The iPhone 3G is making its Best Buy debut this Sunday, and a copy of the ad you’ll see in your local paper confirms that even though Best Buy has the distinction of being the iPhone’s first independent US retailer, it’ll be the same old Best Buy peddling it. If you buy one of four bullshit accessory packages—going for $106 to $234, according to AppleInsider—Geek Squad will set up your phone and email for free. In other words, something they have to do anyway (activate your phone), and another that’s complimentary at the Apple Store or easy enough to do yourself. Thanks, Geek Squad
Canon has just added a mysterious teaser to its US website. The page shows a silhouette of a camera with the words ‘Destined Evolution.’ Maybe it will be updated to include more detail in the future, we don’t know. It’s almost as if the company is building up to the launch of a camera to replace one of its older models. We have no specific information but it doesn’t require any profound market insight to predict an EOS 5D replacement is coming.
Click here to see the US teaser
Meanwhile, Canon’s European sites have started to feature banners suggesting that “the EOS story continues,” and showing glimpses of a camera with a large prism bulge. Click here to see it.
First we had the leaked info, then some official-looking shots, and now, at last, some proper hands-on images of Canon’s upcoming EOS 50D pro-consumer DSLR have hit the intertubes over at Impress. According to the guys there the cam feels a lot like the 40D to hold, but it’s a tad easier to grip. It’s got a screen that’s easier to read, they like the tweaked user interface, the new “creative fully automatic” CA mode, and the 6.3 fps shooting speed (there’s an audio file of the cam in action here.) None of that is a surprise, given the evolution heritage of the camera. Check out the gallery, with full images over at the Impress link. Update: Dpreview also has a set of hands-on photos and review, made soon after the 50D’s announcement.
