Finecam S4 - Problems Overshadow The Quality

Advantages: Good image quality, small and light.
Disadvantages: Battery life, pop up flash, shutter lag and memory card size.

...I bought the Kyocera Finecam S4 in November 2003. It was my first digital camera and being my son was due to be born soon I thought it should be a good quality one. After looking around to see what I could get for around £250, I found the Finecam S4 on offer. I liked the look of it so decided that I would give it a try after being told that it took very good quality pictures. So what do you get in the box: The 4 Megapixel Finecam S4 Camera 16MB Panasonic Secure Digital (SD) Card BP-900S Li-ion rechargeable battery AC Adapter / Charger USB and Video cables Wrist strap Pixela ImageMixer software Manual and Quick start guide The camera itself falls into the category of 'micro camera'. It measures just 3.8 x 2.2 x 1.2 inches and sits very easily in your hand. And if that wasn't enough it weighs in at a measly 175g. It is...

elston 05.09.2005 · Read review
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Epson EMP S4, one small, great projector

Advantages: Portable, quick to turn on/off, very easy to set up and use.
Disadvantages: Loud cooling system, rubbish internal speaker.

...I bought 10 Epson EMP S4 projectors for school I work for at summer 2006. Below you will find my personal opinion after one year of using and maintaining that product, but first short description. Epson EMP S4 is updated (in 2006) version of EMP S3. Epson's EMP S(x) line of projectors is design to suit mobile and office users. And it does it perfectly. It's small (33X25X9cm) and light (2.6kg). It comes with small remote control and a bag with shoulder strap. It's brightness (1800 ANSI lumens) and resolution (800x600) is sufficient to display presentation (text, photos and short movies) at 2-6m distance onto white wall or whiteboard (usage professional project screen will improve image brightness and sharpness) in bright room. It has three types of video inputs (15 pin VGA, S-video and composite video input), so at the same time...

koobra 24.08.2007 (25.08.2007) · Read review
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optico s4

Advantages: Verry Small But Gives High Qulity Pictures 3x zoom
Disadvantages: Slight barraling When taking pictures without zoom

...Before to Buying this camera, I had tried other cameras in the ultra-compact category. None of which came close to the quality and sharpness of the S4. It is packed full of feachers. including the video mode is not bad to for e-mailable video greetings and the time laps mode is very good The battery life is quite good even with flash a problem with this camara is that the power button and shooting button are too close together and the wrong way round. All in all this is a very good camara for its size and wate and the unique lens design gives very good qulity picturs and a flush fitting lense on a camara 2cm wide. Before to Buying this camera, I had tried other cameras in the ultra-compact category. None of which came close to the quality and sharpness of the S4. It is packed full of feachers. including...

jacob_a 20.10.2004 · Read review
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Kyocera Finecam S4

Advantages: Small, compact and robust. Good battery life when new.
Disadvantages: Slow to write images to disk, short battery life after prolonged use

...We bought the Kyocera S4 about 3 years ago after doing a lot of research into camera. Not being keen photographers, we wanted a camera that was easy to use but that took good quality photos. At first we were very pleased with the S4. The picture quality is great and at 4 mp the files are reasonable sized. The 16mb card that came with the camera had to be replaced as at "fine" quality we could fit about 10 photo's on there. We bought a 256mb and can fit about 80 photo's on. The battery is a rechargeable one and this is one of the reasons to buy the camera. We had previously bought a Pentax camera and were very disappointed at how quickly we were going through AA batteries. The S4 had a quick recharge time and long life, enabling you to fill the memory card before needing a recharge, however 3 years on and the battery last...

arsyteee 14.01.2006 · Read review
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S4 NEO + RADAR

Advantages: It works...but
Disadvantages: Little more to pay+does it work?

...Right my first review so bear with me. Ok firstly i have bought a new car wich exceeds limits swiftly,but i dont condone speeding. Secondly i paid £2k to make it faster,(ditto above) Hence buying a SNOOPER S4,for which i paid £279 + £100 for the additional radar detector. First up,to actually make this thing work you need to register online because it wont work otherwise(security so say) to register it costs!!!!!! Now i paid about a hundred quid for 3yrs which includes updates for that period.So you have to be online(or do a lenghty phone session). The downloading and updating is very simple and please dont be put off by this. Once this is done its a real doddle,just plug in to your cigar lighter and go. Does it work? Yes,superb so far and living in Bournemouth it goes of often. There is a pleasant ladies voice advising...

dean693 29.12.2004 · Read review
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Primergy |Econel Range

Advantages: small, easily upgraded with standard hardware
Disadvantages: should be dual proc

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macspain 19.12.2007 · Read review
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  BIG BROTHER REALLY IS WATCHING YOU!

Advantages: Gives voice alerts rather than bleeping, shuts up if you are driving below the speed limit, tells you the reported speed of the road, records and monitors your speed limit, you can record your own high risk zones
Disadvantages: Database is not up to date, laser detect is questionable

...NOTE: This is not a radar detector unless you purchase the S4r-neo or the optional Snooper S100 RLD unit for around an extra £100. I do a fair amount of driving in my work and my personal life, and have, for some time been getting more and more paranoid over the increasing number of fixed and mobile speed cameras around. Between my house and my daughter?s boyfriends, there are no less than 5 cameras, a slight slip and that?s 15 points on your licence and an instant ban. Now I am not manic driver by any stretch of the imagination. However, a near miss with a police van just outside my office about 6 weeks ago, while moving with the flow of the traffic, I got hit doing about 34 in a 30 zone getting me rather worried. I spent a few restless nights waiting for that ticket to arrive in the post, thankfully it didn?t. It did...

sue.51 03.05.2004 · Read review
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Review of Snooper S4 Neo

  Good Detection Device but still not a 'Failsafe'

Advantages: Informative and Accurate enough to protect you most of the time
Disadvantages: "most of the time" is not as good as "all of the time"

...that can be found sometimes from both perspectives/arguements. The question is what is there available, for the 'most of the time' responsible motorist who may occasionally absent-mindedly go over the speed limit, to protect them from suddenly unwittingly getting 'flashed' etc when they might be doing 5 miles an hour over a speed limit whilst daydreaming a little. Short of being fuelled with paranoia and/or 'Pro-Plus' 24/7 (neither of which I understand are healthy options over prolonged periods time!) ... how about considering another alternative that might well (IF you are at heart a responsible driver!!!!) save your licence, potentially save lives, and help keep you on the straight and narrow???? A POSSIBLE SOLUTION The SNOOPER S4 NEO is different from the 'traditional' RADAR/LASER Detector in that it (like 'Sat-NAV' guidance...

Whinger 19.09.2005 (20.09.2005) · Read review
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Pentax Optio S4 Digital Camera

Advantages: Compact/ High quality pictures
Disadvantages: Short battery-life/ no memory card included

...This camera is a small (3.3 x 2 x 0.8 inches), robust and reliable camera and has some of the best picture quality I've seen in any 4 MegaPixels digital camera. This camera has 3x optical zoom which for its size is very impressive though the very edges of pictures can blur with full zoom. If you especially want a camera with good quality zoom pictures then this camera is not for you. The camera features a menu screen which will take some getting used to, though the build quality of the whole camera is very credible and it is very advanced technically. This camera also includes a simple cam-corder function. However, with all these hi-tech features there has to be a couple of downfalls, and there are! Unfortunately the battery is drained very (very) quickly and so you will almost always need to carry a spare. You will also need to...

JGreenwood1 14.06.2004 (15.06.2004) · Read review
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This car could be the new Knight Rider...but nicknamed Lex !

Advantages: it has voice recognition...like outta Knight Rider
Disadvantages: Hefty monthly re-payments

...The car being reviewed is the 2010 Lexus RX. The new RX Lexus is here ! Its all new and all fabulous. The engine is the RX 350, it?s gotta V6 275 horsepower engine, it comes with a 6 speed sequentially shift automatic transmission. This car also comes with a RX 450 hybrid engine version that has 295 horsepower..it has 3 electric engines.. 1 engine for the transmission and the starter, 1 engine to drive the front wheels and another engine for the rear wheel drive and regenerative braking. Now this vehicle all new from the ground up and has some great new technologies, it has some things which are different from any other vehicle I have seen in the past. For example like the "damping" underneath to reduce road noise...I could also see a significant amount of damping on the top front of the engine, because in fact you can't really...

joeyhey2007 22.02.2009 · Read review
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