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Strengths: cool size, abundance of features
Weaknesses: can not delete mp3 files without the dock
Summary: This is a great looking small camera that will attract attention everywhere you go. Obviously it's an mp3 player as well, and this feature works well. Unfortunately it can not delete mp3 files from the camera (perhaps a security feature) so you may get stuck and have to remove some of the protos or videos to make room for new ones. It has only 2MP, but the photos look really nice if taken during the day, and not as well during the night, but most cameras are like this. There is no optical zoom (nor room for any kind of optics in a credit card sized camera), but I never felt I needed it. It's very fast at taking photos and booting, unlike some other cameras.
This one however has some really cool features.
1) It can generate (on the camera) an html with the pictures you took. You just need to copy the main folder to your web server.
2) If two people want to take a photo together, but there is no one else around, the camera can hold half of the image still while they exchange places. This is cool but hard to do because it requires patience and a steady hand to match the background exactly.
3) Similar variant for this is for a single tourist that asks random people to take his picture, but they are on average idiots (or don't care) and don't really compose nice photos. This mode however lets you set the background that you like, and it serves as a reference to the person taking the photo when you take your place in front of it. High accuracy here is not needed, as the reference background is not used for the final photo, so it is easy to just match it approximately.
I bought this camera from Buydig.com, and although they sell it as M20U, it seems that I received M20 - it had M20 printed on it and a sticker saying M20U (M20 is normally sold on European and maybe other markets but not in US, and is identical in all except that can in addition record short movies). This was obviously an added bonus, although movies are not particularly impressive and can be at most 1 minute long regardless of the available memory.
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