Nokia 5310 XpressMusic
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Consumers today want everything. They want everything, all the features they like, into one device. Well, if you love music, the Nokia has got the piece for you. The Nokia 5310 combines the best of both worlds - a portable music player with a wireless communications device.
The 5310 is a smooth and sleek phone. Every […]
HP iPaq 610 and 910 Business Navigator
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The HP iPaq 610 is one of HP’s two new smart phones. Going straight through its features, the 610 is a quad-band mobile with support for HSDPA and assisted GPS with integrated Google Maps. It has a Windows Mobile 6 Professional Edition operating system and is equipped with Bluetooth 2.0, Wi-Fi (802.11b/g with WPA2 security), […]
Nokia 6500 Slide Phone
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Another great phone Nokia has released is the Nokia 6500 Slide phone. It is supposed to be a phone to revolutionize the mobile phone market. This is an attractively designed up-to-date unit that belongs to the upper medium class, featuring the well-known Series 40 user interface, enabled to operate in 3G networks, and disposing of […]
CAP-XX develops high-power LED flash technology for camera phones
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Australian company CAP-XX has developed high temperature HS and HW series supercapacitors, which could enable high-powered LED flash in camera phones, providing cell phone pictures of a comparable quality to digital camera images, even in low light conditions.
The HS and HW supercapacitors feature a higher-boiling-point electrolyte. This extends operating and storage temperature from 75°C […]
Image sensor market driven by camera phones
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Recent research by In-Stat identified strong growth in the image sensor market in 2006, with camera phone sensors accounting for 75% of all image sensors shipped.
Fueled by camera phones, CMOS sensors were responsible for almost 80% of all image sensor shipments during the year.
Although CCD sensors remained strong in digital still cameras, camcorders […]
New offering from Samsung
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Consumers are remarkably informed when it comes to buying electricals, and this is no different when it comes to digital cameras. So it is no surprise when the camera manufactures begin to add more and more technology into a smaller casing, all for a really low price.
This would apply to the new Samsung S85, which […]
Panasonic launch another LUMIX
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Its always the way. You wait for a new camera from Panasonic and a whole lot come along at once. However this camera is slightly different to all of the others that have been released recently. This is the Panasonic DMC FZ 18, with its most stand out feature the 18 x optical zoom.
This camera […]
Two new LUMIX from Panasonic
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Panasonic have introduced two new models to its line up, the LUMIX DMC FX 55 and the DMC FX 33, these digital cameras have style couple with great design. Both models have Intelligent Auto Mode and Intelligent Image Stabilization, 8.1 mega pixels and have a 28 mm lens.
The Intelligent Auto Mode includes:
Intelligent Scene Selector, which […]
Eye-Fi announces Wi-Fi memory cards for cameras
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California-based Eye-Fi is planning to release Secure Digital memory cards with integrated Wi-Fi chips this autumn.
The card will enable digital photos to be sent automatically from a camera to home PCs or photo-sharing Web sites.
Eye-Fi is in discussions with around a dozen Web sites to allow direct uploads from cameras equipped with the […]
Panasonic first with 12.2mp and 28mm wide-angle
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Panasonic has added to its LUMIX range of digital cameras with the introduction of the slim and lightweight LUMIX DMC-FX100.
The LUMIX DMC-FX100 is the first camera in the world to feature 12.2 megapixel resolution with a 28mm wide-angle lens. The camera has a 2.5-inch LCD screen.
The LEICA DC lens has 3.6x optical zoom, […]
Kodak CMOS camera announced
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Eastman Kodak is planning to release a camera and several Motorola cell phones incorporating its own CMOS sensor by the end of 2007.
Kodak, which has been developing a CMOS sensor with IBM technology, will release a 5-megapixel camera with the Kodak-developed CMOS chip by summer 2007 and Motorola-Kodak camera phones will be released shortly […]
Digital camera sales to peak in 2010
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Market intelligence company IDC expects digital camera sales to reach 114 million units in 2007, an increase of 8%, but to peak in 2010 as the market reaches saturation point.
Traditional film cameras are rapidly being replaced by digital cameras, and camera manufacturers are already promoting products for customers who want to upgrade their electronic […]
Sony launches wireless Cyber-shot digital camera
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Sony has launched the Cyber-shot DSC-G1 - its first wireless Cyber-Shot digital camera.
The 6-megapixel digicam can send photos to other Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA)-enabled cameras and PCs. The technology is key to the development of a platform for networked photo communication.
The camera has a number of impressive features including a 3.5-inch, 921k […]
Sharp develops widescreen PDA
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Sharp plans to launch a widescreen PDA, running Windows Mobile 5.0, in March. The company is developing its EM-One PDA in conjunction with Japanese carrier EMobile.
The device will feature a TV tuner, WiFi, Bluetooth and 1.3-megapixel camera. It has a 4.1″ screen with WVGA (800 pixels by 480 pixels) resolution and a QWERTY keyboard […]
Fujitsu promotes sublimage technology
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Fujitsu is promoting a technology which can encode data into a picture which is invisible to the human eye but can be decoded by a mobile phone with a camera.
The technology takes advantage of fact that the human eye does not easily see the colour yellow. The yellow hue in a magazine picture, […]
Omnivision Launches TrueFocus Camera At 3GSM
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At the 3GSM conference in Barcelona, OmniVision, the semiconductor imaging company, launched a 3 mega pixel camera phone lens which doesn’t need focusing before a picture is taken.
The TrueFocus camera, which uses Wavefront Coding technology, allows the user to snap a photo instantly without having to wait for the lens to focus and perhaps […]
Cell Phones Could Replace Digital Cameras
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According to a study carried out by optical component specialists Schneider Kreuznach, there is a growing trend to replace digital cameras with camera phones.
The company interviewed around 1,000 people in Germany, China, India, and the U.S.A. about their usage of digital cameras and cell phones to take photographs.
Around 25% of respondents said that […]
Nokia Announces N93i Video Camera Phone
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Nokia has upgraded the design of its camcorder phone. While the originalN93 was very bulky, the N93i is significantly lighter and a tenth of an inch thinner. It has a super-shiny mirror finish.
Like the original N93, the N93i supports DVD-like video recording and provides 3G WCDMA support for European users.
The N93i features […]
New CDM8935 Phone From UTStarcom
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Despite the tiny size of UTStarcomm Inc’s CDM8935 phone - less than four cubic inches and less than three ounches in weight - it is equipped with a CMOS 310K camera and a 1.5″ 262K color TFT display.
The device is one of the smallest wireless CDMA camera phones in North America and fits easily into […]
Flagship Entertainment PDA From Motorola - MOTOROKR E6
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Motorola, Inc. has launched its new flagship entertainment PDA - MOTOROKR E6. The device is an entertainment handset which is designed to enhance the lifestyles of professionals on the go with its simple and easy to use multimedia feature.
The E6 has been specifically designed to make it easy to capture special moments on camera, […]