Macro and Wide Angle Camera Lenses Turn Your Smartphone Into a DSLR

Well not quite, but still will keep shooting like a semi-pro.

The iPhone 4 camera is pretty amazing, but wouldn’t it be even more amazing with a few lenses? And that goes the same for your Blackberry and Android camera phones as well.

PhotoJoJo has come out with 3 magnetic lenses that easily attach to your smartphone camera and give you 3 new ways to snap pictures with a wide angle, fisheye and macro view.

The bundle of 3 lenses costs HK$320 (US$40) or you can buy just the Wide/Angle and Fisheye separately. And they ship to Hong Kong.

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Voice Actions for Android Lets You Speak Your Searches

Speak and ye shall find on Android.

Google has always been pushing voice search so today in the Android Market you can get Voice Actions on your Android 2.2 phone.

Of course this is for English first, and Google goes out of their way to say U.S. English so you’re out Aussies, Brits and Canadians – but the day that an Andrid phone can tell us how to get around Hong Kong in Cantonese will be an amazing day to  say the least. Watch the video below on how it works:

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Happy Star Wars Celebration, Here’s Your R2D2 Android Phone

Finally, the droid we’ve been looking for.

Every August The House  of George Lucas celebrates the world he created at the Star Wars Celebration and yes its even crazy geekier than that video with Triumph the Comic Insult Dog.

Did you know that George owns the copyright to the word “droid” and so Motorola has to license that word from him for their Droid phone? Well it all pays off here as the content manager for Starwars.com twittering as @r2d2central has just posted the first pic of the R2D2 Droid phone.

Prices and availability will probably be announced soon, but this is one Android phone we’d like to have guide our X-Wing around Hong Kong.

Wish you were there at Star Wars Celebration? Well at least you can download an app for it for iPhone and Android here.

UPDATE: The day you can buy this is September 30th – most likely just in the US but keep your eye on the secondary market here in HK

A 1-Week Torrid Affair with the HTC Desire

The top of the line Android from HTC is stellar!

This review of the HTC Desire will be done in haiku and images:

Phone of desire.
Wondrous screen of light and bliss.
Brilliant android.

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