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Blaine Oliver • Wednesday 12th March 2008 17:12 GMT
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Surprising how similar this camera is to the NV3 by samsung...

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Sander Rekveld • Thursday 13th March 2008 10:30 GMT
Happy

Samsung's NV3 might be similar. The Minox (DC 7411) and Aigo (DC-V790) are the same as I could confirm at last weeks' CeBIT 2008.

Been done at least six years ago. 

Myself • Monday 17th March 2008 10:43 GMT

Six or seven years ago, I bought a Samsung cheapie digicam (the "Digimax 35") with mp3 player functionality. It sucked, and the proprietary headphone jack was infuriating, but the concept was there. Nothing new here.

I've been using my Canon Powershot S2's audio recording feature, which is stereo no less, quite a bit lately. Again, nothing new. Heck, with CHDK firmware it gains text file reading functionality, too. Will the CHDK folks add mp3? I'd laugh... but I wouldn't be surprised.

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