After their pretty flimsy looking V1 MP3 Player, Owen have introduced the V8 to the series, a 4.3 inch 8GB media player with a built-in 3 mega-pixel camera that not only takes stills but video too.
It runs on the CC1600 chip, has a 16:9 TFT screen, plays all the usual video and audio formats (including APE & FLAC lossless), 7 EQ modes, FM radio & transmitter, e-book reader and supports up to 16GB of TF card expansion.
It offers 10 hours of video playback, 35 hours of audio and costs around $90 in China.
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Gizmodo have cast their judgement over the newest member of the iPod family in a series of videos and an indepth write-up.
To sum up they seem happy with it and the new camera does the job of any other standard definition camera would.
The biggest gripe is that it seems like another incremental upgrade, rather than something truely fresh and that the 8GB and 16GB models don't really cut it when a 32GB version is long overdue.
See the full review here.
Over at Slippery Brick they've pitched the new Nano camera up against the Flip Ultra. The Flip won.
See the video here.
For those of us not too enamored with Apple's latest, here's the thing in bits.
Another HD pocket camcorder has come along in the form of Kodak’s Zi8. This one boasts full HD and a range of styles from aqua, raspberry and black.
The 1080p video capture comes with built-in electronic image stabilisation and face tracking for movies and 16:9 widescreen stills taken with the 5-megapixel camera.
It has a 2.5-inch colour LCD screen and a swing-out USB arm, as well as easy upload features to Facebook and YouTube. Storage comes in the form of SD card.
[Via t3]
Never mind the huge amount of space they'll take up, for now let's just marvel at the capabilities of the forthcoming LG GC990 Louvre flagship phone that sports Schneider-Kreuznach optics.
LG promise “zero shutter lag” and auto or touchscreen focus, xenon flash and claimed ISO 3200 sensitivity for picture taking, on top of that the ability to record 720p video at 30fps. Pictures will also be geotagged thanks to the on-board GPS.
The phone runs LG's S-Class UI and has an auto-rotating 3.2-inch, 19:9 aspect touchscreen display, as well as WiFi, Bluetooth, DivX and Xvid support, a TV-Out jack and support for media sharing with DLNA standard devices.
This is one for spec-heads everywhere.
[Via engadget]
Newman's latest Newsmy PMP, the F6, comes loaded with a 5 megapixel camera.
Whatever pictures or movies you shoot will be displayed on the 3 inch TFT flat panel LCD touch screen which can be jabbed at with the accompanying Lanyard pen.
The player supports RM, MRVB, FLV, MPG, DAT, AVI, MP4, WMV, 3GP, ASF etc. on the video side and audio support comes in the form of MP3, WMA, OGG, APE and FLAC. Other features include the regular built in speaker, FM radio and games.
RM975 (ilomo)
Yes its new player time again, in fact, its new player time ALL THE TIME
Ramos have released a new player with all the usual fodder but have now incorporated a camera into the bargain, now considering how apparently unpopular the v747 with camera seems to be, are the buying public really going for integrated cameras??
The design is not touch screen, buttons on the edge and with speakers mounted both sides, will of course make the player a little larger than the rm970
Anyway, some specs as known so far, above and beyond the basics
2-megapixel camera (probably hardware 1.3, software interpolated to 2.0)
3-inch WQVGA LCD screen
FM radio
FM Transmitter (low range only)
15 hours of playback time, in audio (getting better)
front mounted stereo speake
