At CES, Polaroid unveiled its latest camera: an Android-powered, 16-megapixel beast called the SC1630 Smart Camera
The Polaroid SC1630 Android Powered HD Smart Camera looks very much like a regular point-and-shoot digital camera but it has a built-in Android smartphone. The Polaroid SC1630′s crowning feature is a 16MP camera unit, with 3x optical zoom, F3.1-F5.6 aperture, ISO up to 3200 and shutter speeds of up to 1/1400. There’s a xenon flash to go with it too. The SC1630 can shoot 720p videos. Physical buttons are like what you’d expect with a phonecamera, with hard buttons for capturing pictures, video, and zooming functions. With only a 1,020 mAh battery, battery life may prove to be a huge issue with the SC1630. The SC1630 offers 18 different scene modes, captured at 36mm or full 108mm magnification, and a number of built-in editing features, such as cropping, red-eye removal, resizing, and color correction. On the phone side of things, there’s quad-band GSM and tri-band 3G connectivity, microSIM card, a 3.2″ WVGA screen, Android OS (not sure which version)


The phone is rather thick at 18.5mm. The Polaroid SC1630 is expected to retail at $299 (Rs. 15,500 approximatley) when it launches.