Topic: Digital still cameras

January 10, 2007, 10:18 PM

Posted in: Consumer photography

Scott Fulton, BetaNews: Here's further proof that convergence is not a force unto itself, but something that may have to be managed: Polaroid, which has struggled in recent years to re-establish its brand in the wake of the digital camera revolution, has been showing its new line of WiFi-enabled portable media players at CES this week. Its highest capacity device has 80 GB of capacity and a 4.3" screen, and its basic function is for storing photos and other media, and showing those photos. Probably not a high price for this device, but take a guess as to what's missing. One guess. (Clue: "Polaroid.")

In the meantime, Casio, which at one time was better known for digital watches and cool electronic music toys (that actually are a lot of fun), announced and showed at CES a digital camera that is a hair under one inch thin, easily fits in a shirt pocket, and has a 7x optical zoom lens. Because it's such a small device and weighs so little, it could be more susceptible to being shaken, so Casio has added an anti-shake digital signal processor to compensate. The Exilim EX-V7 goes on sale in March for $399.99.

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