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Casio has just announced its new digital camera from 8.1 megapixel Exilim series, the EX-Z150. Among the notable features of the camera certainly stands out the large LCD 3 , the image stabilization, the objective 28mm and 4x optical zoom, higher than the classic 3x used on compact digital cameras. Like other models in this series, the EX-Z150 has the function YouTube and is capable of recording movies at a resolution of 640 x 480 at 30 fps up to 10 consecutive minutes.

At the moment there is no information on price and release date of the new born at home Casio.

What you see in photos is the Creative ZEN X-Fi, a player with skills even too hidden client instant messaging and streaming media, thanks to wi-fi connectivity.

In fact one of the most interesting gifts is precisely in the name X-Fi, which means a proprietary technology can improve the quality of MP3 files played well, owns loudspeakers built-in slot for a memory card format SD, a tuner for FM radio and headphones premium quality.

The battery mentions 36 hours of activity with regard to the audio, while stops in 5 hours when playing video; supports files in MP3, WMA, AAC, WAV and Audible, WMV, MPEG4-SP, DivX 4 / 5, Xvid and MJPEG. The screen is 2.5 and cuts of internal memory ranging from 8GB to 32GB, with an intermezzo from 16GB.

The prices, or the launch date, were made known, but this leak suggests that we are now close to un’ufficializzazione.

Digital cube announced the arrival on the Korean market for a new PND, Personal Navigation Device, called i-station U7, very graphically appealing. The allocations are classic for this product segment: a screen LCD-TFT 7 “and resolution of 800 x 480 pixels, a capacity disk 4GB flash memory through built-in, an integrated navigation system, thanks to a chip SIRF Star III , A tuner for digital TV DMB (clearly not compatible with the European standard) and ability to play files in various formats, including MP3, WMA, AC3, OGG, WAV, JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF, MPEG4, DivX, Xvid, WMV9, SMI.

The dimensions are particularly welcome: 191 x 114.2 x 19mm and weighing 454g, costs required is € 245. As mentioned before lead abroad and, more specifically, the market nostrano, should support some hardware changes (such as the introduction of the standard DVB-H), not to mention that all this would be only after demonstrating a degree of popularity as drive .

The last two cameras born at home are the Panasonic HDC-SD100 and the HDC-HS100. The importance of these two models is not so much nell’apparenza or details quite common, but the sensor: are the first in which the company makes debut the 3MOS. The 3MOS are precisely sensors, which they say give an improved sensitivity to light, while remaining decidedly small in size, but this affect the levels of resolution, which affect 520k pixels in video (16:9). The zoom grows up to 12x, compared to the previous version that stopped at 10x.

The difference between the two models is roughly in the management of memory: the SD100 writes on SDHC memory card, without further choices, while the HS100 addition to this possibility also offers 60GB of disk; without counting the manual controls, both are accompanied by auto mode, control of contrast and scene selection in an intelligent manner, to get to optimize well as levels of exposure and focus (without considering the obvious presence of an optical image stabilizer).

The costs are not low, although not prohibitive for their target audience: the most simple, Panasonic HDC-HS100, along with a memory from 8GB is prezza around $ 1,100 (roughly 700 €), while the Panasonic HDC-SD100 get to touch the $ 1,300 (to exchange 835 €). In any case we will wait: their arrival on the market is scheduled for early September. Atri models that we talked in the past can be found here.

JVC has just announced the availability of two new models of digital cameras, the GZ-HD40 and GZ-HD30, both able to return safely to 1920 x 1080 pixels. The interesting thing is the use of dual-format AVCHD/MPEG-2, to join the best features of both: the first for the best compression in time for the second everything turns around to edit and post-production .

The GZ-HD40 has a 120GB hard drive built-in, while the GZ-HD30 stops at 40GB. In any case, both can add or complementary further exploiting the memory slots MicroSDHD available. In the first case the expenditure required to portarsela at home is about 1300 $ (840 €), in the second case of about 1000 $ (650 €). To tell stories, there is third model, the GZ-HD10, but has more modest budgets, in exchange for a lower spending: registration in 1440 × 1080 pixels in AVCHD (not dual then) on 40GB hard disk, all this for about 800 $ (520 €)