With touchscreen becoming more user-friendly and more commonplace in pocket devices, it is no surprise to see it has pushed heavily into the compact camera market. The Nikon Coolpix S230 is one such device, sitting at the lower end of Nikon’s offerings and as such, should appeal to those looking for a good quality point and shoot.
The dimensions play to this role, stuffing a range of features we’ll look at presently, into a package that measures only 91 x 57 x 20mm, so slips easily into the pocket of your jeans or a bag. This is accompanied with the high quality of build that we’ve come to expect from Nikon: the body doesn’t creak or flex and the battery and AV out covers stay put. An SD card slots into the bottom (not supplied) to store your images as there is only 44MB of internal memory.
The back is dominated by a 3-inch touch-enabled display, but you still get two buttons on the back for scene selection and playback. The top of the S230 sees the shutter button encircled by the zoom ring, sitting next to the recessed power button, which will ably resist accidental power-ons whilst in your pocket. The screen has an anti-glare coating on it, which does (literally) take the gloss off things: you can still use it in bright conditions, but the display isn’t the sharpest around.
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Nikon Coolpix S230 Digital Camera Review
Black HTC Magic Images Spotted On The Web
Oooooh, some new HTC Magic stuff for everyone this morning. Seems that the new HTC Magic has been spotted in Black, as you can see from the image above and after the jump. For my tastes I still prefer the white (I carry a white iPhone 3G), but hey, this is all personal choice.
One thing I think we can’t deny, the Magic is a much nicer looking device in comparison to the G1. It looks like some time was put into styling and looks this time around, which was sorely missed in Android’s first handset. I’m hoping for big things from the Magic.
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Are Netbooks Already Obsolete? Review
For a number of reasons, netbooks have quickly risen in popularity among the general populace. Everyone seems to swoon over these little laptops and their ability to shove the entirety of the Internet into such a small package. At the same time, I’m starting to suspect that netbooks may already be obsolete. Have they already overstayed their welcome?
This hasn’t really been reflected in the sales of the Acer Aspire One (shown above) and other netbooks just yet, but there is something to this argument. Despite the impressive volume that they’ve been able to push, netbooks still haven’t fully invaded our digital lifestyles. How many Eee PCs do you see at Starbucks compared to people on their Macbooks? Yeah, that’s what I thought.
Dell XPS 625 Phenom II Gaming System Review
Turn the clock back to the middle of this decade, and the idea of a Dell system using an AMD processor would be considered facetious at best. Dell, had been an Intel-only shop from the beginning, and had only toyed with AMD processors from time to time in highly niche market systems. Many AMD fans considered Dell’s acceptance of AMD processors as the holy grail for mainstream adoption in the PC market, a single act which would save AMD once and for all. Intel-fans would no longer point to the PC making behemoth as proof that AMD processors were somehow sub-par and not ready for enterprise-level environments.
Turns out, the years of stories about back-room deals regarding Dell and AMD finally coming together really didn’t materialize into anything massive. Dell introduced their first AMD-based systems in 2006, and well, Intel didn’t crumble. Having made their way into the final large scale OEM, AMD definitely earned a feather in their cap, but the market situation hasn’t changed by any real amount. To this day, Intel based systems make up the lion’s share of Dell’s sales figures, whereas AMD continues to struggle and fight to keep itself alive on a quarter by quarter basis. Nevertheless, the Dell and AMD partnership has continued over these past three years, and we’re finally starting to see Dell get a little feistier with the AMD hardware at their disposal.
Nikon S60 With Touch Screen Capability
This little package got some of the most advance features here. Don’t you just hate having a perfect shot except someone blink! Well this camera has built in Blink Warning feature which make sure you’ll always catch the decisive moment when your subject smiles. Blink warning will let you know when your subject’s eyes are closed so you can retake your picture. Also the Retouch Function allows you to paint a frame, add hand written memos in 5 different pen colors and thicknesses, attach stamps to a picture and more HD Pictmotion Slide Shows Scene Auto Selector automatically recognizes the scene in your picture. Face Priority AF - face-finding technology focuses on up to 12 faces ISO up to 3200 D-Lighting - rescue those photos that are too dark by enhancing the underexposed areas of the picture while not touching the properly exposed areas High Quality TV Movies with Sound.
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Cooler Master Storm Series Scout Gaming Chassis Review
The Cooler Master Storm Scout features a solid steel body with a sexy all-black interior and measures in at (D) 19.2″ x (W) 8.6″ x (H) 19.5″. The chassis comes equipped with a 140mm front intake fan, as well as 140mm top and 120mm rear exhaust fans, providing airflow needed to keep your components nice and cool. The most attention-grabbing feature of the Scout are clearly the reinforced carrying handles that were put in place to make mobilization and relocation of your system an easy task.
The Scout’s design offers five 5.25” drive bays and a 140mm fan on the front and what you’d expect on the back of the chassis.
The window side panel uses dark automotive tint, which is something I haven’t seen on a case before. The side window also has mounting holes for two more 120mm fans to deal with thermal hotspots from overclocked CPUs and GPUs if you’d like to add more cooling.
Western Digital 8TB ShareSpace NAS
Western Digital has added a new NAS drive to their ShareSpace range, in the form of an 8TB ShareSpace NAS drive.
This new 8TB version is priced at a whopping $1,700, although the smaller versions are slightly more reasonable with prices starting at $499 for the 2TB version.
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LG Claims 1 Million Arena Preorders
It’s been, what? Three weeks since their announcement? And already the LG Arena has attracted a million preorders online. The 3D S-Class UI is clearly turning a lot of heads, although the 8 megapixel camera certainly isn’t hurting its popularity. Already, the Arena shows a lot of promise, even when compared to its smaller brother, the Viewty (which has already founds its way into 5 million hands). Although the Arena will be landing in Europe first, Americans will soon find an alternative 8 megapixel cameraphone coming to T-Mobile (NYSE: DT) thanks to Samsung.
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HIS Radeon HD 4650 512MB iSilence4 Review
Sometimes very entertaining products can be the cheapest ones around. Especially for graphics cards this rule applies very often. In the high-end segment you need to have luck to tweak and overclock or pay a premium price for customizations.
In the lower-end and budget products we often see the most wicked stuff that is very tweakable and versatile. Today we review such a product, surely not a gamers dream or even a mid-range product. But at roughly 69 to 79 USD you can purchase a Radeon HD 4650. That little fracker has full high-definition decoding and accelerating capabilities and packs even enough punch to play some of the modern games, though at low monitor resolutions.
That trustworthy company HIS even has a passively cooled version of the product, and suffice to say… we had a really great time with it. HIS calls it their Radeon HD 4650 512MB iSilence4, it comes completely passively cooled thanks to a Zalman cooler. And… oh for gawds sake, let me do one pun here that I’ve been thinking about ever since the card arrived:
- Introduction
- Radeon HD 4650 architecture
- RV730 - A Radeon HD 4650 with 512MB GDDR2
- DirextX 10.1 and High Definition content playback
- Installation | GPU temps | Power consumption | Noise levels
- Photos - Radeon HD 4650 512MB
- Photos - Radeon HD 4650 512MB
- Test Environment & Equipment
- VGA performance: Far Cry 2 (DX10)
- VGA performance: Call of Duty 5: World at War (DX9)
- VGA performance: F.E.A.R. - Perseus Mandate (DX9)
- VGA performance: Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway (DX9)
- VGA performance: Fallout 3 (DX9)
- VGA performance: DeadSpace (DX9) | 3DMark Vantage (DX10)
- VGA performance: Left 4 Dead (DX9)
- Overclocking & Tweaking
- Final Words & Conclusion
A-Data Announces Big 500 GB SSD
A-DATA unveiled its new consumer solid-state drive, packing in a whopping 500 GB in an itty-bitty 2.5-inch space. A-DATA Technology revealed it all today at CeBIT 2009, whipping out its little 2.5-inch wonder and dazzling onlookers with its impressive storage capacity. A-DATA’s 512 GB XPG 2.5-inch SSD offers notebooks and PC enthusiasts half a terabyte of storage with excellent read and write speeds. Although the company did not offer a price range, it did boast about its miniature hog, calling it “dashing” as it gleams with its lightweight Aluminum casing. There’s no word if this card is even available yet but we’re betting that’s a big no.
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Panasonic To Ship Z1 Plasma, World’s Most Advanced HDTV
Who says plasma screens are dead? While Pioneer and Vizio are abandoning the format, Panasonic plans to offer this TC-P54Z1 plasma in June. With its wireless HDMI in 1080p, 1-inch thickness, THX certification, Internet connectivity, and 24Hz cinematic playback, it’s undoubtedly the world’s most advanced HDTV.
Our only nitpick: It’ll only be available in a 54-inch screen size. We want a 72-incher! That said, it sure looks like a lot of TV for $6000, and if that’s going to break the bank, at least this set has some power-saving “Neo PDP” tech on board.
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