Digital Home Thoughts: Flip Slide HD

"If you'd asked us to bet, we'd have put money on the next Flip camera including minor-but-important enhancements like image stablization and perhaps a 1080p sensor with better low-light performance. After all, competitive products like the Kodak Zi8 and Sony Bloggie get great reviews for these simple incremental feature additions, and it's been nearly a year and a half since the original Flip Mino HD came out. But apparently you get to play by different rules when you own nearly 40 percent of the "shoot and share" camera market, and Flip's latest cam eschews the spec upgrade game in favor of repackaging the Mino HD into a radical new form factor with a tilt-slide screen that's designed as much for playback as it is for recording."

This review mirrored my exact thoughts when I first saw this. The Flip line is successful because it provides good enough features at a great price. The big touchscreen isn't necessary and the prices tag of $279 is certainly a great selling point for all the point and shoot cameras that also happen to shoot better quality video than the Flip at the same price point.