It seems that HTC have been keeping themselves busy with the 1GHz Snapdragon platform and some leaked shots have just revealed the HTC Leo (or should we say HTC Pro Three), which runs on...
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The ASUS G51VX is a 15-inch multimedia notebook designed for gaming enthusiasts. Packing an Intel Core 2 Duo processor and Nvidia GeForce GTX 260M discrete graphics card for roughly $1,000 makes this laptop an attractive solution for gamers. Keep reading to find out what one owner thinks of his new purchase.
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The ASUS G51VX is a 15-inch multimedia notebook designed for gaming enthusiasts. Packing an Intel Core 2 Duo processor and Nvidia GeForce GTX 260M discrete graphics card for roughly $1,000 makes this laptop an attractive solution for gamers. Keep reading to find out what one owner thinks of his new purchase.
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It’s that time of the year agaih when we take a time out and check to see if we are still having fun doing what we do. And, we are! Thanks in a large measure to you, our loyal readers and to the many emails of support you have sent our way. We say, Thank you! We also thank the camera manufacturers (and their Marketing Departments and PR firms) for helping us help them. 
PMA Canada
We attended PMA Canada last week here in Toronto and, of course, saw all the cameras that were already introduced earlier and that we already told you about weeks, if not months ago. It was still a good opportunity to meet old friends and renew contacts, make new friends, rub shoulders with the competition, and just breathe in the atmosphere. We collected lots of business cards, and put down our name for loaner reviews so you can expect to read reviews of some great cameras in the near future.
Housekeeping
I use Firefox as my browser and have not ventured back into IE territory for a while now. So, for those of you still using IE, you can imagine my surprise when I went to use IE just by chance one day last week and I saw all those javascript errors popping up. I have been experimenting with Jquery and though they work well in FF, IE gave oodles of errors. Needless to say, I spent the week end fixing these errors (just for old timer IE) and you should be able to browse the site without those annoying errors now. Our apologies. IE also renders the page differently since it is a non-compliant browser, though IE 8 has improved lots and try to adhere to the W3C Standards. Still, if you are using an old version of IE, do yourself a great favor and upgrade to the latest IE — or, better still, switch to Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, or Apple Safari and learn to enjoy surfing the Web all over again. And if you do encounter any pesky error, do let us know.
Previews vs. Reviews
We received an angry email from a reader last week that we misrepresented a Preview as a Review. Now, we never do that — not consciously at least, though typos do happen, especially when we are copying and pasting a lot. In our Reviews Matrix, where we list all the cameras from all the manufacturers and give the links to some of the best reviews and previews, we make sure a tooltip displays when you hover your cursor over the link: if it’s a Preview, we tell you. We’ve always welcomed your email poiting out errors on the site. Be good to your heart, there’s no need to get irate. ;o)
For readers who are new and don’t know the difference, here it is:
- Preview: The reviewer scours the Web for information about a new camera, reads the technical specs, the press releases, and summarizes the important and interesting things about the camera. Some people may thing a Preview is a waste of time, but it really isn’t. It’s homework a reviewer has to do anyway, and a big part of any review contains this material.
- Hands-on Preview: The reviewer has the camera in hand. Still has to do all the above, but now the marketing promises can be actually verified by actual use. Often, the camera is a pre-production one, so the only thing that can be verified is the Handling & Feel part; the reviewer will have to wait for a production-ready camera before making any comments about image quality. Lots of stuff go under a Hands-on Preview: some reviewers will give their “First Impressions” while others may simply post pictures of the new camera.
- Review: A review is always hands-on. This is where the reader — and all of us, too — get really irked when the title says it’s a review and, when we click to the article, it’s just a preview. Nothing wrong with a preview, but we were expecting a review.
Now, the article in question the reader was upset about was the Canon SD980 IS Review @ KenRockwell. Now, now, we all know Ken Rockwell has a unique perspective to things. But he had the camera in hand, took lots of pictures with it and published what we call a “filed” review, not a “technical” review but a review nonetheless. So that article was a review, not a preview. The reader’s definition of a review might not quite coincide with Ken’s, but that’s OK.
The important thing is that we all keep an open mind and read differing opinions. If we published only reviews and opinions we agreed with, there’d be no need to read all of them! Read one, and you’re done. I know some people who told me they only read DPReview. No problem, but even there, if you follow their forums, you’ll see large portion of the readers disagreeing on review recommendations. And Phil and the group there will admit that all reviewers have a bias and it affects what we publish and recommend. As long as we tell you what our bias is, you’re forewarned and everything’s fine.
What is our review bias here at Photoxels? We like digital cameras that are compact, intuitive to use and give great image quality, especially in low light. This bias (or “review criteria,” if that sounds better to you) colors all our reviews. However, we also keep in mind the target audience: if first-time beginner users are looking to buy a digital camera, we want to tell them which digital cameras are best and recommended for them — the same digital cameras will definitely not be recommended for advanced photographers! So, be cognizant of the “Category” a digital camera falls under. Untargeted recommendations, like you see on so many review sites, do a disservice to readers: it often makes them pass over the digital camera that is best for them.
iTunes 9
OK, so who’s the wise guy at Apple who messed with my iTunes? Does anyone else hate the iTunes 9? There’s just waaaay too much information crammed into a small area (reminds me of the megapixels race) and now I have to scroll right and left to see everything on screen (1024 x 768 pixels). To see the whole real estate without the annoying scrolling, I need to change my screen resolution to 1152 x 864 pixels — which makes all the test incredibly small to read, what with the small fonts Apple already uses on its websites and on iTunes. I don’t know guys, but iTunes 9 is just bad UI design.
There, I think I got everything covered for a while.
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SanDisk has released a series of Extreme Pro CompactFlash cards with the super-fast read and write speeds of up to 90MB/s. The line supercedes the Extreme IV range and will start shipping this week in 16GB, 32GB and 64GB capacities at a MSRP ranging from $300 to $800. The company has also released another line CF and SDHC cards called the Extreme series, replacing the Extreme III series, offering up to to 60MB/s transfer speed that will be available from 8GB to 32GB with their price ranging from $130 to $375.
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This is what Motorola CLIQ will be known as everywhere except for in U.S.
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Says a blog post on Nokia Conversations
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Tigris arrives for mainstream notebooks, Congo for ultra thin notebooks
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To help subscribers control their Internet usage
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ATI Radeon HD 5750 Juniper LE, HD 5770 Juniper XT cards expected in October
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I needed some comic relief this morning and I found it in the Photocopier Chair. It can be quite dangerous to climb on top of a photocopier and sit on it, so an enterprising designer has produced the first Photocopier Chair. It’s all automated, too, so that as soon as someone sits on it, it starts copying and the photo comes out the right side (of the person sitting on the chair). For the one who has all the gadgets in the world, this is a great gift and could become a great party attraction.
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Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ35 / FZ38
DCRP (dcresource) has posted their review of the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ35 / FZ38, an “impressive super zoom camera” with 12.1MP resolution (on a 1/2.33-in. CCD), 18x wide-angle optical zoom (27-486mm equiv.), optical Image Stabilization, 2.7-in. (230K dots) LCD, Intelligent AUTO (iA) mode, PASM, Scene modes, Face Recognition, and HD movie 1,280 x 720 pixels @ 30 fps.
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Filed under: News : Mobile Phones
Nokia latest is a 7705 Twist, a square shaped phone that swivels open to reveal a full QWERTY keypad. Read more
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Filed under: Reviews : Nintendo DS
Old-school racing with a little zing. Read more
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Myriad Dynamic Homescreen is a technology innovation which enables graphical web-based widgets on the world�™s most affordable mobile phones. Read more
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Filed under: News : Smart
LG has decided to get into the Android segment for mobile handsets by announcing the GW620 handset. Read more
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Filed under: News : Internet
Bharti Airtel has announced two cost-effective mobile internet recharge vouchers, for its Prepaid users in Delhi and NCR. Read more
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Filed under: Reviews : Multimedia
The Omnia HD will be tough to beat as a hardcore multimedia handset. Read more
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Reportedly runs Series 60
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Belkin's TuneBase Direct and TuneBase FM launched
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Filed under: News : Internet
The government has decided to provide broadband connectivity to 5,000 schools and 20,000 colleges in rural and semi-urban areas to promote e-learning. Read more
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Filed under: Previews : Games
A stylish action game that could very well rewrite the term Over-the-Top. Read more
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