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Why bother slapping Android on a point-and-shoot when you can just slap an optical zoom on your smartphone? At least that’s what Samsung thought with its new Galaxy Camera, which has a colossal 21x optical zoom; a 16MP sensor, and Android 4.1 Jelly Bean at its heart.
The Galaxy Camera has a 4.8-inch HD Super Clear LCD touchscreen on the back and a full point-and-shoot body on the front. It’s got a lot of touchscreen features, like being able to “draw things in light”, but Samsung’s goes one stage further and allows you to shout at your camera. That’s right, this thing will obey your oral commands, like zoom, shoot, make me pretty*, which should turn those Facebook profile shots up a notch. Plus you can even remote control the camera via an Android app, which Samsung says is for making group shots a bit easier — sounds like an excuse to turn it into a remote spy cam to me.
The Android-packing camera will also do full HD video, and 120FPS slow-mo, at an undisclosed resolution. Still, that’s pretty impressive for any camera, let alone a point-and-shoot. It’s got 3G and 4G, plus Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi Direct for sharing your photos. It’s just Jelly Bean underneath, so apps from the Play Store are go — could this could be the best Instagramming snapper ever? Maybe.
*OK, maybe it’s not that amazing.
I can’t wait to take pictures with my Samsung Galaxy Camera, upload them to my Samsung Galaxy Laptop – get them off the cloud onto my Samsung Galaxy Phone and view them on my Samsung Galaxy TV whilst preparing some beans in my Samsung Galaxy Microwave.
Please. Stop.
You’re forgetting that the cloud will be called S Cloud as well.
S Cloud, S Dock, S Pen, S Voice!
And don’t forget the hubs! Game Hub, Video Hub, Social Hub, Music Hub! The word hub doesn’t make any sense now. Neither does the letter S.
I’ve already beaten you to it. I’m listening to music on my Ipod whilst instagramming with my Iphone, browsing the internet on my Ipad whilst syncing up on the Icloud on my hipster retro Imac.
You’re forgetting about your iOven and your iTV.
Of course the difference between your posts being; all the products irononverse listed actually exist.
I was making a point that they’ve created a good brand for one product (phone), and that they’re probably going to start sticking it on anything they can. Which will probably cheapen the brand.
I wounder how long it will be before Apple say they invented the camera so samsung have to pull it.
What about watching the I player on the iNternet?
Poor Nokia. They’d practically already done this, but then Nikon and Samsung just had to steal the limelight, didn’t they?
(I know the PureView isn’t a point and shoot, but that’s beside the point).
It’s not exactly a new concept.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/samsungs-sch-w880-12-megapixel-phonecamera-with-3x-optical-zoom/
Fair enough. I’d never seen that before.