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DXG-569V HD 5MP Camcorder

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DXG-569V HD 5MP Camcorder Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review DXG USA announces the DXG-569V HD Camcorder with a retail price of only $169.99.

The DXG-569V HD camcorder records real HD video up to 1280 x 720 at 30 fps. Other features of the DXG-569V include 3 inch screen, 2X Digital Zoom, TV Out, Built-in LED Flash, 32MB onboard memory and SD card slot. Read more

Posted on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Samsung Soul 3G 5MP Cell Phone launches in Europe

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Samsung Soul 3G 5MP Cell Phone launches in Europe Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review Samsung announces the launch of the feature packed Samsung Soul in Europe. In good Korean electronics company tradition they published some sexy Gadget Model photos with the Soul announcement.

Feature highlights of the Quad-Band HSDPA 7.2 Mbps Samsung Soul include 5MP Camera with AF, 4x digital zoom, Power LED light, Face detection, image stabilizer, 2.2 inch QVGA screen, Bluetooth 2.0, MP3 and WMA music player and ICEpower Technology by B&O. Read more

Posted on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:05:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

LG Viewty KU990 3G 5MP Phone Review

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LG Viewty KU990 3G 5MP Phone Review Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review Tweaktown reviews the new LG Viewty 5MP camera smartphone. LG introduced the Viewty in August.

Quote from the Viewty review: "LG has gone from a relatively budget oriented player in the mobile phone market to a company that is something of a fashion icon alongside its Korean counterpart Samsung. The Chocolate and Shine ranges have been very successful for LG, but what we’re looking at today has more akin with the Prada phone. Read more

Posted on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Samsung G800 5MP Camera Phone official

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Samsung G800 5MP Camera Phone official Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review Samsung unveils the Samsung G800 camera phone, which is the world’s first 5MP camera phone with 3x optical zoom (emphasis on optical zoom, 5MP camera phones are not unique anymore, see also the Samsung G600 launched this Summer). Update: The Sharp 910SH available through Softbank in Japan also has 5MP and 3x optical zoom and is apparently already available since a year. Thanks Paul S.

On the backside the Samsung G800 looks like a normal digital camera featuring a sliding lens cover.
Other camera features of the Samsung G800 include Xenon flash, panorama shots, multi shots, and macro shots, video editing functions and video sharing options to upload images and videos to the net. Read more

Posted on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 05:05:27 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

New Samsung SGH-G600 5MP Mobile Phone

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New Samsung SGH-G600 5MP Mobile Phone Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review Samsung announces the SGH-G600 5MP camera phone.

The Samsung SGH-G600 is a compact and stylish slider that is supposedly delivering great photos with the high 5MP resolution.
Samsung will launch the SGH-G600 in Europe. It is not the first 5MP camera phone on the market, as the Nokia N95 is already sporting a 5MP cam. Read more

Posted on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 04:44:31 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

New Sony Ericsson K850 5MP Cyber-shot Phone

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New Sony Ericsson K850 5MP Cyber-shot Phone Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review Sony Ericsson announces the K850i Cyber-shot mobile phone.

The Sony Ericsson K850i offers a 5MP digital camera with automatic lens cover, auto focus for no-hassle sharpness and xenon flash for poor light conditions. The K850i is Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync enabled and supports wireless synchronization and Direct Push of email, calendar and contacts.

Other features of the new Cyber-shot handset include 2.2 inch QVGA screen, Memory Stick Micro (M2) support and interestingly: SanDisk microSD card support. Read more

Posted on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 04:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

No-Name 5MP Camera Phone

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No-Name 5MP Camera Phone Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review To have a 5MP digital camera inside your mobile phone is currently pretty much high-end. So it is a bit of a surprise that there is a no-name camera phone sporting 5MP.

Features of the dual band GSM 900 / DCS 1800 CT-6618 camera phone include TV-Out, 3 inch QVGA screen, music and video player, and a clean design. Read more

Posted on Tue, 22 May 2007 11:25:56 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

DXG USA Announces the DXG-506V 5MP Digital Camera & Camcorder

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DXG USA Announces the DXG-506V 5MP Digital Camera & Camcorder Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review DXG USA is announcing today a new addition to its line of digital cameras called the DXG-506V. The DXG-506V has a wealth of capabilities such as digital camera, Camcorder, MP3 player, voice recorder and webcam functionality.

Images, video, tunes, and memos are all saved to the cameras internal 32MB flash memory. There are some interesting color options available as well; Deep-Sea Blue, Metallic Pink, Midnight Black, and Classic Silver. Read more

Posted on Wed, 2 May 2007 16:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

DXG puts 20 Video Games in 5MP Camera DXG-589V

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DXG puts 20 Video Games in 5MP Camera DXG-589V Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review DXG USA announced the DXG-589V 5MP camera, which sports video gaming feature.

The DXG-589V integrates a 5MP digital camera with a VGA camcorder, video game player, digital music player, and direct video recording from TVs or DVD players.
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Posted on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 06:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

3GSM 2006: LG KG920 Twisting 5MP Camera Phone

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3GSM 2006: LG KG920 Twisting 5MP Camera Phone Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review Korean LG shows off the KG920 5MP camera mobile phone at the 3GSM 2006 conference.

The LG KG920 is 18mm thin and features a twisting design that lets users rotate the lens by 180 degrees. Other features of the 5MP GSM camera phone are Auto focus, miniSD card slot, 2 inch QVGA screen, USB and Bluetooth. Read more

Posted on Wed, 15 Feb 2006 02:55:55 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Pantech 5MP IM-8600 Mobile Phone

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Pantech 5MP IM-8600 Mobile Phone Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review Pantech introduces a 5MP digital camera phone dubbed IM-8600 in Korea.

The Pantech IM-8600 is a rotating clamshell 5 mega-pixel camera phone with auto focus & close up function with half stop shutter & 'Meca' shutter. Featuring a 2.0 inch QVGA TFT LCD screen, the IM-8600 measures 99x48.5x26.4mm and weighs 132g.

This new 5MP digital camera phone can be classified as a mainstream phone for Korea. It would be top of the line pretty much anywhere else. Read more

Posted on Mon, 28 Nov 2005 02:08:16 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Samsung SPH-V7800 5MP Digital Camera Phone Launches

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Samsung SPH-V7800 5MP Digital Camera Phone Launches Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review Samsung is set to launch their new SPH-V7800 5MP digital camera phone in, yes you guessed it, Korea.

On the front the SPH-V7800 is a mobile phone on the backside (see photo) a digital camera.
The Samsung SPH-V7800 has many features found in state of the art digital cameras. Linear zoom, 4x digital zoom, auto focus, ISO setting, flash, 16 shooting modes, color tone and filter functions.

Besides that the SPH-V7800 mobile phone is a music player. It also has OCR for business cards that extracts the name and address information out of business card photos - neat. To top it off the SPH-V7800 is coated in bacteria-killing silver nano particles.
More details on ChoSun and on Telecoms Korea (Subscription).

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Posted on Mon, 13 Jun 2005 02:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

New Casio Exilim EX-S500 5MP Slim Digital Camera

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New Casio Exilim EX-S500 5MP Slim Digital Camera Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review Casio announces a new Exilim digital camera. The new Exilim EX-S500 is a 5MP digital camera with Anti-Blur Technology and MP4 video recording.

The EX-S500 measures 3.54" (W) x 2.32" (H) x .63" (D) ( thinnest point .54"). This measurements are comparable to the Sony DSC-T7.
Orange, white and silver are the colors the Casio Exilim EX-S500 will be available also outside of Japan. Other features include 2.2 inch screen, SD-Card slot, 8.3MB internal storage, 3x optical and 4x digital zoom and world time.
The new Casio camera is supposed to ship in July for around $550.
More details in the Casio press-release.

Casio Exilim Camera Deals

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Posted on Thu, 9 Jun 2005 13:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Samsung SCH-M509 5MP Camera Phone goes China

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Samsung SCH-M509 5MP Camera Phone goes China Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review Unitl now the Samsung 5MP camera mobile phones have only been available in Korea. Now Samsung starts shipping the 5MP Camera phone SCH-M509 to China. The SCH-M509 looks similar to the SCH-S250 5MP phone announced last October.

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Posted on Mon, 25 Apr 2005 01:06:25 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Olympus CAMEDIA X-600 5MP Digital Camera

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Olympus CAMEDIA X-600 5MP Digital Camera Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review

Camborg reports about the new Olympus CAMEDIA X-600 digital camera.

The Olympus CAMEDIA X-600 features a 3x optical zoom and 4x digital zoom and is only 18.3mm in thick. The LCD Screen measures 2.0 inch. 14MB built-in memory is available. The New Olympus supports XD- picture cards up to 1GB.
More details on Camborg.

Small Digital Camera Shopping Guide.

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Posted on Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Olympus Stylus Verve S 5MP on Sale

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Olympus Stylus Verve S 5MP on Sale Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review

Amazon.com has the new Olympus Stylus Verve S 5MP digital camera on sale. The 5MP Stylus Verve S has been announced in February.
Specifications of the unique styled digital camera are below.

Buy the Stylus Verve S now On Amazon.com for $309.44 or $299.99 via J&R offer.

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Posted on Sun, 24 Apr 2005 06:34:14 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

JVC Everio GZ-MC500 5MP 3 CCD Camcorder on Amazon.com!

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JVC Everio GZ-MC500 5MP 3 CCD Camcorder on Amazon.com! Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review

Amazon.com started to take pre-orders for the new JVC Everio GZ-MC500, the world's smallest 3 CCD Camcorder.

The JVC GZ-MC500 digital camcorder with 4GB built-in hard-drive and 5 mega pixel resolution was announced by JVC in February.

The GZ-MC500 creates images by dedicating a 1.33 (1.23 effective) mega pixel CCD to each color: red, green and blue. JVC's advanced prism optics and filter-less 3-CCD pixel shift technology quadruple the pixel count to 5 mega pixel stills. The new Everio records Video with 720 x 480/60 in the highest mode.
Features include: 16:9 video recording, 10x optical zoom, 200 digital zoom, 1.8 inch LCD screen and pop-up flash.
The JVC Everio GZ-MC200 was/is already cool. I own one, read the review. I am though a bit ticked off how quick JVC introduces the GZ-MC500, which has just so much more performance. At least it is still more expensive than the GZ-MC200.

Amazon.com offers the JVC Everio GZ-MC500 for pre-order at a price of $1,599.95 (MSRP: $1,799.95). The GZ-MC500 ships June 15th.

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Posted on Wed, 30 Mar 2005 12:22:56 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Nikon COOLPIX S1 5MP - Sony DSC-T Series Competitor

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Nikon COOLPIX S1 5MP - Sony DSC-T Series Competitor Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review Camborg reports about the new Nikon COOLPIX S1 5.1MP thin digital camera.

The COOLPIX S1 measures 89.9 x 57.5 x 19.7mm. The new Sony DSC-T7 is about half as thin as the S1, but anyway nice try from Nikon. S1 features include 2.5 inch LCD screen, 17 scene modes, 200 photos per battery charge, 3x Zoom-Nikkor ED lens and 12MB internal storage.

The Nikon COOLPIX S1 is supposed to be available in stores in April for about $380.
More details on Camborg.

More COOLPIX Cameras

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Posted on Thu, 17 Mar 2005 01:59:21 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

New Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T7 Ultra-Thin 5MP Digital Camera

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New Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T7 Ultra-Thin 5MP Digital Camera Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review Sony out of nowhere announces a new DSC-T model Cyber-shot camera in the USA - the Sony DSC-T7.

After the confusing decision of Sony not to sell the DSC-T3 in the US for the holiday season, this new DSC-T7 is a surprise. Especially because it seems that the T7 has not been announced in Japan yet.

The Cyber-shot T7 is just over a 1/3 inch thick, making it Sony's thinnest, fully-featured model yet. The Camera has a 2.5 inch screen and 3x optical zoom. The battery holds for 180 shots. It features like the DSC-T1 a sliding lens cover.
The Sony DSC-T7 will be available in May for about $500.
More details in Sony press-release. First seen on Engadget.

Update 03/17/05:
Order the Sony DSC-T7 now at Amazon.com!

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Posted on Tue, 8 Mar 2005 14:40:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

New Fujifilm Z1 Slim 5MP Camera

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New Fujifilm Z1 Slim 5MP Camera Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review The first announcements of digital camera makers for the upcoming PMA 2005 trade show are coming in. Camborg reports about the new Fujifilm Z1 elegant and slim 5MP digital camera.

The Fujifilm Finepix Z1 5MP digital camera goes straight against the successful Sony DSC-T1/T3 thin digital cameras. The Fujifilm Z1 is 18.6mm thick. The Sony DSC-T3 is slimmer though with 17.3mm. Fujifilm highlights a new low light technology to get better photos in low light situations. Called Real Photo Technology, the camera's 5th generation Super CCD HR sensor is linked with a new, advanced RP Processor. The results are pictures taken at ISO settings as high as 800 (in full resolution) with reduced noise and extra sharpness.
More details and specification on Camborg.

Our I4U Correspondent Jack Olmstead will be at the PMA 2005 show to provide live coverage on I4U. The PMA 2005 show starts at February 20th in Orlando.

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Posted on Tue, 8 Feb 2005 01:58:22 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Olympus Stylus 500 5MP Digital Camera

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Olympus Stylus 500 5MP Digital Camera Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review Camborg reports about the newly announced Olympus Stylus 5MP mid-range digital camera.

Olympus introduces the Olympus Stylus 500 5 Mega-Pixel Digital Camera with 2.5 inch preview screen. The Stylus 500 will be available in January 2005. MSRP $399.99.
More details on Camborg.

Not a very flashy 5MP camera. The Sony DSC-T3 5MP is by far hotter and already available.

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Posted on Tue, 30 Nov 2004 14:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr