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The Archos 32 is compact and highly portable.  Measuring just 9mm thick and weighing only 72g, it’s barely noticeable in a shirt pocket.

Poor screen resolution is evident from the start.  The 240×400-pixel display is passable for viewing photos and video, or paging through album covers. But with text – especially in the menus, where text is white on black – it can be harsh. Dots are large and text is blurred.

Although it takes Android 2.2, the device lacks pinch-zooming.  It supports Flash 10.1  according to Archos.

The lithium-polymer battery is rated for eight hours of web use,  six hrs of video or 24 of music.  Media handling is the one area where it passes muster. Audio playback is excellent. Read the rest of this entry »

The Galaxy Player 50 is an Android-based MP3 player that features a 3.2in touchscreen and comes in 8GB and 16GB capacities — support for microSD lets you expand this by up to 32GB. As well as downloading apps, you can take photos on its 2Mp camera or surf the web using the integrated Chrome Lite browser (with support for Flash).

Samsung described the portable player as an extension to its popular Galaxy family, which includes the Galaxy S and Samsung-developed Nexus S smartphone.

A 7in touchscreen tablet PC running Android 2.2. The Streak 2 will dwarf the current 5in model.

T-mobile said it will be priced below existing tablets but didn’t reveal an exact figure – nor did it say when the Streak will go on sale.

The tablet runs an nVidia dual-core processor and has an SD Card slot to permit storage of as much as 32GB.

The brand new Samsung NX11 has been announced at this year’s CES and looks to update the NX10 with both i-Function lens compatability and a new design.

Rather than an overhaul of the original NX10, the new NX11 offers improvements including compatibility with Samsung’s i-Function lenses providing an additional function button on the lens for quick adjustment of the most prominent options such as shutter speed, aperture, ISO and so forth.

Design-wise, the NX11 is similar in form to the Samsung NX10, albeit with a change in grip design to make shooting easier and more comfortable. Elsewhere there’s a brand new Panorama mode that can capture a panoramic image in real time by moving the camera. Read the rest of this entry »

SONY is set to launch a 5-in screen intended to work with the company’s NEX and Alpha cameras.

The accessory is designed to allow users to monitor, capture and playback in a larger format via HDMI connection.

The CLM-V55 LCD screen is set to go on sale in March  and is expected to cost $399.

Designed with the NEX-VG10 video camera in mind, the shaded screen is also able to take over the job of any camera that features an HDMI output connection whether made by Sony or not.

Powered by a standard Sony Alpha battery, the screen comes with an adapter to allow it to be fitted to the Alpha hotshoe as well as one for a standard tripod socket. Read the rest of this entry »

Research In Motion (RIM) announced their latest offering, the Blackberry PlayBook. The tablet which RIM CEO, Mike Lazaridis described as “the first professional tablet” has a 7 inch, 1024 x 600 multi-touch screen, a dual-core 1GHz processor, 1GB RAM and either 16GB or 32GB onboard storage capacity.

The PlayBook sports a 3MP front facing camera and a 5MP rear camera. It has got a microUSB jack, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and an HDMI port. No word on when it will be available and at how much, but it looks quite promising.

This one is not new, it has been around for almost a year, but having spent the last month with it in my palm made me feel it deserves mention here.

It has multi-touch capability, and 360 degree scrolling. The only problem is that its meant for Mac only, and I had to go through quite some trouble to get it working with my Windows 7 netbook.

Before you buy your next mobile phone or make a contractual commitment you will want to consider doing what many consumers are doing; lowering their phone bills by using SIM only deals. Don’t know a lot about SIM only deals? Using a SIM only deal allows you to switch from phone to phone. You don’t have to be stuck in a company that provides substandard service any longer. You don’t have to lose pictures, data, and other important information every time you switch to a new phone. Going SIM only allows you to call the shots. The best news is you can save more money than you might think because you can tailor your mobile phone plan to fit your needs. You choose how SIM only will work for you using pay as you go, prepaid or a SIM only contract option. Read the rest of this entry »

OCZ seems to be leading the fight to kill the spinning hard drive as of late. After releasing the first 1TB Solid State Drive, TweakTown reports that OCZ is giving the external hard drive market a huge speed upgrade.

Their newly-released Enyo line of hard drives combines the performance of USB 3.0 with the speed and reliability of solid state memory in a trim and sleek aluminum package that has the potential to really shake things up in the external hard drive market.

The Enyo boasts read speeds up to 260 MB/sec and write speeds up to 200 MB/sec. A full 256 GB back up lasts only 12 minutes instead of the 2.5hrs over USB 2.0. Read the rest of this entry »