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KODAK
EASYSHARE P880, Rs 25,990
Irrespective of its increasingly vast abilities
Inspector Gadget has always felt that a point-n-shoot
never quite cuts it, while the mere shape of an
SLR coats the awkward amateur with an aura of seriousness.
The P880, Kodak's counter to a D-SLR camera, is
but a highly evolved P & S, but the people who're
going to buy will love its looks. Plus it's got
both auto and manual mother modes, is in the 8 MP
league, is simple to figure out as long as you don't
complicate matters and has an impressive wide angle.
It has its flaws - like the often frustratingly
slow focusing - but the crisp images it dishes out
and a plethora of shooting modes more than make
up for it. Super for folks who're looking to upgrade
from a P & S but don't think they deserve a
D-SLR.
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Nokia
3250, Rs 16,000
Brilliant little idea, that rotating segment! From
phone to camera to music player, I loved the twists.
The fairly well-equipped 3250 - expandable memory,
2MP camera and radio, Edge, Symbian OS 9.1 - does
most things right. Nokia's mid-range music phone
is half as expensive and almost half the size of
the largish N91, and delivers fantastic VFM. The
sound quality may not be spot-on and the music player
is not as easy to operate as in certain other phones,
but at the end of the day, it left Inspector Gadget
more happy than grumpy, though, in the same breath
I also have to say that the near-perfect mid-range
music phone is yet to be made.
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Sahara
L1 Notebook, Rs 28,999 (excluding taxes)
For some reason not altogether unjustified, I've
come to associate the name Sahara with Amar Singh
and his ugly double chin. Which obviously is not
the best thing to happen to a brand (Sahara Computers
and Electronics is a JV between Sahara India Pariwar
and Johannesburg-based Sahara Computers). But the
industrious L1 clambered over such disadvantages
and in the end, highly impressed Inspector Gadget,
as a hardy around-30k laptop. If you're not too
hung up on brands and want a basic machine to do
basic stuff, put this one on your list now.
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Incoming
Call
Three
new phones to look forward to.
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Nokia
E61
Smartphone
BlackBerry, be warned. The top-of-the-line
quad-band E61 looks like it has it all - advanced
email capabilities, Wi-Fi, QWERTY keyboard (a full
one), a miniSD card slot and the S60 smartphone
platform. According to Nokia, it should be out in
India by the middle of this month.
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Sony
W950i
N91? What's that? Sony's spectacular new W950i music
phone has 4GB, yes, that's right, of flash memory,
3G connectivity, RSS reader, a 2.6-inch, hi-res
screen with handwriting recognition and up to
10 hours of music playback. We expect it to hit
India in the
next couple of months.
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Samsung
X820
At 66 grams and with a depth of just 6.9m, this
is the slimmest phone in the universe. Which doesn't
mean it scrimps on features - it packs in a 2MP
camera, document viewer, TV Out, video recording,
EDGE, Bluetooth and USB connectivity. Onboard memory
is around 80MB, though it lacks an expansion slot.
Out by August.
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