Samsung's Linux-based Diskless Camcorder 199
An anonymous reader writes "LinuxDevices has a story about the Samsung Miniket, a digital camcorder the size of a pack of cards that also works as a portable MP3 player, webcam, voice recorder, storage device, and more. The Miniket (annoying Flash and sound) will be available in February or March in the US, for $600-$700, with a rugged 'sports' model to follow. The device runs Linux, boots in under a second, and is the first of several products from Samsung that will run a new variation of Linux called 'ARM-no-MMU.' LinuxDevices also has a whitepaper about Samsung research that shows the new Linux variant to be faster than normal Linux."
Re:Request for clarification on Diskless technolog (Score:3, Insightful)
Of course it's faster... no managent... (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:C'mon (Score:2, Insightful)
Damn Proprietary Memory (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:C'mon (Score:4, Insightful)
The highest end Flash memory I see at Sandisk's site writes at 20MB/s. This is on the lower end of what 2.5" notebook hard drives are capable of and well below what a 3.5" drive could do.
Poor choice for memory card (Score:5, Insightful)
I wonder what made them make such a poor choice. The right choice would have been to go with Compact Flash or SD, if you want smaller.
Memory stick is still a Sony bound product (I know that now there are other manufacturers) and underperforms other cards, since there's no such fierce competition.
I see this as a big minus.
Camcorder - easy playback feature (Score:2, Insightful)
Is this a limitation or am I just not understanding the statement?
"Playback Fast-Forware and Rewind up to a maximum of 128 times."
"Files created with our Minikit are designed for playback with the included software and our DVD Recorders."
Can their files be exported to a format that I can playback in a program of MY choice? What can't I use my DVD recorder? I don't need another one from them.
Hmm... like most things, looks good 'till you peel back the layers.
Re:Damn Proprietary Memory (Score:3, Insightful)
My sentiments exactly. I alread have a number of SD cards as my existing digital camera uses them. Thought I would not call memory stick proprietary junk, they are more expensive per MB in larger sizes than CF or SD. I was also a little put off by their statement of exporting the media files to WMP or a Samsung DVD recorder. It is an MPEG4 based codec, so I will assume it is playable else where. Finally, where is the firewire? Come on, Samsung! I guess more people have USB 2.0 than firewire. Oh well, pretty neat device all told. I will not be picking one up, but still pretty neat.
Camcorderless Linux? (Score:4, Insightful)
rugged sports model. (Score:1, Insightful)
I bet it's gonna be f'in YELLOW!!!!
yeah yeah... mod me redundant
Re:Request for clarification on Diskless technolog (Score:3, Insightful)
Yes, if you consider 20-100% higher slightly. Memorystick is a stupid, proprietary (even if they have one external lessee for their tech), technology that typically lags CF in both capacity and price drops. For example the cheapest 1GB CF card on Newegg is $63, cheapest MS Pro 1GB? $133. And that's not some aberation that I picked just to prove a point, I simply went to look for how far behind MS still is.
Re:No memory management? Cool. (Score:1, Insightful)
Whereas otherwise you could always hope that the process wasn't important to whatever it was the camcorder was doing?