Design and Build QualityThe metallic-finished maroon P500 that we got for review drew the most attention in the office for its colour. Its build quality is not the best that we have seen, but in all fairness, appears reasonably okay. The hand-grip is rubberised, deep and comfortable. The lens does not have markings for the focal length but instead, has an additional zoom … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2011
Kodak EasyShare Max Z990
Design and Build QualityThe polycarbonate body appears quite robust but the overall shape is ‘boxy’. The hand-grip is quite wide and is rubberised. The lens projects about 35mm when fully extended, but the equivalent focal lengths are not marked. The 3-inch LCD is fixed. The electronic viewfinder’s resolution is acceptable, but the EVF does exhibit a slight tunnel vision. … [Read more...]
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. – Taiwan
Hon Hai is the biggest elec-tronic company in the world that you have never heard of! It ranks at No.60 in the latest Fortune Global 500. To the Western world, the Company is known by its trade name, Foxconn. Foxconn is the world’s largest contract manufacturer for electronics. Amongst the prod-ucts it manufactures are the following:* Computers, including tablets and … [Read more...]
Canon to Slash Costs by $3.9 Billion
Canon Inc. plans to slash production costs by at least 300 billion yen (US$3.896 billion) by installing automating lines at home and abroad locations as a part of drastic overhauls to cope with the strong yen and fierce competition by 2015. Canon had been using robots to replace workers at its toner plant in Oita, Japan. It plans to introduce the same system to its factories … [Read more...]