LG Eve good value for price


Saturday, November 28th, 2009

Gillian Shaw
Sun

LG Eve, $50 with a three-year Rogers contract: Smartphone offerings just got a boost with the arrival of LG’s Eve Android-operating system device on the Rogers network. Photograph by: Handout, Vancouver Sun

Seesmic for Blackberry and Android

KeyScan KS810-P Color Document Scanner PC Keyboard, Keyscan

1. LG Eve, $50 with a three-year Rogers contract

Smartphone offerings just got a boost with the arrival of LG’s Eve Android-operating system device on the Rogers network. At $50 with a three-year voice and data contract, it packs a hefty digital punch for the money. For social media fans, it brings together Facebook, Twitter and Bebo networks into one place with its social network services manager. A touch screen, sliding QWERTY keyboard and a built-in accelerometer, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS, along with a five-megapixel camera and video recording. Its face recognition feature is a plus — once a person is tagged in a photo the Eve recognizes that person to tag in other photos — and clicking on the photo puts you in touch via text, e-mail, phone or chat. www.lg.ca

2. Seesmic for Blackberry and Android, free

Just in time for your new Android phone or BlackBerry, Seesmic, makers of a Windows and Web application for managing your social networks, have delivered two new mobile applications. Seesmic for BlackBerry, an app that pulls your Twitter timelines into one interface that lets you create and view saved searches, see the Twitter lists you’ve created, shorten URLs, and send photos and configure notifications for direct messages and replies. On your Android phone, Seesmic lets you share videos on YouTube as well as using yFrog and TwitPic to share photos on Twitter, plus configure alerts.

seesmic.com

3. KeyScan KS810-P Color Document Scanner PC Keyboard, Keyscan, $132

KeyScan has announced a software update that delivers more features, plus makes its keyboard scanner compatible with Windows 7. Scans everything from paper documents to driver’s licence and other ID cards. www.keyscan.com

4. N310 Netbook, Samsung, $500

On the pricey end of netbook offerings, the Samsung nonetheless delivers the lightest of the lightweights in its class, and manages to include a keyboard that is 93 per cent of a full-size standard desktop keyboard. It has the heftier six-cell battery that’s supposed to last up to 9.9 hours, which I think is pretty much a necessity in a netbook given that they’re all about mobile computing. The 310 has Microsoft’s new Windows 7 operating system. Built-in 1.3-megapixel camera and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR for easy data transfer from any modem multimedia device. www.samsung.ca

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