The Samsung Galaxy Camera, which was just announced yesterday at IFA in Germany, is a 16MP camera running Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. Essentially it has a full fledged phone built into it. And I do mean full-fledged; the damn thing has 3G radios built into and a 1.4 GHz processor and a 720P 4.8" LCD display! The only thing it can't do is make phone calls... yet.
I never thought there would be a time when I would really consider purchasing a camera when the photos my iPhone take are already pretty good and getting better, but this gadget just intrigues me. If it turns out to be an actually good point and shoot, and I have little reason at this moment to believe it'll be anything but, then a device that allows me to take high quality images, automatically back them up to Google+ or Dropbox over 3G, do some fairly sophisticated editing (with the right apps), and then immediately share them over whatever social network I prefer just seems like a game-changer.
Now of course the argument could be made that I can already do all those things with my phone and you're right I can and I do, but the difference is and will always be that my phone wont have the same kind of optics and sensors this or a product like it will. If nothing else, this thing can do optical zoom and my phone cannot. That is just 1 killer feature, not to mention the near limitless capabilities when you're running a proper OS like Android on it, rather than the hobbled together UI of current cameras.
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