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Inon’s monstrous X1 is a tough aluminum alloy housing to keep the Panasonic GF1 from getting its little feet wet. The underwater shell will keep the mirrorless camera safe down to a cochlear-crushing 75-meters (the limit for recreational diving is just 40-meters, or 130-feet).
The GF1 turns out to be well-suited for underwater use. While the X1 case dwarfs the camera body, it’s not so much bigger than a naked pro-SLR. And because it is designed to use the rear-LCD screen as a viewfinder, you don’t have to peer through an actual viewfinder or use a top-mounted rangefinder.
What about the price? It will cost you a stomach-sinking ¥186,900, or around $2,200, and the grips on either side will be another $115 each. That’s not cheap, but then, if you dive to these depths you don’t expect it to be. My friend Pieter told me the story of his father’s deep-diving camera strategy: He buys a waterproof housing first, and then buys a few identical SLRs to fit inside. One is used, and the others are kept in their boxes as spares. Pieter’s dad is both an airline captain and a deep-diver, so he officially counts as awesome and his advice should be accepted without question.
The X-2 is available now, complete with accessories for using almost all your Lumix lenses.
On a related note, I’m in the market for a cheap (sub-$200) underwater camera. [...]
August 11th, 2010 / Gadget-News / gadgets / No Comments
Inon’s monstrous X1 is a tough aluminum alloy housing to keep the Panasonic GF1 from getting its little feet wet. The underwater shell will keep the mirrorless camera safe down to a cochlear-crushing 75-meters (the limit for recreational diving is just 40-meters, or 130-feet).
The GF1 turns out to be well-suited for underwater use. While the X1 case dwarfs the camera body, it’s not so much bigger than a naked pro-SLR. And because it is designed to use the rear-LCD screen as a viewfinder, you don’t have to peer through an actual viewfinder or use a top-mounted rangefinder.
What about the price? It will cost you a stomach-sinking ¥186,900, or around $2,200, and the grips on either side will be another $115 each. That’s not cheap, but then, if you dive to these depths you don’t expect it to be. My friend Pieter told me the story of his father’s deep-diving camera strategy: He buys a waterproof housing first, and then buys a few identical SLRs to fit inside. One is used, and the others are kept in their boxes as spares. Pieter’s dad is both an airline captain and a deep-diver, so he officially counts as awesome and his advice should be accepted without question.
The X-2 is available now, complete with accessories for using almost all your Lumix lenses.
On a related note, I’m in the market for a cheap (sub-$200) underwater camera. [...]
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In a battlefield now abundant with Android handsets, there’s only one easy way for a young smartphone brand to grab our attention: make a seriously dirt cheap handset. And we’re not just talking about a free phone chained to a pricey 18-month contract (like the Vodafone 845); we’re looking for a Pay & Go smartphone tagged with a standalone dumbphone price, so even the £200+ ($316+) “budget” HTC Wildfire and Sony Ericsson X10 Mini / Mini Pro are out of the question.
This is where Three UK’s ZTE Racer comes in: priced at just £99.99 ($158) or for free on various contracts, this Android 2.1 handset has quite rightly stolen the paper crown from the 845. But don’t let that price tag fool you — this 14.5mm-thick device still comes with a fairly modern 600MHz Qualcomm MSM7227 chipset (as featured on the Aria and X10 Mini / Mini Pro), garnished with a 3.2 megapixel camera (sans flash), HSDPA 7.2Mbps connectivity, 2GB microSD card, FM radio, GPS, Bluetooth, WiFi, and a Skype app for free Skype calls within the UK. There is just one caveat: you’ll have to live with a 2.8-inch QVGA resistive touchscreen. So, is this an immediate deal-breaker? Can the other features make up for this flaw? Read on to find out.
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By and large, mobile TV services across the globe have rallied around DVB-H, T-DMB, and ATSC Mobile, but a couple strange (and very important) bedfellows ended up going a different direction: Japan and Brazil, both of whom use variants of ISDB-T. In Japan, the service is more commonly known as one-seg, and Brazil’s localized version goes by the rather unwieldy ISDB-Tb. Got that? Good — because Samsung’s prepping yet another flavor of its Android-powered Galaxy S for the local Brazilian market, and the addition of an integrated ISDB-Tb tuner should be just what the doctor ordered to take advantage of that lovely 4-inch Super AMOLED display. It’s got Android 2.1 (though Froyo should be in the cards) and most of the other features you’re already accustomed to from other Galaxy S launches; one notable exception, though, is the addition of mobile hotspot capability, something that normal comes stock in Android 2.2. It’s coming in September, apparently for a whopping 2,399 reals which works out to something in the neighborhood of $1,367 — fully unlocked, we hope.
Samsung adds ISDB-Tb reception for Brazil’s Galaxy S originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 11 Aug 2010 05:47:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The LG Neon’s spiritual successor actually bowed a few months ago (February, to be exact) as the GT350, but it looks like Rogers — which continues to carry the original Neon — is finally getting ready to unleash this thing as the Neon 2. Dummies for the new models are starting to roll into stores, it seems, alongside those of the GT540, a midrange Android-powered slate that we actually first saw all the way back at CES this year. Though official pricing and availability aren’t known, we wouldn’t expect either one to command much dough — and indeed, MobileSyrup is quoting a CAD $29.99 ($29) sticker price on a new three-year deal. We know which one we’d rather have.
Rogers lined up to get LG GT540, Neon 2? originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:06:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Judging by the deluge of tips that just hit our inbox, it looks like Verizon just pulled the trigger and released the Android 2.2 Froyo update over-the-air for its venerable Droid handset. At least it has for some lucky owners. So tell us, did you get yours?
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Motorola Droid Android 2.2 Froyo OTA updates are go originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 11 Aug 2010 01:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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We’ve always been fans of the odd form factor espoused by Motorola’s longstanding Ming series of devices in China — a form factor seen only briefly in the US with Verizon’s Krave — and now that Moto’s made the leap to Android across its global smartphone lineup, it makes sense to move the MING from custom-cooked Linux to Android, too. The A1680 has been floating around in the wild since back in April of this year, but Motorola’s MOTDEV site for developers has now spilled the beans on all the crucial specs. Strangely, there are some basics missing like proximity and ambient light sensors — usually must-haves for touchscreen devices — and the 624MHz PXA935 core should doom it to the lower end of the performance spectrum, but at least it can scale up to 32GB of add-on storage and you’ve got a WVGA display at your disposal. Hey, Moto, if you’re listening: we still think this kind of design is pretty cool, in the odd chance you’re game to give Westerners another shot at it.
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Motorola’s dev site details Android-powered Ming A1680 originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 11 Aug 2010 02:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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If you’re gonna proverbially bear hug your iPod touch into a working cellular device, might as well get it in the trendiest color available, right? The Apple Peel 520 has now been shown off in white, a more stylish option for those wanting a case, extended battery, and freedom from the shackles of limited SIM options (at the expense of some functionality and ease of use, naturally). Still in production with no release date, but hey, if you’re the sort who likes to live on the outer fringes of consumer electronics, keep this import in mind. No promises it’ll work with whatever Apple has up its sleeve next, though.
Apple Peel 520 gets a white finish, odds placed on beating white iPhone 4 to market originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 11 Aug 2010 01:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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You’d think Motorola would be done for the summer after pushing out the much anticipated Droid 2, but no — apparently it has yet more Android handsets to deliver before it could head to the beach. Spotted on a Chinese regulatory website is this XT806 flip phone, which is destined for China Telecom’s CDMA2000 network. Like the other MING handsets, the main selling point here is the Chinese handwriting input on the 3.6-inch 854 x 480 LCD screen — no word on touchscreen type, but we’d be surprised if it isn’t resistive. The phone — powered by a 600MHz TI OMAP3430 chip — also comes with microSD explansion, FM radio, Bluetooth, WLAN of some sort, and a 5 megapixel camera that does 720p video. As for which version of Android, no idea, but we’d still pick the MT810 over this newbie any day.
Motorola XT806 Android flip phone strikes a pose on Chinese website originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:42:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sure, XDADevelopers has had an unofficial fix for a few days, but we understand your hesitation — installing custom firmware is how you got burned in the first place. Thankfully for you, HTC is now beaming the official EVO 4G patch over the airwaves, which updates your tainted 3.26.561.3 dairy dessert to a more toothsome 3.26.561.6. Just scoot on over to Settings > System Updates and invoke the download — assuming Sprint is being nice in your area — or wait it out and your handset might even update itself.
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HTC EVO 4G Froyo .6 update starts OTA rollout for early adopters originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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