Sony’s 12-megapixel Cyber-shot DSC-W200 : the best example for the evils of sensor-resolution specmanship. Elegant silver ,makes a perfect addition to the sensible W series, even if Sony doesn’t offer a black alternative.It shares the same atrractive compact design and midrange feature set of models like the W80 and W90. The reasonably price for this compact models for occasional amateur, puts Cyber-shot DSC-W200 in the top of your digital camera priorities.

Almost nothing to complain about the 6-once camera’s design. Even if it has no area to rest your thumb, wich should be a problem, i’ve discovered a slightly indented mode dial that fufills this purpose without incident. It drives an advantage from small but manageable buttons.

As usual, we get what we expect from a premium-priced snapshot camera: its high feature set.
It benefits of Sony’s Super SteadyShot optical image stabilization, 9-point autofocus, and face detection.Although, there are some different choices from Sony: we can only enable face detection in full Auto mode wich is not even available in Program mode.The W200 also provides us with a fairly exposure mode, in wich you can select up to two or three aperture settings, that depends upon zoom but without providing a shutter-priority choice.

Desapointing is the the 2.5-inch LCD, wich has the same coarse ( 115,000 pixel model) that we can find in cameras at half of the price, with a verry poor off-angle viewing. Viewing in birght light is near impossible, the Brightness Up setting being practically indistinguishable from its initial state. The camera has a verry large optical viewfinder wich somehow supplements the LCD. The narrow f/2.8-5.5 35mm-105mm-equivalent 3x zoom lens being also a little bit limiting.
None of the things we havent seen on previews Sony models: the W200’s face detection works nicely by its power of recognizing multiple faces in a scene. Although it is a bit incnosistent, meaning that in a three-headed test setup, it would usually choose one, sometimes three, occasionally two faces, and a couple of times none,through the same conditions.
As about its shooting speed , wich is moderately well, from power-on to first shot it takes 1.6 seconds.Under harder-to-focus conditions, it takes a 1.3 seconds record. Unfortunately, the W200’s typical shot-to-shot time is a about 2.2 seconds, and if you enable the flash, that doubles the time, it goes up to 4.4 seconds.Though, its 2fps continuous-shooting rate compares better to its series classmates.
The W200 is verry satisfing, when it comes to image-related performance and image quality, because of its 12-megapixel sensor. Even that is physically larger than the 8-megapixel sensor in the W90, the pixels still remain insanely small, being the only reason for wich we think of for the W200 as simply incapable of exposing shots at ISO 100 that most snapshot cameras can handle without problem
I often found verry necessary to boost the ISO setting to at least ISO 400 in order to use a reasonable shutter speed (even if SteadyShot is enabled) while shooting in very bright sunshine. Theoretically, Sony’s Dynamic Range Optimization, which is enabled by default, should automatically expand the midtones to fix the exposures, but there is no situation in wich the DRO could help in a underexposed or high-contrast photo.Although , I took a variety of DRO/no-DRO test shots,i saw no affect whatsoever.
If you combine this with an increased focus problems heading out to the right side of the lens, plus aggressive 8-plus-to-1 compression(at a minimum level) for keeping those 34MB files under control,it becones simply too hard to get a sharp, artifact-free photo. Trying to get some decent shots, i’ve ended up shooting at ISO 200 and bringing up the exposure in Photoshop. After some adjustements,I got a few nice 12.5×16.5 prints. But this isn’t the main goal for someone who is looking forward to benefit from a such high-resolution camera.
The greatest part of this camera is that, W200, can capture some very nice 30fps VGA movies, even if you cannot operat the zoom while shooting.
In conclusion the W200 is just a medium camera, whos price is way over the limit, for what services it drives. If your looking for a compact snapshot camera that will provide great photos at a much reasonable price,feel free to browse through any model on our list of top ultracompact cameras wich will deliver better photos for those money.

What if we could offer you some stimulant for your working out time? Not anymore extra work, but simply relax and enjoy your great tunes. Now you can listen to music while you do everything you want from jogging, cooking even to swimming. This time RCA adds another player to its dry-land category, but the RCA Jet is a player based on flash, with a very resistant splash-proof design and it adds some useful fitness extras.
This RCA Jet benefits of 3 colors: yellow, black and orange, last one being available only in the 2GB option. Don’t know why someone would prefer the 1GB player, when the 2GB is just 5$ away! (of course unless you prefer the yellow color). You can find people who are not suited by these colors, but this player’s sweat-proof casing is exactly what a sporty player need. This unique player aids you by its nifty little loops built into either side, where you can snap on the included armband or wristband.
Its front has a small 1-inch monochrome OLED screen, which displays a white text on black background, so if you have problems with your eyes, you can switch it and reverse the colors so you can steer clear. Under the screen you find a five-way control pad for the track shuttle and volume keys surrounding the central Play/Pause button. More or less the control pad is a little stiff and the button are being a little to hard to press, even the respond time is about 1 or 2 seconds. This player isn’t the easiest thing to use while strapped to an arm.

The standard mini USB port and (a bit odd) the headphone jack at the bottom of the player are covered by some splash-proof flaps, in which presumably you would be wearing, even listening to the device while sweat damage was most at issue.
The menu structure is also a little weird because it is split in two main menus, which you can activate by pressing or double pressing the menu button on the top edge of the player. The first menu includes the main options for the tunes, like Now Playing, Music, Audiobooks, Radio Records and the new My Selections option for listening to your own personal created playlists. The second one offers us options for improving our listening type, for helping us finding a very own track and even options for creating or changing your playlists: Shuffle, Repeat, EQ, adding/clearing My Selections and a Go To choice, that’s useful when changing to FM radio, stopwatch or even BMI calculator. It would’ve been much easier if the options were all together in one central main menu and several submenus with items grouped into related areas. Although isn’t very hard to handle the navigation in this way and the tracks are also arranged in the standard Creative interface, which makes your searches easier.
On the “just play” side Jet S2001 offers the standard PlaysForShure compatibility for MP3s and both protected and unprotected WMAs. Unfortunately you cannot transfer playlists unto it, you just have to create them with the adding/clearing My Selections option. You also cannot play videos or see photos with it, but for its primary objective (fitness oriented player) the stopwatch and FM radio comes more in handy. And you have to try out the new sporty clip-on earphones.
The earphones sound quality is actually pretty good, but as with all included earphones the rock tracks have to suffer. We suggest to buy another set of earphones though, ones with a bass add, which will improve you sound quality, and with which will do away with the muffled quality on the rock tracks. The palyers own earphones can get plenty loud.
As a conclusion, RCA is very capable of offering a customer a very good audio delight when combined with a good set of headphones. It offers music which sounds rich, full, and clear. The battery has an average life, for about 15 hours, but hopefully soon the CNET Labs will beat that time in its tests. Feel free to check soon for updates. :)

You can find the Meizu M8 phone on the Negri Electronics site.I think you’ve know it better under the name of the Chinese iPhone.You can get it in advance for $988.50. The site has the full characteristics of the M8 MiniOne.

Well, did you get one? Every person I asked sayd that they’ll snag one as soon as possible.But now I’m not refering to the persons I’d talked to, I’m refearing to you.

I’ve heard some rumours that say that the that newly-christened iPhone owners are having some problems in finalizing the activation of the iTunes option.This may be for the iPhone buyers one of the biggest disapointement from Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny to now.These gadgets are really useless without this activation, and as I heard, the procedure hangs of the point at which the existing customers current SIMs are deactivated.I hope that after this night there won’t be any more problems.