Panasonic New Lumix TZ10 Digital Camera with Built-in GPS

Panasonic's Lumix TZ10 with Built-in GPS: The Traveler's Best Friend: GPS, 12x Optical Zoom and Quality Photos in a Compact Frame.

Panasonic's new line of cameras features some of the latest technological advances in digital camera photography, including 12x Optical Zoom, HD movie with audio, built in GPS, Intelligent Resolution Technology and Optical Image Stabilization. The compact frame of the Lumix-TZ10 provides a convenient travel-size camera with a number of features that can adapt to a wide-range of shooting needs. The "Travel Zoom" series features a 12.1-megapixel camera that is sure to capture memories in high-resolution quality.

New in this camera is a Built-in GPS feature that codes each picture or video with the location each image was taken, and allows you to organize your pictures by location – providing an easy reference for the jet-set traveler. With this GPS you'll never get your holidays mixed up again. The HD video feature is paired with Dolby Stereo sound, and, when used in conjunction with the software provided with the camera, videos can be easily burned to a DVD or uploaded to YouTube.

Standard in the Lumix cameras is the Intelligent Auto mode feature, which includes the Power Optical Image Stabilization (OIS) offering twice the shake-suppression power previously available. The OIS feature reduces blur when taking pictures from an unsteady platform or while using the 12x-optical zoom. The OIS compensates for low-frequency vibrations and ensures quality pictures under a variety of shooting situations.

For the photographer who likes to adjust things manually, the Lumix TZ10 also offers a manual exposure mode that allows

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New Panasonic Lumix DMC-G2 Point-and-Shoot DSLR Quality Camera

The Lumix DMC-G2: DSLR Quality and Versatility with Point-and-Shoot Convenience

With Unique Touch-Screen Technology, the New Panasonic Lumix DMC-G2 Offers SLR Quality and Flexibility in the World's Smallest and Lightest System Camera

Featuring the world's first touch-control shooting system, Panasonic's Lumix DMC-G2 offers a host of new features that expand upon the features of the previous Lumix G1 model. The highlight of this new model is the three-inch free-angle LCD touch-screen that provides an easy-to-use, one-of-a-kind user interface. The screen also features a full time Live View and high-speed contrast auto-focus system.

The Lumix DMC-G2, which resembles a small SLR camera, provides high-quality images in a compact, easy-to-use size with Intelligent Auto. The Lumix G2 maintains the versatility and capability of a point-and-shoot camera that consistently captures quality images without worrying about adjusting aperture and focus. The Lumix DMC-G2, the world’s smallest and lightest system camera, allows photographers of all ability levels to capture quality photographs and HD videos. With the integrated auto-focus system photographers can select a specific point-of-focus by simply touching the screen in the desired location. While in the manual operation mode aperture and shutter speed can be adjusted by simply moving the slider on the screen. In playback mode the touch-screen allows for easy scrolling and quick selection of images.

For users who are eager to learn DSLR systems the Lumix G2 offers an easy platform to

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Nokia’s Most Advanced Smartphone - Nokia N8

The Nokia N8, Nokia's most advanced smartphone, intuitively connects to the people, places and services that matter most. This is one of Nokia's new phones where, people can create compelling content, connect to their favourite social networks and enjoy on-demand Web TV programs and Ovi Store apps.


This amazing new phone is available in select markets during the third quarter of 2010, the N8 touch screen phone has an the estimated retail price of the Nokia N8 is €370, before applicable taxes or subsidies.

“The Nokia N8 offers better imaging capabilities than any other mobile device in history,” says Jo Harlow, Head of Smartphones at Nokia.

With a supreme 12 megapixel Carl Zeiss optics with Xenon flash, the Nokia N8 smartphone introduces the ability to record HD-quality videos and edit them with an intuitive built-in editing suite. Doubling as a portable entertainment center, people can enjoy HD quality video with Dolby Digital Plus surround sound by plugging into their home theatre system. The Nokia N8 smartphone also offers Web TV services that deliver programs, news and entertainment from channels like CNN, E! Entertainment, Paramount and National Geographic, additional local Web TV content is also available from the Ovi Store.

“Social networking is second nature to the Nokia N8,” adds Harlow.

With Facebook and Twitter feeds live in one view on the homescreen, people can comment, read and send messages, update their status, share their location and photos. Missing meet ups become a distant memory with the Nokia N8 smartphone transferring your Facebook events directly into your calendar.

The Nokia N8 comes with free global Ovi Maps walk and drive navigation, guiding people to places and points of interest in more than 70 countries worldwide. It will be hosted on Check out more at www.nokia.com/n8.

Symbian^3 in action

Powering the Nokia N8 is the latest edition of the world’s most used smartphone software, Symbian^3. This latest version introduces several major advances, including multi-touch and support for gestures such as pinch-to-zoom. The Nokia N8 offers multiple customizable homescreens which can be loaded with applications and widgets, and moved with a simple flick. The new 2D and 3D graphics architecture takes full advantage of the Nokia N8’s hardware acceleration to deliver a faster and more responsive user interface. With greater memory management and a visual task manager, Symbian^3 raises the bar in multitasking performance, allowing more applications to run in parallel for a faster multi-tasking experience.

Getting Qt for Developers

The Nokia N8 is Nokia’s first new device model to be integrated with Qt, a software development environment that simplifies the development and makes it possible to build applications once and deploy across Symbian and other software platforms. Nokia has also made the powerful and simple to use Nokia Qt SDK available, in its initial beta, to enable developers to start realizing the potential of Qt.

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