HIM Technology (formerly TaiwanSoft Technology), a vendor of digital consumer electronics under the Digimaster brand name, on February 8 unveiled its X8 Titanium Silver, an 8.2-megapixel auto focus digital camera equipped with a Samsung camera lens unit, for launch in the Taiwan market on February 15 at a recommended retail price of NT$8,690 (US$270).
The X8 Titanium Silver is much cheaper than Japanese-branded 8-megapixel digital cameras which currently sell for between NT$15,000-17,000 (US$464-526) in the local market, local retail channels indicated.
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X8 Titanium Silver specifications | |
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Item |
Details |
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Image sensor |
1/1.8-inch CCD made by Sharp |
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Resolution |
8.2 megapixels |
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Screen |
2.4-inch 112,000-color TFT-LCD |
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Zoom |
3x optical; 4x digital |
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Memory |
Embedded 32MB flash, compatible with external SD card of up to 1GB; able to record MPEG4 video/audio |
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Battery |
Alkaline AAx2, with life of taking 388 8-megapixel photos or 175 8-megapixel photos using flash lamp or recording 640×480-pixel video/audio for 20 minutes and 41 seconds |
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Dimension (W×H×D mm) |
89×60.5×28.1 |
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Weight (not including battery and SD card) |
145 grams |
Source: HIM Technology, compiled by DigiTimes.com, February 2006
The Digimaster X8 Titanium Silver 8.2-megapixel digital camera
Photo: HIM Technology