Real camera running Android?! Nikon S800c

Nikon Coolpix S800c.
Watch this dark one with a name as majestic as 800 (In shadow of the Dark master D800). The only real camera in market today with 16 MP that runs Google Android OS with built in Wi-Fi. So plays the game and send your picture directly on Face book, edit images with free android apps downloaded form Market, add Time-Lapse capability with the right app or 3D picture recording, etc. Seems now sky is the limit for what a camera can do rather than specificaiton named in cameras manual...

These days with the cellphones so small and compact, yet so capable, I was talking about this for a while here in POTN that I want a Canon with built in iPhone but seems the dark side heard me but got it in an Android way. Evil

Canon Where is my 5Dmk IVi or compact Gi with iphone?

Any thoughts?

Android on a camera? So does that mean it's going get virus's and will need to be frequently rebooted after it locks up?

Sorry, Android on a camera just seems like an awful idea.

CincyTriGuy wrote in post #15120439
Android on a camera? So does that mean it's going get virus's and will need to be frequently rebooted after it locks up?

Sorry, Android on a camera just seems like an awful idea.

Theoretically Yes.
That is when you frequently download stuff that you don't know their source and authenticity, you would be pron to virus but then after having cellphones that is so frequently in use today, with all those downloads (I am talking of my own two kids), who has ever seen a phone with virus? Then computers get viruses but are we stop using them?

I say that is a small price you pay but then see the advantages:

- Instantly you taken picture becomes organized. i.e. Uploaded to Facebook, your online storage site, wirelessly transfered for printing at your desirable place etc.

- You can download an app and take picture in a very different way, that camera manufacturer never thought is possible.

- Firmware updates are auto.

- You don't need to search for memory card or be worry of running out of it at needed time.

- etc as imagination permits.

I strongly believe this is the way of tomorrow and we will see every other company follow Nikon on this issue soon.

You may be correct about this new trend. DPR just started a new website - Connect related to phones, cameras, tablets, etc. based on their own sense of the market shifting. Here's a link about connected cameras, including the Nikon and Samsung's recent entries.

http://connect.dprevie​w.com/products/cameras​/all

Dennis

You could carry your android phone, use it as a wireless hot spot so your camera is always connected to the net and potentially live stream to friends, family..ect at weddings or important events. Not to mention the ability to tether your phone to the camera and use it remotely. I like the idea and can only hope that Canon catch on too.

CincyTriGuy wrote in post #15120439
Android on a camera? So does that mean it's going get virus's and will need to be frequently rebooted after it locks up?

Sorry, Android on a camera just seems like an awful idea.

The odds of getting a virus on the android are fairly slim now (I know no-one that has ever gotten one) and the chances of people infecting apps that are specific for photography are even slimmer. Even if virus's do come about for camera's, it's a risk Im willing to take...you cant live in a technological bubble.

neimad19 wrote in post #15125261
The odds of getting a virus on the android are fairly slim now (I know no-one that has ever gotten one) and the chances of people infecting apps that are specific for photography are even slimmer. Even if virus's do come about for camera's, it's a risk Im willing to take...you cant live in a technological bubble.

I'm closing in on 20 years in IT, I'm certainly not in a technology bubble. My original post was largely sarcasm based on my disdain for Android.

Its not Android of Mac OS.
Its camera with Wifi, network communication that is the question irrespective fans on either side.
Its only that Android is more generous than Mac that might be why Nikon has gone that way.
Well I am still waiting to get my iphone 5 that is after being a happy user of Evo 4. Mac better be good.

CincyTriGuy - Android, like Google's servers, is Linux. So while it won't run the popular Windows-related Trojans and Viruses - it's still a target for the Linux Big-3 - Worms, Rootkits and Hackers.

From a PCLOS Linux box - behind my encrypted hardware firewall router, and Shorewall on the box....

Folk "assuming" that any operating system is "invulnerable" are sooner or later in for a most unpleasant surprise....

I was a triple-cert level Windows tech for 11 years - and now have been 9 years on Linux.

Windows can be secured - and Linux can be compromised.

Regards, Dave.