News - Nikon releases Android powered Coolpix compact

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The Coolpix S800c can use photo and sharing apps from Google Play.

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[scaryjim]

Interesting idea, but since all social networks heavily compress photos anyway, I don't see the point of being able to automatically share straight from a digital camera, since you're not going to be sharing the photo you've taken, but a massively inferior version of it! Smartphone cameras are already more than good enough for the "instantly share snapshot" type photography that this seems to be aimed at, so I don't really see what benefit having a mini-android-tablet sucking my camera's battery life away is meant to bring...