ity. The product was enthusiastically hailed as a breakthrough by the technical press but relatively few were sold. The problem was that the product attempted to be a digital camera with a mobile phone added in as an extra. Given that there was no real enthusiasm by the operator community to provide additional subsidy for the product it fell between two stools, being overtaken by digital cameras that worked better and mobile phones that worked better and cost less, albeit with less exotic imaging functionality. It also looked odd, felt heavy bulky and unbalanced and for all these combined reasons failed to set a trend. Six years later the Samsung Galaxy4 4 offers a similar resolution (eight megapixel) and LED flash, autofocus, touch focus, face detection, smile shot and image stabilisation with a video 4 http://www.samsung.com/global/microsite/galaxys2/html/ Content- and Entertainment-Centric Software capability that can record full 1080p HD video and a preinstalled image and video editor. The success of this product suggests that early disappointments (in relative terms) can serve to calibrate later market introductions in a positive way. Despite the fact that most high-end cameras will now also shoot HD video, digital cam- corders still exist as a discreet product sector but as with still cameras functionality can be shown to be changing over time. A digital camcorder six years ago (2005) from Canon priced at around £600 to £700 typically had 800 000 or 1.2-megapixel CCD sensors. The default resolution (DV video) was usually 720 by 480 pixels (345 000 pixels) with the additional pixels being used for image stabilisation, digital zoom and still photography. Camcorders with 3- or 4-megapixel CCD sensors were also sold on their ability to produce quality still images in addition to video. Video images were typically recorded on to tape or disk and still images recorded on plug-in memory. 9.2.1 Resolution Expectations The top of the range Samsung 770 seven-megapixel camera phone could 'only' handle QVGA 320 by 240 