Product Description

Looking for a PC camera to go? Pick up the flexible Intel Pocket PC Camera. It provides high-quality video clips and pictures - whether it's tethered to your computer or sitting in the palm of your hand. It makes capturing and sharing video and pictures more exciting and convenient than ever. And the software gives you the freedom to make videophone calls over the Internet from your desk. You can even build your own PC movies and edit and enhance your pictures.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #44566 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Intel
• Model: IPCC4PKT
• Platforms: Windows NT, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows NT 3.5, Windows NT 4, Windows NT 5, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000 Server, Windows

Features

• Takes both photo and video images
• 640 x 480 maximum resolution
• 16.8 million colors
• 8 MB flash memory
• Up to 30 frames per second in full-motion video

Amazon.com Product Description
Able to perform as either a PC-based or portable digital camera, the flexible Intel Pocket PC Camera provides high-quality video clips and pictures--whether it's tethered to the computer or sitting in the palm of your hand. The Pocket PC makes capturing and sharing video and pictures more exciting and convenient than ever. Just push a button to capture snapshots or start recording video clips for use in e-mail postcards, movies, Web sites, and more. For use away from the PC, simply detach it from the tilt-swivel base and USB cord, using the handy wrist strap and carrying case. The software gives you the freedom to make video phone calls over the Internet from your desk. You can even build your own PC movies and edit and enhance your pictures.

Featuring a progressive-scan CCD image sensor, a glass and plastic lens, and 8 MB flash memory, Intel's Pocket PC Camera takes 24-bit/16.8 million-color still images at 640 x 480 resolution. It also takes up to 640 x 480-resolution video clips at up to 30 frames per second in full-motion video. The focus range is from 10 centimeters to infinity. The Pocket PC Camera has an LCD for setting pictures to photo or video, seeing how many pictures are available, and checking battery life.

The Pocket PC Camera is compatible with PCs only and hooks up through a 9-foot USB cable. System requirements include: a 166 MHz Pentium with MMX, Celeron, or faster (Reality Fusion Camera Games require 266 MHz Pentium or faster processor); Windows 98, 98 SE, or ME operating system; 32 MB RAM; a USB port; a 800 x 600/16-bit computer display; 250 MB hard disk space; a 4x CD-ROM drive; Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 or higher; an Internet service provider; a 28.8K or faster modem; and a Windows-compatible sound card with speakers and microphone. The camera comes with a CD-ROM software disk, a 9-foot USB camera-to-PC cable, four AAA batteries, a tilt swivel base/cradle, a carrying case, a camera strap, a quick-start guide, and a quick-reference field guide. Intel provides an abundance of photo and video software titles with the camera, including Intel Audio Recorder, Intel Auto Snapshot, Intel E-mail Postcard, Intel Gallery, Intel Home Page Builder, Intel Movie Builder, Intel Picture Manager, Intel Scene Recorder, Intel Snapshot, Intel TWAIN Driver, Intel Video E-mail, MGI Photo Editing Software, Microsoft Windows NetMeeting, and Reality Fusion PC Games.

Intel provides a one-year parts and labor warranty on the Pocket PC Camera.

From Digital Living Today
With the rise of digital image use on the Web, it becomes more and more appealing for Internet aficionados to have easy access to both digital photography and digital video at a moment's notice. For those of you who want to be able to post snapshots on the Web, or explore video Internet telephony, but don't want to invest in a high-end video or digital still-camera, Intel has come out with the ingenious Pocket PC Camera. The Pocket PC is a multi-purpose, digital video and still image camera that can be attached to your PC using a 9-foot USB cable that comes included. Its optics utilize a progressive scan CCD that allow it to capture still and video images at resolutions of up to 640x480. The video mode allows for up to 30-fps full-motion AVI video. If you want to use it away from your computer, unplug it from its cradle and use 4AAA batteries to power the Pocket PC as it fills up its 8MB of onboard memory. With the exception that the Pocket PC is incompatible with Macs, it is one of those rare, affordable, gadgets that everyone should run out and buy.

Customer Reviews

Great camera and it has a focus for close ups.
I just bought my 3rd. The first one I dropped too many times. The second one I lost. I just don't see anything better on the market.

Cons: The battery compartment door doesn't lock as well as it could and the batteries sometimes fall out at inconvenient times. The color makes it seem kind of toyish. It has XP issues, but the work-around program seemed to work good enough. I've not used it for a web cam on XP though. It worked fine with Win/98 though.

Pros: Its lens can be focused for close ups; this is a rare feature for small web/digital cams as many can't focus on anything under 3 feet. Picture quality is very good. I use a digital camera for work but the battery life of my 'good' camera is just ridiculously short. I use this as a replacement as the images are fine for most outdoor shots.

Good but has XP problems
This camera has amazing quality, no doubt. I've had one for a long time and coming from someone who has owned a total of 8+ webcams in her life, trust me when I say this was the best one I've had. However, this camera has issues with Windows XP. Even after downloading the patch on their website, the camera will still "scramble" it's pictures if you leave it on for longer than 5 minutes when using it as a webcam. So if you're doing a live feed to your website, every now and then it will scramble all the pixels on the feed. If you can deal with that, the camera is worth it. But if you plan on going live on cam for hours at a time, I would not recommend this camera. Go for something newer.

Very durable and great.
I own it and it has been droped many times since santa gave it to me (about 2001 0r 2002). When I got it for christmas, it did not work with win xp or win 2000. My dad got me a program from intel's website wich would download the all the pictures on the camera. Now I use a driver from the same website. Then, I used the driver that came with the camera on an Win 98 pc. Today I use it a lot. It still works. Intel no longer sells this line.