The amount of apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace
Microsoft's Windows Phone Marketplace has now reported to have passed 25,000 apps by one site tracking comings and goings within it. (source: WindowsPhoneAppslist, July 2011)
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This is *really* cool, and I'll probably get one as soon as the street price starts to come down off the MSRP peg. There are a lot of things done right here.
The high frame rate at full resolution (60fps for 1s = 60 frame buffer) and 'pre-trigger' (the shutter release *stops* the camera and saves shots up to that point) are great, and the slow-mo movies (300fps at SDTV-ish resolution) For a small sensor camera, 6MP is a good tradeoff between noise and resolution, and with f/2.7 at 36mm equivalent, it's relatively fast. It has some other entertaining features, too, like 1/40000 shutter speeds.
The apparent lack of image stabilization is the one thing that bothers me. I'd like a wider zoom, but 36-432mm equivalent is par for the course in SuperZooms.
Oh, I didn't know it has "pre-trigger". That feature was on my first digital camera (from the 90s) which saved several pictures right up to the shutter button press. Great feature, unfortunately not found on most cameras that I know of. (That camera was a Casio) My current main camera also has that feature, only for movie mode, so I can sit and wait for something to happen, and then it starts recording 5 seconds before shutter button press. (also a Casio) Both current camera and first camera also have more "manual controls" and useful special features than other cameras I've had. I think if this one second 60fps buffer for pre-trigger is true, that would be great for capturing "the moment". So would 15fps, but this way we have perfectly smooth video for one second once we all have 4k displays sitting around. Again, this camera is for users of slow motion, especially with the 300fps unlimited VGA. (with good inter-frame compression!)
One important question though: Anyone know about the shutter responsiveness, startup times, etc. If it was operationally fast, that would be really nice. In fact, that could be the deal breaker.
No info on timing, and startup times certainly matter. I'd argue that the pretrigger makes shutter responsiveness moot, though.
It appears the frame rate is adjustable, there are references in the specs to 60fps, 5fps (which gives you 12 seconds of buffer) and 7fps flash photography.