Latest Gadgets, Tablets and Smartphones
As well as finding out that the new multitasking gestures in iOS 4.3 will not be made available in the public release, we also find out that camera icons have been included in the new iOS 4.3 beta 2 update.
Three new icons have been added to beta 2 which are FaceTime, Camera and PhotoBooth. The screenshot seen above is called homeScreenOverlayFaceTime~ipad.png and is a screenshot of the home screen used when selecting a new wallpaper on the device. [Read more…]
Since the launch of iOS 4.3 beta 1 a couple of days ago, a number of people have been snooping around the SDK and files to see what is available. A lot of hints can be found in the SDK that reveal what’s coming soon so to speak.
The next item to be found is a couple of shutter screens that are seen on all iOS devices with a camera. The difference with these screenshots is the size of them. Both the portrait and landscape versions have an image size of 1024 x 768 pixels which is the same size as the current iPad display. You might note here that this could indicate that the iPad 2 might not get a higher pixel density screen, or Apple might have just put these in as test images which in time, will be replaced with the actual resolution for the iPad 2 (which is still unknown). [Read more…]
The Camera+ app for the iPhone has had a colorful past. It first got removed from the App Store in August of this year for the reason that it used one of the iPhone volume buttons as a shutter button.
The company behind the Camera+ app removed this ability and resubmitted and managed to get the app re-approved. However, the Camera+ app still had a sneaky easter egg inside that let you visit a URL with your phone, and once visiting it sneakily added the volume button shutter back to the app. Apple [AAPL] of course removed the app again at this point. [Read more…]
Amazon currently have a number of deals on for digital cameras ready for the Christmas season. We’ve hunted through them to find the best digital camera deals.
We have mixed together a range of cameras which includes regular Point & Shoot cameras as well as a few Digital SLR’s. The list can be found below. [Read more…]
Apple [AAPL] over the past week has had 10 patents published which all relate to cameras used in the iPhone and other iOS devices.
What the patents reveal are methods that Apple has researched to improve the quality of images created by a digital camera. The patents include a Skin Tone Mask, a way to diminish photo blur, radially-based chroma noise reduction as well as color boosting. [Read more…]
Some cases have started showing up for the iPad 2 over the last couple of days. All of them have a small hole on the top left (when viewed from behind) that indicates a camera is coming to the back of the device. The cases also have the same sections cut out that we see on cases for the current iPad… ie, the dock connector, speaker and volume buttons as well as power and headphones.
Things we noticed is that the speaker cut out is slightly larger than before, perhaps a larger speaker or something else is coming. There’s also no landscape dock connector on the iPad 2 case. [Read more…]
The iPad 2 rumors keep flowing in before its estimated release date. This time we hear more about the iPad 2 camera, or cameras as we learn. Certain sources are claiming that dual cameras will be included in the iPad 2 and that production will go ahead as expected in the first quarter of 2011.
The information comes from Reuters who managed to get together four sources of information relating to the iPad 2 cameras. [Read more…]
Amazon have a bunch of digital camera discounts happening this week thanks to Cyber Week.
Discounts can be found on various digital cameras from Kodak, Fuji, Nikon, Panasonic, Pentax and Sony with some camera getting as much as 50% off such as the Panasonic Lumix DMC-G1 deal. [Read more…]
More pictures of the Motorola Olympus have been sent in to Gizmodo. This time, the phone was found in a flea market. The person managed to capture some pictures of the device, in a good resolution and not blurry which makes a change.
Things known about the phone show that it runs Android 2.2 as the OS. Its model number is MB860 and inside, a Tegra 2 chip can be found. [Read more…]
Rumors about the iPad 2 continue to circulate as we get closer to Apple [AAPL] announcing the product. The next rumor indicates that Apple could have selected the same supplier that creates the iPhone 4 cameras to also create cameras for the Apple iPad 2.
Largan Precision has declined to comment on market rumors indicating the company will be the sole lens module supplier for Apple‘s upcoming iPad 2 tablet with shipments to kick off in the first quarter of 2011, according to a company filing with the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE).
The Hobbit is about to start filming. We learn today that Peter Jackson has chosen to use 30 EPIC Digital Cameras from the RED Digital Cinema company.
The EPIC has a 5K resolution and is capable of capturing up to 120 frames per second. A HDRx mode is included that gives the highest dynamic range of any cinema camera ever made. [Read more…]
The Apple iPad 2 release date is expected to be 1 year from the original iPad release date, making it early April 2011. We continue to hear rumours about what will be included in the iPad 2 such as a second dock connector on the landscape side, a better screen, more RAM, smaller screen etc…
Some features that we expect to see include some kind of Retina Display, perhaps not with that title but at least a screen with a pixel density that matches the current Retina Display. We think the screen size will stay the same. We think one camera (perhaps 2) might be included with the front facing camera specifically being used for FaceTime calls. A 3 axis gyro is also a possibility. Basically, you only need to look at how the iPhone advances and then attach that technology to the iPad… and then extra technology is then attached back to the next gen iPhone and so forth. [Read more…]
