What is the best camera phone

Although its easy to look at a camera phone and decide how good the image quality will be from the resolution its not quite that simple. Sometimes the number of megapixels is n't the only factor to consider when buying a camera phone. Unfortunately without testing each phone first its impossible to choose. Thankfully GSM Arena has tested 2 of the best camera phones to see which is really the best.

Until the Nokia N95 is released the LG K920 is the only 5MP camera phone on the market and its being tested here against the very popular Sony Ericsson K800i and the Nokia N73. Both mass market phones albeit at the high end of their respective ranges.

All the cameras produced great results as you would expect but each had subtle differences resulting in marked contrasts in the image quality.

Eden Cinemas SMS update winners

Three months ago, Eden Cinemas launched their new SMS information update which allows patrons to receive a list of the new movies coming out that week at the Eden Cinemas as well as to receive any special cinema offers available to them.

The service costs just Lm 1 yearly for the benefit of receiving these weekly updates. In the three months Eden Cinemas received a huge response of cinema goers requesting this service.

Those who subscribed in the first three months stood the chance of winning one of three NOKIA N90 3G mobile phones, made available by Intercomp, Nokia authorised dealers. The prizes were handed to the lucky winners at the Eden Cinemas, in St. Julian.

The service is still available and new prizes will be on offer soon. See Eden Cinemas web site for more details.

Nokia outfits San Francisco students with Internet gadgets

Nokia isn't waiting for a city-wide Wi-Fi network in San Francisco to get going before it gets involved in the city's broadband efforts. The company is donating a number of Wi-Fi enabled cell phones and Internet tablets to two San Francisco high schools to get students hooked on the mobile Internet.

The largest cell phone manufacturer in the world is donating N90 and N93 multimedia phones to about 20 students at Balboa and John O'Connell high schools. The students, all members of school multimedia programs, are also being equipped with 770 Internet tablets. The partnership between the city and Nokia is being formally announced today at a ceremony at O'Connell.

The new devices will take advantage of Wi-Fi hotspots that have been set up at the two schools in recent months by the city for this pilot project.

3GSM: Sundance Premiers Films for the Mobile Screen

Last November, the GSM Association and the Sundance Institute announced they commissioned filmmakers to create short movies targeted at mobile handsets. The fruits of this endeavor, five 3-5 minute long films, are being shown at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona this week.

The purpose of what's called the Sundance Film Festival: Global Short Film Project is to extend independent filmmaking to what the Sundance Institute's president and founder Robert Redford referred to last year as "the 'fourth screen' medium, after television, cinema and computers."

This week, Sundance director of programming & creative director John Cooper added, "We hope that the Global Short Film project inspires filmmakers and artists to think outside of the realm of traditional venues for cinema, and experiment with mobile as an intimate new avenue - with global potential - for their work."

The filmmakers (see top picture) who took part in the project, and were given what's called a limited budget, include Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, behind the Oscar nominated 'Little Miss Sunshine', Justin Lin (known for 'Better Luck Tomorrow'), Maria Maggenti ('Puccini for Beginners'), Cory McAbee ('The American Astronaut') and Jody Hill ('The Foot Fist Way').

Newly established social workers bursary scheme gets a R365m boost

A newly established bursary scheme for social workers has been allocated R365 million, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel announced on Wednesday.

"The establishment of the scheme will augment measures already taken in 2005 to increase the salaries of social workers. The initiative aims to entice prospective social workers and revive interest in a profession for the well-being of our communities and the development of a more caring society," said Mr Manuel, tabling the 2007-2008 Budget Speech.

In this regard, he said, it was purely a strategy to retain social workers in their profession.

During an Indaba organised by the Department of Social Development last year, Deputy Minister Jean Benjamin expressed concern over the shortage of social workers in South Africa.

Cell phones pushing way into GPS market

As I watched an ad for GPS gadgetmaker Garmin Ltd. during the recent Super Bowl, I had a fleeting thought the $2 million spent would be a waste, just like all that money those long-gone dot-coms once spent on the big game.

Last week, as I read about a parade of mobile phone-based navigation debuts at a European trade show, that thought turned into pessimism for Garmin, Tom Tom, Chicago's Cobra Electronics and other makers of stand-alone global positioning systems.

There is no doubt that GPS devices are getting to be a big market. They are handy and they work, getting you from your front door to the latest trendy restaurant in an unfamiliar neighborhood.

But the future is in the palm of your hand, not on the dashboard of your car.

At January's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, I saw a number of really cool GPS products, including a nifty little device coming from Cobra and a detachable Tom Tom product embedded into a car stereo made by Eclipse.