aperture, shutter speed, etc.). At the rear is the monitor, small, but pretty well-defined and quickly refreshed, and with a button to access menus for adjusting sensitivity, image format, flash intensity, special effects and sharpness. It is on the left that...

and slow synch. Its range is limited, though, to only between 16" (40 cm) and 10' (3 m). The small size means that the lens and the flash are relatively close, which isn't deal, so the S4 isn't particularly well-suited for intensive flash use. Shooting And...

lighting differences and adjusts the intensity of the flash accordingly. With most cameras having a flash that either turns on or doesn’t turn on, a flash that can adjust its intensity truly is an intelligent concept. Another smart flash concept is the S8100fd’s...

more than enough speed on any of the architectures, while netbooks can manage with just 1.6 GHz. If you’d like a snappy all-around performer, go for a Core 2 Duo or Turion X2 in the 2.0 GHz range. This is good enough for Flash games, MMOs like World of Warcraft...

the search engine slows a lot when other tasks are running at the same time. This is a shame if you want to listen to music while surfing the web on public transport. Playing on-line videos can be especially problematic: Flash support has been cobbled together,...

You have to yell into the microphone to be heard.The machine is noisy. The noise level, even at idle, is never below perceptible. There’s a constant background noise from the fans. It doesn’t get a lot noisier during intensive use, but it’s always there....

predecessor, the Treo 600, had a144-MHz ARM processor. The Memory Squeeze The Treo 650's total memory is 32 MB, with 21 MB of RAM and 8 MB ROM. However, the Treo 650 uses flash memory, while the Treo 600 has 32 MB of dynamic RAM and offers more...