It designed very nice,touchsreen .I preffer to buy it , but after check specifications .. Oh God.!!! No 3G OR HSPA , No Wi-Fi ; 3G of HSDPA is very important for explore the internet. LG can't you come out these draw backs.... :(
Named, we assume, after the French impressionist, this latest touchscreen from LG is slick and sturdy, to be called a work of art. Its body is formed mostly from plastic with curved reflective metal edges. The centre piece is a 3-inch 240x400-pixel resolution touchscreen display, which we've found sharp and colourful and extremely easy to use.
Above the screen we find a front-facing camera for video calls and below the display are three soft-keys for calling and accessing application shortcuts. Along the right-side edge of the Renoir are four keys, a volume rocker, a dedicated camera key and a handset lock.
The underside of the phone houses the Schneider-Kreuznach camera lens and LED flash. We were glad to see the camera has a lens cover, activated by a switch where you might expect to find a focus ring around the lens.
The Renoir uses a proprietary LG platform, very similar to the interface we saw on the Viewty last year. The Renoir is extremely touch-friendly, the whole interface is designed with fingers in mind.
Features
You're going to need to be sitting for this one: the Renoir features an 8-megapixel (MP) camera. By this time next year 8MP shooters may be eye-rollingly passè, but considering this is the first we've had the opportunity to review we've been tremendously eager to put it to the test.
The camera software for the Renoir features an extensive range of settings and modes, similar to the Viewty and what you'd expect to find on stand-alone point-and-shoot cameras. There's the obligatory auto-focus, but this is matched with face and blink detection, macro shooting mode, digital image stabilisation and adjustable image sensitivity.
The Renoir is also capable of shooting video at 120 frames per second, effectively creating videos which play back at four-times slow motion. While this looks great written on a spec sheet, this is a feature we are still struggling to find a place for in our lives — YouTube quality videos of our friends are arduous to watch at a normal speed, let alone in extreme slow motion.
The Renoir also makes quite a handy portable media player supporting MP3 and AAC music formats and MP4, DivX and XviD video formats. With all this fantastic media capability the Renoir have sizeable internal memory.
Performance
LG has taken a significant step forward with the Renoir. The Schneider-Kreuznach optics have improved since the Viewty to a point where we have managed to take some rather exciting photos. As with most mobile phone cameras, the Renoir works best under optimal conditions: bright, natural sunlight. We did have success taking pictures with the Xenon flash in dark rooms with less than perfect lighting.
Testing the macro focus feature, we took photos that replicated a depth-of-field quite well, which is often difficult to achieve with a fixed focus camera phone lens. When reviewing our images we saw good, natural colour reproduction when the flash didn't fire and very little artefacting.
In line with our experience with the camera, operating the Renoir has been a pleasure. Similar to our experience with the iPhone 3G, the Renoir is a phone we can't leave sitting on the desk for long without wanting to pick it up and play with it again. The menus and all major interfaces, like contacts lists and the photo gallery, are excellently designed for use with your fingers; all the buttons are large enough to make it almost impossible to miss your target.
Messaging is similarly easy, the Renoir features a T9-style numeric input in portrait mode, and a full-size QWERTY keyboard in landscape mode, with a built-in accelerometer rotating the screen depending on how you choose to hold the handset. Using the numeric pad, we found the "send" key to be too close to the space bar, meaning we sent a few text messages to friends by mistake before we had completed the message.
We also liked the Renoir's web browser (WIFI b/g). Web pages rendered quickly and looked fantastic; the browser word-wraps the content to fit the screen, and pictures looked sharp and clear. The browser's incremental zoom function isn't top notch, the controls are a bit finicky to use, but we found that most of the time the browser displayed pages exactly as we'd want them without us having to adjust the size. The GPS functioned excellent.
Overall
There is loads to love about the LG Renoir. The 8-megapixel camera is a winner and the touch screen interface is one of the best. The Renoir does exactly what it sets out to do and stands out as one of our favorite camera phones of the year.
LG's KU990 handset was the hit of 2007, but now the KC910 Renoir has come along to rock the boat. The spec certainly looks better, with GPS, an accelerometer, higher resolution camera, better connectivity and improved media playback, but really, what's all the hype about?
Accelerometer
Although the LG KU990 Viewty featured a seamless interface and responsive screen, the KC910 takes this to a whole new level. The device features an accelerometer so the screen rotates automatically when you turn the device around. This comes in handy when browsing the Internet, watching films or using the camera. Another great use of the accelerometer is the new M-Toy games suite. As on the LG KF750 Secret, you can use the accelerometer to play motion games. However, a completely new selection of games are available including Snakes and Ladders, a baseball game and wheel-based games where you have to flick the handset to activate a wheel of fortune-style spinner. Like on the Secret, the games become a little addictive after a while.
GPS
Location Based Services are most certainly the most exciting feature to appear on mobiles in the last year or so, which means it's no surprise that LG has integrated GPS and A-GPS into the KC910 Renoir. Sure, you can download Google Maps onto the Viewty, but there aren't turn-by-turn directions or an accurate way to find out where you are like there is on the KC910 Renoir. GPS also comes in handy for geo-tagging photos if you really want to know exactly where you were when you took a particular photo.
Eight-megapixel camera
Although Samsung got there first with the eight-megapixel camera phone, LG appeared pretty soon after with the launch of the KC910 Renoir.
The LG Viewty may have been one of the first five-megapixel phones on the market, but its features were nowhere near as exciting as the camera on the KC910 Renoir. For starters, the sensor is a full eight-megapixel one, unlike on other handsets where photos are super-compressed. Instead of the strobe flash as on the KU990 Viewty, the KC910 Renoir features a xenon flash that is perfect for taking photos in dark conditions. Extra features on the Renoir include a lens cover so you don't get dust all over your snaps, and an 8x digital zoom. To make the subject of your photos look better, there are a huge array of settings including beauty shot that softens blemishes on skin, smile shot to capture the best happy face and blink detection.
Connectivity
The lack of Wi-Fi was quite irritating on the LG KU990 Viewty. Although it was described as an iPhone killer (like any touchscreen handset released after the iPhone), it couldn't really compete without Wi-Fi. Now with the addition of both 802.11b and 802.11g profiles, you can connect to any Wi-Fi network. Bluetooth has also been upgraded to v.2 and HSDPA runs up to speeds of 7.2Mbps if your network allows. Video playback Although the screen on the KU990 Viewty was tip-top for watching video content, especially with DivX support, the KC910 Renoir supports Xvid too in an attempt to improve video playback even more. To make you feel as if you're at a cinema (well, as much as you can when watching a film on a phone), there's Dolby surround sound to boost sound whether you're listening using the earphones or built-in speakers. When you activate Dolby Mobile using the speakers, you're quite likely to clear the place.
No surprises here: Apple just announced that iPhone OS 3.0 will support copy and paste. A double-tap auto-selects the text you want with movable "grab points," and a pop-up edit bar display buttons for cut, copy, and paste. Finally! It works in every major app, including SMS and Safari, and what's more, there's also "shake to undo," which is exactly what it sounds like: a quick shake brings up a box that allows you to undo and redo c/p actions. It's a pretty nifty implementation, sure, but it's a little silly we've had to wait this long for it, don't you think?
Tablet PCs are smart computers and are portable in nature too. Even though they are very small in size, they can do almost all the functions of a laptop or a personal computer. Tablet PCs do not have a mouse or keyboard like other kinds of PCs. But then, they can be operated using a special kind of a digital pen as the Tablet PCs have the touch screen facility. The digital pen acts as an input device just like the keyboard or the mouse but the difference is that the inputs are not keyed in but the handwriting of the user is used to type the words. All the information is provided to the Tablet PCs through the special pens. The technology also enables the user to input data using his finger tips as the device’s touch screen is very sensitive to the touch of the finger tip too.
This tablet PC looks and feels just like a real notebook and also enables the user to take notes too in the old fashion manner. The Tablet PCs are also capable of performing many fascinating functions such as power point presentations, personalizing emails, designing and making illustrations using the user’s own drawings and handwritten markings. It can even transform an illegible handwriting into a more organized, professional and coherent digital text. This is because of the in-built handwriting recognition function. Tablet PCs are available in three models such as the convertible model, rugged model and slate model. The convertible model looks like the traditional laptop possessing a keyboard which is attached to it. It is capable of rotating up to 180 degrees. The slate model is ultra light which is slim and does not possess any keyboard attached to it.
While purchasing a tablet PC, the user should consider the security and functionality aspect of it. There are more chances that the user can be tricked by selling him the device with a wrong configuration. An ideal tablet PC allows the user to program his computer according to his needs and specifications with the use of the gesture recognition functionality of the tablet PC. It is always better to check out the latest products and configurations available in the stores to acquire good knowledge about the subject prior to purchase.
Tablet PCs are very famous due to the convenience they provide their users. Since a pen is used for input, creating patterns and designs have become very easy using them. This is why most of the companies which sell tablet PCs provide the user with software featuring designing and drawing capabilities. Freeware are provided to the consumers as part of the promotional offer along with the tablet PCs. Such freeware can be provided to the winners of contest conducted over the internet. Some companies also provide language recognition software for free. Other freeware which include the software called the smart gesture are designed in such a way that the Tablet PCs can respond to various commands like the applications, web resources, opening of files and key pressing imitation.
While Sony Ericsson technically announced the Idou, they’re not saying all that much about it. We know that it’s rocking a 12.1 megapixel camera, a 3.5″ 16:9 touchscreen, and - get this - a yet-to-be-finished version of Symbian. To top it all off, “Idou” isn’t actually the final name. It’s an odd announcement - but seeing as the camera is probably going to be the selling point here regardless, I suppose they’ve said all they need to.
In recent years the mushrooming power, functionality and ubiquity of computers and the Internet have outstripped early forecasts about technology’s rate of advancement and usefulness in everyday life. Alert pundits now foresee a world saturated with powerful computer chips, which will increasingly insinuate themselves into our gadgets, dwellings, apparel and even our bodies.
Yet a closely related goal has remained stubbornly elusive. In stark contrast to the largely unanticipated explosion of computers into the mainstream, the entire endeavor of robotics has failed rather completely to live up to the predictions of the 1950s. In those days experts who were dazzled by the seemingly miraculous calculation ability of computers thought that if only the right software were written, computers could become the artificial brains of sophisticated autonomous robots. Within a decade or two, they believed, such robots would be cleaning our doors, mowing our lawns and, in general, eliminating drudgery from our lives.
Obviously, it hasn’t turned out that way. It is true that industrial robots have transformed the manufacture of automobiles, among other products. But that kind of automation is a far cry from the versatile, mobile, autonomous creations that so many scientists and engineers have hoped for. In pursuit of such robots, waves of researchers have grown disheartened and scores of start-up companies have gone out of business.
It is not the mechanical “body” that is unattainable; articulated arms and other moving mechanisms adequate for manual work already exist, as the industrial robots attest. Rather it is the computer-based artificial brain that is still well below the level of sophistication needed to build a human like robot.
Nevertheless, I am convinced that the decades-old dream of a useful, general-purpose autonomous robot will be realized in the not too distant future. By 2010 we will see mobile robots as big as people but with cognitive abilities similar in many respects to those of a lizard. The machines will be capable of carrying out simple chores, such as vacuuming, dusting, delivering packages and taking out the garbage. By 2040, I believe, we willingly achieve the original goal of robotics and a thematic mainstay of science action: a freely moving machine with the intellectual capabilities of a human being.
Reasons for Optimism
In light of what I have just described as a history of largely unfulfilled goals in robotics, why do I believe that rapid progress and stunning accomplishments are in the ofng? My confidence is based on recent developments in electronics and software, as well as on my own observations of robots, computers and even insects, reptiles and other living things over the past 30 years.
The single best reason for optimism is the soaring performance in recent years of mass-produced computers. Through the 1970s and 1980s, the computers readily available to robotics researchers were capable of executing about one million instructions per second (MIPS). Each of these instructions represented a very basic task, like adding two 10-digit numbers or storing the result in a specified location in memory.
In the 1990s computer power suitable for controlling a research robot shot through 10 MIPS, 100 MIPS and has lately reached 50,000 MIPS in a few high-end desktop computers with multiple processors. Apple’s MacBook laptop computer, with a retail price at the time of this writing of $1,099, achieves about 10,000 MIPS. Thus, functions far beyond the capabilities of robots in the 1970s and 1980s are now coming close to commercial viability.
For example, in October 1995 an experimental vehicle called Navlab V crossed the U.S. from Washington, D.C., to San Diego, driving itself more than 95 percent of the time. The vehicle’s self-driving and navigational system was built around a 25-MIPS laptop based on a microprocessor by Sun Microsystems. The Navlab V was built by the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, of which I am a member. Similar robotic vehicles built by researchers elsewhere in the U.S. and in Germany, have logged thousands of highway kilometers under all kinds of weather and driving conditions. Dramatic progress in this field became evident in the DARPA Grand Challenge contests held in California. In October 2005 several fully autonomous cars successfully traversed a hazard-studded 132-mile desert course, and in 2007 several successfully drove for half a day in urban traffic conditions.
In other experiments within the past few years, mobile robots mapped and navigated unfamiliar office suites, and computer vision systems located textured objects and tracked and analyzed faces in real time. Meanwhile personal computers became much more adept at recognizing text and speech.
Still, computers are no match today for humans in such functions as recognition and navigation. This puzzled experts for many years, because computers are far superior to us in calculation. The explanation of this apparent paradox follows from the fact that the human brain, in its entirety, is not a true programmable, general-purpose computer (what computer scientists refer to as a universal machine; almost all computers nowadays are examples of such machines).
To understand why this is requires an evolutionary perspective. To survive, our early ancestors had to do several things repeatedly and very well: locate food, escape predators, mate and protect offspring. Those tasks depended strongly on the brain’s ability to recognize and navigate. Honed by hundreds of millions of years of evolution, the brain became a kind of ultra sophisticated—but special- purpose—computer.
The ability to do mathematical calculations, of course, was irrelevant for survival. Nevertheless, as language transformed human culture, at least a small part of our brains evolved into a universal machine of sorts. One of the hallmarks of such a machine is its ability to follow an arbitrary set of instructions, and with language, such instructions could be transmitted and carried out. But because we visualize numbers as complex shapes, write them down and perform other such functions, we process digits in a monumentally awkward and inefficient way. We use hundreds of billions of neurons to do in minute what hundreds of them, specially “rewired” and arranged for calculation, could do in milliseconds.
A tiny minority of people are born with the ability to do seemingly amazing mental calculations. In absolute terms, it’s not so amazing: they calculate at a rate perhaps 100 times that of the average person. Computers, by comparison, are millions or billions of times faster.
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It designed very nice,touchsreen .I preffer to buy it , but after check specifications .. Oh God.!!!
