Digital Home Thoughts: Sanyo Xacti DMX-CS1 Reviewed

"Sanyo is now a well-known company, especially for their huge line-up of Xacti HD camcorders... A series that's also known for their pistol-shaped camera. And since the first Xacti model, the Japanese manufacturer worked hard to improve every part of the device to make it more powerful in a smaller and thinner body. And earlier this year, Sanyo kindly sent us their latest Xacti DMX-CS1 (or VSP-CS1 in the US), which is introduced as the world's smallest, lightest and thinnest dual camera. During the press conference we had the chance to get a brief hands-on, and we have to admit that wasn't the most exciting shape... Indeed, our camcorder is simply lightweight and ultra slim, but we would say incompatible with our hands."

Sanyo's latest offering in the Xacti range of HD camera's has been reviewed by the Akihabara News website. I've never owned a small pocket HD camera like this as I believe they simply don't produce a quality that I would be happy with, and this review seems to back it up. Also with so many phones having a camera with video mode built in these days do we need devices like this? Isn't it more likely that the camera in mobile phones are going to get better and remove the need to carry a separate device, much like they have removed the need to carry a PDA/MP3 player and phone, or even the way normal point and shoot camera's have now got HD video functions added to them. You can see the full review and specs over at the Akihabara website.