Samsung HMX-U10 Full HD camcorder with 1-button YouTube uploads out-Ultras the Flip

Step aside Flip, Samsung's aiming its massive consumer-electronics guns directly at your point-shoot-n-upload to YouTube base. Samsung's new HMX-U10 fixed-focus, ultra-compact camcorder takes 10 megapixel stills or 1920 x 1080 Full HD H.264 video to SDHC cards courtesy of a 1/2.3-inch CMOS sensor. There's also a 2-inch LCD so you can playback, edit, or upload your videos with help from Samsung's built-in Intelli-studio software and USB cable, naturally. Unfortunately, Samsung makes no mention of image stabilization typically missing from these pocket camcorders. We do know, however, that it'll ship in September for $200 with a footprint measuring 56 x 103 x 15.5-mm / 95g and that peculiarly angled lens first seen on Sammy's HMX-R10 and SMX-C10 camcorders. So for the same price you get a bigger sensor with higher resolution from a better-looking camera that's also smaller and lighter than the Flip UltraHD. Care to respond PureDigital Cisco? Backside pic after the break.

[Via InfoSync]

Gallery: Samsung HMX-U10 Full HD camcorder

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[SuperDre @ Jul 14th 2009 6:52AM]

I'm very curious to the first real test of this camera, it looks great (for these kinds of camera's), but I think the lens and the lack of optical image stabilisation makes it not good enough for some more 'serious' stuff other than HD-homevideo's.. Also we know nothing yet about the compressionrate it uses..

[LloydChiro @ Jul 14th 2009 9:34AM]

What kind of serious stuff did you have in mind?

Here's a podcast that Adam Carolla with two flip videos and several lavaliere mics hooked to, I presume, digital voice recorders. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjlQ9l3otgI

[SuperDre @ Jul 14th 2009 2:00PM]

@LLoydChiro: I've just watched a few seconds of the clip, and the lack of image stabilisation is definitly not funny and very tiresome to watch for longer periods (longer as a few seconds).. But the image quality itself is pretty cool..

[LloydChiro @ Jul 15th 2009 12:07PM]

Good point, although you might be looking at it with a hypercritical eye. I watched the whole hour, and I never got fatigued by it. If anything, Donny, filming the handheld part with the flip might have allowed the guys to let loose more so than if he had a real camcorder.

[Gregorian @ Jul 14th 2009 7:01AM]

Really, with all the crap that is on YouTube, do we really want to enable people to be able to dump whatever lameness they've just pointed their camera at, with just a single button press?

[Nikesh @ Jul 14th 2009 7:46AM]

Agreed. There are too many idiot teens out there that think they are the funniest thing since Dane Cook. *sarcasm*
They also feel the need to share their gift with the rest of humanity. Camera's should be licensed like guns so that kids can't use them except under parental supervision. Ahhh, the world would be so better for it.

[j_g_puff @ Jul 14th 2009 8:16AM]

Apostrophe's should be licensed like guns so that kids can't use them except under parental supervision.

[Ian @ Jul 14th 2009 8:42AM]

Thats the cool thing about the internet. You can put whatever you want on there, and if others don't want to watch it, they don't have to.

Comments on this site should be licensed like guns. Most commenters on this site think they're the smartest, coolest, most in the know people that ever lived, when in actuality they're just bitter a-holes trying to compete for attention in a passive aggressive way.

[GB @ Jul 14th 2009 8:47AM]

Agreed Ian. I mean, it's nothing new that there is loads of crap on the internet and that there are many stupid people who put stuff on the internet which no one wants to see. My grandmother used to tell me: "Don't want to watch crap? Don't watch crap!" (Ah well, ok, she didn't say that, but whatever!)

[j_g_puff @ Jul 14th 2009 8:48AM]

Not quite, Ian. I get no attention from Engadget, really, and I'm certainly not competing for it. I post purely to satisfy myself, and only because it's the least illegal form of self satisfaction that I can perform whilst at work.

And lets face it: if I was especially smart, cool or 'in the know' I would probably opt for a job on TV, though the role of 'internet policeman' would be almost too tempting to refuse...need a sidekick?

[FThorn @ Jul 14th 2009 9:05AM]

Licensed like guns?
Ignorant statement of the year.
Across most of this free country, guns are not licensed, nor registered, nor need be sold to another private adult (over 18) by first calling Uncle Sam.
I take it you're not a gun owner? You should be.

[j_g_puff @ Jul 14th 2009 7:01AM]

Great. Now there's almost nothing stopping hordes of idiots from unleashing a deluge of liquid faeces onto the internet.

I'm going to make my own internet, and it's going to be by invitation only. It's going to be a big incestuous melting-pot of fun.

[crazypenguin @ Jul 14th 2009 7:02AM]

I remember when i bough my flip video, and that is probably one of the only tech buys that i actually regret seeing asi ti wasn't HD, and over priced. this looks like quite a good buy, and i might be careful with my next camcorder purchase (which should be soon!)

[rita hainsworth @ Jul 14th 2009 7:15AM]

Hmm...was going to the store today to buy the Flip Ulta HD..I wanted this before september so i might still take a stroll to the store.

[richard @ Jul 14th 2009 7:50AM]

Don't forget the Kodak ZX-1, people... uses "Standard" batteries (Ideal when out and about or on hols camping where power sockets for recharging are thin on the ground...) and unlike the flip has removable storage (sd). Has built-in HDMI socket, comes with lead for that AND a charger w/batteries (for when you're NOT camping / on hols!)... Works brilliantly. Rename the files from ".mov" to ".avi" and the files play perfectly on XBOX360; but the PS3 seems to stutter a little - better via PSM. Conversion to AVCHD gives excellent results on PS3 for playback and storage on normal DVD discs, BTW -although conversion is slow using RipBot... Anybody suggest something better?

Have used the flip, prefer using the ZX-1. OK - no stabilisation - so when handling for the first few times you learn what kind of movements produce unnacceptable results. This thing looks and feels like a mobi-phone - we have the "Yellow / black" variation so the kids / wife / myself dont feel uber geeky using it... because it really LOOKS like a phone! Pretty-much instant on and 720p res. (So bested by the Samsung - but I have projected the films from it to a 9ft screen and really - it's wonderful!).

Just read it back and sounds like an advert; sorry 'bout that - I'm just a happy shopper...

[LloydChiro @ Jul 14th 2009 9:39AM]

I see your point, but quite frankly, I'd rather recharge my batteries through the USB port as I transfer videos. I think the batteries in there last a long time anyway, right?

The battery on my JVC Eviro lasts about 20 minutes, which is a pain in the piriformis.

[Icello @ Jul 14th 2009 12:14PM]

Yes, the Kodak is nice, but as you said it has removable memory, which in theory is better, but price wise, the Kodak costs almost as much as the Flip, and then you have to buy an 8GB SD card. Gets expensive.

[matthollick1831 @ Oct 8th 2009 10:23AM]

hi, has anyone used the samsung u10 and what are your thoughts on the ease of conversion?

its the major thing stopping me buying it at the moment

many thanks

[mike @ Jul 14th 2009 8:39AM]

All these pocket shot camcorders need now is image stabilization and a decent 4x optical zoom. Still I see image stabilization coming in future pocket camcorders.

[Quikboy @ Jul 14th 2009 9:28AM]

How abotu 1-button access to other video-sharing sites? Not all of us particularly like tossing all our videos onto YouTube. I really like Vimeo and Revver.

[bhsx @ Jul 14th 2009 11:35AM]

http://www.instructables.com/id/String-Tripod/
For anyone who has something like this without stabalization, this really comes in handy in a pinch. Plus, you can throw it in your carrying case.

[Anticrawl @ Jul 14th 2009 11:51AM]

So wait it has 1080p video capture but only at 200 US dollhairs? Must capture at 10 FPS or have horrible image stabalizing software.

[skyper @ Jul 14th 2009 12:46PM]

Not likely. Samsung makes one of the better cameras and camcorders. I doubt they will make 10-15fps 1080p camcorder just to sell it.

[tomokazu.osada @ Jul 15th 2009 12:14AM]

SAMSUNG sure has been puting out beautifull stuff lately, huh?

tomo

[Fanfoot @ Jul 15th 2009 12:26AM]

Looks very nice. The field advances.

LOTS of buttons on the back though. I'm not sure I can figure out what all those do!

And hey, where's the USB port? That port cover is labelled "DC IN" which suggests a proprietary charger connection, and a brick you have to carry around, perhaps on top of the USB cable. That would be a big negative...

[matthollick1831 @ Oct 8th 2009 10:25AM]

hi, has anyone used the samsung u10 and what are your thoughts on the ease of conversion?

its the major thing stopping me buying it at the moment

also has anyone tried using the videos on the ps3 (i was thinking if my pc could see the usb link why could the ps3 not)

all help and thoughts on this welcomed

many thanks