Basic for Flip Mino HD

What is Flip Mino HD? Flip Mino HD is the latest products from Pure Digital Technologies on the digital camcoders. The Flip Mino is a simple tiny handheld video camera.

It is a device as compact as Ipod, it has no tape and directly integrated to flash memory.

At year 2006, it was introduced at the price $130 under the name “Pure Digital Point & Shoot” but was renamed to Flip Video in year 2007.
The price increased to $150 in the same year but Flips offers higher quality video, more memory, and a variety of colors.
In year 2008, it took 13% of the camcorder markets and in June 2008, the Pure Digital introduce an even smaller and sleeker Flip Mino selling for $180.

The Flip Mino HD (selling at $230), was introduced last month and it offers true 720p HD video with the Flip’s defining ease of use in the same tiny size.

Features
The Flip Mino HD can support about 60 minutes of 720p video into its 4 GB of flash memory.
720p HD is 1280 pixels wide and 720 pixels tall.  The Flip Mino HD’s video fills that screen from side to side and nearly top to bottom with sharp, high quality video.

Video that was recorded with the Flip Mino HD is encoded using the same H.264 scheme used by HDTV and Unlike earlier Flips, where you will need to install a codec in order to playback the video. With the new Flip Mino HD, you don’t need to install a special codec to play the videos.

The major setback of the Mino HD is that it has 2x “digital zoom”, but, by its nature, digital zoom shows enlargement artifacts and loses detail.

The Flip Mino HD’s microphone is omnidirectional, and seems exceptionally well attuned to picking up speech from ambient noise. Audio is recorded in mono, encoded in 64 kb/sec AAC.

The battery is not removable, and recharges via USB. The battery more than adequate, where it far outlasted the Mino HD’s video capacity. We have done some experiment where we filled the full 4 GB, offloaded the video to a laptop, then returned to recording and filled it again.
At the end of this, the battery indicator still showed a quarter capacity. Though the battery is not removable but indeed it has an impressive battery life.

The Flip Mino HD’s 1.5-inch rear screen is tiny, but bright and clear. The rear speaker is quiet but good enough for its job where you can easily preview videos you’ve taken.

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