SFist: $10 Walgreens Innovage Mini Reviewed

[Jeremy Charette]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.sfist.com/archives/2006/12/16/digital_camera_test_10_walgreens_innovage_mini.php' target='_blank'>http://www.sfist.com/archives/2006/12/16/digital_camera_test_10_walgreens_innovage_mini.php</a><br /><br /></div><i>"This straight outta Shanghai drugstore special advertises itself an eight-frame-per-second sports digicam. It's complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor uses the same technology as industry-standard professional cams. Can this miniature marvel compare with cameras costing hundred or thousands of dollars? Does it deserve a place under your holiday tree?"</i><br /><br /> <img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/B00040EC3M.01-AOV9MFYO1XQEJ._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg" /> <br /><br />What will $10 buy you? A digital camera apparently! That said...you'd be better off getting a free camera phone from your cell phone company than wasting your hard earned $10 on this steaming pile of crap. :lol: You could always give this to the kids for Christmas, but they might revolt and refuse to eat their peas at Dinner.

[Chris Gohlke]

Steaming pile of crap might be a bit harsh. I can think of at least one application I would buy something like this for - a Geocache. People often put disposable film cameras in their caches for visitors to take pictures of themselves with. At around the same cost, this could be a neat alternative, but I bet it would be stolen.

[jeffd]

while for $10 bucks, you can't fault the quality, chris, I think you may find that aside from being a toy, this wouldn't be a good device even for geo cacheing. That resolution is just way to small. I was clicking on them thinking they were thumbnails.

I'm still searching for a phone with a good quality 2mp'ish camera on it. ^^

[Felix Torres]

We live in a world where 3-year olds are using PCs effectively and 5-year olds can do file management. A cheap disposable $10 keychain toy is not a bad way to get them started on video pics. Its not much worse than the FisherPrice and Disney-branded toy cameras and a lot cheaper...
Kodak is probably missing a marketing opportunity in not providing a $29.95 Brownie Digicam for 7 year olds. ;-)
(Polaroid and AipTek seem to be doing well enough with their cheapies.)