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By Luke Anderson

Aside from the less-than-stellar camera, one of the other disappointments from my iPhone has been the external speaker. The quality is about as good for sound as the camera is for pictures. I almost never listen to music through it, though I do use it for calls once in a while. Well like any shortcoming for an iPod or iPhone, there’s always someone out there just waiting to make a cheap accessory to fix it. I give you the SoundClip.

This little sucker just clips into the 30-pin connector port of your iphone and situates itself over the speaker. It will then amplify the sound by 10 dB. So as not to lose the tiny gadget when you’re charging it up, you can simply clip the device to your USB cord. So how does this magical creature work? Instead of using some sort of fancy hi-tech electronics, it simply has a conical deflection chamber which concentrates the sound in a single direction. For $8, I’d say it’s certainly worth looking into.

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You’ve heard the rumours and the tales of hacked firmware, and you’ve seen the glamor shots — and now that the Nikon D3x has hit the streets, we’ve got some significant previewage for you to check out. The reaction was overwhelmingly positive — as you would expect from a 24.5-megapixel, $8,000 camera. Trusted Reviews was impressed not only by the quality of the pictures and the bright, clear viewfinder, but by the overall build of the camera as well, stating that it felt “extremely well-balanced in the hand even with heavy lenses. And … the D3x’s controls were surprisingly easy to operate and use, with everything laid out very intuitively.” CNET pointed out that the camera “shares similar dimensions with its sibling, the D3, so this means accessories produced for the latter can be used on the new camera.” One omission that the review pointed out was the Nikon’s inability to capture 1080p full HD video, making Canon’s EOS 5D Mark II your only option if that’s what you’re after. But don’t take our word for it — check out the reviews below for more info.

Read – CNET: “[O]ne beast of a camera… raises the Japanese company’s benchmark for future product development.”
Read – Trusted Reviews: “It looks big, I agree, but it doesn’t feel it…”
Read – MegaWhat TV (video review): “The 24.5-megapixel CMOS sensor puts it above all of the other models in the FX lineup.”

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