October 15, 2011

iPhone 4S Camera Embedding Plus Marks In Your Photos, Faulty Sensors?

October 15, 2011/ Nir Schneider

As new iPhone 4S owners start to enjoy all the great new features their handsets bring from Siri to faster speeds, issues start to arise. Enjoying all of those 8-megapixels? Turns out we found out that the iPhone 4S' brilliant new back facing camera isn't playing very nice and embeds little white plus (+) marks in all of your photos. If you zoom in just a little, you'll be able to spot a few of them sitting there ruining your photos. Why is this happening? We can't say for sure, but chances are that this is only a matter of a software update away from fixing this issue with the camera. In a worst case scenario, this could be the fault of a faulty batch of sensors.

Here's what you need to looks for. We've confirmed this happening with every photo taken with an iPhone 4S across many users. The sooner Apple takes note of this and issues a software update, you'll just have to hold on ordering those large poster prints, or resort to Photoshopping these out.

Update: We found out that the problem only occurs when using the HDR option to take the photos. That only serves as solid evidence that this could be easily fixed with a software update.

June 01, 2011

Unreleased Motorola Devices Leaked Including Xoom 2 Tablet, Tracy XL Watchphone & More

June 01, 2011/ Nir Schneider

Someone over at Motorola really messed up and exposed a few unreleased products on the Motorola Mobility website for just a quick moment while testing out the product page live. A big mistake as it turns out. Visitors at the time quickly screencaped and leaked the juicy images to Pocketnow which has already been contacted by Motorola and asked to remove the leaked images. Some of the new unreleased products from Motorola include the Tracy XL watchphone, Xoom 2 tablet pictured at the bottom left, Slimline, Targa and Zaha thin-profiled smartphones. More images after the break.

July 21, 2010

Google Updates Image Search Results

July 21, 2010/ Nir Schneider

Not long ago today I needed to search Google thru their image search (no, not for gadget porn), and to my surprise I was blown away by the new and updated search results. The new image grid now packs much more images into one page without any text at first, but once you hover over an image, it will pop out and enlarge with info and links. This new image search result will require getting used too. There is no telling if Google will keep it this way, only time will tell.