Logitech Harmony One

In keeping with the Tech 2.0 tradition, we promptly review anything tech-related and popular in the market, so Logitech's new Harmony One universal remote naturally made the cut. Besides, Logitech sends us products quite promptly! Their last offering was insanely expensive and not too ergonomic, but this new Harmony One remote looks cool, so lets turn it on...

Design and Features
The Harmony One is curvaceous, a welcome change from the previous flat and broad Harmony 1000. This has a gloss black front panel strewn with black buttons of similar sizes, though different shapes. This helps as you don’t need to look carefully at the buttons; you can easily recognize them by their shapes.

The top end of the front panel has a touchscreen, a compact, sharp-looking color LCD panel. Even the border of the screen has four flush touch-sensitive buttons. This adds to the futuristic look.

A metallic cap makes up the bottom, which is detached by a pushing a button at the back panel. This acts a cradle for the included Lithium-ion battery. Speaking of cradles, the package comes with a black flat one that has its front panel carved out exactly in the remote’s shape; the remote sleeps on this and charges via the included AC adapter.  

Setup
With the help of the setup disc/USB cable included in the package, starting up the remote is easy. You have to install the Logitech software and keep the remote connected. The compulsory login is a hassle, but then on things are quite easy: the remote takes a minute to connect to the database (Internet connection required, obviously!) and then you have to type in your model name.

That's the best case scenario. If your model is not there (our Panasonic TX-32LX800 wasn't), there are more steps involved. Basically, you have to get the actual remote and do old-fashioned remote learning, which includes holding both remotes face to face and feeding the IR code.