Everyone’s had that heart stopping moment when their mobile phone falls from they hands and tumbles towards the ground – there’s a frantic reaction as you attempt to grab for it with flailing arms, often resorting to placing your foot in the way to try and brake the fall.
With a newly-announced phone, the Sonim XP1, this will no longer be a problem, in fact, it looks like you can be pretty rough with it and it’ll still work.
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Here’s the wrap up of the announcements from The Steve (by our Steve, funnily enough) at MacWorld, continuing from our previous piece.
iPod Touch
The iPod Touch gets the same technology as the iPod (i.e. new Google MAPS, Webclips and customer home screens), however it also gets apps from the iPhone such as Mail, Weather and Notes. Google MAPS will use WiFi to get location information.
All new iPod Touch’s come with the new software, unfortunately existing owners will have to pay $19.99 (£12.99/EU 17.99) to get it.
Earlier in the week, we looked at bargain basement dSLRs under £400, today we move up a notch and give you our view on the best budget dSLRs for under £500.
Nikon D40X
(around £395/$670)
This well-built 10 megapixel snapper offers fabulous image quality, instant-on response, a nippy auto focus system, auto ISO, three frames per second burst mode and a large 2.5″ LCD monitor at the bargain price of £400 with the 18-55mm lens.
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Apple once again held a live link-up between the Moscone Center in San Francisco and the BBC in Wood Lane allowing UK and other European media and guests to see Steve Job’s keynote (London guests including Charles Dunstan of Carphone Warehouse, who seems to be building an intimate relationship with Apple).
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Great waves of unfettered iLove radiated around San Francisco last night when Apple head honcho Steve Jobs unveiled the world’s thinnest laptop, a stunning, aluminum-clad, blade-like creation called the MacBook Air.
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Boston Acoustics has announced that it will be launching, nay unleashing, its first DAB/FM radio for good ol’Blighty, the Solo XT in March this year.
Packed in a unit with a “pleasing soft touch” (oo-er), the unit delivers twin DAB and FM functions with support for Band III and L-Band, while Boston claim that the radio will deliver good reception in areas with very low signals.
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The One Laptop Per Child Foundation has focused its attention on the poorest kids in the United States, setting up a north American office and approaching state governments to get them interested in the cheapo laptop project.
Dreamt up by former MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte, the One Laptop project was tasked with helping poorer nations bridge the digital divide, developing a cheap (sub-$100) and rugged ‘XO’ laptop which they hoped would be bought en masse by Third World governments.
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Apple may be famous for squeezing tough deals out of network operators, but their attempts to introduce the iPhone to the Chinese market have resulted in another breakdown of negotiations.
According to vnunet, Apple and China Mobile, the country’s largest mobile operator, couldn’t stop the squabbling over how the revenue should be distributed.
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Significantly ‘inspired’ by Palm’s doomed Foleo laptop, Redfly’s Mobile Companion picks up the abandoned concept and packs it into a rather ugly package promising to extend the capabilities of Windows Mobile smartphones.
Boasting an 8-inch, WVGA (800 by 480 pixel) screen and packing very similar functionality to the Foleo (even the name is similar: Celio!), the portable boasts instant on, tight integration between mobile/laptop, a trackpad, USB 2.0, video out and a not-to-be-sniffed claimed battery life of 8 hours.
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2007 was a great year for dSLRs, with a highly competitive market seeing camera quality rising and prices falling – there’s never been a better time to snaffle a digital SLR!
Here’s our faves and recommendations from last year.