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Panasonic PV-DC10000 appears to
Included among the new P"ticts
are the Kodak Digital Science DC21O -'&the smallest digital camera with a
colot hcn screen.Weighing less than
zoom camera with an estimated retail
8 ounces, the phwls can be up-loaded
price of under $900.
onto a computer for storing aril pr int:
The RDC300, the personal digital
ing or they can be easily viewed on
camera by RICOH, is another simple
your
television. Priced below $550 the
point-and-shoot camera small enough
camera includes a docking station and
to fit in your pocket.It features a man-
a built-in flash.
ual Macro Dial allowing you to focus
on objects less than one inch away for
close-ups. Canon's PowerShot 350 is
Phones and Answering
also pocket-sized with a usable macro
Machines
mode and built in flash. Whether
Buying a cellular phone use to be
you're a Windows 95 or Macintosh
simple; you selected the phone you
user, you can view photos instantly on
wanted and signed up with a cellular
your computer monitor, display them
- provider. Not any more!. Now there
on a television screen, upload your
are different cellular standards, many
shots to the Web, or e-mail them to
cellular providers and dozens of
friends and family. In place of conven-
phones from which to choose. What's
tional film, the PowerShot 350 uses a
more, a few years a go only the 800
stamp-sized removable 2MB memory
MHZ analog system known as AMPS
card that allows you to store images in
(for Advanced Mobile Phone Service)
three different modes.
was available in the United States.
The Minolta Dimage V and the
Then came digital service providing
Sony MDC-FD7 Digital mavica cam-
more
calls per channel and more fea-
eras offer several common features —
tures.
The problem is that many areas
excellent resolution, zoom lenses with
aren't set up for digital service, and
besides, as with cordless phones, ana-
log cellular phones typically sound
better.The advice from the experts:
keep it simple andmake sure you get
the features that are important to you
because the phones keep changing.
The August 1997 issue of
Consumers Digest rates the Panasonic
KX-TC930 analog phone among the
better buys. Priced between $250 and
$300, the phone features auto-channel
scanning to find the best reception, a
speakerphone in the base, and a two-
way intercom. Also rated highly were
the Uniden EXI 960, priced from
$180-$200, featuring caller and call-
waiting ID. The Nokia 2160 was rated
among the best for digital cellular
phones. Priced below $400, the phone
can operate in analog mode as well as
digital mode, weighs less than 8
ounces and gets 70 minutes of talk
This portable AT&T phone has a built-
time.
in answering machine.
Today's more pricey cellular phones
look a lot like something out of a
futuristic movie. They let you dial the
macro capability, viewfinders, remov-
phone in wireless style, and in some
able memory,built-in flash and self-
cases, even dial up the Internet.
timer.Minolta Dimage V, priced
They're
small and light enough to fit
around $800, is compact and fits in a
in
your
purse
or pocket.Jeff Csatari
pocket.Sony's Digital Mavica, priced
advises
to
find
the phone you want
just under $800, is larger and heavier
first
and
then
sign
up for the cellular
but still easy to handle with large,
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