Things that aren’t static
Samsung has pulled on the little rope and sent the velvet curtains shimmying asunder to reveal the Samsung G800, triumphantly declaring it the world’s first 5 megapixel camera phone with 3x optical zoom.
Although the quality of phone cameras has been increasingly steadily recently, most come burdened with the digital zoom, which is, frankly rubbish.
The plan is to allow planes to carry their own mobile micro-cell from about 2010 – as long as they don’t switch it on before they reach a height of 3,000 metres.
At least, that’s what Ofcom expects we’ll want as users; you have till 30 November to register your opinion.
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As you’re aware there’s lot of new things being tried out in Whitehaven for the UK’s first analogue/digital switch over.
One that electrical retailer Currys is trying out is a showroom/shop that can be driven to remote areas giving those who are miles away from a shop, or who aren’t that mobile.
It’s a pretty substantial lorry that has side section that extends outwards providing a lounge-type feel.
There’s four flat screens on display (co-sponsored by Samsung) and a selection of eight STBs on show to demonstrated the range of boxes on view.
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Yesterday we started to look at the many ways of tackling the issue of data storage when on the move.
Mid priced viewers
Deep pocketed photographers looking for more professional features may be impressed by the EPSON P-3000 Multimedia Storage Viewer, offering movie and photo playback on a large 4″, 640×480 pixels, Photo Fine Ultra LCD, backed by 40GB internal memory, built-in CF and SD memory card slots, long battery life and a built-in audio player.
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Although digital cameras and cheap memory cards are conspiring to make us take more and more photos, backing up those precious snaps when you’re away from home can be a bit of a fiddly task, especially if you’re shooting in the memory hungry RAW format.
For short trips, a couple of spare memory cards should be more than enough, but for longer jaunts, more versatile back up solutions are often needed.
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Although we’ve never really been convinced by their practicality, we’ve always warmed to the idea of strutting around with a cool hi-tech gadget stuck on our wrist (even if the aforementioned article would most likely be full of fail after a big night in the pub).
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Looking the soon-come iPhone straight in the iEye and saying, “Eat my feature list, Jobsie!” is the updated Nokia N95 8GB handset packing – as the name suggests – 8GB of built-in storage.
Starting global shipments from today, the Nokia N95 8GB boasts a slightly bigger 2.8″ QVGA display (although still stuck at the lowish 320×240 pixels resolution) and the same 2-way slide out screen.
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If the growth of mobile access use continues at the current rate in the UK, future Brits may develop hands with massive thumbs, teensy little fingers and Quasimodo-like hunches developed from squinting at tiny little screens, according to a new study by the Mobile Data Association.
Well, alright, we made up the bit about the possible Darwinian side-effects, but the figures show that an awful lot of us are now getting on line with our phones, with the total now hovering around the 15 million mark.
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There are many fans all over the world for the Firefox Web browser. It runs on all desktop computing platforms and is a serious rival to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.
Mozilla Corp, the organisation behind the Firefox browser has long been asked when they will get themselves in gear with a Browser for mobile devices.
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There’s been endless rumours, denials and loud speculation on the web about the existence of Goggle’s GPhone project, but a report today in the New York Times seems to confirm that the search engine giants are indeed about to release their own mobile operating system and possibly a handset.
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