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A Red Scarlet-X 4K tour around CES 2012 (video)

For the third CES in a row, our old friend Ted Schilowitz has stopped by to let us drool over Red’s latest high-end cameras. And boy, this is one helluva camera we have this time. You may recall that last year we were shown a working Scarlet prototype with 3K video resolution and a fixed lens; but fast forward to 2012 and we have the Scarlet-X, a sturdy 4K beast that not only supports interchangeable lens, but it’s also actually out on the market. Obviously, the $9,700 base price (excluding the Canon EF lens mount; Nikon and Leica mounts coming soon) is aimed at film studios instead of us regular Joes, but Ted was kind enough to spend a whole afternoon showing us all the goodness on the Scarlet-X — we even got to play with it on the CES show floor, and unsurprisingly, this Red kit became quite the celebrity. Read on to find out how we got on with it.

Gallery: RED Scarlet-X 4K camera hands-on

Jan 14, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post

Blue Microphones Tiki, Mikey Digital and Spark Digital hands-on

We swung by Blue Microphones’ booth at CES to get our hands on its trio of new mics, and while the Mikey Digital and Spark Digital (the former for iPhone and iPad, and the latter for iPad only) looked very much like their analog counterparts, the cute little Tiki was quite the attention-seeker with its cyborg snail-like shape (and did we mention that there’s a push button on its butt for toggling Intelligent Mute?). The new Spark’s shock-mount desktop stand also intrigued us — we’d say it’s a nice blend of the old mount and the Yeti’s stand. Other than that, there’s really not much else to say about these funky-looking mics, so we’ll let our photos below do the rest of the job.

Jan 11, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post

Motorola Droid 4 hands-on

Fresh out of Motorola’s oven is this Verizon Droid 4. Well, when we say “fresh“… anyway. From our brief hands-on just now, there wasn’t anything too surprising with the software and performance from the 1.2GHz dual-core chip, but the hardware was almost top notch. We’d safely say that the physical keyboard is by far the best in the Droid series — each key is neatly laser cut to give that even blue glow from the keyboard back light, and the tactile feedback was reassuringly comfortable. Alas, like its predecessors, the sliding mechanism isn’t spring-assisted, so it’ll take first-time users some getting used to with their thumb. On the bright side, the Droid 4 is lighter than the already-obsolete Droid 3 so it’s less work for the hand. Stay tuned for pricing info, and take a gander at our hands-on video after the break for the time being.

Jan 10, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post

Lenovo’s IdeaTab S2 10-inch does tablet transformation, packs a 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon (update: hands-on)

This wouldn’t be the first time for Lenovo to release a tablet-plus-keyboard combo, though the illusive IdeaPad U1 Hybrid was merely adding Windows to the updated LePad via the keyboard dock. That said, Lenovo’s freshly-announced IdeaTab S2 10″ is a full package dedicated to Android 4.0, and it sports a 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon 8x60A or 8960. Compared to the ASUS Transformer Prime and Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, this 10-inch IdeaTab comes close to or even beats them with a 0.34-inch (8.69mm) thickness and a 1.27-pound (580 grams) weight — certainly much better than its Chinese counterpart, the LePad S2010. Other features include a 1,280 x 800 LED-backlit IPS display, 3G with call support, 1GB LPDDR2 RAM, SSD of up to 64GB, HDMI Micro connection and front (1.3MP) and rear (5MP with autofocus) cameras. As for battery life, the tablet alone can keep cranking for up to 9 hours, and sliding it into the keyboard dock gets you an additional 9 hours plus two USB 2.0 ports, a multitouch trackpad and an SDHC card reader. No word on availability or pricing yet, so we’ll keep poking Lenovo until we hear something.

Jan 09, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post

Lenovo LePad K2010 (IdeaTab K2) hands-on: Tegra 3, full HD IPS display

Remember our lovely leak of Lenovo’s Tegra 3 tablet from last November? Well, it showed up here at CES under the LePad K2010 moniker for China, while elsewhere it’ll likely be known as the IdeaTab K2. We won’t comment much on the unfinished software (so no luck with controlling the cursor using the fingerprint scanner on the back), but build quality wise we enjoyed the faux brushed metal cover on the back, and similarly, the sharp 1,920 x 1,200 IPS display between the speakers was very impressive (yes, we double-checked with Lenovo on these numbers).

Jan 09, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post