October 20th, 2008

Hot on the heels of their INNOV8 i8510, Samsung have announced the Pixon M8800 8 megapixel camera, that is only 13.8 mm thick.
The Pixon is a touchscreen phone with a 240 x 400 TFT LCD screen. The camera has a 16x digital zoom and includes auto-focus, face detection as well as geo-tagging, and there is a dedicated photo browser to view and share pictures.
There is only 200MB of internal memory - not great compared with other top spec phones - but you can add more with the micro SD card - upto 16GB, which should allow for lots of pictures.
The Pixon is expected in the UK from 1 November.
The expected specifications are:
Network: GSM/GPRS/ EDGE Quad Band (850/ 900/1800/1900 MHz)
HSDPA 7.2 Mbps (2100 MHz)
Display: 3.2″ 240×400 262K WQVGA TFT LCD
Camera: 8-megapixel camera with Auto focus
Dual Power LED Flash
ASR (Advanced Shake Reduction)
Face Detection, Smile Shot, Face Link (face tagging), Geo-tagging, Auto Panorama Shot, Photo memo
Photo Browser (Accelerometer Sensor, Tilt and flip, Sorting by Face/Time/Color/Folder)
Video recording & playing (MPEG4, WMV, DivX, XviD)
30 fps D1 (720 x 480) & 120 fps(QGVA) high quality video recording
SRS (Surround Sound System) Virtual 5.1CH
Music Player (MP3, AAC, e-AAC+, e-AAC+, WMA)
FM Radio with RDS
DNSe (Digital Natural Sound engine)
Bluetooth v.2.0 / USB 2.0 HS
TV Out connection
Internal Memory: 200MB External Memory: Micro SD
Size: 107.9 x 54.6 x 13.8 mm, 121g
Battery: 1000 mAh
Talk time: 3h 40min
Standby time: 290h
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January 7th, 2008
If you got a new camera phone for Christmas, or even a brand new digital camera you’ll probably have clicked up a number of photos by now, some of which you will have deleted straight away, whilst others you will want to keep.

Of course you have various options to display your photos but here are some of our favourites.
Get your digital pictures printed out
There are many services that will enable you to transfer your digital photos into good old fashioned prints, and you either need to take a CD, DVD or memory card to your local photo shop where they will carry out the service for you or there are a number of online services where you upload the photos you want printed and order them online. Snapfish is one such service, but there are others as well. Most will also have introductory offers: for example at the moment you can get 30 free prints from Snapfish.
Put a photo on your desktop
There are many places where you might be able to show your favourite digital photo, for example the desktop of your PC, your camera phone desktop, or on your PDA. The advantage of digital photos means that whenever you get bored with that photo, or you take a better one you can easily stop around.
Get a digital photo frame
A digital photo frame takes the desktop display idea one step further and allows you to display hundreds of digital photos in an electronic format, either as a slideshow, or by simply showing your favourite. Over the last few months the design and quality digital photo frames as improved immensely and of course the cost has also come down with digital photo frames now available for under £50. Visit Buy Digital Photo Frame for more information and a great selection.
And whatever option you choose, remember to back up your photos off your PC and onto a CD, just in case your PC stops working.
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November 10th, 2007
With the launch of the iPhone on 02, we have glossed over the launce of the Skype phone/mobile link up with the 3 Network.

If you use Skype, then you know all about the benefits of free calls, particularly free international calls. And with a stand alone Skype phone costing upwards of £100 (of course access to the network is free if you use a PC), this looks lie a good deal. Free phone, with the starter price plan at £12 per month.
The phone comes with a built in 2 megapixel camera, music player and memory expndable to 1GB with an SD card.
If you don’t want to sign up to a contract the skypephone is avaialble on PAYG for only £49.99 and you get free Skype access for 30 days after you top up with at least £10. Becasue of this, the Skpyephone is going onto our Best Buys for Christmas list.
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