BenQ GH700 Superzoom Digital Camera

Here comes a new superzoom digital camera from BenQ, the GH700. Specs-wise, the camera sports a Sony 16-megapixel back-illuminated BSI CMOS image sensor, a 25mm wide-angle lens, a 21x optical zoom lens, a 3.0-inch 460k LCD display, an 85MB of internal memory, an SD/SDHC/SDXC card slot, BenQ's high speed digital signal processor (DSP), a USB 2.0 port, an HDMI port and 1080p Full HD video recording capabilities (60fps). The GH700 will go on sale in Europe from December for unannounced price yet.

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Switched On: HTC goes back to the future

Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology. Motorola's Droid RAZR takes enough pages out of the classic textbook of smartphone differentiation to assemble its own chapter. It sets a new standard for thinness in LTE devices, uses leading-edge display technology, resists flexing, glass breakage and water damage, has a striking design and thoughtfully selected materials, stretches battery life, matches with a bevy of optimized accessories, and enables remote file and media access via Motocast software .



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Neither iOS Nor Android, Windows Phone 7 Is The Operating System Of The Year!

That gives us a chance to cascade some words of appreciation in its favor but not before disclosing you some interesting tidbits from the eve. It was announced that Microsoft's latest mobile OS, the Windows Phone 7.x is coming up fast and is the best mobile operating system. The number of WP7 developers are growing faster too, and so is the Windows Phone MarketPlace. The OS as you'd already know, has a refreshing user interface which favorably doesn't rhyme with any of its competitors.

Runner ups include Samsung's Bada OS and BlackBerry 7 OS.



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T-Mobile UK launches midrange Vivacity droid, free on contract

T-Mobile UK have unveiled their Vivacity Android smartphone, available today for as little as free of charge on a £10 per month deal or £99 on pay as you go. It will be available starting today at T-Mobile stores, the online shop and telesales. Specs are middle of the road matching the low asking price. On the front there's a 3.5x16M color TFT of WVGA (480 x 800) resolution capacitive touchscreen display. On the back there's a 5 MP snapper, while the inside goodies include HSDPA, Wi-Fi connectivity, GPS and Android Gingerbread 2.3 among others.

The T-Mobile Vivacity is lightweight at 118 g and thin at 10.5 mm.



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Bing brings the holiday gold, offers free Xbox Live preview for Thanksgiving weekend

Need something to do while your loved ones slave over hot stoves and turkey platters. Microsoft and Bing have got your back, offering gamers another free Xbox Live Gold weekend to help you frag your way through the holiday. Of course, if you're feeling too sedentary to twitch your thumbs, you can always veg out with your Netflix queue or use the console's ESPN app to get your traditional Thanksgiving sports fix. Either way, you're golden until the 27th - after that, you'll need to pony up and subscribe.

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BlackBerry Curve 9380 hits the FCC, talking the T-Mobile talk

RIM's first all-screen Curve has sashayed over to the FCC. Two models of the BlackBerry Curve 9380, the REA70UW and REB70UW, are included in the latest filing, which goes into typical laborious detail on radio frequencies and the like. Thankfully, those myriad charts and graphs reveal support for WCDMA band IV, meaning that the phone plays nice with T-Mobile's 3G network. Let's just hope that, if given the chance to strut its stuff in the US market, it follows the Curve family tradition of arriving keenly priced.

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Court holds European ISPs can't be forced to filter traffic, users free to fly the jolly roger

It's been a sliver under a month since UK ISP British Telecom was ordered to cut all ties to filesharing site Newzbin 2. Now, a European court decision deals a counter blow to media owners by denying their demands to hustle ISPs into tracking freeloading downloaders. Specifically, the court held that it was illegal to force an ISP to install and maintain a system filtering all of its traffic as it could infringe customer privacy rights.

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