Samsung has announced a successor to its WiFi-connected Galaxy Camera. Picture: Samsung Source: Supplied
SAMSUNG has fired the opening shots at the international Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas by announcing a successor to its WiFi-connected Galaxy Camera.
CES is due to get underway tomorrow with the annual CES Unveiled gadget show with what it calls "boundary breaking innovations" by 70 selected innovators. Some 1200 media outlets have signed up to attend this one event.
Samsung has jumped the guns with its camera announcement.
In 2012, Samsung revealed its Galaxy Camera, a full Android smartphone with access to normal Google Play apps, but also with a 21X optical zoom lens.
The idea was that consumers could enjoy the best of both worlds: they could frame photos with a zoom lens and instantly fire them off to social networks or cloud storage as they would with a smartphone.
The new Galaxy Camera adds Near Field Communication (NFC) capability. Users also can tap their camera against their phone and transfer photos from it to their smartphone for online distribution. The feature is called PhotoBeam.
The idea is already being exploited by rival Sony with its tap-and-connect capabilities that let users instantly channel audio from their smartphones to speakers and even to TVs by tapping their phones against those devices.
The new Galaxy camera also lets users control the snapping of photos by their camera remotely from their smartphone.
Samsung has addressed a significant shortcoming of the first version Galaxy Camera by upgrading battery capacity to 2000 milliampere hours. Galaxy Camera Mark 1 had a tendency to run out of juice when WiFi was operating.
Mark 2 comes with an upgraded 1.6 Gigahertz quad core processor, and a retro design with the option of a fake black leather front panel made of plastic, similar to that found on the Galaxy Note 3 smartphone. It has a 16 megapixel BSI CMOS sensor, 2 Gigabytes of internal memory and a 4.8-inch LCD touch screen.
Users get 50 Gigabytes of DropBox storage for two years.
Chris Griffith travelled to Las Vegas courtesy of AMD, ASUS and Samsung Electronics
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