Chinese phone maker Oppo has come up with a new camera module for smartphones that could help you get close-up shots without actually, you know, getting all that close to the item you’re shooting. Most modern smartphones have a digital zoom feature, but you lose picture quality when you zoom in that way. A handful […]
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Asus launches Zenfone 3 Zoom with 2.3x optical zoom, 3 lenses
Asus was one of the first companies to launch a smartphone with an optical zoom lens. But the Asus Zenfone Zoom with its mechanical zoom lens wasn’t exactly a huge success. Now Asus is back at it, this time with the a phone featuring 3 camera lenses which combine to let you take photos with […]
Samsung Galaxy K Zoom: Phone with a 21MP camera and zoom lens
Samsung is updating its Galaxy Zoom line of smartphones with a new model designed to let you snap better-than-average photos with your phone. The Samsung Galaxy K Zoom features a 20.7MP camera and a 10x optical zoom lens. The rest of the phone’s specs are decidedly mid-range, but the phone’s a bit more powerful than […]
KDDI develops tech for watching HD videos on mobile screens: Enhance!
Netbook, smartphone, and tablet makers love to point out the technology that lets you watch HD video on mobile devices. And sure, it’s handy to be able to copy your HD video collection to your portable device for viewing on the go without spending hours transcoding media files first. But let’s face it: It still […]
Netbook friendly Google Chrome extension auto-zooms web pages
Most modern web browsers feature full-page zoom functions. Just hit the + or – keys to zoom in and out of a web page. This comes in handy if you happen to be using a netbook with a 1024 x 600 pixel or 800 x 480 pixel display and you don’t have enough room to […]