Archive for March 6th, 2007

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Orange SPV E600 available to business customers

Looks like our friends at MoDaCo beat us to the post with this one but the Orange version of the HTC Excalibur, the Orange SPV E600, has just appeared on the Orange Business Site.

Orange SPV E600

At the moment the E600 is only available to business customers but I suspect that it wont be long before it’s available to all.

Benefit from the svelte and compact design, with a full QWERTY keyboard and a large screen, composing emails and viewing attachments is almost as easy as if you were in the office. And when you’re out of the country, even continent, thanks to quad band technology it’s not problem – so that’s one less thing to worry about.

One thing I did notice is that the blurb (see above) says the E600 is quad-band yet the details specification, also on the Orange site, clearly states tri-band. Maybe Orange isn’t sure!?

I’ve been using an HTC S620 (basically the same device) for some time now and it’s one of my favourite devices and definitely my favourite smartphone. It will be interesting to see what the Orange customisation does to the SPV E600. Get your sugar cubes ready!

Orange SPV E600 Specification:

  • Quadband GSM with EDGE
  • TI OMAP 850 processor
  • 1.3-megapixel CMOS camera
  • 2.4-inch 340×240-pixel LCD with 65K-color support
  • 128MB ROM; 64MB RAM
  • microSD expansion slot
  • Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP and AVRCP
  • 802.11g, USB and infrared
  • 111 x 62.5 x 12.8mm; 130g

    • Check out the Orange E600 page HERE.

    Oh and the SPV E600 is quad-band by the way!

    Matt

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    Nikon announce D40x

    Nikon announces the arrival of the D40x, its smallest camera to date that packs a punch with a host of innovative features. Featuring a 10.2 megapixel CCD the D40x is loaded with everything a photographer needs, despite its miniature size. Within the stylish and compact casing of the D40x, Nikon has packed in a number of exciting features to ensure that the user is able to achieve optimum results.

    Nikon D40x

    With 10.2 megapixels image quality is excellent and the D40x comes with Nikon’s exclusive 3D Colour Matrix Metering II and auto white balance which enables the user to produce quality shots that capture the vivid detail and true colour of the subject matter.

    The D40x is equipped with a compact lightweight 55-200mm Zoom-Nikkor telephoto lens. This lens – the R708 – is fitted with an ED glass element, making it easier to achieve images with higher resolution and high contrast. The Silent Wave Motor offers quiet and smooth autofocussing.

    For those taking pictures in a hurry the D40x is fast, despite its petite design. It has near instant power-up (0.18 seconds) whilst a continuous shooting mode enables the keen photographer to capture 100jpegs of images as fast as three frames per second. And with autofocus built-in even shots taken in a hurry are crisp and clear. Nikon’s innovative i-TTL flash control evaluates ideal flash exposure so the image light is always correct, whatever the conditions.

    An ample 2.5-inch LCD screen means the budding photographer can view, manipulate and navigate their images at ease. Unique Nikon innovations make it possible to manipulate the images in-camera, enabling amateurs to achieve results that a professional would be pleased with. Nikon’s unique D-Lighting function improves underexposed images or shots taken with too much back light by creating a copy of an image with added light and detail wherever necessary, leaving well-exposed areas untouched. Photographers can even fix red eye at the touch of a button or use the D40x’d monochrome effect to make an image black and white. Nikon’s exclusive PictureProject software also makes it easy to edit, organise, transfer and share the high quality images.

    For the creative photographer the fast and simple vari-program modes (the D40x has eight of them) also enable the enthusiast to be adapt the photographs at will, with the flick of a rotating mode dial.

    The Q560 is world’s lightest D-SLR with interchangeable lens using 10-effective-megapixel-class APS-C size CCD, without battery, memory card or body cap, as of March 6th, according to Nikon a survey.

    Nikon D40x Specification:

    Type of Camera

    Single-lens reflex digital camera

    Effective Pixels

    10.2 million

    Image Sensor

    RGB CCD, 23.6 x 15.8 mm; total pixels: 10.75 million, Nikon DX format

    ISO Sensitivity

    100 to 1,600 in steps of 1 EV with additional setting one step over 1,600

    Storage Media

    SD memory card, SDHC compliant

    Storage System

    Compressed NEF (RAW): 12-bit compression, JPEG: JPEG baseline compliant

    White Balance

    Auto (TTL white-balance with 420-pixel RGB sensor), six manual modes with fine-tuning and preset white balance

    LCD Monitor

    2.5-in., 230,000-dot, low-temperature polysilicon TFT LCD with brightness adjustment

    Playback Function

    1 frame; Thumbnail (4 or 9 segments); Magnifying playback; Slide show; Histogram indication; Highlight point display; Auto image rotation

    Video Output

    NTSC or PAL

    Interface

    High-speed USB: Mass Storage and MTP/PTP selectable

    Text Input

    Up to 36 characters of alphanumeric text input available with LCD monitor and multi selector; stored in Exif header

    Picture Angle

    Equivalent in 35mm [135] format is approx. 1.5 times lens focal length

    Viewfinder

    Fixed-eyelevel penta-Dach mirror type; built-in diopter adjustment (-1.7 to +0.5m-1)

    Eyepoint

    18mm (-1.0 m-1)

    Focusing Screen

    Type B BriteView Clear Matte screen Mark V with superimposed focus brackets

    Viewfinder Frame Coverage

    Approx. 95% (vertical/horizontal)

    Viewfinder Magnification

    Approx. 0.8x with 50mm lens at infinity; -1.0 m-1

    Viewfinder Information

    Focus indications, AE lock indicator, Shutter speed, Aperture value, Exposure/Exposure compensation indicator, Exposure mode, Flash output level compensation, Exposure compensation, Number of remaining exposures, Flash-ready indicator

    Autofocus

    TTL phase detection by Nikon Multi-CAM530 autofocus sensor module with AF-assist illuminator (range approximately 0.5-3.0m/1ft. 8in.-9ft. 10in.); Detection range: -1 to +19 EV (ISO 100 at 20°C/68°F)

    Lens Servo

    1) Autofocus (AF): Instant single-servo AF (AF-S); continuous servo AF (AF-C); auto AF-S/AF-C selection (AF-A); predictive focus tracking automatically activated according to subject status, 2) Manual focus (M)

    Focus Area

    Can be selected from three focus areas

    AF Area Modes

    1) Single Area AF, 2) Dynamic Area AF, 3) Dynamic Area AF with Closest Subject Priority

    Focus Lock

    Focus can be locked by pressing shutter-release button halfway (single-servo AF) or by pressing AE-L/AF-L button

    Matt

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    O2 XDA Zinc reviewed

    We know that a lot of you have been following the progress of the XDA Zinc eagerly awaiting its launch here in the UK which is said to be later this month. Well to give you a quick Zinc fix the people over at Kaitech.hk have a review of the device for your reading pleasure.

    XDA Zinc

    Just before you head off to the review I should warn you that it’s not all rosy and that the device appears to be somewhat buggy:

  • Unexplainable crashes/freezes, resulting in frustrating soft resets
  • Character shift on keyboard is very slow: Shift+T reacts more convincingly than Chr+T (which gives you ‘5’)
  • During testing, I experienced a less-than-smooth 3G video calling experience. Picture was sometimes unlear (with full phone reception), or worse, the machine would hang and lock up
  • Does anyone miss the “metal, high-pitched” sound from the O2 Mini when it first shipped? If so, then you will be glad to know that the sound has made a comeback! I had to do a double take several times to make sure I wasn’t using a Mini.
  • No scroll wheel, and no “OK” button by default – the latter can of course be customized, but then you lose the Messaging key. This of course points to another problem: the lack of hardware buttons on the Zinc. But they do have that handy dedicated keylock button…
  • Bluetooth voice quality when paired with my Samsung WEP410 is noticeably worse than 838Pro. More hisses at close range and less distance allowed before static set in.
  • Phone application does not respond to hardware keyboard letters. You need to dial using the numbers which reside on the top row (‘1’ = Chr+Q, ‘5’ = Chr+T… which is a real PITA because of the slow Chr-key response time as noted above).

    • Matt

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