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Samsung Debuts a Boatload of Wi-Fi Cameras, Plus Cloud Storage by Peter Pachal
LAS VEGAS — Samsung loves Wi-Fi. That’s the message from the company’s 2012 line of point-andshoot cameras, since the company added the feature to most of the models it unveiled Monday at CES. Having Wi-Fi built right into the camera enables quick and easy sharing, and Samusng’s also debuting a cloud storage service so you’ll have a place to put them. Three Wi-Fi point-and-shoot cameras join the DualView DV300F, which debuted a few days before CES. The WB850F ($379), WB150F ($229) and ST200F ($199) all have Wi-Fi, letting photographers send images straight from the camera to friends via email or upload them to a service like Flickr or YouTube. Samsung says it’s “de-weirded” Wi-Fi (whatever that means) to make the integration extremely userfriendly. We thought Eye-Fi’s wireless SD cards had already done that, but we’ll put Samsung’s new cams to the test when we get a chance. SEE ALSO: Live from the Samsung CES 2012 Press Conference [LIVE BLOG] With the announcement, Samsung’s also debuting its own cloud service, AllShare Play. Samsung kind of snuck out the launch of this service last week when the company mentioned it in the early release of the DV300F. We haven’t had any hands-on time with it yet, but Samsung describes it as more user- and mobile-friendly than folder-based services like Dropbox or SkyDrive. Users get 5 GB free storage (pretty much the standard these days), and it’s promised to work seamlessly with all the models listed above.
Of those models, the WB850F is by far the leader of the pack, with a huge 21X optical zoom and a custom 16-megapixel image sensor that enables some impressive tricks. First, Samsung says it’s extremely fast, able to capture full-resolution still images while shooting 1080p video. It can also capture the hundreds of frames per second you need to recreate scenes in slow motion. [wp_scm_ces_highlights] Extra bonus: the WB850F has GPS on board to precisely geo-locate your shots, and you can even call up points of interest (POI). The 3-inch screen on the back is an AMOLED, sure to bring out those bright colors nice and sharp. The WB150F is a 14MP number with 18X optical zoom and 1080p video recording — not too shabby — though the sensor is a less-capable CCD number. And the ST200F is clearly more of an everyday model, with 720p recording and a 10X optical zoom. You’ll have to wait till April to get your hands on the WB850F, though the WB150F comes in January, followed by the ST200F in February. What do you think? Is Wi-Fi sharing your bag, or would you rather offload to your PC first? And would you use Samsung’s cloud service even if you had one of the cameras? Let us know in the comments.