Coby intros Snapp pocket camcorders, for those with small pockets

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http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/03/3-8-10-cobysnappcam3001small.jpg (http://cobyusa.com/?p=pcat&pcat_id=1011)In a world full of stylish pocket camcorders (http://www.engadget.com/tag/pocket+camcorder/), there are few reasons to recommend Coby's ho-hum Snapp series, which has only just now managed the transition from cheap plastic junk to tasteful Flip (http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/flip-video-ultra-hd-video-review/) knockoff with today's introduction of the CAM3001, CAM4505 and CAM5001 Snapp HD. Recording 640 x 480 footage over MJPEG, the cheaper two models are still not much better than your average VGA webcam, and with only megabytes of internal storage, all three will require a sizeable memory card to capture any real content. But when you consider the price of these things -- Amazon shows preorder prices of $30 (http://www.amazon.com/Coby-CAM3001BLK-Snapp-Camcorder-Black/dp/B003819OGO/ref=sr_1_10/187-1747814-3820154?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1268075617&sr=8-10) and $50 (http://www.amazon.com/Coby-CAM4505BLK-Snapp-Pocket-Camcorder/dp/B003819T9Q/ref=sr_1_9/187-1747814-3820154?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1268075617&sr=8-9) for the budget cams and $80 (http://www.amazon.com/Coby-CAM5001BLK-Snapp-Camcorder-Black/dp/B003819TB4/ref=sr_1_8/187-1747814-3820154?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1268075617&sr=8-8) for the 720p CAM5001 HD -- you might yet find yourself combing desk drawers for that spare SDHC card.Coby intros Snapp pocket camcorders, for those with small pockets (http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/coby-intros-snapp-pocket-camcorders-for-those-with-small-pocket/) originally appeared on Engadget (http://www.engadget.com) on Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:17:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).


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