Additionally, the new smartphone is equipped with dedicated camera button for easy access to the 5-megapixel camera with LED flash so you never miss a photo opportunity, even if the phone is locked.
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Messaging apps, known as "over-the-top" apps because consumers don't pay carriers directly for the services, typically go beyond plain-vanilla text messaging with features such as voice notes, camera applications, access to games and virtual stickers that are popular among teens and young adults.
There is an options button to access alternate camera or microphone sources (if applicable).
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With the new top-placed Mode Dial, V2 users will be able to access the camera's Auto Mode as well as full manual controls on the fly.
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For example, if our laptop were to fail at a trade show, being able to access the camera menu and switch to our phones or tablets would make a great backup.
Before you are able to launch one of these apps, a standard dialog box will appear at the top of your screen (just like with geo-location apps) asking for specific (one-time) permission for this (and only this) site to access your camera that you can either allow or deny.
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Only Absolute technicians were granted access to the camera and activity logs.
Only Absolute technicians are granted access to the camera and activity logs.
Having access to the camera, for instance, means Polycom can specify the number of frames per second for video chat and automatically adjust settings to compensate for poor lighting.
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The standout product here is the HOM-BOT, a sort of souped-up Roomba, that not only can direct itself, but also comes with some interesting data and camera visualization tools you can access through your smartphone.
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Outfitted with an easy-to-access button, the camera enables users to switch from normal photo mode to snow or underwater mode, even with gloves on.
There are multiple camera angles, replays and instant access to scoring drives on the Red Zone Channel, which is better than life itself.
Windows Phones and the iPhone, the Galaxy Nexus can be unlocked just for using its camera, or unlocked fully to access the rest of the phone's features.
On the plus side of things, the battery is a generous 1, 050 mAh unit, and there's a pleasingly instant access scheme for the camera's most regularly used functions.
This week, for example, No. 3 wireless carrier Sprint Nextel unveiled a new smart phone called the Sprint Mogul, which sports features similar to the iPhone: a large touchscreen display, wireless e-mail, a digital camera, wi-fi hotspot access and music and video playback functions.
This includes access to the phone, camera, web browser and text message apps.
Once an IP camera is installed and online, users can access it using its own individual internal or external IP address, or by connecting to its NVR (or both).
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The longer it takes them to figure out how to process, for example, a discarded Treo 600--a 32-megabyte gadget with phone, e-mail, Web access, an organizer and a camera--the less ReCellular will be able to resell it for.
By assigning the creative Smart Effect function to the easy-to-access Quick Dial positioned on the camera's front panel, the photographer can effortlessly add the desired finishing touch to an image, while previewing the effect on the camera's 3 inch LCD display.
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The Android release will be part of AIR 2.5 and grant would-be developers access to your smartphone's camera, microphone, accelerometer and GPS as well as providing hardware GPU acceleration and multitouch input, which could make for some exciting PopCap games completely serious and not at all game related utilities down the road.
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Anyone controlling your PC with administrator access can turn on a microphone or camera to convert a computer into a convenient bug.
Herzog, granted rare access, descends with a 3-D camera to survey the hastening groups of horses and lions and, being Herzog, to muse on the implications of what he sees.
"We don't understand how Facebook could block the access to millions of users of the Vintage Camera application who want to share their photos on Facebook, only because of a few negative feedback reports, " Mr Morcos wrote in a press statement.
After all, S60 3rd Edition is still fresher than anything Microsoft or ACCESS has to offer, the 3 megapixel camera is well above and beyond the standard fare, and the 416 x 352 display simply blows lesser QVGA screens out of the water.
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Frequently used devices and accounts are conveniently stored in the camera's wireless history menu for quick one-touch access.
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The camera also includes a new Direct Setting Control that enables quick access to settings in manual exposure modes (P, S, A, M), so that settings can be changed without taking an eye off the electronic viewfinder or the high-resolution 921, 000-dot 3.0-in LCD display.
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Furthermore, with Samsung's Quick Connect technology, the new HDTV CCTV systems will automatically configure the user's router and manage all required port forwarding so that all remote requests to access live feeds are directed to the appropriate connected camera on the network.
One of the curiosities of so-called connected TVs, which directly plug into the Internet to access web applications and services, is that they rely on external camera attachments to support video calls.
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