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Panasonic’s FZ100, the company’s first hybrid super zoom with an MOS image sensor, can handle action even if it’s happening fast, furious, or far away; it has 24x optical zoom, captures 1080p video, and shoots full 14.1MP shots at 11fps. The FZ100 is the company’s new top-of-the-line super zoom, and it shows: it’s the first [...]
Panasonic’s Lumix LX3 was deeply coveted by camera nerds, a groundbreaking point-and-shoot that gave up megapixels for incredible photos. The LX5 is its sequel—and it’s the first camera that might knock the S90 out of my pockets. For the third iteration in a row, it’s sticking with a 10-megapixel CCD sensor—the improvements focus on boosting [...]
Camera like the ST100 and ST600 are why people love Samsung: The front-facing LCD screen, designed for self portraits, has ballooned to 1.8 inches for more precise framing of perfectly mopey Facebook profile photos. Both of them also have 14.2-megapixel sensors, 3.5-inch touchscreens and 720p video. The ST600 has a wider lens, starting at 27mm [...]
Individuals aren’t always right, and neither are companies, which is why we heartily appreciate when corporations gracefully address their errors–preferably while capitulating to user demands. A minor update to Skype for iPhone (now version 2.0.1) reverses Skype’s decision to charge for calls over 3G, Skype wrote in a Wednesday blog post. Late last May, a [...]
HP partly supported the recent discovery of the Slate 500 on its site today by confirming that the Windows 7 tablet is still in existence. A Personal Systems Group representative said the Slate is in “customer evaluations.” The spokesperson cast some doubt on the device’s future, however, as HP is making a “determination soon on [...]
webOS 1.4.5 has landed for Europe and Canada and as we mentioned in that post, the new PDK features bring with them a new PDK bug that may affect people who update over-the-air (OTA) – however thankfully it should only affect a small number of apps. Here’s the deal: 1.4.5 is designed to allow any [...]
Apple Inc.’s senior antenna expert voiced concern to Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs in the early design phase of the iPhone 4 that the antenna design could lead to dropped calls, a person familiar with the matter said. Last year, Ruben Caballero, a senior engineer and antenna expert, informed Apple’s management the device’s design may [...]
Amid the swirling controversy surrounding iPhone 4′s now infamous antenna engineering, Consumer Reports, which recently found the reception problems from Apple’s latest smartphone to be a flaw disallowing it to recommend purchase, has stated that the Bumper case offered by Apple would solve those issues. “With the Bumper fitted, we repeated the test procedure, placing [...]
We’ve a soft spot for augmented reality (AR) apps and a dislike of walking into lampposts, so Samsung’s new Road SMS app for the Galaxy S satisfies both our hunger for gimmicks and personal safety. Available exclusively through the Samsung Apps download store on the Galaxy S – and, we’re guessing, on the Vibrant, Captivate [...]
Among Apple’s patent applications, there’s one for a multi-orientation dock which seems like it won’t rely on traditional electrical contacts on the bottom of your device. The patent application is titled “Methods and Apparatuses for Docking a Portable Electronic Device That Has a Planar Like Configuration and That Operates in Multiple Orientations” Read the full [...]