Gadgety News

Pure Digital’s Flip Mino was pretty good for the money and the Ultra even more so - but now it’s gone Flippin HD!

Ok, so it’s listed as being $230 in the Wall Street Journal so perhaps cool it a bit.

For the cash you get about an hour’s worth of fixed zoom, 720p, MPEG-4 video recorded to 4GB of built-in flash memory.

Shove the USB cam into your PC or Mac to launch the built-in FlipShare editing software for fine-tuning your videos before sharing via MySpace, YouTube or direct over email. Obviously this gets compressed to 480×270.

There is word of HD sharing via an unnamed partner arriving early next year according to Pure.

Katie Boehret, over at the Wall Street Journal groped the gear and seemed impressed by the video and improved sound quality.

Overall she made noises to the fact that the FlipShare was well worth the $50 premium over the previous Flip Mino.

I, and no doubt your goodselves, have probably read about the Flip Mino a while ago but it wasn’t official in the UK, until today!

The Flip Mino is the younger sibling to the Flip Ultra and gives you 2GB of on-board flash memory allowing you to capture up to 60 minutes of video with sound and has a 1.5-inch colour LCD screen around the back. It weighs only 90g so is easily pocketable.

The Flip Mino rocks a rechargeable lithium-ion battery that powers up automatically while plugged into a computer and provides more than 4 hours of recording time on a single charge.

My fave feature has to be that built-in software.

It kicks into action as soon as you flip out that hidden USB plug and shove it into a computer, letting you offload clips, edit footage and upload them to YouTube or MySpace in just a couple of clicks.

It’s costing £120 at the moment but there’s some stiff competition on the way from Kodak so there may be a price drop soon! 

The ultra is priced at £99 - Run over to the wonderful Firebox right now my good people!

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