Gdgt weekly is fairly late this week with its normal release happening on Thursdays. Peter and Ryan are covering a lot of the same topics which the Engadget guys went over last week, but they have a few new observations to add to the discussion.
The PS3 slim starts off the conversation with Ryan having a lot of problems with Sony’s approach over the last few years. He is particularly unhappy about the PS3′s lack of any kind of PS2 backwards compatibility. Moving onto phone talk, the new Nokia N900 and Dell Mini 3i get the same sort of tepid response they did with the Engadget guys.
Canon and Sony have some new offerings in the camera department and it looks like the megapixel arms-race, as Peter puts it, may be about over. For years, companies have continued to arbitrarily bump up the megapixel count on their cameras while ignoring the actual image quality. This is bad for everyone as the result is a bad looking photo that is huge in file size. It’s nice to see this trend start to die.
Weirdly enough, a mouse gets some coverage this week with Logitech’s new Mouse MX series. The selling point here is that it can track on glass and it sounds like it works quite well.
Undoubtedly Sony’s PS3 Slim stole the show this week, but outings of the forthcoming Dell Mini 3i and Nokia N900 managed to keep things interesting — although perhaps not as much so as the new low-light optimized Canon PowerShot G11, PowerShot P90, and Sony Cyber-shot DSC-WX1. We also got a pair similarly innovative products from Logitech, the Performance Mouse MX and Anywhere Mouse MX — optical mice capable of tracking on glass. Indeed, this summer is becoming generous with new essentials for our travel bag.
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