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Just when I thought the camera-phone revolution was long dead, I meet the camera phone that could revive that whole scene. Sprint's new MM-a800, built by Samsung, is a Swiss Army knife of a phone with an exceptional camera at the center. The shame is that Sprint's networked entertainment offerings don't live up to its hardware...
...MM-a800 also features my favorite software - speaker-independent voice recognition by VoiceSignal. You don't even have to waste time creating a spoken tag for everyone you want to call; the phone figures out how the names in your phone book are pronounced. Well, it does that most of the time, anyway. The feature makes dialing a lot easier, and - on the road - a lot safer...
...MM-a800's camera took the best pictures I've ever seen on a phone. Of course, point-and-shoot cameras have evolved to leave even this phone's 2-megapixel output in the dust, but the snapshots I took are fine for sharing, and even for printing. I didn't detect much video noise or the strange distortions that generally plague camera-phone shots. I also liked the range of shooting options available. In fact, I'd have no problem using this as an everyday "had to be there" camera. Shooting video wasn't as rewarding, but it almost...
...hours to reach the besieged men: RK3 would have to hang on until nightfall. As the shadows lengthened, and the assault grew less intense, the troopers saw the SAS vehicles' lights heading up the Taraka valley and heard the reassuring drone of an AC-130 gunship, with its 105-mm cannon and thermal imaging technology. With the AC-130 crew calling down directions, the Australians put on their night vision goggles and prepared to pull...
Even the Senate, which has been more generous than the House to the military, had chopped three systems from its bill on the reasonable ground that they did not rate high priority at a time of limited available funds. They were the 9-mm Beretta handgun, which is a replacement for the venerable Colt .45; the Navy's SH-2F submarine-hunting helicopter; and the Army's field artillery support vehicle. All were restored in conference simply because the Pentagon would be saving $1 billion by closing some of its bases, and an additional $1.8 billion by curtailing retirement spending...