Archive for May, 2008

Cheap LCD TV : Experience World Class Entertainment

May 21st, 2008  |  Published in blog

The unusual steep rise in the demand for LCD TVs in recent times evidently points to the growing faith in the LCD technology. However, the most puzzling question for many of us who are still unfamiliar with this new age techno-mania is : what is this techno -manic notion of the LCD and why is there so much frantic fervour for the numerous LCD technology-driven products in today’s market.

To begin with, the digitally-rich LCD technology functions smoothly by utilising the properties of polarised light. The reason behind the increasing dependence on this digital-mantra is its flawless performance. Hence, the LCD technology is increasingly being optimised in a vast number of electronic gadget items for instance, laptops and computer monitors and touchscreen devices like smart mobile phone handsets and digitally loaded gaming consoles.

In fact, a recently concluded survey interestingly enough, revealed the sharp shift in the choices and dispositions of today’s customers. The LCD TVs in India are increasingly being preferred by the customer’s as these are replacing their yesteryears’ favourite CRT television sets. A lot of factors such as:creation of a strong market base, a change in customer’s preferences, rise in the prospective customer’s income, healthy competition between rival firms, positively influencing market trends and favourably disposed government policies - have given the required push to the market of LCD TVs.

Just in case you are wishing to strike a deal for one of these high-class yet cheap LCD TVs in the Indian market then a few criteria should be borne in mind by all discerning customers such as the prospective users should critically study a product on the yardsticks of quality, functionality, performance, availability of substitute products in the market.

As a matter of fact, Samsung LCD TVs are currently in hot demand. Samsung, the giant company that deals in digitally- rich display has recently launched a new series of LCD television sets to suit the requirements of their Indian clientèle. Some of these LCD TVs in Indian market include the Samsung LA26R71 (Bordeaux), Samsung LA32S8 (Sonoma Trenz) and the Samsung LA19R71(Bordeaux). These displays come with the promise of offering world class entertainment at very affordable price. So, without having to worry about the expenses one can strike a “safe” deal for these sophisticatedly designed high-end home entrainment electronic gadgets.

LG Viewty Review - a Closer Look at the Best Mobile Phone

May 18th, 2008  |  Published in blog

The name of LG Viewty is now synonymous to mobile photography. This is because of the great features that the phone provides when taking images as well as editing them. But aside from its great camera features, consumers often ask what else can this LG phone offer? When answering that, there is a need to look at all the aspects in the LG Viewty.

Design

The first LG phones that entered the market were not attractive according to many reviews. But most of the LG Viewty reviews gave positive feedbacks about the phone’s design.

As most consumers would agree, it was the LG Prada who made a distinguishable and revolutionized change for LG phone design. The LG Viewty has carried that evolution and is now one of the best-looking phones in the market. The neat curves, elegance, and accents it has provide a very interesting appearance for the phone.

The phone may also seem to have a dual personality with its front and back view. In front, it’s an elegant touch screen phone. At its back, it’s a great digital SLR camera.

The Touchscreen

LG Viewty’s touchscreen is a wide and elegant 3-inch crystal clear. It is also a 262,144 colour monitor. However, some LG Viewty reviews say that the monitor cannot render the true colour of the captured images.

The bright sunlight also hinders in seeing the monitor clearly. But many critiques agree that the touchscreen can respond so well.

The user can also detect if the touchscreen responds with its vibrating functions.

Meanwhile, the pen used for the touchscreen can be conveniently attached to the phone through a cord.

Digital Camera

The phone’s digital camera makes it one of the best mobile phone deals in the world. The LG Viewty’s camera comes with an auto focus, flash, and a 5-megapixel capability. With this, the phone is capable of capturing rich images with the help of flash as well as the auto focus. There is also a manual focus capability that allows users to do the focusing independently. Flash is helpful for capturing images in a 2.5-meter range.

Capturing in poor lighted areas can also be done successfully with its SmartLight function. This helps in adjusting the light before actually capturing the image.

There are also applications installed in the LG Viewty that can make the captured images better-looking. Brightness and contrast can be adjusted and text can be added to the images.

However, the image stabilizer in LG Viewty is not that reliable. It will take some moments after pressing the capture button before the image can be actually captured.

USB Connection

The LG Viewty can be connected to a computer. It is very easy to use and provides faster connection. Easy management of music, photos, documents, and ringtones can be done with its USB connectivity functions.

MP3 Player

Playing and organizing music files and video files are just easy with the LG Viewty’s MP3 capabilities. It is also very easy to use and control. The mobile phone’s buttons are highly functional and user-friendly.

Although there are downsides with LG Viewty, it is still considered by many as among the best mobile phone deals. All in all, it has the capability of an iPhone at an extremely lower price. Included to the typical LG Viewty package are headphone, CD-ROM, USB cable, and charger.

Why Microsoft is lagging behind Apple and Google in innovation

May 10th, 2008  |  Published in blog

Windows was never that great of a system to begin with. So millions of fanboys extol the virtue of operating systems when they’re all derivative. Microsoft stole the windows concept from Apple, who got it from Xerox. Microsoft built DOS off of technology from other companies, and at the time their biggest claim to fame was their own variant of Basic.

So what made Apple a great company; their own admitted attempt at an OS was failing miserably until Jobs came back and rebuilt the OS off of Unix. Apple has had some great successes at innovative hardware, until the iPhone, which started out great but is running into some lags in it’s implementation. Linux has the look and feel which Apple is built off of, being that Debian was the original inspiration for the OS. Apple idiot proofed Debian and built a great OS off of a viable platform.

Microsoft, the geniuses they were, reinvented the wheel, for God knows why. They idiot proofed DOS and slapped a GUI on top of it and called it an OS. Yet their fanboys continue to troll Internet forums and try to evangelize an OS that already runs on the overwhelming majority of PCs around the world.

Microsoft has great ideas, unfortunately their OS isn’t one of them. The real innovation at Microsoft is going to be in hardware, not software, and in Internet appliances, as opposed to traditional programs running on traditional PCs, an age which is pretty much over anyway. Surface is a revolutionary product, just not affordable, Zune has some really great features and when the 360 works it offers a viable alternative to the overpriced PS3.

Yet instead of staying committed to a future in hardware, Microsoft is trying to compete in the Web 2.0 when they failed miserably at making a considerable impact in Web 1.0; figure that this company never fully provided a viable web platform. MSN is still so-so, Live is a joke, though it has some interesting experiments there, and even .Net isn’t that much of an answer to Java. What is left isn’t really that exciting; Silverlight.

It is really, really difficult to tell if Microsoft is really creating anything new or just trying to find great applications for technologies after the fact of their being created by someone else. They used to do a great job of that, you know, reverse engineering. But then newer technologies from other companies entered the marketplace from companies that actually knew what to do with them, that actually knew how to implement them.

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