Since its emergence as the premier smartphone player, I pay attention to how Samsung approaches a consumer market. In cameras, Samsung started in 2005 with an aliiance with Pentax for joint development of high end Digital SLRs dominated by Nikon and Canon. The strategy provided an entree for Samsung into the digital camera world. Since…
Pelican has an array of 16 lens in 4 by 4 rows that will give smartphone cameras another leg up in their contest with compact camera vendors for consumers loyalties. Compact cameras have the advantage of much bigger and better optical zoom lenses; generally better…
Mobile phones have been cannibals in the gadget market place. They have eaten other devices lunches while increasing their marketshare. PDAs, GPS units, book viewers and hand game consoles have all come and now linger on as Zombie low cost or highly specialized devices as…
Aviary provides a web and mobile app based photo-editor which provides a base line of what features to expect in a decent photo editor for both platforms. Now with demise…
3 free Photo Editors continue to improve greatly over the past year. They are Artweaver, Photo Filtre and Photoscape. The following slideshow summarizes their features as covered here previously. But…
One of the trends that is effecting camera vendors is that a wide range of electronic device makers outside the familiar ranks are getting into the camera business. Not just smartphones and…
For PhotoFinishing, mobile apps like Instagram, FxReviews, and PicSay have re-invigorated a revolution started by such web photofinishing tools as Picnik [see here the new Picniks since Google closed shop…
Convergence is a way of life in electronic gadgets. For example, still and video cameras have merged in the past 5 years. Another example, video cameras at the high-end may provide…
One of the best sites for Olympic photos is the Los Angeles Times photography blog. First they are covering some of the fascinating venues as well as all the most…
My father used to say “know when you have been beaten to the punch”- and DPReview with Amadou Diallo’s update on Adobe’s Lightroom 4 has certainly done that. Note this…
Photoscape keeps moving up the rankings as a photo editor the more often it gets used. Now let this reviewer admit, Photoscape initially took a big dive in estimation when…
GIF Animations have become ever more popular now that Flash animations are verboten on Apple hardware. Another reason is that many GIF animations have a “silent movies” fashionable styling .…
TheVerge gadget website finally caught onto to what theOpenSourcery readers have known about 3 weeks ago. The next dynamite NUI-Natural User Interface that is going to sweep the Consumer Computing…
There is no doubt that smartphone users are attached to their cameras – a good camera made a big difference in iPhone 4 and the new iPad sales. And smartphone…
Olympic Games: 150 of the Best Images
If you goto the Pinterest site here, you will find 150 of the best photos from the Olympic Games in London. These are compiled from a number of sources –…
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