GoPro has announced its Hero 8 flagship action camera, promising better stabilisation as its main improvement. Other claimed new features include improved audio recording against wind and tougher casing compared to the Hero 7.
GoPro is a company that has a rocky past but that hasn’t stopped it turning out a constant stream of new products. The Hero 8 sports a familiar design to its predecessors but at £379/$399 could be a tough sell to casual action cam buyers.
The company is pushing the Hero 8’s compatibility with a new modular set of accessories: the Media Mod (£79/$79 microphone), Display Mod (£79/$79 front-facing display) and Light Mod (£49/$49 light) show that GoPro is trying to cater to people who might want a mini-studio setup made possible with their camera purchase as well as the option to strap it to the front of their snowboard.
If you want to go all-out though, then the Hero 8 isn’t the most GoPro you can get. For £479/$499 the GoPro Max is a dual lens camera capable of regular shots or 360 recording and has a built-in front facing display in an attempt to appeal to vloggers and influencers. The extra spend gets you a virtual shotgun mic built in and the same improved video stabilisation as the Hero 8.
GoPro used to cater to the low-end in its product line up but now it’s gunning for the high-end again with these two new cameras. The Hero 7 Black is still on sale for £319/$329 while the cheapest GoPro is the Hero 7 Silver at £199/$199.
Author: Henry Burrell, Contributor, Tech Advisor
Previously Tech Advisor’s Phones Editor, Henry covers and reviews every smartphone worth knowing about. He spends a lot of time moving between different handsets and shouting at WhatsApp to support multiple devices at once.
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Polaroid has continued its twenty-first century revival with the Hi-Print, a new pocketable Bluetooth photo printer that you might prefer to its instant cameras .
The unit prints onto 2.1 x 3.4in with adhesive backs, letting you print credit-card sized stickers of photos from your phone.
Polaroid said when the Hi-Print prints with its official photo paper, it uses a dye-sublimation process that should result in waterproof prints that don’t fade. Here’s hoping.
All you need is the printer, a pack of paper, and the iOS or Android app and you’re good to go.
The £81.99 printer is available now from Polaroid’s website , with a pack of 20 prints costing £15.99. It’s a little pricy, but sometimes it’s nice to make physical all the images we normally keep digitally.
Author: Henry Burrell, Contributor, Tech Advisor
Previously Tech Advisor’s Phones Editor, Henry covers and reviews every smartphone worth knowing about. He spends a lot of time moving between different handsets and shouting at WhatsApp to support multiple devices at once.
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