Nokia nails it with their new N95 8GB.

by Leo on May 29th, 2008

Take one good look at this thing and tell me you don’t want it. With a body like this, Nokia’s new N95 is definitely a head turner. But as we all know, looks aren’t everything in the smartphone world. So what can it do that other smartphones can’t? Let’s start with a 5 megapixel camera (with 20x zoom), Carl Zeiss optics and a luminous 2.8″ (240 x 320) QVGA 16 million colour display. Better than most smartphone cameras. Not a bad start. But what else? There’s an MPEG-4 VGA video feature that shoots videos at 30 frames per second, making them viewable for any big screen or LCD screen. Most impressive. Add all the standard smartphone trinkets - like email (powered by Rogers MobileMail), Rogers MusicStore (giving you instant access to over 1.8 million mp3 tracks. This is where the generous 8GB of memory comes in handy), N-Gage (the coolest video game selections in 3-D at your fingertips. Bye bye boredom), and a nifty little GPS feature called TeleNav with turn-by-turn directions and easy to read maps. Here’s the clincher - impeccable internet connectivity (though you have to be a Rogers subscriber, as you may have gathered) which gives you Rogers Vision. This includes Radio on Demand, Video on Demand and Mobile TV. Ok, so it’s pretty much the renaissance man of smartphones right now. There’s even more you can do with this thing, but given the alloted blog space (which I’ve clearly exceeded) you’ll have to find out the rest yourself.  $399.99 with a three-year activation contract. www.rogers.com

SIRIUS’ Stiletto is seriously amazing…

by Leo on May 28th, 2008

As far as portable MP3 players go, there’s very little SIRIUS’ new Stiletto 2 can’t do.

Following SIRIUS’ first Stiletto model from 2006, the new Stiletto 2 can receive and hold up to 100 hours of live SIRIUS broadcasts via both satellite and WiFi signals. You can also bookmark (or buy) your favourite songs that your heard on any satellite radio station.

It also boasts easy access to stored sports, talk and commercial-free music programming, as well as a removable microSD media slot for expanded storage of MP3 and WMA files. Did you happen to miss the name of that sweet little ditty on that classic rock channel? Fret not, you can create what’s called “Radio Replays” by storing and saving a broadcast from one of your favourite channels then pausing, rewinding, or replaying 60 minutes of missed radio time.

The modual supports 802.11 g/b networks, including username and password access to a bunch of different network accounts. 

All that for $399.99, which also nets you a user-replaceable battery that can operate for four hours (live satellite), 10 hours (WiFi) and 20 hours (non-live), an AC power adaptor, a snazzy pair of Altec Lansing headphones (with ear buds), a PC cable, My SIRIUS Studio software (which you’ll need to manage all your files) - and last but nowhere near least - a vehicle kit. 

www.siriuscanada.ca

 

 

Getty Goes to the Movies.

by Leo on May 27th, 2008

What do Sean Connery, Stanley Kubrick and the Pink Panther all have in common?Aside from being three of the coolest blokes to ever come from Britain, they’re all (among many other British icons) going to be showcased at a new photography exhibition in jolly old London this summer. The Getty Images Gallery in London will be running this exhibition, which will feature all the rarest behind-the-scenes images of some of the world’s greatest stars who were filmed in England’s revered Pinewood, Shepperton and Teddington Studios from the past 50 years. If you’re somewhat of a film geek, then this is visual movie history in it’s finest form. You’ll get to see timeless shots of the one and only Charlie Chaplin directing his daughter Gerladine and a boyishly young Marlon Brandon in “The Countess of Hong Kong,” as well stills from Stanley Kubrick’s director’s chair on the set of “Dr. Strangelove.” Following it’s July 4 opening in London, the exhibition will then tour to New York in September and Los Angeles in November. We don’t have to remind you to keep the popcorn in the bucket and the cell phones off, now do we? www.gettyimagesgallery.com 

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