Benny: Hahahhah

I'm glad to see this hasn't turned into a huge flame war.

Interesting point on 'feature creep'... it puts my concerns into a solid term. A long time ago I had ranted about modularization and how it could apply to the 770. After building a USB power injector, I can see how my feelings were right on the mark (in my world anyway). I don't have a consistent need to have 40GB of storage hooked up to the 770, but if I find myself on a long train/bus/car ride I can plug my MP3 player into it and access a wealth of movies, pictures, mp3s, etc. I also don't always need a keyboard, but now I can plug a mini USB one into it if I need to type something up... which brings me to the most relevant point; If I needed a camera, I would have no problem plugging one in to take a few snaps, or use a real one.

We're violating preferred design principles here as well. A camera is designed for a specific use, the body is shaped to accomodate the hand for the method in which it will be used. The controls are all optimized for the method in which it will be used. Imagine bringing a web browser and wifi onto your digicam. While the reverse (integrating a camera into the 770) isn't as much of a poor fit, but the device still isn't optimized to the task at hand. Nobody knows how many megapixels that camera is though I suspect it's 2 or less and will give us the same crap-tastic grainy quality we get from cell phones. (Barring those 80mp Japanese phones).

Putting too many eggs in one basket (feature creep) can lead to a sacrifice in the overall quality. The increase in cost and the additional components that can break are a sure detractor to potential customers.

What really gets me, is with all of the wants and needs the userbase on this messageboard have been vocal about they add a camera?!

My two cents are this. Give 'er a little more horsepower (enough that it doesn't drive the cost up substantially) and FIX THE OS/APPS.

A slow-as-hell camera app that crashes every two seconds is about as useless as... oh I don't know... a camera?