Mobile phones have been cannibals in the gadget market place. They have eaten other devices lunches while increasing their marketshare. PDAs, GPS units, book viewers and hand game consoles have all come and now linger on as Zombie low cost or highly specialized devices as smartphones knock each one off. The real culprit is the […]
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One of the trends that is effecting camera vendors is that a wide range of electronic device makers outside the familiar ranks are getting into the camera business. Not just smartphones and tablets but laptops, desktops, and all sorts of industrial appliances. This has inevitably had an impact on traditional camera and videocam sales with downward trends
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Convergence is a way of life in electronic gadgets. For example, still and video cameras have merged in the past 5 years. Another example, video cameras at the high-end may provide the next step up with 4000K movie images to draw upon for stills. But the real movement on the gadget highway has been from PDA
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There is no doubt that smartphone users are attached to their cameras – a good camera made a big difference in iPhone 4 and the new iPad sales. And smartphone users snap a lot of photos : On Flickr the iPhone 4 and then iPhone 4s currently rank as the first and third most popular
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With so many smartphones coming out in all sorts of versions its hard to compare products. Here are two places that I go for phone comparison data and particularly for the still camera and video camera performance benchmarks. PhoneArena It is fairly simple to setup the comparison – and the review ratings are often bang on. However
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This is a recounting of the most interesting [not necessarily the best] daily reveals at the CES Show. 1)The Canon PowerShot G1 X is important for what it is not. It is not the first Canon ILC camera in the spirit of the Sony Nex7 or Olympus Pen ILC. It is not shirt pocket size
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Picthat has been saying for over two years now that compact cameras are being pushed hard by the improvements in the cameras on smartphones and tablets. Now courtesy of a Wells Fargo pre-release on Consumer Electronic Show announcement, readers will see that there is a wave of new point and shoot, compact cameras incoming stocked
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Four years ago, thePhotoFinishes ran a story about the Memjet Inkjet Printer that used a unique paper wide printhead and the ability to print at 40 to 100 pages/minute full color with impressive fidelity. Here is our take at the time: As you can see there is still a good deal of suspicion, but as
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