A periodic roundup of relevant news… from our friends at Last100:
Flip Mino HD “point and shoot” camcorder review
One of the selling points of the Mino HD is that software is included on the camera itself to enable basic editing and upload to various online destinations. Called FlipShare, the application runs of both Macs and Windows, and offers the ability to trim clips, add music and titles, and upload to YouTube or MySpace, export for other destinations, including DVD, and capture a still shot.
New PlayStation Portable betting on Sony PSP App Store?
If reports are to be believed, a new version of Sony’s PlayStation Portable (PSP) will ditch the handheld games console’s UMD disc drive in favor of 8GB ot 16GB of internal storage. Games would then need to be purchased as downloads rather than housed on physical media.
Palm Pre could go on sale 24 hours before next gen iPhone unveiled
The latest rumored release date for Palm’s comeback device, the Palm Pre, is June 7th, one day before Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC). If true, this would be an audacious move from the handset maker, and one that, at first glance, carries a lot of risk.
Samsung’s first Google phone: Android 1.5, OLED screen, thinner than iPhone
At last there’s some real competition among phones running Google’s Android OS, with Samsung announcing its first “Gphone”, the unimaginatively named i7500, which should see a European release in June (no word yet on U.S. availability).