In part one we took a look at the Palm Treo 500v’s ergonomics and form factor, and in part two we’ll see how it shapes up as a phone.
Booting up the Treo for the first time took around 30 seconds, with a succession of logos appearing on screen: first the Palm logo, followed by Vodafone’s animated feast of redness and finally the Window Mobile branding.
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With a design best designed as traditional and business-like, Nokia’s new 3G E51 dual mode smartphone has been given a gentle kick down the new product slipway .
Sporting a revamped user interface for improved navigation, the Wi-Fi-enabled smartphone offers dedicated email/calendar keys, a 2MP camera, and FM visual radio.
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Motorola has announced its new range of of MOTOLIVN phones for folks that are still digging the landline action.
White, tall and slim like an Icelandic supermodel, the D8 phone comes with a location-free base so you can position the handset wherever there is a nearby power socket.
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Lusty lovelorn loners looking for love are likely to push revenues from mobile dating and chatroom services past the $1bn mark by 2010, according to a new report by Juniper Research.
The research firm estimates that users of such services are set to soar to 260m in 2012, substantially up from the current tally of 40m.
The report points to strong demand in both developed and emerging markets, including more than 60m users in the Indian sub-continent, with the largest mobile dating markets being Japan and India.
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As anyone who has been tracking the various ups and (considerable) downs of Palm’s fortunes recently will know, there’s quite a lot hanging on this latest release for the company.
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In this final part of the Olympus Evolt E-410 Digital SLR Camera Review we look at image quality and give you our conclusion.
Image quality
Straight out of the box and set to auto, results were pretty good, although we found the camera had a propensity to over-expose in high contrast scenes with bright sunshine and shade (curiously, other reviewers found that the Olympus under-exposed, something we only encountered a couple of times).
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You know what it’s like when you want a drink at a busy bar – it can take ages to get yourself served sometimes. Often because the bar tender doesn’t know you’re waiting.
Those behind new bar, twentyfour London, claim that this is all in the past. Alongside a whole host of interactive and technology whiz bangs, this bar helps you get served.
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A Ferrari 360 Modena has been turned into a Ferrari Limousine with huge 110″ motorised gull wings doors, eight seats and capable of 170mph.
Moving away from the normal stretched limo with neon-drenched bar and tacky accessories, this baby goes for the stripped-down approach.
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Yesterday we looked at the lens, screen and viewfinder on the Olympus Evolt E-410 Digital SLR Camera.
Using the camera
First off, we have to say that we loved the size of the camera. Although it’s by no means pocketable, the skinny shape meant that we were more inclined to grab the E-410 instead of a digital compact, and the minimal weight meant that it wasn’t a burden to shunt about all day.
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Yesterday we took the Olympus Evolt E-410 Digital SLR Camera in hand and looked at the top plate and lens.
Viewfinder
The prism style viewfinder comes with a comfortable removable rubber eye cup (and dioptre adjustment) but offers a rather tunnel-like view, with the optics considerably smaller than, say, a Nikon D80. Although we moaned about the titchy viewfinder at first, in reality we soon got used to it and it was bright enough to avoid any real usability issues.
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