Tag: cellphone
Facial Recognition To Identify People
March 15, 2010 by Max · Leave a Comment
A company called The Astonishing Tribe are in the process of developing an applicatiom for the Google Android person, that will tell you who someone is by you pointing your mobile phone at them. The application prototype uses a 3D model to recognize facial features, it then searches its server to find a match, once [...]
Sanho crams 640GB of memories HyperDrive Album photo viewer
March 9, 2010 by Max · Leave a Comment
Photo viewers have been around for centuries (give or take a few score), but few have offered the capacity and speed found on the HyperDrive Album. Produced by none other than Sanho — the same dudes and dudettes responsible for those spectacular HyperMac batteries — this here device is essentially a 640GB pocket hard drive [...]
The N97 Mini Gold Edition
March 8, 2010 by Max · Leave a Comment
Phone manufacturers usually leave the gilding to jewelers and other specialty shops that are more willing to show complete disregard for taste and common sense than themselves, but once in a while, pure, unadulterated emotion gets the better of someone in a position to make product decisions — yes, even at Nokia — and something [...]
Windows Mobile 7: Too Late to Save Microsoft?
Microsoft’s problem stretches back at least as far as February 2007, when Windows Mobile 6 showed up on scene looking like an antique beside the just-announced iPhone. At that point, Windows Mobile held about a 14 percent share of the world smartphone market – already down from a high of 23 percent in 2004. But [...]
Tour of Palm Pre Plus
February 22, 2010 by Max · Leave a Comment
The Palm Pre Plus earns its place as the top WebOS device, improving on the Pre with a better design and performance, and upgraded features. Verizon customers looking for a versatile smartphone to balance their personal and work lives will be well-served by the Pre Plus. The Pre Plus looks like the older Pre, with [...]
The Nokia E72 Review
February 22, 2010 by Max · Leave a Comment
Introduction Look at the E72 and you’ll like it. Handle the E72 and you’ll love it. Nokia’s $419 (unlocked, no contract) E72 follows in the footsteps of the lovable E71 with a rock-solid steel chassis built for the businessman. It also hides a hideous and complex operating system in sore need of an update, but [...]
