Sony is just one of the many smartphone makers that are now overcrowding the mobile device industry, especially the Android sector. In order to stand out from all the pile building up, the Japanese company makes their Xperia phones water-friendly. And to continue that streak, Sony recently announced the new Xperia ZR: an Android 4.1 [...]
One of the main factors why smartphones have not yet totally disrupted the whole camera industry is probably because they don’t have extra zooming capabilities provided by true camera lenses. That’s the very reason why a duo from Honolulu, Hawaii have created the Snapzoom, a universal smartphone adapter that transforms binoculars into super telephoto lenses. Daniel [...]
If you think that smartphones and tablets nowadays are unbelievably slim, wait till the new TCM9930MD camera module from Toshiba arrives to any of the major mobile device manufacturers — we’re surely going to get a new definition of thin. Here’s an excerpt from the official press release: Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC)*, a [...]
For those thrill-seeking individuals who don’t own a GoPro camera yet, but do have an iPhone 5 at hand, the Optrix XD5 might be the one you’ve been waiting for. Optrix describes their new casing as the first ultra-rugged housing specifically designed for the iPhone 5. “Optrix is proud to unveil the world’s toughest case [...]
Even if the smartphone sector is gradually eating up the market of point-and-shoot cameras, it still needs a lot of chewing muscles to take on the higher end of the digital camera industry. Japan’s Morpho is trying to armed mobile phones the weapon it might need to start scratching the surface of that market. In [...]
Z is the last letter in the alphabet, and it’s also the new Xperia smartphone from Sony. It packs the usual specs that you’d expect from a high-end Android phone: 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4 Pro processor with Adreno 320 GPU, 2GB memory, 16GB built-in storage. For its camera, the Z carries a 13MP Exynos RS on [...]
If you’re the serious type of Phoneotographer, then Photojojo’s iPhone Viewfinder is a smartphone camera accessory that you just might have been looking for all this time. This innovative device is designed to be attachable to your iPhone’s display screen using a suction mechanism, thus, recreating a traditional DSLR-like shooting experience using a viewfinder. The [...]
Now that Apple’ s iOS App Store has been on the market for several years now, it seems that almost everything has been done when it comes to apps. Add to that the emergence over highly successful app outlets such as Google’s Android Play Store and the chance to be unique seems even smaller. However, each and [...]
Back in August, Mophie unveiled the OutRide, a lightweight and waterproof housing for the iPhone 4/4S. This month, Mophie has finally made the OutRide available for purchase. The OutRide is designed to protect your iPhone in the outdoors, especially if you’re into adventure type of activities. The device functions much like a GoPro camera. It [...]
We have covered some pretty awesome bike mounts here on Tog Tech, and I am sure there are more kinds out there too which are just as good. But for the photographer who also loves being an iPhoneographer (or Androidographer) the perfect bike mount does exist! It’s called the Bikepod Mobile. This bike mount can [...]