic duplexing - turned on as default to save paper - and the Canon's speed of 22.2ppm fell to a still very respectable 14.9ppm. This remains more than fast enough for auto duplexing to be seen as a standard option rather than a feature to be saved for occasional use.Text quality is very good for the price. Characters are immaculately defined, and reasonably dark - even if not jet black. You can make out detail even at small sizes, while graphics (mono A4 prints come out at a rate of 17. offer strong grayscale depth with no defects.Given such excellent performance for the price, you might expect its toner costs to provide a sting in the tail. However, the £42 726 cartridge offers 2100 pages in total, giving it a cost per page of 2p. This allows it to easily outperform the likes of the Samsung Xpress (3.8p) or the Brother MFC-J870DW (2.6p). If you want value, the Canon excels here too.

Xiaomi Yi

Over the past few years, GoPro camera is the most popular camera because of unique features but nowdays, we have many new camera that similar with GoPro with lower price such as 'Xiaomi Yi'. Therefore, today I will introduce Xiaomi Yi camera for you.

This year Xiaomi announced that it hoped to topple the mighty GoPro with their own Yi Action Camera, manufactured by their partner Yi (who also make their home security camera). So how does the Xiaomi Yi Action Camera work in real world conditions?

Without a case the camera isn’t waterproof and it is very exposed to branches, rocks and the ground if you crash. Xiaomi are working on a case and I would recommend that anyone buying the Yi invest in one.

If like me you are use to GoPro cameras then you will need to get used to the lack of LCD display on the Yi and also its default modes. On the GoPro you can set the camera up via the built-in LCD. It’s all very fast and easy to set up. (Update: See Below) The Yi has not screen and when turning the camera on it automatically goes in to photo mode bu default. It will even default to photo even if you had left it in video before turning the device off. This lead to a lot of missed footage.

Now, from the settings in the Yi Application on your phone you can set the default to be either photo or video. I now have the camera set up to be in video mode straight away.

Switching between modes is simple, just hit the power button and the mode switches from photo, to time-lapse to video. It’s a little hit and miss to begin with and I am still getting use to it now.

To make life easier there is also a very good application which you can install on your phone allowing you to control the camera via WIFI. This makes switching modes a synch and gives you a life preview of what the camera is seeing. On the downside it means you have to stop and get your camera out before every piece of action takes place and that cannot always be possible when on the side of a cliff. It also means that WIFI needs to remain on and this really drains your battery quickly. Luckily the app does have a meter to tell you how much power you have left.

There are various notification lights on the Yi to tell you what mode you are in, but due to the colour of the device (white or green) the LED’s don’t really standout to well and make viewing them difficult to see in sunny conditions. It is common for a GoPro user to ask a fellow rider if their red record light is flashing, on the Yi it isn’t so obvious.

Capturing action video is what the Yi Action camera is all about, but does this action camera have what it takes to rival GoPro. I still need to spend more time with the camera and the settings to be sure but from my weekend with the camera I have a few things to point out.

Light and colour are amazing, and the sound quality is very good and surprisingly clear. Video shot from a stable positing is very clear

My iPhone6

I recently bought an iPhone 6. As I travel around the country giving talks on my book Customers Included, I’m asked quite often about my opinion about the user experience. People everywhere, it seems, are deciding whether to upgrade to this new, larger device.

My recommendation: don’t buy an iPhone 6. While it’s a good device, the iPhone 5 is still a better choice. (I wouldn’t have bought the 6, except that Good Todo needed a revised iPhone app to accommodate the larger screen. The new app is great, by the way.)

Of all of the reviews I’ve read of the iPhone 6, I haven’t seen much about the basics of the user experience. Most reviews cover the latest features that will excite gadget-happy early adopters. But from my conversations with customers around the country, many iPhone users are making the buying decision based on the basics.

Thus, here’s my review of the iPhone 6’s basic customer experience:

• The iPhone 6 is too big. It’s an awkward fit into most pockets, if it fits at all. And the larger screen slows down typing, since it requires a noticeably larger range of motion from the thumb. The iPhone 5’s size was ideal, except for users with especially large hands. This raises a question about mobile portability: how big can an iPhone get before it’s no longer a handheld device? (As for the even bigger iPhone 6+ … it’s so large that it’s better considered as an iPad replacement, not a phone.)

• The iPhone 6 is easier to drop.The rounded edges (like the old iPhone 1 design), combined with the thinner shape, make it much easier to fumble… that is, unless you’d like to buy a crash guard, which makes the phone even bigger (see above bullet). You also can’t sit the iPhone 6 on its side, as you can with the iPhone 5.

• Finally, it’s not quite as elegant as previous iPhones. I had the iPhone 6 on my desk while tapping out a text message, and kept hearing a clacking sound. At first I thought the desk wasn’t level, but no: it was the iPhone itself. The iPhone 6 can’t lie flat, due to a protruding camera lens. I’m sure camera techies could tell me all the reasons why the new camera is superior – but an uneven (and large) chassis seems out of step for the historically elegant iPhone line. Other details are a little off-kilter, like the hollow “ping” that reverberates through the device when plugging in a headset. The iPhone 5 felt more solid, more elegant.