Wednesday, April 20, 2005
Sony's Voice Recording Camera
Posted by Chris Gohlke in "HARDWARE" @ 06:00 PM
"Voice recorders are VERY popular in Japan. Proof of this statement is that in Japanese electronics store, the voice recorder section is usually almost as big as the MP3 player section. So with this kind of competition, how can you stand out from the crowd and sell more? A team at Sony asked themselves that questions, and this is what they came up with: the voice recorder that can also take pictures... not bad! So this must be the first "Voicecamera" in a way. The ICD-CX50 will be on sale for less than 380 EUR in Japan from tomorrow onwards and takes pictures at a 1.3MP resolution (640x480 or 1280x960). It has 256Mb of memory (also the first digital cam with that amount of memory as far as we know). The dimensions of this combo are 45.8x101.2x23.5mm and it weighs 99g."
Never been much for using a voice recorder, but based on the article, there is clearly a market in Japan. Of course, I don't see the point of the camera. I am assuming most of the market to buy one of these would probably have a mobile phone which probably has a camera in it anyway.
Never been much for using a voice recorder, but based on the article, there is clearly a market in Japan. Of course, I don't see the point of the camera. I am assuming most of the market to buy one of these would probably have a mobile phone which probably has a camera in it anyway.
