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Samsung SGH-D900i

Like a Fashion Week catwalk model, the Samsung SGH-D900i garners most of its appeal from being super-skinny, shiny, and appearing to have not much on.

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Nokia E51

Nokia's E51 combines business functionality with a well appreciated serving of style, making it a highly desirable phone.

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LG Viewty (KU990)

The touchscreen interface and sexier design will be enough to make knees tremble, however, the Viewty's 5-megapixel camera falls short of our expectations.

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Sony Ericsson P1i

The P1i has most of the bells and whistles a business user could want, but the user interface is a little quirky.

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Nokia announce N96, N78, 6210 Navigator and 6220 Classic

With all eyes on Barcelona for the Mobile World Congress, Nokia took the opportunity to announce the first of its big handset releases of the year.

Digital SLRs bring lens quandary

The digital era has given camera buyers abundant new choices. But changes that came with higher-end models called digital SLRs have also imposed new lens complexities and compatibility issues buyers hadn't bargained for.

Microsoft pictures a 10-gigapixel photo

Forget megapixels, where the resolution of digital images is counted in millions of pixels. Michael Cohen, a scientist at Microsoft Research, is trying to create a photo this summer that will contain 10 billion pixels.

Adobe hopes Lightroom captures photo trends

Lightroom 2.0 is better at editing just a portion of an image and it plays more nicely with Photoshop. More broadly, it's designed for digital-era photography challenges.

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Digital Camera Buying Guide

Everything you need to know when pondering a new camera purchase, from the kind of user you are to current technologies to consider.

Too sexy for your camera: portraits in motion

Fashion photography lessons - how to take compelling pictures of someone who is moving fast in front of a distracting background.

Shutter-lag time in manufacturer specs

As a longtime film photographer, the biggest annoyance in digital cameras for me is the shutter-lag time. I shoot people doing what they do. In this work, near-instant shutter firing is very important. My film Canons are quick. My digital Canon is just OK, which means I lose a lot of good images, so when it really counts, I go back to film. So my question is, why isn't focus and shutter-lag time one of the items listed in camera specs?

What to look for in a digital camcorder

There are easily more than a dozen features to consider when shopping for a camcorder, and even more models to pick from. So before you cough up money for a camcorder, take note of the following key features to look out for.

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Best long zoom compact cameras

The average compact camera packs a 3x zoom, while anything larger than 10x qualifies as a megazoom or superzoom. But there's a growing number of cameras in the 3-10x hinterland that combine compact portability with distant-shooting goodness.

Jet lag: cameras with a short shutter delay

Reviews of fast, compact point-and-shoot digital cameras.

GPS: not just for the car anymore

Declining prices and improved miniaturisation mean GPS is making its way out of the car and into other gadgets. You may never get lost again.

Panasonic plethora

If you're looking for a new camcorder, Panasonic offers a range of options and price points with five new camcorders in its 2005 line-up.

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Digital GEM Plug-in 1.1.4

Reduce noise and grain in your digital photo images.

GenesisII 4.0

Generate photo-realistic images of landscapes.

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