Samsung HMX-H106SP Reviews

With a 64GB solid-state drive, as well as an SDHC card slot, the high-definition HMX-H106SP is a robustly built, compact camcorder. Its video quality isn't the best we've seen and its autofocus can be rather slow, but it benefits from an LCD ...

Attractive design ; comfortable rotating grip ; manual shutter speed and aperture controls

Solid-state drive adds unnecessary price premium ; so-so video quality ; slow, inaccurate autofocus

The Samsung HMX-H106SP's interesting design doesn't offset the so-so video quality and performance. If you're set on a camcorder in the HMX series, the no-memory-included HMX-H100P is probably the best deal of the bunch

When the Samsung HMX-H106SP was first outed way back at CES in January, it was bigged up for being the world's first 64GB SSD camcorder. 10 months on and at last it's available for you to paw and pose with. But can this pricey slab of video gadgetry ...

Loads of space for HD footage

Touchscreen a pain to use, autofocus shonky, noisy images

A novel idea, but the SSD drives the price up and the camcorder itself is poor

High Def (1080i/720p) camcorder using 1/4.5-inch 2.2MP CMOS sensor. 64GB solid state drive storing MPEG-4/H.264 footage. 10x optical zoom with 37mm wideangle setting. 2.7-inch, 230,000-dot touchscreen LCD. Mini-HDMI out, SDHC slot. Measures ...

Solid state drives (SSDs) have so much going for them – they're lighter, smaller, tougher and faster than conventional hard drives, and more reliable to boot. Samsung is the first to put one in a camcorder, giving you room for about 7.5 hours of high ...

Putting a SSD into the H106SP is like dropping a Ferrari engine into a Segway – it doubles the cost and doesn't really add much to the experience. The virtually identical but memory-less H100P costs around £300 less, and promises the same wobbly ...

The H106SP is a perfectly decent budget camcorder suffering from the addition of a unnecessary, expensive solid state drive. Buy the cheaper version, pick up a few cheap memory cards and put the rest into your MacBook Air savings account.