Sony introduces two new QX Cyber-shot lens-style cameras

Sony’s IFA 2014 event is in full swing, but Sony having the varied interests that it does, it got started with some non-smartphone hardware, showing off its latest cameras. But it wasn’t long before the company transitioned into something a little more up our alley, revealing the latest Cyber-shot lens-style camera accessories for its smartphones and tablets.Yesterday we saw a leak detailing one of these products, the QX1 with its support for removable lenses, and now we see it joined by the new QX30, ...

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Sony’s latest lens-style camera leaks, reveals multi-lens support

One year ago, back at IFA 2013, Sony introduced two unusual smartphone accessories, a pair of relatively high-end cameras that attached to existing handsets (or even tablets), giving them the sort of large lenses and optical zoom capabilities normally reserved for stand-alone dedicated cameras: its QX10 and QX100 Cyber-shot lens-style cameras. The big, bulky add-ons clearly weren’t for everyone, but we were still ...

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Sony lens-style camera with massive zoom gains new support

About a month back we came across a rumor discussing a possible follow-up to some of last year’s weirder smartphone accessories, the Sony Cyber-shot “lens-style cameras” that affixed to existing smartphones to give them high-quality image sensors, big lenses, and optical zoom capabilities. The QX10 and QX100 models we have now give us a 10x zoom and 3.6x zoom, respectively, but word was that this year’s edition ...

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Second-gen Sony Cyber-shot QX-series cameras could get major zoom upgrade

Last year at IFA, we saw Sony announce its Cyber-shot QX10 and QX100 pair of “lens-style cameras,” external add-on cameras that can either clip on to smartphones (and later, tablets) or be used remotely, communicating with their companion apps over WiFi and giving photography buffs the sort of large sensors, quality lenses, and high-performance optical zooms that are all too often unavailable on phones. For as powerful as ...

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Pocketnow Weekly 076: inbox zero

The end of the year in tech is already dominated by lists – best of, worst of, top 5, bottom 50 – you get the picture. So rather than foist another array of numeric bullet points upon you on ...

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Galaxy Note 3, 10.1, Galaxy Gear, Sony Xperia Z1, Cyber-shot QX & more – Pocketnow Daily

Watch today’s Pocketnow Daily as we talk about IFA’s first batch of announcements with Sony’s Xperia Z1 and the new Cyber-shot QX camera lenses. Then we talk about how Google accidentally leaked the LG Nexus 5 in one of their videos. HTC is next as their revenues keep falling this month again. We later go through the sales performance of the Moto X outside the United States. We end today’s show talking about Samsung, their Galaxy Note 3, their Galaxy Gear, and their Galaxy Note 10.1. Make sure you watch all our hands coverage of everything that’s happening at ...

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