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Sony Bloggie Touch

The Sony Bloggie Touch, or MHS-TS20, or Mobile HD Snap Camera depending on where you look on the device and packaging, is a pocket camcorder that looks to take a step forward in video quality over some rivals.

Sony have made several changes to fulfil these aims, but they’re not without compromise. First of all it offers a touchscreen display, giving you more space to watch and compose the action and secondly it features an autofocus lens. We’ll looks at both these things after we give you a run down of the hardware.

Measuring 107 x 52 x 15.2mm, the Sony Bloggie Touch is amongst the smallest pocket camcorders out there. It is lovingly finished in a brushed metal casing, with a choice of colours. Naturally we were sent the pink one, which you certainly won’t miss. It feels great in the hand and free from the plasticy finishes that are so common for this type of device.



The screen is a 3-inch 16:9 capacitive LCD display which dominates the back of the device. The only other feature on the back is the video record button. Around the sides of the Bloggie Touch are a range of other controls. There is a dedicated stills photo button, the on/off button and a mini HDMI port hiding under a flap. On the bottom is the customary USB connection, which pops-out on a press. There is also a standard tripod mount.

The first thing to note about the Bloggie Touch is how you hold it. We’re used to holding a pocket camcorder like you would a mobile phone, i.e., in portrait. In the case of the Bloggie Touch, it is a landcscape device. This is something the touch-enabled Kodak Playtouch failed to grasp meaning you never got to use much of the Kodak screen when actually filming.

Sony however have made this switch, so you hold the Bloggie Touch as you would a conventional camera. This gives you the full screen to view the action as it takes place. It will film in either aspect, which is fine for photos, but no one really like portrait video that much, as you just get a thin strip down the centre of the screen.




Whilst talking about aspect, there is a tripod screw present, but it is on one of the short sides, so unless you have a tripod that will let you set the mounting plate at 90 degrees, you’ll find it presenting the camera at the wrong angle. It’s a minor point perhaps, but if you use a small portable tripod, you might find you can’t really use it. Something like a Gorillapod that will let you attach it to an upright object would be ok, but this is definitely a factor to bear in mind.

The device does sense when you rotate it, the icons on-screen rotating so they are the right way up. Sometimes it got stuck, requiring a restart to switch, but given the simplicity of the Bloggie Touch, this wasn’t much of a problem. The menus offer a range of settings, giving you video capture at 1080/30p, 720/60p and 720/30p. Still images are offered at 12, 8 and 2 megapixel.

Aside from resolution there are no settings for capture, so you won’t get lost in details that perhaps don’t matter. The other features you are offered include a self timer, which works for both video and photos, and a digital zoom. The zoom control presents itself as an on-screen slider, letting you dive in and out, although the results crop the sensor so lessen the quality and in video it is very jerky. Overall, the zoom isn’t worth using.



The video capture is good, amongst the best quality we’ve seen from a pocket camcorder, offering crisp results with natural colours in daylight. This is partly thanks to the use of an autofocus lens, meaning that you can get better results than fixed/infinity focused devices. It also means you can have macro and normal focus items in the same video without moving a switch like you’d have to on the Kodak Playtouch.

But with autofocus comes a downside. It does mean you get the occasional pulse as the Bloggie confirms the focus. Focusing isn’t exceptionally fast, but we found it to be generally fast enough to switch subjects, or keep things sharp as we moved around a scene. However, with the focal point seeking comes the downside and that’s noise.

As the Bloggie looks and adjusts itself, it chirps away. The sound is audible in a quiet room – just hold the Bloggie Touch to your ear and you’ll hear it. Unfortunately, so do the on-board microphones. It’s a problem that’s common with autofocus on small devices, such as the Samsung HMX-U20. If you’re the sort of person who films in noisy environments, then this doesn’t matter, as you won’t hear it. If you’re the sort of person who overlays music, then again, it doesn’t matte. But if you are one of those people who films things in a quiet place, even doing voiceover, then it will be apparent. There is no external mic socket either, so there is no way around it. Aside from the chirps, the audio is actually pretty good.



As with other devices the Bloggie Touch comes with software to install from the device when you connect it via USB. The Mac software is yet to appear, so all you get is a link to the Sony support website. You don’t really need it and might be better off just using native applications on your computer to extract and share your new content - it isn't exactly a challenge to connect via USB and directly upload to YouTube.

Alternatively (or additionally) there is a mini HDMI for connection direct to a big screen (cable not supplied) and perhaps in a testament to the quality of the video capture, we found the results looked good on a 40-inch display too.

The lens is rated at F/2.8, so it provides some scope for lower light capture, but noise quickly becomes apparent, even indoors in average lighting conditions. Focusing becomes less distinct too as the light conditions drop. There is also the 360-degree attachment, which is something of a novelty, but doesn't really sell the camera to us.

Unlike other devices, you can't get to the insides of the Bloggie Touch. this means you can't change the battery, or expand the memory. As it is, you'll get about an hour and a half of Full HD video capture from the 8GB of memory and the battery is good for 160 minutes.

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Microsoft Windows Phone 7 OS

Windows Phone 7 is a brand-new thing. Microsoft's total mobile OS reboot is bold and fresh. It's also definitely a Version 1.0. Zune fans will be immediately impressed, but for everyone else, buying into Windows Phone 7 is taking a gamble that Microsoft will sand away the rough edges quickly.

For now, Windows Phone 7 is arriving on six phones in the U.S.: the Samsung Focus ($199.99, 4 stars), HTC Surround ($199.99, 3 stars) and LG Quantum on AT&T; the HTC HD7 and Dell Venue Pro on T-Mobile; and the HTC 7 Pro on Sprint. Verizon has said it may support the OS in 2011, but hasn't made any clear commitments.

All the initial Windows Phone 7 models have a lot in common. They run on the Qualcomm QSD8250, 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8 chipset. They all have 800-by-480 screens, 5-megapixel cameras, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and FM radios. They vary in terms of hardware keyboards, phone performance, camera quality, preloaded software, and available storage.

Apps and Xbox
It won't surprise you to know that Bing and Microsoft Office play major roles in Windows Phone 7. Bing, of course, is the default Web search engine; it also offers pinch-to-zoom maps. On my sample phones, Bing maps locked onto my location quickly and offered driving or walking directions. But it's still behind the leader, Google Maps. It doesn't do turn-by-turn, spoken driving directions or transit directions. When you zoom in on individual blocks, you don't see buildings or businesses tagged. And it got some addresses in New York City quite wrong, for instance putting JFK Airport in Manhattan.

The Microsoft Office implementation on Windows Phone is excellent. You can create, edit, and round-trip Word, Excel, and OneNote files, as well as edit PowerPoint docs. There's only one false note: no easy way to copy those files to and from your desktop. You have to send them to yourself via e-mail, save them on Microsoft's SkyDrive (for OneNote only) or store them on a SharePoint server.

Windows Phone 7 carries the Xbox Live brand, and gaming is one of the real weaknesses of the competing Android platform. At launch, Windows Phone 7 is probably already ahead of Android, but is behind Apple, the leader in mobile gaming.

Games you download appear under an Xbox Live icon on the home screen. There are only a few available right now, but they're very good-looking, with high-test graphics and smooth action. Even casual games such as Monopoly have 3D graphics. I'm frustrated by the lack of multiplayer XBox Live games at launch, though. In Windows Phone's interface, you can see your avatar, various gaming achievements and leader boards, but there's no option to play games with your friends. Microsoft says that feature is coming very soon, perhaps by the time you read this.

Microsoft says about 1,000 apps will be available by US launch, with "several hundred more" arriving each following week. A whole range of big names may be available by December, including Netflix, Kindle, Sling Player, ESPN, Facebook, and games from EA. The big-name apps were starting to filter into the store at the end of our review period; EA and Glu Mobile games, for instance, started appearing the afternoon that this review published.

Third-party apps aren't allowed to run in the background, though some apps save their states to resume to the same place when relaunched. Microsoft's multitasking is much weaker than Apple's and Android's here.

That said, the Marketplace is an interesting and pretty usable experience. At first it will be curated; only 2,000 developers who Microsoft prefers will be allowed in. That will (hopefully) populate the catalog with some high-quality stuff before the floodgates open. You can try any app before you buy, and you can bill apps directly to your AT&T phone bill. There's no option to return apps you don't like, though.

I especially like how you can browse the app catalog on a PC and schedule downloads to be synced over to your phone. If you choose to buy your app on the phone itself, titles under 10MB can be downloaded over 3G. For anything larger, you'll need a Wi-Fi network.

The 10 Best Touch-Screen Phones

With big, beautiful screens and top-notch touch-based interfaces, these phones will make you forget physical keyboards ever existed.

It was touch-and-go for a time, but the touch-screen interface has finally become mainstream. In the past, it was relatively tough to round up 10 good touch screen products. These days, high-quality touch-screen-based interfaces have made their way into PCs, tablets, phones, PMPs, digital cameras, and a host of other devices.

The introduction of the original iPhone back in 2007 sparked a touch-screen revolution in the smartphone space. With its gorgeous 3.5-inch Multi-Touch screen with support for pinch and zoom, well-designed, finger-friendly interface, and top-notch mobile Web experience, the iPhone served as a prime example of the potential of the keyboard-free phone.

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After that, every major manufacturer took its own stab at the touch-screen smartphone. Some succeeded, and some, well, not so much. RIM's first touch-screen handset, the BlackBerry Storm, for example, was panned in our original review for a buggy, imprecise touch interface that was difficult to use. It took a major firmware upgrade six months later for us to recommend the Storm. And since then, we've seen plenty of hard-to-use touch-screen phones that left us begging for physical keyboards and controls.

Three years later, though, there's no shortage of innovative, easy-to-use touch-screen smartphones. In fact, each of the major U.S. carriers offers a number of handsets that ace the touch-screen interface. This list contains the best touch-screen-only phones. If you're looking for phone with a touch screen and a supplemental hardware keyboard, you won't find it here. But if you're willing to say farewell to the physical keyboard for good, look no further than our 10 favorite touch-screen phones.

Touch-Screen Phones Included in this Roundup (by Carrier)

AT&T

iPhone 4

Apple's iPhone 4 adds a gorgeous screen, a terrific camera, and a faster processor to add to the already-awesome iPhone app experience, but voice calling still isn't this phone's priority.

iPhone 3GS Even though the 3GS now has a faster, shinier big brother, this affordable iPhone is still a terrific handheld computing and Web device. And it provides the same access to thousands of apps for half the price of the iPhone 4.

Samsung Captive With a fast processor, bright screen, great social-networking hooks, and even options for syncing with PCs, the Captivate is the best smartphone for AT&T users who find Apple's attraction to be fruitless.

SPRINT

HTC EVO 4G

If you live online, the EVO offers a big, beautiful, and powerful window to the world. The first WiMAX phone in the U.S. is a terrific platform for streaming media and Web browsing, and it gets your laptop online with Sprint's 4G network.

Samsung Instinct HD The Samsung Instinct HD is the first truly high-def video phone in the U.S.; it has a novel feature set and can record and display HD video (at least on an external screen), but that privilege doesn't come without issue.

T-MOBILE

Samsung Vibrant The Samsung Vibrant is T-Mobile's super-phone, and it delivers a lot of power on some really inexpensive monthly plans.

Samsung Highlight SGH-t749 With a responsive touch-screen and easy-to-use TouchWiz UI, the entry-level Samsung Highlight is a good choice for T-Mobile subscribers looking for a touch- screen handset that's easy to use.

VERIZON WIRELESS

Driod Incredible by HTC Lots of power, a great-looking screen, and gorgeous interface additions, mean the Droid Incredible easily lives up to its name.

Samsung Fascinate Sized in between the Motorola Droid X and HTC Droid Incredible, the Samsung Fascinate will feel just right for many Verizon smartphone shoppers.

Motorola Droid X Motorola Droid X takes the crown for the most powerful Android smartphone away from the HTC Droid Incredible. The huge 4.3-inch, 854-by-480 screen makes maneuvering the phone's excellent interface with your finger a breeze.