Flip Minos coming on June 4?

People sure do love them some Flip Video cameras, and it looks like the company is getting set to cash in on that popularity with a new model dubbed the Minos, which was recently spotted in a B&H catalog with a due date of June 4. It's not clear what the Minos will offer over the existing Flip except a $179 price tag and your choice of a black or white casing, but here's hoping Flip handles all that fame responsibly -- no one want to see this guy go all Elvis and feature-bloated, you know?

[d @ May 20th 2008 6:59PM]

doesn't matter. iPhone 3G is coming june 9th (said the village Apple Fanboy)

[d @ May 20th 2008 7:00PM]

You know, as if villages in the middle ages had Apple Fanboys as well as village idiots

[Clasifyd @ May 20th 2008 10:41PM]

You're leaving out the possibility that they are one and the same.

[Crayola @ May 20th 2008 7:22PM]

Heard Creative already has a clone on this... It's Vado's little brother Dodo.

[Bryan Jones @ May 20th 2008 7:56PM]

This looks like it is a miniturized version of their current product. 'Minos' as in mini, and notice the size of the lens compared to the body to figure out how large it may be overall. This look like it could be pretty cool.

[Andrew @ May 20th 2008 8:36PM]

Looks a lot slimmer than the current Flip - here's hopping it has a bigger screen, more storage and/or Li-ion battery.

[fashionista @ May 20th 2008 9:27PM]

One of the best features of the Flip is the standard AA batteries. I hope they don't change that.

[lanejasper69 @ May 20th 2008 9:40PM]

The Title sounds like Philipino!!

Just an observations, not a racist remark by any means.

[Dear Leader @ May 20th 2008 10:00PM]

Flip '08-'09 product roadmap: Flip Ariadne, Flip Androgeus, Flip Deucalion, Flip Phaedra, Flip Glaucus, Flip Catreus, Flip Acacallis.

But seriously, Flip's ability to do a lot with relatively little is something that both [insert Japanese camcorder brand] at the high end, and Creative/Aiptek/etc. at the low end, could learn from.

[El Taco @ May 20th 2008 10:03PM]

Two words:

When Canigetit

[El Taco @ May 20th 2008 10:23PM]

oh didn't read, June 4 :P

[Shawn Collins @ May 20th 2008 10:43PM]

I wish they would focus on offering a front facing screen (for filming yourself) and an external mic, instead.

[BobfromVegas @ May 20th 2008 11:10PM]

Thats great, but does it pla-record doom?

[kombizz @ May 21st 2008 2:46AM]

I guess my mini-mobile DOES better than this!

[chris @ Jun 3rd 2008 2:59PM]

Seems like the flip mino is coming soon...source file info on their site mentions the mino: http://digg.com/gadgets/Flip_Mino_eminent_Source_file_info_on_theflip_com_proves_it