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Sharp releases a new “basic” 70” Quattron TV in Japan

14 February 2012

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Announced at 550,000 Yen, Sharp latest AQUOS Quatron, the LC-70Q7 latest “basic” 70” UV2A LCD TV. Indeed, beside its gigantic 70” screen, the LC-70Q7 comes with the bare minimum including LED Backlight, a W Tuner (Dual Digital TV Tuner), USB HDD Recording and DLNA. Yep pretty basic and at 550.000 Yen we would assume that the LC-70Q7 could do MUCH more.

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[Hands-On] Pentax K-01 MILC Camera Designed by Marc Newson

14 February 2012

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Pentax Ricoh Imaging have developed the Pentax K-01, a mirrorless interchangable lens camera, designed by the world-famous Australian industrial designer, Marc Newson. “In most mirrorless cameras, the fact that there’s no mirror is used to make the body slim, but we’ve used the mirrorless structure to increase the freedom for design

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[Hands-On] Olympus OM-D Mirrorless Camera With Electronic Viewfinder

13 February 2012

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The Olympus OM-D E-M5, a mirrorless interchangeable lens camera, will be released in Japan in late March. The OM-D is a compact, lightweight Micro Four Thirds camera, similar to the current Olympus PEN series, but in this new camera the emphasis is on taking photos using the viewfinder

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Docomo announces Cloud-based Translator Phone

11 February 2012

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DOCOMO’s ability to deliver highly valued-added smart-pipe services via the cloud is about to take on a whole new meaning when it launches an on-demand translator-phone service! Using this unique mobile cloud service, a customer will simply speak into their phone and the other receiver will hear the message interpreted promptly into the language of their choice.

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NEC-CASIO Medias LTE N-04D available in Japan next week!

9 February 2012

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NEC-CASIO announced yesterday in Japan that their stylish and slim Android 2.3 Medias LTE N-04D, which just weight 149g for a body of 11,3mm thin, would be available in Japan next week (Feb 15). The N-04D comes with the usual IPX5/8 waterproof body, a 1.2GHz Dual Core APQ8060 CPU, 1GB of RAM, 16GB of internal memory, Bluetooth Low Energy, a 8.1Mpix CMOS Camera and a 720p video mode! A pretty descent little phone, that would be even more awesome if Docomo will stop pre-loaded its phones with …

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OLYMPUS OM-D – A New Generation System Camera

8 February 2012

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The just-announced new generation system camera, the OLYMPUS OM-D, picks up where the original OM series left off. Like the popular PEN Series models, the OLYMPUS OM-D features a compact, lightweight design that’s fully compliant with the Micro Four Thirds System standard.

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Samsung Unveils its Flagship Smart TV ES8000

8 February 2012

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Samsung Electronics presents ES8000 smart TV on the Smart TV Media Day 2012. The dual-core processor implemented on the TV allows multitasking capabilities while displaying smooth and fast rendition of HD images in a larger screen for viewers to enjoy the optimized “smart contents.” Also, this futuristic high end HDTV has voice and gesture controls as well as facial recognition technology.

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Edward Nortan and Daria Webony launch Prada Phone by LG 3.0

7 February 2012

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LG Electronics and PRADA today unveiled actor Edward Norton and model Daria Werbowy as the faces of the global advertising campaign (shot by British fashion photographer David Sims) to launch the latest smartphone, the PRADA phone by LG 3.0. This is the third phone from the collaboration and represents a key design venture for both companies

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Finally Official, Nikon’s D800 and its 36Mpix CMOS sensor now a reality!

7 February 2012

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This is now official, Ladies and Gentlemen here you are Nikon’s latest monster the D800 and its amazing 36Mpix CENSOR.

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[INTERVIEW] China’s precious metal demand to affect future hardware prices?

6 February 2012

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Bloomberg wrote a piece recently about China’s latest gold-buy spree.

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