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Official pictures and specs of the Motorola DROID 4

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Rumors of the release of a new smartphone Motorola Droid 4 getting closer sound, though recently has just introduced a Motorola RAZR that reportedly great enough to challenge the iPhone.

Now the latest smartphone from Motorola DROID series appeared in the official pictures and specifications. DROID 4 is the latest variant of the Motorola DROID series and still carrying the model equipped Android smartphone slider keyboard.

The specifications of DROID 4 has a 4.0-inch screen with QHD resolution Gorilla Glass protection, dual-core 1.2GHz processor, 1GB of RAM, 8-megapixel camera with video recording 1080p HD camera on the front, LTE 4G connectivity and a battery 1785 mAh. Unfortunately, this phone still comes with Android 2.3 Gingerbread Ice Cream Sandwich is not new.

But just as the DROID RAZR, Motorola certainly will soon provide an upgrade to the ICS. For the price still can not be ascertained, while for the estimation of releases, the Droid 4 is expected to be released late this year or at least as early as 2012 we have started to see it on the market.

Olympus TG-810 “TOUGH” Camera

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Olympus TOUGH series cameras expand its range with the type of TG-810 Olympus digital camera with a new ultra-rugged “four-resilience”. The camera is designed to be shockproof, waterproof, freeze-resistant and crushproof.

This camera can be submerged up to 33-feet underwater, resistance fall from a height of 6.6 meters, and can operate when the temperature is below freezing (14 degrees Fahrenheit; -10 degrees Celsius). This camera has an airtight construction is impervious to dust, dirt and other particles.

With a camera sensor of up to 14 Megapixel TOUGH TG-810 features a 5x optical zoom 28mm wide angle lens, image processor Olympus’ TruePic III +, and 920,000-dot LCD screen, Super Precision 3-inch HyperCrystal III. Besides these cameras feature in-camera Art Filters Magic, In-Camera Panorama function, mechanical Sensor-Shift image stabilization and dual function digital and Beauty Mode and AF Tracking technology. In addition, TG-810 can record HD video and offers HDMI output.

Olympus -810 TG is equipped with GPS, electronic compass and a manometer for the user to tag photos with location information or capture the height or depth of water in addition to location data and map coordinates.

The Olympus TOUGH TG-810 is available in black and silver at a price of $ 399.99. If you are a true adventurer, make sure this camera with you.

Google+ Presents Free Phone Call Service

Google still continues to attract Internet users to use its network sites, Google +. One of Google’s latest effort is to bring free phone service.

These services can be found at Hangout features. Users just enter the phone number to be contacted later at no charge, can start a conversation. A similar offer VoIP service, Skype.

Not only can each halo-halo, Google + also allows the user to each other face to face via video chat.

One of Google’s staff, Jarkko Oikarinen is also the inventor of the Internet Relay Chat (IRC) using its Google + pages to announce this.

“We expect your feedback so they can make better Hangout + for Google users,” says Oikarinen.

Adding the ‘call’ Hangout room is easy. Users can just click ‘Invite’ at the top of the Hangout and choose ‘Phone’ on the left side window. After entering the destination phone number, select ‘Call now’.

Too bad this cool new feature can be enjoyed by users in the United States and Canada. Not yet known when he is available to other countries, including Indonesia.

Because of the Playbook, RIM Loses Rp 4.3 Trillions

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Instead of making Research in Motion (RIM) to reap large profits, the BlackBerry Playbook make the Canadian manufacturer lost up to $ 485 million, or about Rp 4.3 trillion.

The reason is that the BlackBerry Playbook was produced far more than the number of the units that have been sold. So the prime stock of RIM’s tablet is still piling up in their factories and stores.

Quoted from tomsguide, Monday (5/12/2011), RIM admitted that they only managed to sell about 150 thousands of the Blackberry Playbook through their partners. But if the number is added with retail sales, the estimated the number could be more.

Since the beginning of sales of the Playbook is shuffled and the price is kept down by printing the expected sales figures. From the initial price of $ 500, now the some sellers even dares to give a price of USD 200.

“RIM is still committed to the BlackBerry Playbook, because we believe the tablet market will continue to grow. Although several factors led to this product inventory piling up in the third quarter, but with the arrival of the Playbook OS 2.0 would be better sales,” said Mike Lazaridis, Co-RIM CEO.

Canon Powershot A480, Practical for a Starter

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When compared to its predecessor, the PowerShot A470, this camera is physically 25% smaller. But the larger the sensor (10 megapixels). The layout of the buttons are now much simpler. Special specification here is 1cm supermacro modes, the choice of 15 modes capture.

Face Detection, Motion Detection, and Automatic Red-Eye Correction. A480 own physical compact. He weighs 140 grams (empty). This camera 3.3 x optical zoom lens (37-122 mm). The back of the A480 is dominated by the LCD screen 2.5 “. On the right side of the screen to the bottom row controls, ranging from the zoom buttons (two), the review, the circle navigation (ISO, macro, timer, delete, flash), until the Mode button and menu buttons are located side by side.

Mode button lets you choose between Auto, Program, Scene (SCN) and Movie. Right in the middle of the circle navigation buttons present Func (tion) / Set which when pressed will bring up a submenu where you can adjust exposure compensation, white balance, color, metering, continuous shooting, image size and quality.

Super Macro provided very interesting. This feature allows us to target within a distance of 1cm from the subject with a 37mm focal length.

Another specialty is the AF frame is capable of detecting up to nine faces within a frame and adjusts focus, exposure, flash settings and white balance to produce a better picture.

This Canon camera packed in motion detection technology (motion detection), which is identical with the anti-shake digital. This feature will recognize the camera shake or subject movement, then jack up the ISO to a certain level (between 80 – 800) that the camera be able to compensate for motion effects without causing a big noise.

Overall, despite the simple, the Canon PowerShot A480 digital camera is capable. Facial recognition system (face detection) that can detect faces with 5 to 9 AF points, and 15 scene modes. Also provides a histogram and shooting information about the detail, ease of access to ISO speed, and mode of 1cm supermacro.

In short, the Canon Powershot A480 is a camera that is easy to use and practical to produce great photos for the novice user. PowerShot A480 is available in red, blue, and silver.

Preview of the Latest iPod Touch and iPod Nano

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Apple has updated the latest iPod range. By adding new features and price are very popular for this type of Touch and Nano. For this year the iPod will experience minor changes after last year’s massive overhaul.

iPod Touch, is now available with two options warnya, namely black and white. This is the best iPod ever sold and with IOS 5 and iCloud on offer now makes the device’s music player is much better than before. No other changes to the iPod Touch in addition to color and price of the 8GB version is cheaper. If previously priced at $ 229, 8GB iPod Touch is now priced at $ 199, 32GB $ 299, and 64GB at $ 399. The new iPod Touch that uses the IOS operating system 5 has been available since 12 October.

Meanwhile, the iPod Nano is on sale in retail stores today. The user interface of the new iPod Nano was deliberately redesigned by Apple, the icon on the iPod Nano can be set to be larger, one could almost cover a single icon display. Pedometer on iPod Nano now able to distinguish when it is used to measure the run or walk. Display clock on this new iPod Nano now has about 16 skins that can be replaced, even one of his pictorial skin Micky Mouse.