Author: Katherine Hannaford
Store up to 8GB of songs and video with the new SanDisk Sansa Fuze MP3 players
Some might call this range from SanDisk ‘fun’. Personally, I think they’re a visual stick-shoved-in-the-eyeballs, but each to their own. The Sansa Fuze range is finally launching in the UK after being available over the pond since mid-March, but I think the company might have some competition on their hands with the Creative Zen Stones, and Samsung Pebbles. Not to mention those Apple iPod Nanos, either…
Available in three storage capacities – 2GB, 6GB and 8GB, they have 1.9″ colour screens, and can play music plus video. Why you’d want to on a screen that size is beyond me, however. An FM tuner with 40 preset stations, inbuilt voice recorder,…
PAYG phone with 5-megapixels? Yep, you've got it, with the LG KC550
This isn’t the first time we’ve seen this handset floating about on the internet, thanks to FCC approval documents surfacing a month ago. Today, however, LG saw fit to formally introduce it to the world, and has given us some more details about the LG-KC550, or KC550 as it’s been fondly nicknamed.
Now, you can snap photos on it with the impressive 5.0-megapixel sensor, image stabiliser and Schneider-Kreuznach lens, however it’s sadly not 3G-capable, meaning if you want to send those photos anywhere? Yep, it’ll be on ye olde slow 2G, or via MMS, however it is being marketed as a pre-pay handset, which may explain the lack of high-speed internet…
HP adds dv4, dv5 and dv7 notebooks to Pavilion range, the former with integrated 3G
We didn’t get any new MacBooks this week, however HP has announced plans to add three new consumer notebooks to its Pavilion range – the dv4 (measuring 14.1″), dv5 (measuring 15.4″), and dv7 (17″) which are all pictured above.
The three models all feature AMD or Intel Centrino 2 processors, plus high-speed eSATA interfaces. Most notable however, is the dv4 which has integrated WWAN for 3G internet connectivity, the first consumer laptop to do so, with the HDD starting at 120GB. Coated in a “sleek, liquid-metallic Mesh Imprint finish” with “magical chrome” touch controls, you can choose to add Blu-ray optical drives, TV…
Shiny Video Review: Medion GoPal Glamour Edition E3215 sat-nav
Announced less than a month ago, Medion’s limited editon GoPal E3215 Glamour Edition sat-nav gets a firm once-over by Lucy, who took the device, plus her video camera, out for a spin in her car. Will the 3.5″ touchscreen, Western European maps, traffic updates and 2D/3D display impress her? If it impresses you, it’s just £149.99…
Apple iPhone 3G Vs. BlackBerry Bold 9000: the ultimate specs comparison
Apple’s launch of the iPhone 3G yesterday heralded a new change in direction for the company, towards a more business-friendly approach. BlackBerry is predominantly the business user’s handset manufacturer of choice, with their first 3G model, the Bold 9000, squaring up nicely to the iPhone. Take a look at the below comparison of specs between the two models, and let us know in the comments field below which you’d prefer.
Dimensions
BlackBerry Bold 9000: 127mm in length, 66mm wide and 12.7mm thick, it weighs 133g.
iPhone 3G: 115.5mm high, 62.1mm wide and 12.3mm thick, weighs 133g.
Display
BlackBerry Bold 9000: 480 x 320 resolution, touch display.
iPhone 3G: 480 x 320 multi-touch display…
OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard confirmed by Apple, will be GPU-friendly, optimised for multi-core processors
Don’t you love that with Apple naming their latest OS ‘Snow Leopard’, we have an excuse to post cute pictures of snow leopard cubs on Tech Digest?
Apple has confirmed details of OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, which will be launched at the beginning of 2009. What we know so far is that it will be mostly minor tweaks to the current OS, including optimisation for multi-core processors, it will…
YouTube Hits: Apple iPhone 3G Hallway advert
Pretty soon we’ll be seeing this advert on TV, and moaning about how overplayed it is. In fact, I bet many of you are already moaning about that, as every tech site has posted it in the last few hours.
Still, worth a watch, just once, if only so you can press ‘mute’…
Obituary: The iPod Touch is dead, thanks to the 3G iPhone's £100 pricing
Someone was killed during Steve Jobs’s keynotes speech at the WWDC event today. Anyone remember the iPod Touch? He was the little fellow who looked just like an iPhone, but was available in an 8GB, 16GB and 32GB storage choice.
You could do almost everything on an iPod Touch that you could do on an iPhone, apart from that one important factor – that it lacked phone capabilities. Still, it was cheaper, with the 8GB option coming in at £199, whereas the 8GB iPhone was originally £269 before Apple chopped £100 off the price, less than two months ago.
Now however, who’d want an iPod Touch, considering Steve Jobs tonight said 8GB iPhones would cost $199, or £100 up front? Sure, there’s still the £30 or so that you have to pay each month for the contract, but most people pay that much for their mobile phone contracts anyway…
First generation 2G iPhone Vs. second generation 3G iPhone
Out with the old, and in with the new, as the saying goes – something Apple has obviously embraced, as they’ve turfed out the first generation iPhone, and replaced it with the 3G iPhone on their site. There’s no mention of the previous model whatsoever, however we luckily knew all the specs anyway, so read on below for a comparison of the two phones…
Dimensions
2G: 115mm high, is 61mm wide and 11.6mm thick, weighs 135g.
3G: 115.5mm high, 62.1mm wide and 12.3mm thick, weighs 133g.
Display
2G: 480 x 320 3.5″ multi-touch display.
3G: 480 x 320 3.5″ multi-touch display.
Storage
2G: 8GB and 16GB.
3G: 8GB and 16GB, with the latter available in both black and white.
Camera
2G: 2.0-megapixel camera.
3G: 2.0-megapixel camera, with geo-tagging and third-party application integration…
WWDC 2008: Snow Leopard, the next Apple operating system, announced by Steve Jobs
In addition to announcing the 3G iPhone, Steve Jobs said that developers would be able to check out a preview of the next operating system for Apple, Snow Leopard.
It’s not due to be launched until early next year, however the people over at WWDC can check it out today, so hopefully we’ll…
