Finally someone else is stepping into the GoPro market. Good to see competition here. I know the feature sets aren't identical but sometimes worse is better.
Polaroid is pretty much a hollow shell used to market white label products these days. Anyone know if they actually developed this camera, of if they're just the front for another company?
Just a side note for those comparing these to GoPros's - this isn't a direct competitor to the GoPro; Polaroid already sell the XS100 which is actually a pretty decent action camera - probably best bang for your buck currently (I have one and use it regularly; it's still very much first gen, rough around the edges but excellent where it counts).<p>I think the cube is awesome for a fun, inexpensive little camera to stick in places quickly and just start filming without worrying too much - and at that price point you can buy a few and stick them in your car for a road trip, or hand a few out to friends when going down a slope; it's size, shape, colours and accessibility would be targeting even the non-action-sports crowd and there's a huge market of young skate boarders, soccer players etc etc.<p>I only wish they would market themselves a little better, and also fix up the poor software that tends to be on / accompanies their products.
Based on the video at the bottom of the page, I'm not really impressed with the video quality. Sure, it might be "1080p" but it still looks pretty fuzzy
I might as well drop this link here:
<a href="http://www.chucklohr.com/808/index.shtml" rel="nofollow">http://www.chucklohr.com/808/index.shtml</a><p>I have the #16 and its a neat little toy for my cheap syma quad copter.
I want to see a utility camera manufacturer produce a product that is more readily integrated into DIY hardware/Internet of Things projects. These rugged little cameras are awesome but I've yet to see one that provides an open interface for enthusiasts to manipulate the bulb/mode/settings externally to the camera. I'd like to see a Bluetooth (perhaps BLE) -enabled camera that can be triggered from an Arduino, watch, smartphone, or whatever the user can dream up.
Somewhere in Eastman a Kodak executive is weeping.<p>Polaroid may not be the same company they used to be, but at least they're attempting to stay relevant.
I think it's going to be amazingly difficult for Polaroid, or anyone for that matter, to take on GoPro. For whatever reason, GoPro has captured the imagination of the video/photo creating public in a way that few brands have. For several years after the iPhone came out, competing phones could match or exceed its specs, but were largely viewed as toys by comparison. In the same way, GoPro will enjoy a near monopoly on this market segment until their competitors have outmatched them technologically for enough years that the media catches up and makes it socially acceptable to buy an alternative to GoPro.
I didn't see it mentioned, so I have to bring up that a magnet mount will not cut it for action sports where you might 'crash'. I know multiple skiers who have lost their GoPro in the snow because mount plastic snapped on a decent fall. I can't imagine a magnet will do better.
This seems exactly what I need. I wanted to buy a camera for my snowboarding ventures as long as my track days. The GoPro was kinda expensive, so much that I came close to buy the cheap model three times but never did. But 100€ is a price that I can accept without thinking twice. :-)
I can't work out if this is waterproof as standard or with the waterproof casing accessory. Any ideas? Is it perhaps just splash proof without the casing?<p>Also I wonder if it floats in water... would be great for chucking around the pool.
This is cool. Ive been using my v1 contour roam every day for about a year and the battery life is starting to suck.<p>I went on amazon to buy a new contour roam but it has actually gone UP in price from $120 to 200+ :P
Would be very cool if it could be programmed to do timelapses with a specified interval. Also, if the recording time was like a ring buffer, it would make for a great security/dashcam.
Not a bad offering from an undead company. The lack of remote shutter and connectivity severely limit the applications.<p>With a remote shutter I'd be in for one just for retro-ness of using a Polaroid.
Are there technical/practical limitations that prevent it from reading microSD cards above 32 GB?<p>I'm mostly asking out of curiosity, as 64 GB seems fairly inexpensive on Amazon...