Category Archives: News
…Uplift
The “Man of Steel” marketing team has taken the high road with one of its promotional campaigns. In fact you might say they’ve taken “The” high road.
Warner Bros Studios is taking aim at potential fans of a Christian persuasion, with its special pamphlet entitled “Jesus – the Original Superhero.”
…get out of hand
I have some disturbing numbers for the germaphobes out there, and probably everyone else too.
A recent study from Michigan State University, which dispatched undercover researchers to retrieve the findings, found that only 5% of Americans wash their hands correctly. Gross, right? Read the rest of this entry
…Take A Slice
3D printers have gained another big supporter—NASA.
It seems like a natural fit. 3D printing could be a useful tool in spar exploration. It could be used to build spare parts for damage equipment, tay guns, light sabers or a variety of other things.
…Have Your Word
Yesterday, Microsoft shocked the mobile app world when they finally released Microsoft Office for iPhones.
Unfortunately this moment peace offering and moment of goodwill between these fierce competitors was short lived.
A few moments later they shocked the world again when the app users realized that the promise of the ability to finally edit and create Word docs, Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations, is not in fact “free.”
…Take a Closer Look
Samsung’s S4 Galaxy Zoom — which combines an Android smartphone with a 16-megapixel camera and 10x zoom lens — is real.
The model isn’t likely to appeal to the mainstream smartphone buyer. But in an Android market crowded with options, a niche that caters to a particular subset can be a reasonable approach — especially if that subset is as passionate, enthusiastic, and willing to part with money as photographers often are.
The Korean electronics giant announced the new smartphone Wednesday, the latest in a series of S4-branded phones that began with the Galaxy S4 flagship model, continued with the smaller, cheaper Galaxy S4 Mini, then the rugged Galaxy S4 Active.
The company had dipped its toes in the Android camera waters last year with the $550 Samsung Galaxy Camera, which has an Android interface, a 4.8-inch touch screen, a 21x zoom lens, and mobile-network connectivity. Though its camera is better than what’s in the vast majority of smartphones, it’s not a real smartphone, even though the full potential of photo and video sharing requires customers to pay for a new monthly data plan.
The Galaxy S4 Zoom is a real smartphone, though — something to go up against Nokia’s 808 Pureview and, more realistically, the Windows Phone-based but still officially only rumored Nokia EOS.
The S4 Zoom has Android 4.2, aka “Jelly Bean;” a 4.3-inch Super AMOLED 960×540-pixel screen; LTE network connectivity; a 1.5GHz dual-core processor (though that will vary by market, Samsung said); 8GB of internal memory, a microSD card slot for up to 64GB more capacity; a 2,330mAh battery; and Samsung’s range of extra software.
In the camera department, the Zoom delivers an image-stabilized lens with an 35mm-equivalent focal length range of 24-240mm. Its aperture ranges from f3.1 to f6.3. The sensor can shoot at ISO sensitivity ranging from 100 to 3,200. It’s also got a flash and, on the front side, a 1.9-megapixel camera for video chat.
The S4 Zoom will be available this summer in the U.K., but customers in the rest of Europe or in the United States will have to wait until the fourth quarter, Samsung said. The company didn’t share a price tag.
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More on the Story: Cnet
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