Panasonic’s Lumix DMC-LZ10 certainly won’t win over many folks on its looks alone, but Photography Blog found that it more makes up for its rather bland exterior where it counts, and they’ve given the 10-megapixel camera high marks across the board in their new review. Winning the most praise is the camera’s full manual controls, which proved to be enough to get Photography Blog to declare the LZ10 “one of the most versatile compacts in its class.” Just as importantly, it also found the image quality to be an improvement over the previous generation models, with the 5x, 30mm wide-angle zoom lens turning in some great results and the camera’s image stabilization feature actually proving to be quite useful. (Read the full post about ‘Panasonic Lumix DMC-LZ10 gets reviewed’…)
Dear N-gager, Nokia has officially launched its N-Gage mobile games service, now with more games, additional compatible devices, and an expanded online offering. Nokia users can purchase games directly from their device. With the N-Gage application on their device, users can create a Friends List which allows users to send and receive private messages, and instant messaging style chat. However, it is currently compatible with Nokia N81, Nokia N81 8GB, Nokia N82, Nokia N95, and Nokia N95 8GB. You can download the N-Gage application at www.n-gage.com. (Read the full post about ‘Nokia Launched the N-Gage Mobile Games Service’…)
Acer’s recently released Gemstones won’t remain new for too long as word on the street has it Acer will be rolling out a couple of new Acer notebooks as well, with the Aspire and Slim Gemstone Aspire systems ready to make you think about parting with your hard-earned money. Measuring 8.9″ and 12.1″ respectively, they will target the entry-level market and be powered by Intel’s recently released Atom processor. Chances are you will be able to choose from Linux or Windows XP operating systems, along with a choice between a standard hard drive and ssd storage. It would be a safe bet to settle for a price range that lies between $300 and $450.
(Read the full post about ‘New Acer Gemstones Coming Soon’…)
Here’s a concept that could save plenty of materials: wireless business cards. The concept developed by Postmachina is a small cube that can swap and store business info in one small square device. Those of you familiar with trade show circuits will appreciate this streamlined approach to the massive pain that is gathering and distributing cards. Then beyond that, you have to somehow catalog them in order to make them at all useful. If Project E came to fruition, you’d just be receiving digital information, so it would migrate into computer address books seamlessly. Truth be told though, this stuff is all already possible. Bluetooth phones could be leveraged as effective wrappers for business info. (Read the full post about ‘Project E wireless business cards by Postmachina’…)
Oh no. The European Commission said Monday that they plan to allow airlines to offer cellphone calls to passengers across the EU. This may sound like good news to cellphone carriers, airlines (who probably stand to gain a cut), and overzealous businessmen, but not to my ears. People (at least on the flights I’m on in the States) are already obnoxious enough on the tarmacs with their mobiles. Perhaps with some guidelines and/or rules, it may not be terrible, but I’m not holding my breath as airlines have done nothing to curtail those loudmouths, the same ones who don’t turn their phones off when they’re supposed to.
Now, I’m not against midair Internet access, mind you.
(Read the full post about ‘EU says “Yes” to mile-high calls’…)
Posted Apr 6th 2008 5:39PM by Joshua TopolskyFiled under: cellphones It looks like Samsung’s Instinct won’t just be kinda-sorta doing some iPhone stuff — it will be doing actual iphone stuff. Sprint announced that it has licensed Klausner’s Visual Voicemail (yes, Visual Voicemail) for use in the familiar looking device, adding weight to the argument that this is the carrier’s official play for the iPhone market. If you’ll recall, Klausner sued AT&T and Apple over the feature, which it claims violated two of its patents. (Read the full post about ‘Sprint licenses Visual Voicemail for the Samsung Instinct’…)
The Samsung F110 miCoach offers a 2 megapixel camera with video as well as the following features:
* GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
* 2.0 inches, TFT, 256K colors, 176 x 220 pixels display
* 1 GB embedded memory
* GPRS
* EDGE
* Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP
* USB v2.0
* WAP 2.0/xHTML Browser
* Managing workout plan and result by measuring speed, distance, calories, stride, and heart rate
* MP3/AAC/eACC/WMA player
* Stereo FM radio
Via GSMArena.
Tags: consumer electronics, amps, ipod, gaming
Posted Apr 6th 2008 10:29PM by Joshua TopolskyFiled under: Laptops The Jisus laptop? We’re asking ourselves the same questions you are. We’ve never heard of Van Der Led, and we’ve certainly never heard of the Jisus — but boy are we intrigued. Apparently, the multi-colored (and multi-graphic’d) little guys will feature an 800 x 480, 8.9-inch LCD display, a 1GHz Loongson CPU (???), 512MB of RAM, 4GB of flash storage, 802.11b/g, stereo speakers, and a whole slew of familiar ports. The Eee-wannabe will apparently come with Ubuntu pre-installed (though frankly it’s unclear), and will be retailing for €299 when it hits the streets (the European streets, that is) on April 25th. (Read the full post about ‘Van Der Led’s Jisus laptop is the answer to your prayers’…)
The Nextar 14–BC GPS Navigation System is special as it features a backup camera, making this one of the more innovative gizmos to be released in a long time. Other features that accompany its GPS navigation system include :- MP3 playback SD memory card slot 4.3″ display 300-name address book Backup rear view cameraIt retaiks for $499.95, and ought to be a boon for those who hate reverse parking. Tags: electronic toys, technology, toys, Gadget (Read the full post about ‘Nextar 14–BC GPS Navigation System’…)
