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Pentax Optio S1 point and shoot camera announced

Pentax has announced a compact point and shoot camera, known as the Pentax Optio S1. The camera comes equipped with a 14-megapixel sensor and a 5x optical zoom lens. It’s capable of recording video at 720p HD and shooting HDR (High Dynamic Range) photos. The Optio S1 is also equipped with a 2.7-inch LCD screen which is good for playbacks of images and HD videos.

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iPad 2 gets BodyGuardz, BodyGuardz Carbon Fiber protective films and ScreenGuardz HD Anti-Glare film

The iPad 2 has been officially announced, as usual there will be a number of accessories lining up for the iPad 2. Since the iPad 2 has been made 33 percent thinner than the original iPad, protective cases and films must not add too much bulk for not to defeat the purpose of the iPad 2 being thinner.

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iPad 2 gets official, thinner, lighter & faster with FaceTime, Smart Covers and more

Finally the iPad 2 has been announced at the Apple event. The iPad 2 comes with a 1GHz dual-core A5 chip and has both rear and front cameras. The CPU is said to offer up to twice the speed and up to nine times of graphics better than what the first-gen iPad has.

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MacX DVD Ripper Pro rips DVDs to your iPhone, iPad, iPod and more

Most of us have stocked up a number of boxes of DVD movies or audios for playback on the home theater systems or computers. But if you’re an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch user, you’ll definitely wish to transfer those DVD movies or musics to your iDevices, so you can be enjoying watching or listening on the run. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to do so, unless you make use of a software called MacX DVD Ripper Pro.

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World’s first 100kg crushproof camera – the Olympus TOUGH TG-810

Olympus has announced the world’s first camera that is able to survive up to 100kg of crush force, called the Olympus TOUGH TG-810. This new Olympus digital camera is meant to take a serious beating. And it can survive many tortures of the harshest or most adventurous environments, being waterproof up to 10m, shockproof from a height of 2m and freezeproof down to -10 degree Celsius.

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Samsung Galaxy Ace aka SHW-M240S with T-DMB tuner officially unveiled in South Korea

Samsung has officially announced a new mid-range phone in its home market, which is known as the Samsung Galaxy Ace (SHW-M240S). The handset was announced along with other Samsung mid-range handsets such as the Galaxy Fit, Gio and Mini. The Samsung Galaxy Ace packs a 3.5-inch HVGA capacitive touchscreen display and runs Android 2.2 Froyo as the OS.

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Evernote iPhone app gets version 4.0 with redesigned UI

If you’re an existing Evernote app user on your iPhone or iPod Touch, you should now pop over to Apple iTunes as the Evernote has been released with its latest version 4.0 which comes with a redesigned user interface. The new version 4.0 Evernote is even described as the “biggest iPhone and iPod Touch interface update ever”.

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Trade in first-gen iPad to subsidize cost of upgrade to iPad 2 with NextWorth

Today’s Apple event will be where the iPad 2 officially announced. If you’re a first-gen iPad user, it should be a good idea to trade in the first-gen iPad you own, to subsidize some cost for the upgrade to iPad 2. NextWorth now offers pretty high trade-in values for your first generation iPad with “Light Wear” as follows:

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iPad 2 with Thunderbolt and 1.2GHz CPU accidentally leaked on Amazon

Amazon is at it again, having accidentally published a device on one of its online stores (Amazon.de) before its official annoucement. The screenshot shown here was where a 16GB iPad 2 initially found, showing it with the support of Thunderbolt and a 1.2GHz CPU. But the page has been taken down, which currently leads you to a 404 page.

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Greenliant intros NANDrive, world’s first single Package SATA SSD

Greenliant, a Germany company has introduced its NANDrive single Package SATA SSD, which is also the first industrial-grade single package SATA SSD storage solution. The entire SSD package comes in dimensions of 14mmx24mmx1.85mm that also qualifies it as the smallest SSD in the industry.

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