Polaroid has introduced a 16 megapixel camera with a 3x optical zoom which will be available in April for about $299. Oh yeah, and it runs Google Android… and makes phone calls The Polaroid SC1630 has a 3.2 inch, 800 x 400 pixel touchscreen display and a custom version of Android 2.x with an emphasis on a few key apps…

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Polaroid is best known for its cameras that allow you to print shots right away on small piece of photo paper. Digital photography has largely turned the classic Polaroid camera into a niche product at best, but the company also has its own digital camera line. Now Polaroid is also apparently entering the Android tabelt space. Engadget snagged a few…

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CF cards may seem so 2002, but if you have a professional camera you may still be using CompactFlash cards instead of SD or microSD cards. While Apple’s Camera Connection Kit for the iPad and iPad 2 is designed to let you transfer photos from a camera to an iPad for viewing on a nice big 9.7 inch display, the…

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At a press event today Samsung unveiled a new 8.9 inch tablet and an updated version of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 which the company claims will be the thinnest large screen tablet available. Measuring just 8.6mm thick, it’s a hair thinner than the 8.8mm Apple iPad 2. But when Samsung first introduced the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 at Mobile…

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The upcoming HP TouchPad tablet has a lot of things going for it: a nice big 9.7 inch, 1024 x 768 pixel display, a speedy dual core 1.2 GHz processor, and webOS 3.0 software with a heavy emphasis on multitasking. But one thing it doesn’t have — at least according to the official spec sheet — is a rear-facing camera….

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The Apple iPad doesn’t have a camera, but Apple does offer a camera connection kit… not for taking photos, but instead for downloading photos from a camera or an SD card. The kit comes with two different adapters. Plug one into your iPad’s docking port and you can connect a camera (or some keyboards) over a USB connection. Hook up…

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The Apple iPad doesn’t have a webcam, so you can’t use it to take photos or videos or engage in video chats. But Apple does offer a $29 adapter that lets you import photos and videos from a digital camera or SD card. And it turns out that’s not all the Camera Connection Kit is good for. The kit began…

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The HP Mini 1000 netbook has an excellent keyboard, a thin and light case, and a bunch of customization options. But the mini-laptop has a few quirks too, including a glossy display that reflects glare, and a webcam that takes awfully dark images. It turns out there’s a good reason for the dark camera: HP has placed a thin piece…

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