Polaroid has bevestid that it is busy with the development of a compact system camera which Android runs. The company will use the unit for the first show at the CES 2013 show in Las Vegas and will also provide more information about the specifications to be released.
Earlier this week it was in the most recent issue of Digiscope, a retailmagazine, an announcement of a compact system camera on the basis of Android from Polaroid. The model would be the model number IM1836 get, and are equipped with a image sensor with 18.1 megapixels, a 3.5″touchscreen and Android 4. The Polaroid camera would also use micro-sd for storage and have a built-in flash.
In addition to a conceptafbeelding with the Digiscope article was on a Russian social-networking site a front and back view of the alleged camera. Because of the very great resemblance of the Polaroid-milc, the Nikon 1 J2 camera was the reliability of the premature announcement in question, but Scott Hardy, head of Polaroid, in a written statement to Imaging-Resource confirmed that Polaroid at CES 2013 was indeed a compact system camera on the basis of Android will show.
The reliability was doubted because of the possible pictures of the Polaroid camera is very strong seemed to be on the Nikon 1 J2 and the lens on the image at Digiscope a bad Photoshop editing seemed to be. According to that image would be the kit lens for the Polaroid camera range of 10-30mm, the same as the kit lens for the Nikon 1 system.
Because of the different number of megapixels, this seems to be, however, not a logical one, since both aptina is offering, preferred supplier of the Nikon 1 sensor, like Sony, which also has a 1″image sensor produces for its Cybershot RX100-compact camera, not a 1″sensor with 18.1 megapixels announced. So, it may be that Polaroid has a smaller sensor, like for example the Pentax Q-milc-system.
At the previous CES show announced Polaroid’s SC1630, a combination of a compact camera with optical zoom and a smartphone. That device is, however, never released. Just as the SC1630 would be the IM1836, produced by Sakar International. That company took in 2008, Vivitar, maker of interchangeable lenses. Sakar came rather negative in the news by the use of the ‘dual view’feature in one of his camera models. That would be a strong match with similar cameras of Samsung.
