Hands-on with Sony's new T200 and T70 touchscreen cameras

Sure, smile-detection might smell of gimmickry, but we like Sony's new touchscreen T200 and T70 cameras all the same. Normally we'd say bigger is better for LCDs, but the T200 looks like someone did a shoddy job of scaling the T70's screen up to size -- same amount of pixels, now with more blur.

Gallery: Hands-on with Sony's new T200 and T70 touchscreen cameras

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[Phil Perman @ Aug 31st 2007 1:15PM]

Holy unviewably large 6.3 megapixel photos batman!

[James @ Aug 31st 2007 2:02PM]

Touchscreen? TOUCHSCREEN?!?! Hang on - in a minute some iFanboy will come along and start accusing Sony of ripping off Apple's technology.....

:p

[killbot @ Aug 31st 2007 4:17PM]

Damn, I was totally ready to get teh T200 too. I probably still will regardless. With it's list of features, it's got just about everything I want. I think the only thing it's missing is wifi.

[Kevin @ Sep 2nd 2007 11:36PM]

That is kind of dissapointing that the DSC-T200's screen contains the same amount of pixels as the DSC-T-70's, because it probably won't be as crisp. But despite that the DSC-T200 does have a wider capture range and a greater zoom. I personally am awed by the DSC-T200's large 3.5" screen, despite the fact it that it may not be as sharp as the DSC-T70's 3". It gives one more room to manuever when taking pictures, being able to press commands and see a larger picture. The question is is it worth the extra $100.

Also, Sony has already had a series of 3" touchscreen cameras, the DSC-N1 & DSC-N2. If anything, apple ripped off of sony's technology. But this is very unlikey because the two companies' goals concerning touchscreens are not very similar. In this case, apple is advertising a phone and apple is advertising a camera; they have totally different purposes.