Archive for January, 2008
Canon has announced 3 new cameras for beginners
30 January 2008American Canon branch has announced new digital cameras A Series: 8-Mpixels PowerShot A590 IS and A580, and also 7,1-Mpixels model A470.
Both PowerShot A590 IS and A580 are equipped with a 4-fold optical zoom, but the first model has 19 modes of shooting, and the second - only 16. Last model A470 has more compact [...]
Sharp has put on the market the superfine LCD-TV
29 January 2008Japanese company Sharp has put on the market new LCD-TVs Aquos X series which are thinner than the majority of similar models in the market, writes PC World.
Thickness of a novelty vary from 1,35 inches up to 1,52 inches. Diagonal of the screen at different models makes 37, 42 or 46 inches.
In the company [...]
Apple has presented the thinnest laptop in the world
25 January 2008MacBook Air varies from 4 millimeters to 1,93 centimeters, and the weight is 1,36 kg.
New laptop is equipped with processor Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 GB of main memory, Intel GMA X3100 videocard with 144 Mbytes of the memory separated from the main, and works on a frequency 1,6 or 1,8 GHz.
Also Apple’s founder [...]
New JVC palm-size cameras
24 January 2008Japanese company Victor (in the world known as JVC) has presented a new line of videocameras Everio GZ-MG740, GZ-MG730 and GZ-MG530. New cameras are equipped with Konica-Minolta optics with 10-fold enlargement and can record video with the highest possible resolution 720 x 480 pixels, and also to take photographs with the resolution from 5 up [...]
MWg presents new communicators with GPS
22 January 2008Company Mobile and Wireless Group (MWg), created in 2007 on the basis of Telefonica O2’s Asian branch, has presented two new Windows Mobile-controlled communicators - models Atom V and Zinc II, informs The Register.
Atom V has processor XScale with frequency in 624 MHz. The device is intended for work in three or four-range networks [...]
Beauty is never enough. New Sony Ericsson Z555
18 January 2008The company positions it as «fashion phone».
Specifications, fortunately, are more or less tolerable. A novelty is equipped with 1.3-Ðœpixel camera with a fourfold zoom, a speakerphone, Bluetooth, media - player, FM-radio, dictaphone, modem, support of Memory Stick Micro cards and RSS system.
The display, by the way, is quite good: 1.9 inches on a [...]
The tiniest liquid crystal SVGA-display
17 January 2008American company Kopin which is engaged in manufacture of microdisplays, has declared creation of the tiniest liquid crystal SVGA-display, informed Digitimes.
The new display of the American company makes on a diagonal about 0,44 inches, and supports the resolution 800 x 600 pixels. As to energy consumption, CyberDisplay SVGA LVS consumes 30 percent less energy, than [...]
Mad speeds from new Casio camera
15 January 2008Novelty Exilim Pro EX-F1 is semi-professional and, certainly, digital one. One of these days it, at last, has been presented officially.
This 6 Mpixel device makes 60 JPEG-pictures (with resolution 2816 x 2112) in a second and easily writes records video (512 x 384 pixels). Not bad, isn’t it?!
And that is not all. Here some other [...]
USB 3.0 in Las Vegas
11 January 2008During the exhibition CES 2008 in Las Vegas, experts have presented for the first time slots and prototypes of USB 3.0 interface for data exchange, informs Engadget.
The new standard, for the first time declared last autumn, will allow to transmit information with a speed up to 600 megabyte per second. For comparison, previous USB version [...]
JVC has presented iPod-enabled plasma TVs
10 January 2008Japanese company JVC has announced new generation of home plasma and liquid crystal TVs which are equipped with ports for installation of Apple iPod players. In the company informed, that TVs are not only chargers for players, but also completely support work with it. Henceforth, by means of the new TVs user will be able [...]
