Audio,Visual Category - Page 5

It wasn’t so long ago when we were hearing about the likely end of the small camcorder in the face of way too much competition from the smartphone. After all, while a small handheld camcorder was once a great thing, having a small camcorder that could also make phone calls [...]

Logitech just put out some reports for its third quarter of fiscal year 2012, and the news is actually looking pretty good both for them and for us, the regular home theater user. The news is especially good if you liked Logitech’s Harmony remote line for your home theater usage, [...]

Interesting news comes out of Motorola, where they’re talking about future product lines, and the dramatic return of a technology they’d previously thought out to pasture. Specifically, Motorola’s been talking about the set-top box, and its place in the home theaters of people all around the world, as well as [...]

We’ve seen the new crop of OLED televisions hit the floor out at CES 2012, especially with models coming in from Samsung and LG. But while no one yet knows the pricing on such units, early word emerges to suggest that they may not be as expensive as they could [...]

Audio books are sort of an underserved market of late. While we often hear about ebooks, and we often hear about regular books, looking at the books that are just big audio files doesn’t seem to happen so often. The folks at Audiobooks.com, though, have an eye to change that [...]

We all know that the camera has been one of the best-received parts of the iPhone 4S. Sure, Siri gets a lot of face time and with good reason, but plenty of people like that iPhone 4S camera just fine. And, according to some recent reports, not only will you [...]

Let the implications of that subheading sink in for a second, folks, and you’ll see something very serious is in the offing here. The folks out at Haier are working on what they call truly wireless television, and from the looks of things so far, they may well pull it [...]

I’m growing increasingly fond of Hulu. There’s a lot of television in there, and much of it is at least reasonably good. And the price is right, especially if you’re willing to put up with just a bit of advertising, and much less than the average television show on a [...]

Instagram was Apple’s 2011 application of the year, thanks in part to the popularity of the photo-sharing service among iPhone shutterbugs. With plans to expand to other platforms, Instagram might be coming soon to a Windows Phone 7 handset near you.

While Android is king of the hill when it comes to OS fragmentation, there’s also some fragmentation in the iOS ecosystem, but one that’s incomparable to what’s happening in Google’s yard. Specifically, old devices like the original iPhone, the iPhone 3G, the iPod touch 1G and the iPod touch 2G [...]