Video gets the iPod treatment
Have we seen the last of the device that does everything? The iPhone will now play flash video, Blackberries take pictures and every device has an MP3 player built into it. Does that make them “Jack of all trades, master of none”?
So what’s with the Flip? The Flip may be the number 1 stocking filler Christmas 2009. But what is it?
It is a very small, reasonable quality video camera. The Flip requires no cables to attach it to your computer (hence the name). It has an easy-to-use interface (we are talking the “iPod of the video camera” here) and it does what it says on the packet all for under £200.
The Flip is a video camera nothing more nothing less. You can take it to any activity and take footage. You can check the footage on the spot or share it with the people around you. Is this the way devices in 2010 will go? Small, cute and highly dedicated to one task?
One of the interesting things about the Flip is that the company has been bought by Cisco… Interesting mp3 on this from the Guardian’s technology blog, with Ray Sangster, Flip’s President in Europe, Middle East and Africa, listen here.
I find myself going to the dedicated device: I have bought a dictation machine which only through software translate will output into mp3. Why? Well, my phone just isn’t up to the job…
Posted: August 19th, 2009 under 42.
Comment from Sam Watkins
Time August 20, 2009 at 12:07 am
Not my picture – I don’t own a flip (yet). http://www.flip-green.co.uk/img/flipGreen.jpg (I did trim it to fit) but a very cool picture of the very cool flip phone.