Slipping out of HTC’s ever-industrious product factory in rather a half cocked manner is two new high-end HTC Touch handsets; the Touch 3G and Touch HD.
Both seemed to have suffered leaked releases, with product pages going up and down all over t’shop, but here’s what we’ve found out so far.
High end, wallet-draining, camera toffs Leica have announced their D-Lux 4 and C-Lux 3 digital compact cameras.
Based entirely on the already-released Panasonic Lumix LX3 and FX37 cameras, the Leica versions come with gracefully understated exteriors, a few default parameters and, of course, the drool-inducing red badge that says, “I am a veh serious photographer.”
Vast reservoirs of drool have started to form around the desks of photographers in Chez Digi-Lifestyles after the full details of Sony’s flagship new Alpha 900 digital SLR were released.
We’re liking the look of Sony Ericsson’s new G705 high end smartphone.
A sleek, slide out number, the G705 packs a 2.4-inch display with automatic screen rotation taken care of by an onboard accelerometer. There’s also WiFi, aGPS with Google Maps for Mobile, a built-in FM radio, an RSS reader for grabbing your news on the move, email client and a full HTML browser – all delivered at “turbo 3G speeds.”
Computer bigboys ASUS have announced the imminent launch of their first ever first handset, the P552w smartphone, a wee little keyboard-less thing.
Packing a nippy 624MHz processor and minimal buttons, the ASUS sports a 2.8-inch touchscreen supporting a 240×320 resolution, and comes with HSDPA/UMTS radios, a built-in Google Maps-compatible GPS receiver and 802.11b/g Wi-Fi connectivity.
Mike is at the London end of the Apple announcement today, bashing away LIVE as things happen.
Started early by the looks of it.
[17:55:26] Bloke currently waffling on about their 500 resellers in EMEA
[17:55:37] big crowd too
[17:56:21] loads of “we’re great” blather going on
[17:56:38] Right: it’s started
[17:57:56] showing footage from Apple borg crowds around the world
[17:58:12] actually it’s just SF
[17:58:38] got to be around 700peeps here
[18:00:44] whooping from SF
[18:01:37] Jobs on screen – makes joke about rumours of his death being exagerated: cue more whooping
[18:02:11] 8.5m songs now on iTunes, 2600 Hollywood movies
[18:02:41] 65m user accounts shopping
[18:03:03] now #1 music distributor in US
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The latest research from stat-gorging boffins Gartner reveals that no less than 32.2 million smartphones were sold in the second-quarter this year – a figure that represents a fairly hefty 15.7% hike from the same period last year.
However, the company noted sales slowing down in the first half due to the weakening economy, with Roberta Cozza, principal analyst at Gartner, observing, “The current economic environment continues to negatively impact the market, limiting consumer spending and replacement purchases in general.”
We’re still not sure if this is the work of a busy Photoshop bee or the real thing, but a photo of what looks like the new Prada II smartphone has begun shimmying around the InterWebBloggy thing courtesy of the Boy Genius Report.
We understand that it must be great not to have a load of tangly cables wrapped around your lugholes, but try as we might we just can’t get comfortable with the notion of sticking a Bluetooth headset on our bounce.
About to start shipping is the new Archos 5 Internet Media Tablet, a rather snazzy multimedia gizmo offering mobile web surfing, MP3 and video playback and optional TV recording.