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K-Touch's 8 megapixel C280 cameraphone flaunts Canon image processing
Remember when Samsung was pumping out cameraphones with increasingly ridiculous megapixel counts? At the moment, phones top-out at about 5 megapixels. Until this, the 8 megapixel C280 with 3x optical zoom and claimed 1600 ISO support (right) from the previously unheard of K-Touch. Ironically, it might very well be using a CMOS sensor from Samsung. Perhaps more interesting though is the fact that it'll be using Canon's own DIGIC III image processing when it hits the Chinese market.
Teclast readies dashing C280 all-in-one PMP
Although Chinese DAPs have a way of knocking off the big boys and not really adding anything in the innovation department, Teclast's C280 continues to shake the stereotype by offering up a bevy of swank features combined with a design that's easy on the eyes. The natural successor to the C260, this flavor maintains the overall style and design as its less-spec'd sibling, but adds a Rockchip 2608A and Wolfson WM8750S "dual core" element, as well as touting sound quality similar to that found on the more expensive T29. Moreover, you'll find a 2.4-inch QVGA display, MP3 / WMA / AVI file support, an FM tuner, line-in recording, various games, text viewer, 2GB of internal storage, and a microSD slot for any excess media. The pocket-friendly C280 also manages a respectable battery life (around 12 hours), USB 2.0 connectivity, and should only cost you about $65 when it lands later this month.[Via DAPReview]
LG launches handful of (sorta) new handsets
As we noticed with the KE820 / KG99, it appears that LG has really started to embrace the concept of spitting out virtually identical phones with seemingly unrelated model designations. Case in point: the KE600, one of several new models LG is touting this week, which we reckon to be a dead ringer for the KV2400 we uncovered a few months back. Likewise, the 200MB KU830 looks pretty much like a KG810 to us -- though it's probably the same thing as the U830 we scooped in September. Other less familiar hardware includes the pictured KU311, a clamshell with an OLED display (which almost has a Nokia air about it, in our humblest of opinions), and the CDMA C280.
