Welch has become a leading member of club of those ready to pounce on any opinion-making opportunity if there's a television camera there to capture it.
Inside, you've got a fully functioning laptop and outside you've a touchscreen tablet that, yes, utilizes everyone's favorite proprietary stylus, the S-pen, and there's also a rear facing camera on the outside.
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But I found the sheer size of the Note undercuts its convenience as a camera and there's no dedicated camera button or quick way to launch the camera when the screen is locked, as there is on some other phones.
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There's also a dedicated camera button just beneath this, leaving the other side free of distractions.
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Along the right edge, there's still a hard camera button -- and all the buttons seem to have more give than last year's Nokia devices.
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It's just like, Hey, we're in Will's house and there's a 2-year-old girl, and clearly there's someone off camera giving her lines and that's it.
Looking back at ya is a front-facing camera, and there's a plain plastic stylus tucked in the top, so we're certainly looking at a resistive touch display.
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As we already knew from our preview earlier this year, the Yoga boasts a 1, 600 x 900 IPS multi-touch display, and there's a 720p front-facing camera for video conferencing.
There's also a 3D backup camera to keep an eye on your whip's backside.
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There's a front-facing camera for video calling and a 3.2 megapixel camera around back for shooting pictures and video.
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There's a rear-facing camera at the top, which likely won't get much use seeing as how it appears to be painted over -- though it may offer a cool filtered effect as the rest of the world waits for BlackBerry to jump on the Instagram bandwagon.
The top, on the other hand, is a whole lot of empty space -- there's no camera here or on the rear, a "tradeoff, " according to company reps, but one they're confident won't distract from the devices greater mission: reading.
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The area's a bit of a no man's land along the top -- there's no camera to be seen on the Nook's front or rear.
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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.
Nokia's Lumia 920 packs the industry's best image stabilization -- there's no questioning that -- thanks to a camera module that pairs both sensor and lens-based optical IS. The iPhone 5 also offers a notable improvement over its Apple-made predecessor on the video front, but considering that its stabilization is of the digital variety, we wouldn't expect it to top Nokia's new flagship.
There's also a new in-camera HDR mode which merges two back-to-back shots (one underexposed and the other overexposed) in order to retain additional shadow and highlight detail.
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There's also a 2MP front facing camera for gettin' your video chat on and a rear facing cam, though we don't imagine anyone will be taking too many photos with this.
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Moving around the device, all of the ports have remained the same and it still includes a stylus, but now there's a secondary front-facing 2MP video and stills camera for easier self-portraits (the rear shooter has also been upgraded to the same resolution).
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At the top of the camera, there's a power toggle, a dial to select from auto, standard and movie modes, and a shutter release.
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Further, it has Auto HDR and D-Range Optimizer, bracket shooting (Exposure, DRO or White Balance) and Auto HDR shooting modes, and there's a Digital Level Gauge that indicates camera pitch and camera roll on the LCD screen for straight, even landscape and architectural shots.
At the top, there's a familiar-looking 8-megapixel camera, flash and loudspeaker setup, Unsurprisingly, it feels pretty similar to Samsung's Greatest Hit of 2012 and that sliver of a profile helped this big-screened smartphone fit our hand -- just about.
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While it might borrow the straighter design outline of the Galaxy S 4, there's not a whole lot to get excited about, with a 5-megapixel camera and a WVGA (800 x 480) resolution stretched thin across a 4.7-inch TFT display.
Aside from its tough-guy credentials, there's a 1280 x 800 screen, five megapixel camera, Tegra 2 dual-core 1GHz processor, WiMAX connection and the staple WiFi, Bluetooth, and GPS medley.
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There's a 3.5mm headphone jack next to the power button and micro-USB port, a dedicated camera button and volume rockers on the side, and just below the screen there's the familiar Android menu, home screen, and back buttons.
There's been a lot of brouhaha about the 41-megapixel camera aboard the 808 PureView, and rightfully so.
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Compositing results can be viewed in real time on the camera's LCD monitor, and there is a one-step Undo command that allows photographers to delete an image and try again if desired.
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However, you'd think that in an industry that is famous for such embarrassing pronouncements that 640K ought to be enough for anybody (well, maybe for your camera's firmware) or that there is a world market for about five computers (perhaps in every person's pockets), companies would tread cautiously in announcing that they're not going to create something.
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There's no camera on the back, but Kobo did include a 1.3-megapixel shooter up front, in case you're in the mood to video chat.
Everything's in there: MP3 player with stereo speakers, a 5-megapixel camera, DVD-quality video, GPS maps, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, high-speed cellular, spreadsheets, e-mail.
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