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New Flip Mino HD with image stabilisation @ 60fps
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Early 2010 Flip Mino HD, no image stabilisation @ 30fps
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Cisco Flip Mino HD

New Mino HD - the lighter exposure reveals more detail in the basket
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Cisco Flip Mino HD

Early 2010 Mino HD - the high contrast delivers a sharper but darker image
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Cisco Flip Mino HD

New Mino HD - the image seems more compressed losing detail in the trees
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Cisco Flip Mino HD

Early 2010 Mino HD appears to have fewer compression artefacts with solid colours
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Better Yet...

... Get the Kodak Zi8. It's come down in price to just over a hundred pounds, has expandable storage (SDHC), replaceable battery so you can carry a charged spare around, image stabilization and a macro mode. Oh, and external mic socket.

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Because an iPod Touch is a music player

Fair point, why not get an iPod. Well, as the old saying goes, it's horses for courses. The iPod is a great music player, it has more memory and greater battery life but it lacks a digital zoom, image stabilisation, a more sensibly placed lens, the "flip" USB connector and inbuilt editing software [although iMovie and even Windows Movie Maker are better] but the real killer - from my perspective, is the tripod mount.

Even using a little Gorilla tripod delivers great stable images

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re: A smartphone etc.

"Plus not all of us want to buy Apple products. Some of us use our own decison making when purchasing such products rather than follow the excitable herd."

Arguably, buying a Flip would be following the herd - it's seen as the market leader, but isn't actually the best.

bluest.one mentioned most of the advantages of the Zi8 over the Flip models, but didn't mention the most important - better quality footage. It's cheaper too - you can pick a Zi8 for around £100. By all means, use your own decision making abilities, but if you think the Flip is the best option, I would advise letting others make their own decisions.

If someone already has a phone capable of taking decent footage, then it's unlikely that they really need to to buy an extra gadget to cart around, which was the point Michael C was making. iPhones aren't the only smartphone with decent video recording, after all.

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