Imaginarium's Cam1 camera for tykes

It turns out Spain's Imaginarium can do an equally bangin' job applying bulbous design principles to kiddie cameras as it can to kiddie phones, showing the "Cam1" ahead of a possible 3GSM debut next week in Barcelona. "Why 3GSM, haven of all things cellular," you ask? Well, seems this 2 megapixel number can use triangulation of GSM towers to location-stamp images. Otherwise, you get a 1.8 inch color display, MP3 player functionality, and some cutesy buttons that'll likely appeal to the younger crowd. Look for it to be sold through Movistar (it does have a GSM radio, after all) starting this summer for less than €100 ($130).

[Thanks, Javier]

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 6th 2007 10:45PM]

Yuck! are you supposed to pay a service contract just to have that feature? Plus 130 for a 2 megapixel camera is about 2x what it should be, that thing is junky.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 7th 2007 3:09AM]

Do you remember Fujifilm Q1? I still have it!

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 7th 2007 7:44AM]

Its for kids, so it needs to be chunky and robust. Still at that it doesn't look like it could survive a decent tantrum.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 7th 2007 9:30AM]

you might have missed something there. it is a camera phone and the locator feature is not for stamping the images, but for parents to locate the phone (and the kid) via GPRS triangulation.

look here.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 7th 2007 9:34AM]

you might have missed something there. it is a camera phone and the locator feature is not for stamping the images, but for parents to locate the phone (and the kid) via GPRS triangulation.

look here: (http://www.studiolighting.net/spain%e2%80%99s-imaginarium-intros-cam1-camera-phone-for-kids/)

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 7th 2007 12:44PM]

How are you supposed to use it as a phone though? It just doesn't work..