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Puma Phone: Sports Mobile Phone Gadget | Specs Review

If two giant companies of quite different trades were to unite in producing a particular products, certainly the consumers will be anticipating a one of a kind yield. This applies in the case of the Puma Phone. Puma, or PUMA AG Rudolf Dassler Sport is a known line of sports apparel. It is a German multinational company which manufactures sophisticated and expensive athletic shoes, footwear and other sportswear; and whose 65 percent of stocks is held and owned by PPR (a French worldwide holding c...

Minor update for the Samsung Moment requires a visit to a Sprint store

"You’ve got to love whenever an update is made available to your handset – whether it’s a minor or major one; just the comfort of doing from home is convenient for you. Actually, an update for the Samsung Moment for Sprint is ready for installation – but it’s going to require more than you clicking on a couple of windows on your computer to get it. Sprint has just announced a “maintenance update” for the Moment – although it doesn’t bring it up to the level of the Nexus One, it does pro...

BlackBerry Bold 9700 review Dare you go

"Some handsets will work their socks off to have their fifteen minutes of fame, others are simply born into stardom. The BlackBerry Bold 9700 is certainly fortunate to carry a name that stands for popularity and excellence in the RIM family of phones. But this kind of fame can be less a blessing and more of a curse if the successor fails to live up to the standards set by its illustrious namesake.These high expectations have quite often turned otherwise decent handsets into a byword for failur...

Hasselblad introduces the H3DII-50MS Multi-Shot

Hasselblad introduces the H3DII-50MS Multi-Shot System, the 50 million pixel version of the H3DII-39MS announced in October 2007. The multi-shot technology realizes the capture of still life subjects with all details represented in true detail and color resolution. By capturing a sequence of 4 shots, each offset by a one pixel increment, every point on your set is rendered with its true red, green and blue color components. In this way, true detail and true color are acquired without interpolat...

Review of GSM UMTS smartphone Samsung i7500

"Samsung seem to have taken a liking to churn out phones on all kinds of platforms, including S60, Windows Mobile and their proprietary OS that gets updated on a regular basis. Now they have introduced yet another operating system into their arsenal – Android, although so far there is only one phone running on it in their portfolio and that’s the Samsung i7500. But apparently, we’ll see more offerings of this kind from them in the future. And for now let’s see what they have managed to put toge...

Day two with the Zune HD (software overview) – Video

I’ve had a bit more time to play with that Zune HD that I unboxed yesterday, and I think I’m going to have a love/mild annoyance relationship with this media player going forward. Here’s what I’ve noticed so far after using the Zune HD for about a day: Pros: The user interface is incredibly slick and the animations are attractive without being particularly distracting. The desktop Zune Marketplace software is excellent for arranging media, downloading podcasts, and purchasing me...

Review of GSM UMTS smartphone Samsung i7500

"Samsung seem to have taken a liking to churn out phones on all kinds of platforms, including S60, Windows Mobile and their proprietary OS that gets updated on a regular basis. Now they have introduced yet another operating system into their arsenal – Android, although so far there is only one phone running on it in their portfolio and that’s the Samsung i7500. But apparently, we’ll see more offerings of this kind from them in the future. And for now let’s see what they have managed to put toge...

The LSST: our 3 Gigapixel window on the Universe

On the Cerro Pachan ridge in Chile, the LSST - a new kind of telescope - will see the light in 2014. With a light-gathering power among the largest in the world, it can detect faint objects with short exposures. Its uniquely wide field of view allows it to observe large areas of the sky at once; compact and nimble, it can move quickly between images. Taking more than 800 panoramic images each night, it can cover the sky twice each week. The LSST is equipped with a giant 3 Gigapixel digital came...