Mino-Tour of Flip's New Camcorder
Flip's leaked Mino camcorder is official, and its biggest new feature is that it is Everywhereable -- a new buzzword from Flip which would be completely Web 2.0 if only it didn't have so many vowels.
Thankfully, Flip has continued in its less is more approach, and the changes from the previous Flips are incremental. The Mino keeps the minimal button layout, but now those buttons are touch sensitive instead of clicky. The camera's resolution is still 640 x 480, but the video bit rate has been doubled to 4.0Mbps for one hour of capture. The lens and 2x zoom remain the same, and the built in sharing function will now upload to MySpace as well as YouTube and AOL. Better yet, it's tiny, measuring a skinny 3.94' x 1.97' x 0.63'.
So the Flip Mino is pretty much a Flip Video with a new lick of paint, and all the better for keeping things simple. One decision, though, is a big step backwards. Flip has kicked out the AA batteries and replaced them with a non user-replaceable Li-ion cell. This has doubled the battery life to four hours, but at the expense of being able to carry spares. It'll take a minimum of two hours to recharge (using the new power adapter) or three hours plugged into a USB port. Compare that with zero hours to swap in a spare set of rechargeable AAs. In this respect, it mirrors Creative's rival, the Vado. The Mino is available now for $180.
(Via Gadget Lab.)
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