With smartphones and point-n-shoot cameras doing most of our impromptu video recordings, it's getting harder and harder to justify the purchase of these pocket-sized camcorders. Perhaps that's why ...

One of the drawbacks of those ubiquitous pocket camcorders -- like the Flip Mino HD-- is the lackluster audio that gets captured by tiny built-in microphones. The new Zoom Q3 Handy Video Recorder aims ...

Zoom, which has a history of making of guitar effects processors, amp modeling software, and audio recording equipment, stepped into the camera market Monday with a new pocket HD camcorder. To ...

Sanyo’s Xacti VPC-CG10 (left), Pure Digital’s Flip UltraHD (center), and Kodak’s Zi6 (right). Up until a year or so ago, camcorders were fairly bulky things. That has changed. Thanks to the ...

The awkward-looking Sanyo Xacti VPC-PD2 offers good video and photo quality to go along with its 3X-optical-zoom lens and stereo microphones. We’ve been waiting for ...

Hailed as the first and only handheld video recorder to record HD audio, Zoom's Q3 Handy Video recorder is definitely a unique offering amongst the legions of me-toos. After being announced in July ...

We've been waiting for a high-def pocket camcorder with an optical zoom lens, and Sanyo finally delivered the goods today with the Sanyo Xacti VPC-PD2. The pocketable VPC-PD2 offers a 3X optical zoom ...

Like other pocket camcorders, the Vado HD lacks image stabilization and an optical zoom (it has a 2x digital zoom) and offers no control over white- or color balance. It has 8GB of flash memory and a ...

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Short version: This camcorder is certainly small, and the swivel head can be handy, but the lack of optical zoom hurts, and the poor video quality, focus trouble, and low light performance pretty much ...

Samsung’s rolling out some new camcorders today: The full HD Flip-like HMX-U10 and the SMX-K40 and SMX-K45 cameras that record at 720×480 resolution and then upscale the footage for playback on an ...

The third-generation Vado HD has the widest-angle lens of any HD pocket camcorder, as well as exposure controls, great low-light video quality, and a sub-$200 price. For $180 (as of February 16, 2010) ...