What's different / better about this than a GoPro?
My guess would be that the GoPro has vastly superior video quality.
Polaroid Cube
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Re: Polaroid Cube
#42What's different / better about this than a GoPro?
Cost
Re: Polaroid Cube
#43What's different / better about this than a GoPro?
This appears to be physically smaller. And cute. Polaroid may just have my business if it has standard mounting and the waterproof case works.
Agreed. While the battery life isn't quite as good as a GoPro, this is also half the price.
I'd be willing to buy one to play with, and the built in magnet to make it easy to stick on things is a great idea.
Re: Polaroid Cube
#44> It’s wide angle lens... You'd think they'd have someone proofread a product announcement.
That doesn't mean no one proofread it. These days I think it's more common to have the apostrophe in the possessive pronoun can to omit it. I've even seen people defend their usage as deliberate. I suspect we're near the end of it even being considered a "rule."
I don't think that's true - I've not seen a single style guide that suggests that!
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#45Polaroid 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?
Wikipedia describes it as a shell company still. I would be really surprised if they developed this themselves.
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#46No WiFi. No remote control. Not bad for $99 though!
$99? That's well in to "shut up and take my money!" territory. I've long wanted to buy a GoPro for the occasional kayaking / climbing / skiing footage but there was no way I could justify the price tag. $99 (+$40 waterproof kit) really changes the equation for casual shooters like myself.
Re: Polaroid Cube
#47> It’s wide angle lens... You'd think they'd have someone proofread a product announcement.
That doesn't mean no one proofread it. These days I think it's more common to have the apostrophe in the possessive pronoun can to omit it. I've even seen people defend their usage as deliberate. I suspect we're near the end of it even being considered a "rule."
It's = Shortended "it is"
"It is wide angle lens" doesn't work.
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#48> It’s wide angle lens... You'd think they'd have someone proofread a product announcement.
That doesn't mean no one proofread it. These days I think it's more common to have the apostrophe in the possessive pronoun can to omit it. I've even seen people defend their usage as deliberate. I suspect we're near the end of it even being considered a "rule."
Nor have I seen it. Its use is being butchered here. It's a problem.
Re: Polaroid Cube
#49I might as well drop this link here:
http://www.chucklohr.com/808/index.shtml
I have the #16 and its a neat little toy for my cheap syma quad copter.
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#50Are there technical/practical limitations that prevent it from reading microSD cards above 32 GB? I'm mostly asking out of curiosity, as 64 GB seems fairly inexpensive on Amazon...
Often they advertise 32GB but they're compatible with larger, just not officially supported. For example http://www.motorola.com/us/moto-g-pdp-1/Moto-G/moto-g-pdp.ht... only advertises 32GB but I put a 64GB in it out of the box and it works.
i can't lookup the debian bugs now... but beware. it will work only until you write a not so rare byte combination there using the SDHC interface. after that happens, the sdxc controller will just crap on every data read and you will have a tiny brick.