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  • Sony Ericsson X10 Mini teardown reveals densely packed, tiny hardware

    Sony Ericsson X10 Mini teardown reveals densely packed, tiny hardware

    Posted on June 22, 2010 | No Comments
    The crew at iFixit were jonesing for something to disassemble recently, and Sony Ericsson's X10 Mini seems to have been the nearest thing they could lay hand and screwdriver upon. We'll admit HTC has us kind of spoiled with the colorful interiors of its phones, so we were a little underwhelmed by the demureness of the X10 Mini. Everything is packed into the utilitarian logic board, and although you get to decouple the screen and antenna assembly, it's still mostly a thick slab of highly integrated technology. Still, if you want to see a Qualcomm MSM7227 all naked and exposed to the elements, this is your chance. The source link contains all the intimate photography you could wish for.

    Sony Ericsson X10 Mini teardown reveals densely packed, tiny hardware originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 22 Jun 2010 06:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • HTC Wildfire hands-on (update: video!)

    HTC Wildfire hands-on (update: video!)

    Posted on May 17, 2010 | No Comments
    digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/HTC_Wildfire_hands_on'; Some eager beavers went ahead and busted through the embargo dam this morning, so you should already be up to speed on the Wildfire's specs and vital statistics. For the latecomers, this is an Android 2.1 device with the same processor as HTC's fabled Hero, a 3.2-inch capacitive QVGA display, and an ambition to sate the market for an affordable, socially connected Android smartphone. It's slated for a release in Europe and Asia early in the third quarter of this year, and you can see all four of its tasteful color options in the exhaustive gallery of intimate photography below. Skip past the break for the full spec sheet and our early hands-on impressions of the Wildfire.

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    HTC Wildfire hands-on (update: video!) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 17 May 2010 08:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • TeleNav creating GPS blog reading system

    TeleNav creating GPS blog reading system

    Posted on January 26, 2010 | No Comments
    To me, geo-tagging in photography hasn't really held much interest. Sure, it's helpful when you see someones work that you admire, but generally I've always felt that it was kind of silly. TeleNav is looking to change that, through the use of a device that will show you images to places in your area that have been tagged.

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  • Apple Bans Another Developer, 1000+ Apps Pulled

    Apple Bans Another Developer, 1000+ Apps Pulled

    Posted on December 7, 2009 | No Comments
    As the old mantra goes, “Cheaters never prosper”. In this digital age, it may be time to revise that saying. Granted a veil of anonymity by the Internet, cheaters surely prosper from their cheating; it’s just that when they get caught, they go down hard. Alas, “Cheaters may temporarily prosper – but if they get [...]

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  • Samsung Pixon 12 phonecamera hybrid gets tested

    Samsung Pixon 12 phonecamera hybrid gets tested

    Posted on October 15, 2009 | No Comments

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    It's probably best to think of Samsung's Pixon 12 not as a phone with a killer camera, but more so as a good point-and-shoot with phone capabilities tacked on. Our friends at Engadget Chinese managed to get some hands-on with the device, and while they say the voice and SMS portion is nothing to write home about, the form factor and AMOLED screen seems quite nice and the sample pictures come out even nicer. Hit up the read link for some odd, machine-translated text and pretty photography.

    Samsung Pixon 12 phonecamera hybrid gets tested originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Motorola Droid (alias Sholes) finally gets a decent headshot

    Motorola Droid (alias Sholes) finally gets a decent headshot

    Posted on October 14, 2009 | No Comments

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    At last eluding the omnipresent Mr. Blurrycam, Motorola's Android-powered Sholes handset has finally gotten the sort of photography it deserves, apparently with an official go-to-market name of Droid -- or at least one decent photo of it. This pic, which doesn't really confirm or deny any of our suspicions about the device (Verizon was already in the bag), made a berth on the locked Twitter profile of Boy Genius, and hopefully there's more where this came from: we're getting tired of the tease.

    [Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

    Motorola Droid (alias Sholes) finally gets a decent headshot originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:04:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • The Leica M9 leaks out early which is probably for the best

    The Leica M9 leaks out early which is probably for the best

    Posted on September 7, 2009 | No Comments
    Leica has a big event scheduled for this Wednesday where the M9 was likely going to be announced. But it just so happens that Apple also has a presser booked for the same day, along with a bunch of companies at the audio video expo, CEDIA. So it's probably best for Leica that a Photography Bay tipster sent the site an official-looking brochure that lists all the specs of unannounced M9.

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  • A guide to Japan’s 32 best iPhone apps (all available in English)

    A guide to Japan’s 32 best iPhone apps (all available in English)

    Posted on September 6, 2009 | No Comments
    It's not really a secret that Japan is absolutely crazy about cell phones. And even though domestic makers churn out more than 100 different handsets every year (some of which are simply amazing), the iPhone is selling over here. SoftBank Mobile, the country's exclusive iPhone provider, doesn't release official data, but estimates put sales in Japan at well over one million units so far - not bad at all in this hopelessly over-saturated market. In other words, Japan doesn't hate the iPhone, as some blogs suggested in the past. It never did. The local developer community has noticed and produced a slew of apps aimed at a global audience. What follows is my subjective selection of the "best" of these made-in-Japan apps, all of which are at least available in English. (I left out iPhone games released by big companies such as Capcom, Konami, Sega or Namco to focus on apps created by startups or individuals based in Japan instead.) My personal favorite is a free (and fantastic) GPS-based photo sharing app called Memory Tree (just like all the apps in the following list, it works worldwide). But here's a round-up of all the 32 apps I chose, grouped in six categories (games, productivity, tools, photography and art, music, and everything else).

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  • Whistlin’ in the dark – Leica opens first US store

    Whistlin’ in the dark – Leica opens first US store

    Posted on August 24, 2009 | No Comments
    In what some would call a rather interesting move, Leica has decided to open it's first store in the U.S. in West Palm Beach, Florida. This is interesting because, well, let's face it, Leica is unapologetically not a bargain brand. They are also building a series of studios, classrooms, and other spaces to support the retail location.

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  • Blind Photographers Use Gadgets to Realize Artistic Vision

    Blind Photographers Use Gadgets to Realize Artistic Vision

    Posted on July 16, 2009 | No Comments
    digg_url = 'http://digg.com/gadgets/Blind_Photographers_Use_Gadgets_to_Realize_Artistic_Vision'; When a brain tumor caused professional photographer Alex Dejong to lose his eyesight three years ago, he turned to gadgets to continue making his art. Carrying around a Nokia N82 cellphone, Dejong used assistive software to translate sounds into visuals in his mind. After stitching together a mental image of his surroundings, he snapped [...]

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  • Nasty Clamp: DIY Flash-Stand Goes Commercial

    Nasty Clamp: DIY Flash-Stand Goes Commercial

    Posted on July 15, 2009 | No Comments
    Here at the Lab, its certainly no secret that we like DIY solutions to gadget puzzles. Which is why we’re so pleased about the Nasty Clamp. The flash stand was originally a home-made project, but the maker, Matthew G. Monroe, was so inundated with requests from other photographers that he decided to go ahead and [...]

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  • Mama, They Took My Kodachrome Away

    Mama, They Took My Kodachrome Away

    Posted on June 23, 2009 | No Comments
    It would be hard to find a film as iconic as Kodachrome. Imagine another emulsion that that garnered so much emotion that songs were written about it. Sadly, the film is no more, retired by Kodak after 74 years of service. The slide, or reversal, film was making up a fraction of one percent of Kodak’s [...]

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  • Rumor: Specs for the Canon 1D Mark IV?

    Rumor: Specs for the Canon 1D Mark IV?

    Posted on June 19, 2009 | No Comments
    Hmmm. Are these the specs for the Canon 1D Mark IV? They all look right expect for the megapixel count. The rumor mentions a video mode, ISO up to 26,500, and a quicker overall speed. But the rumor states that the camera will be around 16MPs. That doesn't make sense at all. The 1Ds Mark III and 5D Mark II both shoot at 21.1MP. Why would the the in between model have something different?

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  • Expect two new DSLRs from Nikon this summer

    Expect two new DSLRs from Nikon this summer

    Posted on June 18, 2009 | No Comments
    It seems that Nikon has scheduled press conferences for both July 30 and August 4. We hear that a new DSLR will be a announced at each presser. The D300s is a given, with its SD card slot and 720p24 recording, but what's the other DSLR?

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