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The PowerShot SX210 IS is aimed at users who demand a considerable amount from a point-andshoot camera, featuring a 14.1-megapixel CCD sensor, a 14x zoom lens and many manual controls.

Its lens can take shots from a wide angle of 28mm, right up to a tele-zoom angle of 392mm. This is even more far reaching than Panasonic’s Lumix DMC-TZ10.

The Canon also has a wider aperture range from f/3.1 to f/8.0 and its shutter speed ranges from 15sec to 1/3200sec. Read the rest of this entry »

Now this particular Bluetooth headset is more than just a headset. You can listen to email and incoming messages without a PC, and at extra cost you can reply and have the unit convert your speech to text.

You can use it to listen to news, sports or weather updates from sources such as CNN and Yahoo (PC Tech coming soon) with a smartphone app.

Then you can answer or reject calls without touching it: Just say “answer” or “ignore” as a call comes in.

Experience reliable, portable storage with a SanDisk Cruzer USB Flash Drive. Why leave your photos, videos and music at home when they’ll fit in your pocket? Trust the minds behind flash memory to make it easy to store, transfer and share your digital files wherever you go.

With up to 32GB of storage, these drives are built to handle the real world’s bumps and turns-so you can count on them to help you share plenty of photos, videos and other digital favorites wherever you go.

The Apollo has an LCD screen of 240X400 resolution instead of AMOLED display and runs Android 2.1.

Snaps from the 3 megapixel camera are average for a phone but the lack of a flash dooms low-light shot.

Video can only be captured at 320X240, which is barely good enough for posting to YouTube.

Battery life is good, although it’s highly dependent on your use of WiFi, 3G data and GPS. Apollo I5801 supports up to 7.2 hours of talk-time.
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Sony’s H55 is one of the most recent additions to the mid-zoom compact genre. Its lens spans a focal range from a wideangle 25mm to an impressive 250mm at the long end, while a 14.1 MP CCD sensor and a 3-inch LCD screen also feature.

There is plenty of functionality tucked away in the menu options too, including Sweep Panorama, Smile Capture and a 720p HD movie recording mode.

The H55 bears more than a slight resemblance to Panasonic’s rival TZ range, but its grip is less defined and there are fewer direct controls. The small menu pad on the rear can be awkward to operate comfortably due to its size. Read the rest of this entry »

The Pentax RZ10 is one of the latest mid-zoom compacts to arrive. It has a 14.1 MP sensor, HD video capture at 720p and a 28-280mm zoom lens. You also can get sensor-based and ISO-based image stabilization modes plus Face Recognition, Blink Detection and Smile Capture options.

The Pentax Optio RZ10 also has one of the fastest start-up times of any compact currently available. Read the rest of this entry »

The CX4 is the latest advanced compact from Ricoh. It has an eye-catching specification.

The Ricoh CX4 features the 10 MP CMOS back-lit sensor that debuted in the CX3, which also offers HD video capture at 1280 X 720 pixel resolution and at a frame rate of 30fps. A 10.7X optical zoom, offering a focal range of 28-300mm in 35mm equivalent terms, is also present.

One area in which the CX4 has been improved over its predecessor is image stabilization.

A 3-inch, 920k-dot LCD screen remains as does the lack of Raw capture and full manual control. Rather than add Raw capture, Ricoh has added a new host of ‘Creative Shooting Modes’. These modes apply filters such as Cross Process and Soft Focus to images captured.

The CX4′s focusing system is both fast and accurate, and subject tracking also performs well. The design of the camera is such that shooting with it is a pleasure, while a reasonably well-designed menu system also helps.

One of the main advantages of bridge cameras is their ability to offer long zoom lengths in a relatively small compact form and none more illustrative than the new PowerShot SX30 IS. Delivering a 35X optical zoom from a wide 24mm though to a super telephoto 840 mm equivalent, it’s one of the longest-zoom compacts on the market.

The sensor of Canon SX30 IS is a 14.1 MP 1/2.3-in CCD, the same as featured in the more compact-styled SX210 model, yet notably physically smaller than the sensor in the new G12.

The processor is also the tried and tested DIGIC 4 that has been seen in a variety of recent Canon models all the way up to its professional DSLRs, and the ISAPS technology from the G-series models.

The 645D uses a Kodak 40 MP CCD sensor, which outputs at 7264 X 5440 pixels in 14-bit Raw (PEF or Adobe DNG) or JPEG. At 44 X 33mm in size it’s smaller than a true 6 X 4.5cm frame but still 1.7 times larger than a full-frame sensor. This means its new lenses have a 0.79X crop factor.

The processor is the Prime Engine II, which also features in Pentax DSLRs, from the K-x up to the K-5. It provides a conservative ISO 100-1600 range, though of little issue as medium format has traditionally been for use in controlled studio environments or landscape scenarios. Read the rest of this entry »

Fast load times, quick touch response and very vivid screen are what this new gen iPod offers. Moreover, to keep the pilot amused it also has a 3 MP camera that can capture HD videos.

A pilot can also use his 4th Generation iPod Touch to capture the beautiful horizon in high definition.

That will make an awesome YouTube video, leaving many green with envy.

Specs: 32GB memory; 3.5-inch display; Twin cameras; HD recording; 40 hour audio playback and weights 101 gm.