Sony Cybershot DSC-T500 digital camera

Sony wants more and more people to adopt the High Definition lifestyle (presumably so that they can sell even more of their lovely BRAVIA line of HDTVs, but that’s another story for a different day), and their latest offering would be the Sony Cybershot DSC-T500 digital camera that does more than capture lovely looking still images - it is also able to record video in both wide and full-screen mode at 720p at 30 frames per second. In addition, this 10 megapixel shooter allows one to zoom in while...

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Sony's ICF-CD3i the Neatest Looking iPhone

Sony Insider has uncovered Sony's newest Dream Machine, the ICF-CD3iP, the most attractive iPhone/iPod Clock/Radio Dock I've seen yet. No telling what it sounds like, but for the $100 or so it will cost when it eventually surfaces, I'm guessing it would be somewhere between "tinny but decent" and "hey, that's not so bad."SI mentions the fact that it has an iPod/iPhone remote, and that its alarm can co-exist with iPhone/iPod alarms; I don't believe that's a first, but it's a good thing to hear. By...

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Samsung Highnote Hands-On

Samsung's Highnote slider phone is another Sprint exclusive with a hidden speaker that reveals itself when you slide the phone face down. Even in the middle of a press event, you could hear the speaker at work, and for what it was, it didn't sound excessively tinny or distorted.Aside from the speaker, the phone was pretty standard fare. A 0-9 keypad sits on the bottom end of the phone under the face, and a rotating dial on the front is used for menu navigation. The Highnote also uses the...

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Digital Camera - Nikon D3

For years, Nikon users had been asking their favored camera maker for a dSLR with a full-frame sensor (the same size as a 35mm frame of film). Finally, Nikon caved, delivering the 12-megapixel D3; the result is a camera that reaches new heights in imaging with extremely low noise at astronomical ISO sensitivities, while maintaining the pro-level control and body design Nikonians have come to expect in the company's flagship cameras. Interestingly, Nikon seems to pit its flagship model against Canon's...

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Sony Ericsson TM506, T-Mobile's first HSDPA handset, goes live

The well-scooped TM506 from Sony Ericsson is now on sale, marking the first time that T-Mobile has openly and proudly admitted that a handset in its lineup can actually support 3G -- despite the fact that they've had such gear for over a year now. Why the big secret? Until now, T-Mobile's 3G network has been undergoing pretty much the softest soft launch in mobile history, and only now are enough markets starting to come on board to make the whole thing worthwhile. For what it's worth, every previous...

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Chocolate Nokia 6300

The Nokia 6300 is a very popular handset in the UK, which has already been released in silver, black and white, but Nokia wasn’t going to stop there. The Nokia 6300 is now available in a very stylish chocolate brown. Early this year, Nokia released the black variant of the Nokia 6300, and it proved to be a top seller. The Nokia 6300 is a very smart looking business handset that resembles the classic Nokia 6310i. It features Bluetooth, Java, a 2.0 megapixel camera, and a remarkable 16 million colour...

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Vodafone Samsung Tocco F480 now available!

The Samsung Tocco is now availble for vodafone online! The Samsung F480 Tocco is small 3G touchscreen phone with HSDPA 7.2Mbps for high speed data access. The Tocco also supports an amazing 5.0 mega-pixel camera and a large 2.8 inch display with a haptic touchscreen interface. Vodafone are currently doing some fantistic deals on this handset.The Samsung F480 Tocco uses a Croix touchscreen interface. The built-in music player is reminiscent of the iPod touch. Music can be played in the background...

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Sony Ericsson announce the new Sony Ericsson C905 Cybershot

Sony Ericsson have announced the Sony Ericsson C905 Cyber-shot. The C905 has an amazing 8 megapixel digital camera! I'm sorry, but this to me is asume! I can still remember the days of the Sony Ericsson T68, where I had to buy an editional VGA camera add on accessory which cost me £60! The Sony Ericsson C905 Cybershot also features HSDPA data speeds, a TFT QVGA colour screen, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, A-GPS, Java, MP3/AAC/MPEG4 player, Memory Stick Micro and TrackID music recognition.The Sony Ericsson...

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3G iPhone launch date

Apple today officially unveiled the new 3G iPhone which will be released on the 11th July 2008. Steve Jobs, the Apple CEO, launched the phone with a much reduced price from the present 2G iPhone. The 8Gb 3G iPhone will retail at $199 (expected to be £120 in the UK) and the 16Gb version will cost $299 (estimated to be £175 in the UK). The Apple 3G iPhone was announced in San Francisco earlier today at the World-Wide Developers Conference. The 8Gb version will only be available in black. The...

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Samsung parades Omnia 3G smartphone

Samsung's Omnia: 3G iPhone rivalLast night, at a lavish event in London, Samsung proudly paraded its brand new 3G Windows Mobile 6.1-based touchscreen handset, the SGH-i900 -aka Omnia. The Omnia was first seen back in April at a European trade fair, but it hasn't been known exactly when Samsung would make its frontal assault on the iPhone available in the UK, despite officially unveiling it to the world in June. Based around a 3.2in, 240 x 400 display, the Omnia also packs in a GPSpick-up, FM radio,...

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Laptop - Lenovo ThinkPad X300

Lenovo's buttoned-up ThinkPad X300 ultraportable laptop computer may not have the MacBook Air's superslim, spartan style, but from rock-solid construction to piled-in perks, this notebook--with a street price of $2696 at time of testing--offers just about everything that matters to the business traveler.The Air and the X300 do have some similarities. They both have crisp 13.3-inch displays, although the X300 has a higher resolution--1440 by 900 pixels versus 1280 by 800--and with both, you can get...

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The first 8 Megapixel mobile phone camera - Samsung GT-i8510

Christmas 2008 is set to be a battle between the megapixels in the mobile phone market. Traditional digital camera companies, such as Kodak and Canon, as well as UK retailers such as Jessops, will feel the pinch even more as the next generation of snap-happy mobiles are released towards the end of this year. Samsung are set to launch the first 8 megapixel camera phones, beating the present top-end 5 megapixel cameras on the market. The new Innov8 series will be launched on the 1st September and...

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N96 Launch video from Barcelona

N96 Launch video from Barcel...

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Myguide GPS camera m.icatcher

Called m.icatcher this is the point-and-shoot camera with embedded GPS from MyGuide. It targets the ever growing market of photo tagging. Each time you snap a photo this camera instantly adds the location where the picture was taken to the JPG file. Unlike existing GPS solutions the camera does not suffer from cold starts. The GPS signal is simply captured at the instant the shutter is triggered. And when you transfer your pics to the PC the power consuming processing part is done on your PC...

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GPSMap 5012

Continuing over coverage of marine navigation systems we also want to talk about Garmin GPSMap 5012. This is one of the high end marine navigators from Garmin with a suggested retail price of $3885. However Amazon have a few of them in stock for $2970. The GPSMAP 5012 is touch screen based interface with satellite enhanced worldwide base map. The wide 12.1” screen helps for easy navigation by pointing finger on the screen. GPSMAP 5012 comes with preloaded Maps of all over world along with high-resolution...

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Navigon 2200T

NAVIGON is proving to be one of the fastest growing suppliers of gps navigation products around the world. They provide Real Time Traffic Updates for life; standard on a wide range of its new products. We had already mentioned the Navigon 2200 and 2210 but not the Navigon 2200T which was announced a couple of days ago. Navigon 2200T GPS navigator is new version of Navigon 2200 series and it looks like this will be the version to be available in the States. It has a 3.5 inch touch screen and offers...

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Panasonic TH-50PZ80Q plasma

They said they were going to do it, and do it they did. While Samsung's tru2way "demonstration" was barely more than a hack job used to show off what the technology was about, Panasonic demoed the real deal at its CEDIA booth. The 50-inch TH-50PZ80Q plasma contained a real CableCARD (yes, we checked) and was receiving a live signal from Comcast. Denver is just one of a few markets where tru2way is theoretically ready to rock, and according to a Panny rep, the set we saw today is a production unit...

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MSI Wind launch was delayed by ripped movies, family photos?

Here's an interesting, albeit confusing, story: we're getting word that MSI has recalled some Wind laptops running SUSE Linux, since some random oddities had snuck onto the disk image. Namely, illegal screener copies of movies and some family photos. That could explain MSI's temporary delay in shipping this thing out -- a preemptive recall -- but the when, where and what of the recall are a bit hazy, so we recommend rummaging around for the files just in case they're eating up your hard drive room...

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Runco lets it all hang out, intros seven new 1080p LCDs / plasmas at CEDIA

For the most part, Runco stays pretty quiet in the consumer realm... until CEDIA rolls around. Once again, the high-end AV company is firing on all cylinders in Denver, announcing seven new 1080p LCD / plasma displays including its largest LCD to date, the 70-inch Crystal Series CX-70DHD (pictured). Along with the new panels, the outfit is unveiling its exclusive OPAL (Optical Path Alignment) technology on select models which "delivers extreme glare reduction and enhanced contrast for high ambient...

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Runco announces $20,000 VideoXtreme VX-8 projector

The fun has just begun in the Mile High City for Runco, which has followed up its outlandish flat-panel announcement with a replacement to the fabled VX-2 projector. The 3-chip VideoXtreme VX-8 is squarely aimed at those with fat wallets and the word "videophile" stitched into their Ralph Lauren scarfs, evidenced by the superfluous (but very appreciated) video processing capabilities via DHD with Vivix and three SuperOnyx DMDs. Additionally, you'll find the outfit's ConstantContrast tech, which...

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How would you change Acer's Aspire One?

Judging by the amount of mods already available for Acer's contribution to the netbook world, we'd say there's a fair amount of things folks would like changed on the Aspire One. Of course, that's not to say the machine isn't worthy of praise as-is, but there's nothing wrong with a little dreaming. Would you have preferred a 6-cell battery right out of the box? Is that touchpad a touch too small for your chubby fingertips? Would you rather it run a little less like Zune Guy and more like Usain...

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Zepto's Hydra A17 leaves no cliche unturned

Let's see, we've got tons of black, a semi-gothic dragon thing, a "Z" in the brand name and a mythological creature in the product name. Yup, Zepto's new Hydra A17 is exactly what gamers need. Sure, the P9500 Core 2 Duo processor, 1920 x 1200 17-inch screen and NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX with 1GB of VRAM don't hurt. There's even a subwoofer and 4GB of RAM, yours for a mere £2,029 (about $3,585 US). Luckily, you can strip this one down to £1,420 (about $2,510 US) but you'll have to sign over your...

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