Polaroid PhotoMAX Digital Photo

For all the fans of the original Polaroid instant camera, you remember, the one where you insert a cartridge, take pictures and watch them develop before your eyes, take heart, Polaroid has done it again. Now you can capture those memories all over again, only with a smaller, sleeker, little brother. Introducing, Ta-Da! The Polaroid PoGo. The Polaroid PoGo is a compact digital camera with a built-in printer! It's 4.7 inches by 3 inches by 2 inches and is only 10 ounces. It can hold up to 10 2X3 inch sheets of photo paper. You can take pictures and store them on a standard memory card(not included) or download to your computer using a usb chord. The paper costs $4.99 for a 10-pack and $12.99 for a 30 pack.

This camera is high tech. It uses a heat-activation process to colorize special crystals that are in the paper. The results are sharp, clear inkless prints. Pictures develope in about 60 seconds.


Just think of all the advantages a camera like this can have. It's compact at the size of a deck of playing cards. It's simple to use. Just open the paper tray and insert the paper, take your pictures and print them right away. You don't have to take just the last picture either. You can scroll through the pictures in the memory and select which one you want. You can also choose a border for your print. It will be a huge hit a parties and social events. What about sporting events?

1)Relatively inexpensive for a 5-megapixal digital camera with built-in paper feed. Retail $199.00
2) Can print any image stored in the camera, not just the last picture. After selecting the print button, you can select how many prints you want and also choose borders.
3)Totally digital prints. No ink to sludge the prints. Prints are also water resistant.
4)Has a video recorder.
5)3 inch LCD

1)Poor Battery Life. Can print only around 15 pictures before the battery dies. Without printing you can take 75 images.

2) Also found that the unit ran fairly warm; after the Polaroid PoGo printed eight photos, the camera was warm.

3)No optical zoom.

4) No paper counter

I have not seen a product like this one before with a built in printer.

I have not had to use the customer service yet.

The camera in itself is relatively easy to use...
Downloading/accessing your pictures are easy with the
cable... however, the problem is putting the pics into
their little squares to make an album... once you drag one of the pics into the icon, the whole set of pictures disappears and you have to download/access the pics again...

Also, quality is not good.... okay for e-mailing, but if you are using it outside of your home, the problem is once you use up all the space on your camera, you have to "unload" the pics into the computer before you can take more pics... you have to "erase" the pics from the camera... so if you dont have a puter nearby, tuff luck!

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Great for outdoor pictures!!! While the product itself is very easy to use, the software included does not provide adequate "help" advice for the more complicated steps in customizing photos. When I tried to access the help site on the web listed with the product manual, it did not exist as of yet. I also got "stuck" in a small glitch in the software where it shows enlarged photo examples in a rotating film fashion with no specified exit--I eventually pressed the escape key with success. Note: must be used in bright light only but well worth the money at roughly $60.00 US dollars.

Good for beginners or children.

Bright light use only.

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Unable to locate on the web but they do have a toll-free number listed with the product.