The Evolution of Digital Camera

Back in Florida this week, which means flights on US Air and an opportunity to read the latest copy of the US Airways Magazine. As I have mentioned before in this blog, I find the US Airways magazine one of the best in the industry.

In this issue, they have a nice article on Samsung's new Geo-Cam (CL65) digital camera. This camera continues the recent trend of convergence in the technology world by adding functions not traditionally associated with cameras to this technology marvel.

In the case of the Geo-Cam, in addition to the traditional functions like taking pictures, it also features Wi-Fi and Bluetooth capabilities allowing this camera to function like the camera functions of many smartphones. This means you can upload directly from the camera to Facebook and other social networks. Some would argue that improving the quality of pictures being posted to Facebook is a double edged sword (more pixels showing you doing potentially stupid things, anyone). You can also use these functions to do "old-fashioned" functions like uploading pictures to your computer and / or network wirelessly.

In addition, it provides Geo-tagging of your pictures by using GPS functionality built into the camera. This means that it will get easier to know where the nice pictures this camera takes where taken.

It will be interesting to watch as cameras gain more smartphone capabilities and smartphone's gain improved camera capabilities to see which platform rules the day. For now, if you are in the market for a digital camera be sure to add the Samsung Geo-Cam to your shortlist.