Olympus Pen E-P3 hands-on
Should you join the Pen club?
Olympus has carved out a crafty little niche in the camera market with its trendy take on the compact mirrorless camera. Previous generations of Pen cameras were adopted for their looks as much as their size and portability.?
The entry level DSLR however has always succeeded in outdoing the Olympus offerings, [...]
APP OF THE DAY: Get Growing (iOS)
Do you bit for the planet
What have we done to the world? Look what we’ve done.
What about flowering fields? Is there a time.
What about the bleeding Earth? Can’t we feel its wounds?
What about nature’s worth? It’s our planet’s womb.
Wise words indeed from a wise-man, we’re sure you’d all agree. And if Jacko was alive today, [...]
Android download total passes 4.5 billion
With a billion in just two months
Android downloads have passed the 4.5 billion figure – up 3.5 billion compared to this time last year.
The boom in Android popularity is highlighted by the fact the last billion downloads occurred in just 60 days.
Speaking at the launch of Google’s “Sites Mobile Landing Pages -?Google Mobilize”, Ian Carrington, [...]
Nielsen Survey Claims iPhone Up, Android Flat in U.S. Smartphone Growth
Shouldn’t be surprising to anyone. This is the effect of Verizon carrying the iPhone. The most important trend isn’t iPhone vs. Android phones. It’s how smartphones as a whole — or better put, app phones — are subsuming the entire U.S. phone market.
See also: Ars Technica’s analysis of the same Nielsen survey.
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Pogue on the TouchPad
The good:
First of all, the TouchPad is beautiful. It’s ipad beautiful.
The case is glossy black plastic — a magnet for fingerprints,
unfortunately, but it looks wicked great in the first five
minutes. The WebOS is beautiful, too. It’s graphically coherent,
elegant, fluid and satisfying. That, apparently, is the payoff
when a single company designs both the hardware and the [...]
Mossberg on the TouchPad: ‘Simply No Match for the iPad’
No grading on a curve here:
I’ve been testing the TouchPad for about a week and, in my view,
despite its attractive and different user interface, this first
version is simply no match for the ipad. It suffers from poor
battery life, a paucity of apps and other deficits.
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Josh Topolsky Reviews the HP TouchPad
He seems largely in agreement with Snell overall, and has a detailed look at the Mail app.
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Jason Snell Reviews the HP TouchPad
Best review of it I’ve seen. If you’re only going to read one, make it Snell’s. He covers it all: the great UI design, WebOS’s excellent card-based switching interface, the solid hardware, the shortcomings, what seems unfinished, WebOS’s seemingly endemic laggyness, and the miserable performance of Flash Player.
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Opera Mobile and Mini auto features added
Complete and suggestions on board for updates
Opera Mini and Opera Mobile have both been updated to make your web searching easier.
Catching on to the notion that we’re all just a bunch of lazy surfers really, Opera Mini 6.1 and Opera Mobile 11.1 adds two automation options; auto complete and auto suggestions.
“As we are no fans [...]
Samsung Galaxy Z leaked in Sweden
First S II variant hits Scandinavian Three store
It’s a day for Samsung handset news it seems. First up was the official announcement from Sammy about the mid-level Conquer 4G, and now there’s news of a new Galaxy handset – the Samsung Galaxy Z – which is described as “an affordable little brother to the Galaxy [...]
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