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LG introduces Digital Camera with 3G!

Camera Phone trend has become more and more popular in past few years, and today Everyone wants to buy a cameraphone and most people are owner of a cameraphone today, due to its handy feature for capturing images on the Go! But having a cameraphone is nothing new… Have you ever thought about having a digital camera with integrated phone?

LG has decided to change the camera-phone trend to phone-camera trend! So what is difference? The difference is that its newly launched LG L-03C works as compact digital camera, and additionally, it provides telephony, GPS and 3G connectivity.

The phone-camera is due to release in Japan in January 2011, associated with Japan's premier carrier, NTT DoCoMo. Specifications of the device rival other equivalent compact digital cameras, with a 12.1MP sensor, ISO range of up to 3200, a Pentax 1:3.6-55 3x optical zoom lens, Xenon flash, 720p HD video recording, GPS, and geo-tagging, as well as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and 3G connectivity.

The LG L-03C phone-camera has a 3-inch 800x480 capacitive touch screen, and NIT DoCoMo's proprietary operating system. Memory, storage, and CPU specifications are still unknown at this point of time.

Pricing has not been revealed as yet either, but one has to wonder what LG is thinking - will it price LG-03C as expensively as the premier camera phones in the market, or will it levy a substantial premium over 12MP compact digital camera prices? The device certainly won't fit as well in the pocket as a camera-phone, and will probably be substantially heavier!

The 3G connectivity option is definitely an added bonus and a major selling point for the device, potentially allowing for a much higher degree of anytime-anywhere sharing than digicam users expect.

Steam comes to Mac OS

Gaming which has been the domain of Microsoft Windows for far too long, has got a huge boost with the launch of the Stream client for Mac OS X.

Steam, a product by Value, the creators of the Half-Life series of games- is one of the most popular platforms of game distribution, and its availability on MacOS is a good sign of the future of cross-platform gaming.

With the launch just a while back, already a large number of games are being made available for Mac OS including those based on Valve's Source engine which powers their Half-Life series of games. For Mac OS X, the source engine uses Open GL instead of Direct X, and has made it possible for Mac Steam users to play games such as Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2, Counter Strike: Source, and Half-Life series games. Many games such as Civilization IV and World of Goo are also available.

Portal, a brilliant first person puzzle game which has been met with wide critical acclaim, was being offered for free till 24th of May 2010 in order to promote steam for this new platform.

Since Steam is a digital distribution platform, a user who has once paid for a copy of a game for Windows, can simply install Steam on Mac OS and download the Mac version of the game.

People poking into the engine have found traces of evidence in the Steam application install and the website that the platform might be heading to Linux soon, although Valve has not commented on this. It is highly likely considering that the OpenGL based Source engine and the similar Unix core of Mac OS and Linux.