Headsets for easier listening
In this Friday’s Personal Tech column in the FT’s Business Life, we look at the best headphones and in-ear devices to attach to your MP3 players and cellphones:
“I may not have the ears of a true audiophile, but I do know that a good set of headphones or in-ear monitors (high-quality earbuds) can make all the difference. That is particularly true if you listen to high-quality “lossless” digital music files that preserve the full sound quality of the original recording.”
HTC Incredible is believably best Android
In this week’s Personal Technology column in the FT’s Business Life section, we look at whether the latest HTC smartphone is deserving of its superlative name.
“Names can become a hostage to fortune but Taiwan’s HTC clearly hopes this will not be the case with the Droid Incredible. While the latest in HTC’s rapidly expanding portfolio of smartphones may not quite qualify as “incredible”, it is perhaps the best Android operating system-based handset to date.”
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Clash of the smartphone titans
If the tech world rumour mill is correct, Apple could unveil the next version of its iPhone – somewhat confusingly dubbed by some the iPhone 4G, or more accurately the iPhone OS 4.0 - at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference which begins in San Francisco on June 7.
Compounding the confusion over what exactly 4G does or does not stand for, Sprint will begin selling the HTC EVO 4G – the first WiMax-enabled smartphone - a few days earlier on June 4.
Future-proof your data storage
External hard drives and their new flexibility are the subject of this week’s Personal Technology column in the Business Life section of the FT:
“I have been testing a new 500Gb portable hard drive, the FreeAgent GoFlex Pro from Seagate, which brings the concept of modular design to data storage and enables each drive to be customised to a user’s changing requirements by selecting from an array of cables and desktop adapters.”
A smartphone for Geniuses?
HTC scored a hit with the Android-powered myTouch 3G when it was launched by T-Mobile USA in July last year. Now the Taiwanese smartphone maker has followed up with the myTouch 3G Slide which features a slide-out mini-Qwerty keyboard and the curiously named ‘Genius Button’ on the front of the handset.
Pressing the Genius Button enables users to use voice commands to control the phone and its features including making calls, composing and sending texts and e-mails or searching for a nearby restaurant. It will also read text messages aloud, and lets users dictate and send responses.
Better than a postcard:Wireless Photo Frame
The evolution of digital photo frames has followed a familiar pattern in the consumer technology industry.
First generation devices had a fixed amount of internal memory and had to be updated by plugging them into a PC, second generation devices supported expandable memory and were updated using plug-in flash memory cards and the latest generation can be updated wirelessly – using Bluetooth, WiFi or a cellular connection.
Online, all the time, anywhere
In this week’s Personal Technology column in the FT’s Business Life section, we look at the options for staying online on the road:
“There are three basic ways to get online using a laptop and a mobile phone network: using a laptop with an integrated cellular modem; hooking up or “tethering” a laptop to a smartphone; and using an external cellular modem or personal mobile hotspot device such as Novatel’s MiFi.”
Laser printer value is black and white
In the Personal Technology section of the paper’s Business Life section this week, we look at the latest laser printer from HP:
“It was a shock recently when I realised a new set of ink cartridges would cost more than half what I had paid for my home office colour laser printer in the first place.”
Flip sliding away with Cisco’s new camcorder
The latest Personal Technology column in the FT’s Business Life section looks at the new version of the Flip camcorder:
“The success of the Flip style of camcorder has encouraged rivals such as Kodak, Samsung and Sanyo to launch similar devices, but the SlideHD is the first low-cost camcorder to feature such a large HD widescreen.”
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Micro Four Thirds makes more compact camera
We look at compact DSLR cameras in the weekly Personal Technology section of the FT’s Business Life:
“The Micro Four Thirds system eliminates the bulky optical pentaprism and mirror that flips out of the way of the sensor when the shutter is pressed on a standard SLR camera, enabling the cameras to be much smaller and yet retain the advanced controls and interchangeable lenses that help define a DSLR.”
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