Samsung NV10

Pros: Great 10-megapixel quality, great physical design.

Cons: Not responsive enough, poor speaker placement.

Summary: The Samsung NV10 comes with two rechargeable Li-ion batteries and it can be charged though the plug-in adapter or USB connection. I do like the X and Y axis interface about this camera. It takes great pictures, but the speed of this camera is kind of slow. I rather catch the moment than have a quality image that has missed it all. I used to have a Cannon Powershot and it was a lot more speedy in taking pictures. I could just whip out the camera, turn it on and snap it. For the NV10 I have the wait for it to boot up, if dark the flash has to flick up and the slowest part of all, for the camera to give the GO to taking your photo.

The video recorder's microphone placement is placed in the lower right, where the hand would usually be. When I first used the recorder I thought something was wrong with it, but it was just my hand over the mic. Also, when you zoom while recording the sound gets muted for the whole time you where zooming. Worst part of all.

The body is pretty tough. I had dropped it on large gravel rocks and it was still pristine. The screen is pretty vulnerable to anything. I had it in my pocket with nothing else, not even in the case it came with, and it got a little scratch on the screen.