Sony Cybershot G3: The WiFi Camera

Using a point and shoot camera is very common nowadays, especially for people who just want to capture moments in a snap. Sharing the pictures with your friends is another must among amateur photographers. This can be somehow cumbersome for lazy people (like me), since the pictures still need to be transferred from the camera to the computer, then uploaded to an image hosting site of choice.

The recently introduced Sony Cybershot G3 eliminates the need for the “middle man”, or in this case - the computer, for you to upload your images to the internet. Because the G3 is the only digicam that is equipped with its own WiFi capability! Photos and videos can be uploaded straightaway to Shutterfly, Picasa, YouTube, Dailymotion, and Photobucket.

Of course, let’s not forget that the G3 is a camera too - and a good one in fact. It has a 10 megapixel CCD, 4x optical zoom Carl Zeiss® Vario-Tessar lens, 3.5″ LCD screen with Xtra Fine LCD technology that enables it to display high definition quality on such a small screen, 4GB of internal memory which is basically 1000 full resolution images or 4000 VGA quality ones. The G3 is also slim about 3/4 of an inch thick and the sliding mechanism looks great too.

All of Sony’s software enhancements are built in the camera, such as the Smile Shutter Capability to capture images when everybody is smiling, Dynamic Range Optimizer which chooses best settings for the given environment, face detection technology, Intelligent Scene Recognition and Optical Steady Shot for blur free images.

The Sony Cybershot G3 can already be purchased for $499.99 and comes only in black.