Mike Slocombe

  • Olympus 620 DSLR Offers In-Camera Effects Galore

    Olympus has announced its new E-620 DSLR, sporting a 12.3MP camera sand incorporating features from the recently introduced E-30 in a compact body.

    Pitched at the upper entry-level market, the E-620 offers three-level image stabilisation, a 2.7″ tilt and 270 degree swivel LCD and snazzy features like Art Filters and Multiple Exposures.

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  • Philips Ultra-Widescreen Cinema 21:9 TV Gets Official For UK

    Philips Ultra-Widescreen Cinema 21:9 TV Gets Official For UKIf you’re pockets are deeper than the Mariana Trench and you’ve got an aircraft-hangar sized front room, Philips’ fabulous new 56inch 21:9 TV may be just the thing for you.

    Wider than the Mersey tunnel, the 21:9 tele was officially announced a few weeks ago, but it’s taken until now for Philips to hit us mere mortals with the devastating price tag: a hefty £3,500.

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  • UMID MBook: Smallest Netbook Yet With 4.8 Inch Screen

    UMID MBook: Smallest Netbook Yet With 4.8 Inch ScreenWhile netbooks continue to offer bigger screens with a corresponding creep in case size, the UMID’s mbook engages reverse gear and is but a mere slip of a thing with a tiny screen.

    Undoubtedly the tiniest netbook yet, the mbook squeezes in the same 1.1GHz Atom Silverthorne Intel CPU seen on regular netbooks, while the touchscreen gets shrunk in the wash down to a mere 4.8-inch number sporting a eyesight challenging 1024 X 600 screen resolution.

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  • Dell Inspiron Mini 10 Netbook Launches In UK

    Dell Inspiron Mini 10 Netbook Launches In UKDell has now officially launched their new Inspiron Mini 10 netbook in the UK

    Billed as a “mini-notebook that adds keyboard comfort and even more entertainment-friendly dimensions to the Inspiron Mini family”, the Mini 10 shimmies in between the Mini 9 and Mini 12 in Dell’s current netbook line-up.

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  • TealOS For Palm Serves Up WebOS-Lite

    TealOS For Palm Serves Up WebOS-LiteWe certainly felt the love when we reviewed Palm’s Centro smartphone last year, but Palm OS fans have felt rather short changed of late.

    With Palm declaring the old Palm OS officially dead and buried, all the attention has moved to their hot new handset, the Palm Pre and its exciting new WebOS operating system.

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  • Universal Chargers For Mobiles On The Way

    Universal Chargers For Mobiles On The WayIf, like us, you have drawers and shelves overflowing with obsolete and unused phone chargers, then a new initiative may banish cable-related angst forever.

    The GSM Association, backed by a charge of mobile phone manufacturers and operators, is leading a move to create a universal charger based on the Micro-USB interface.

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  • People Power: Facebook Revolt Sees Off Dodgy New TOS Clause

    Facebook Revolt Sees Off Dodgy New TOS ClauseBrandishing virtual pitchforks, a user revolt against a new Terms of Service (TOS) agreement foisted on Facebook fans has seen the company perform a swift volte-face.

    Faced with growing masses of outraged users and tenacious Twitterers – and with the thread of the Electronic Privacy Information Centre (EPIC) coming onboard – Facebook crumbled in the face of complaints that their updated terms equated to nothing more than, “We Can Do Anything We Want With Your Content. Forever.”

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  • Lumix LX3 Review: High End Digital Compact Camera (pt. 3)

    Lumix LX3 Review: High End Digital Compact Camera (pt. 3)Part one of the Lumix LX3 review gave you the tech specs, part two got into the meat, this final part wraps it up with more detail, provides the summary and scores.

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    Activated via a small switch on the top plate and standing taller than some of its rivals, the LX3’s small built-in flash offers Auto, Auto with red-eye reduction, Forced on and Slow sync with red-eye reduction in auto mode. Flash compensation can be selected via the up button, and there’s also an option to set up rear-curtain sync for some arty effects.

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  • HTC Magic Android Phone Arrives On Vodafone

    HTC Magic Android Phone Arrives On VodafoneThe second phone based on Google’s operating system Android has been pulled out of the bag by Vodafone as the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona continues to pepper the landscape with new handsets galore.

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  • HTC Announces Touch Diamond And Touch Pro Updates

    HTC Announces Touch Diamond And Touch Pro Updates Mobile manufacturing maestros HTC have announced updates to their Touch Diamond and Touch Pro 3G phones, imaginatively called the Touch Diamond2 and Touch Pro2.

    New to the handsets are Push-Internet – a feature that lets users download selected web sites at specified times so they’re quicker to open later, and what HTC are calling a ‘unified communications’ feature.

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