You’re probably sitting around like me waiting for the official news about the T1-Google phone, which will be arriving in another nine hours or so. But until then, the news doesn’t stop.

For instance, Canon will be coming out in just a few days with its latest PowerShot, the SD990 IS, which features  an astonishing 14.9 megapixels and 3.7x optical zoom, enough to capture every hair sprouting from Uncle Barney’s ears in those family reunion photos you’re responsible for.

If you have a two gigabyte flash card to capture photos onto, you’ll be able to take about 306 shots before you run out of room at the high res settings. Or you could record about 23 minutes and 49 seconds worth of 640-x 480 video at 30 frames per second. If you rely on the 32 megabyte memory card that’s included in the camera, you’ll be able to take four snaps. (Guess it’s there for the sake of demonstration purposes.)

The camera by itself weighs six ounces and it’s a modest 4 x 2.5 x 1 inches.

The box includes the camera, a lithium-ion battery pack and charger, the memory card, a wrist strap, software, a USB interface cable to hooking up to your computer, and an AV cable for connecting to your TV.

Gadgenista says the camera will come out in red too, but the Canon site only shows black and silver models.

 I think Ansel Adams would be impressed with this one.
 

Posted on September 22nd, 2008 by dian