Had it for about a week now and it's every bit as good in my hands as it looked on paper.

The Advanced Shake Reduction is simply an amazing feature. It absolutely shines in awkward semi-low-light situations and you'll never be stuck with flat, ugly flash pictures again.

The LCD screen is large, bright and sharp. Out of concern, I tested it in a sunny exterior and had no problem seeing the image at all. A pleasant surprice.

The colors are the most vivid I've seen in nearly all the digital cameras I've used. And the full-frame, full-speed MPEG4 recording worked well even in a night interior situation.

The PMP and MP3 features just add that much more appeal to an already feature-packed camera. The included conversion software is very simple and logical to use as well.

Just beautifully designed and feels so good in your hands that you won't want to put it down. If you see it in stock, which has been few and far between, don't pass it up!

Though hard to get my hands on one, I have it and love it. This camera is everything it boasts. I would definitely recommend it. The size is great, all the special effects are great. I cannot believe how beautiful and vivid the colors are in my pictures. Very easy to navigate. Great bang for the buck!!!!!

I have had many ultra-pocketable type digital cameras over the last few years in an ongoing quest to always have the ultimate one in my hands, ready for my next snapshots. I'm not a photographer by any means or sense of the word. I'm a digital consumer, and I know what works, and what doesn't, and what I like and don't like.

I started with a Canon S110 years ago (great in its day), and have shuffled through quite a few models- Pentax Optio S4(tiny and good in its day), Kyocera SL400R(lens exposed, too much noise), Sony DSC-T7 (sweet unit, thin,pics too soft), Casio EX-Z4 and EX-S600(Great size and look, but poor quality pics), Casio Pentax Optio W10 (so-so quality pics, H20 ok!), panasonic DMC-FX9 (good, but not as good as Canon), Canon SD400 (very good all around)... and I just ordered a Canon SD630 that just arrived (what an incredible 3" screen and the usual great photos)

Even when cameras have had great features like speed, size or sexiness, nothing could displace my Canon SD400 for pure quality pictures. Plus my SD400 was a great size, solid, and looked great to boot. The SD500 and 550 were a tad large for my taste, and the SD450 came out just after I bought the 400 so not worth the swap out cost. So the 400 has been my #1 for ages, even though I have tried to replace it many times. Finally when the SD630 was announced, I expected it to be the successor.

I picked up the Samsung I6 on a bit of a whim, and darnit this thing is one sexy package. The MP3 and PMP functions are great, and for a gadget freak like myself, both useful and coveted. I watch movies on my portable Creative Zen vision:m, which is also great, but it is fun to watch movies on this (must convert using their proprietary software- which is not too speedy), and the built in speaker allows you to hear the movie without headphones, something my pmp can't do. I figure there will be times when I have just the camera with me, and keeping a movie and some music onboard is a nice to have for those "boring" moments. The screen is excellent.

The great things about it are that it is rock solid, good looking, and is super quick in regards to turning on and getting ready for shots. The anti shake feature is pretty cool, and I'm experimenting with it. One thing my cameras have always struggled with is indoor room shots, and this baby will flat out light up a pitch black room and capture a quality shot better than anything else I've tried. The media player is very good, and the images are sharp. The quality of the photos is very good, and in some cases better than my SD400, but not always. It records movies in MPEG4 which is the best compression out there- the results are smaller files, but there is some blockiness compared to my canon based movies. However, I'm getting higher on that. If I could only get my 4GB card to work I could probably toss my camcorder out as well-

No protruding lens as my canons have; quicker start up time.

The bad:

I have a 4GB SD card and I was all ready to leverage it here. It DOES NOT work. Samsung docs are limited on the topic. 1GB works fine. Docs say anything greater than 1GB "may not work". I've tried the 4GB formatted both as FAT32 and FAT, but still no luck. This might be the deal killer for me. It all comes down to my side by side comparison with my SD630.

Converting movies is slow. I already jump through hoops to convert to divx format, and then you must "convert again". I tried renaming their proprietary file name to a divx file. It does not work.

Curved end- not sure if its good or bad...


In the end, and as of this moment you can't pry this unit out of my hands and it has finally replaced my SD400.... Can it stave off my SD630? Time will tell.

I have never have so much fun with a camera. My family does not like to carry my Canon S1 as it is too big and out of style for them. So I looked for a compact camera with almost the same auto (not manual) features as Canon S1. The Samsung can do that plus more. It is lightweight, compact, and stylish (my son says so). Besides taking very colorful pictures, it can take VGA video with 30fps. You can pause and continue when taking video; only one AVI file is created (not the case with Canon S1). Quality of the video is just a little worse than my Canon S1 (which is one of the best in all cameras). It is also a movie player and a MP3 player. When I am shooting pictures, I can listen to the music at the same time! Tried the movie player (PMP) a little. It is also a joy to view on the LCD. That LCD is very easy to see in day light with wide angle. So a few people can see the movie from different angle at the same time. The build-in speaker is handy. It lets me test the mp3 music or media file without using the headset. The sound is OK for this tiny speaker. The picture frames are also a joy to use. For $250, most compact 6 Mega Pixel cameras can take the same or better photo as Samsung i6, but they won't do the MP3 and media player. It also comes with 1-year part and labor warranty, so I am not worry if it fails this year. This is why I do not buy those no-name products from the popular auction site that do the same things even they are cheaper; I also don't trust their optic and censor.

I wish that there is more audio control on MP3. The ASR only works with no flash in camera mode (I may be wrong), so it is only good for night photo shoot! The headset connector is in the way when I try to press the big button to take picture. You can zoom while taking video, but it disables the sound while zooming (not the case in Canon S1). It also adds a click sound before and after it zooms. Since it is so compact, I need to be more stable while taking pictures (compared to my Canon S1). The buttons on the camers are not self explanatory enough, especially in PMP and MP3 mode, as they are all multi-purposes. I wish it has a different set of buttons for MP3 only, or use a touch screen !

When Samsung i7 or i8 is out next year, I will be waiting in the line to review and buy it too !

Overall, it is money well spent. :-)

Question: Does anyone know if it can take a 2GB SD card?

The other reviews say it all (and yes it takes a 2GB SD card) I think its the lightest camera and thinnest out there, even just as a camera but when you consider the other featuresas well its awesome for its size.shots are great.
the only 3 things I dont like but they are minor real minor the manual could be easier to read and the slight curve doesnt do anything I would prefere for it to be completly flat and finaly the little clip that is supposed to make it easier to hold and reduce camera shake should be optional so you can clip it on or not.
Im ammazed this is not in all the stores yet and selling like hot cakes.
Did I mention the great feature that you can take a photo of a text page of a ducument and the software included you can convert it to a word doc on your computer.
1. Construction. Solid 10/10 and a great design. It feels like real quality.

2. Sound quality of mp3 is very good.7/10 but no extra features here

3. Volume and clarity. 8/10. No distortion even at high volume once again superb.

4. Display. 10/10 great indoors and outdoors.

5. controls.7/10 I'm Still learning it not as easy as I would like but considering it does so much for its size.

6.00 Battery Life. Too early to rate

7.00 Additional features. It does everything mp3 player voice recording, even plays videos and converts movies, full PMP



Overall comment.. well worth the money and to my knowledge no other does all this and the photos may not be the very best for a small camera but they sure seem very good to me.

Before deciding on this camera I read this and other two manuals and figure that Casio exz600 does carry more features but no pmp and pentax optio t10 has higher resolution but lousy battery time I went to Samsung for the looks and the fact that I had a Samsung before. To my untrained eye, this is the best camera ever

I have had a lot experience with a variety of cameras, and I have never had more fun with a camera than with the Samsung Digimax i6. It is compact, will easily fit in my pocket. It produces great pictures that are viewable on the large built-in screen. It is easy to get those pictures on to my PC or laptop and either printed or placed onto a CD or DVD for a slide show on a TV. The buttons are efficient and easy to use. The video comes out really well and includes sound. It is rather easy to get the video processed and on to a DVD for storage and viewing on any DVD player. The manual could be more helpful about how to do this, but it did not take long to figure out the steps. I would be happy with this camera with just the photography. But, WOW, this camera does about everyting, including MP3 for music, PMP for movies and\or film clips, text photo with conversion to a word processor, an audio recorder for memos or other recording. Samsung engineers created a winner with this camera.

In addition, the camera is speedy to get started, so we can get into operation in a hurry. With our other digital cameras, we sometimes miss the action while we wait for the camera to get geared up and operational.

My recommendation is: You want a great small camera for a reasonable price, buy it sooner rather than later!

This camera undeniably puts samsung ahead over the top digital camera manufacturers [sony,panasonic,canon, etc..]. The i6 is a beautiful, compact, and fully-loaded piece of machinery. The pic. quality is amazing, the video compression [Mpeg-4] is top notch. I have bought a 1GB mem. card, fearing the rumor that the 2GB memory cards malfunctions and doesn't work. I really need someone to confirm this. Any help will be appreciated, thanks. Even though i am really picky, I would really recommend the i6 to new or even professional photographers. C'mon- you could be listening to your fav. song while taking pics. U can even surisingly watch movies.

I can confirm the positive experience with this camera.

I am currently using a Transcend 150x SD-Card with 2 GB. It works flawlessly. Has anyone been able to use a 4 GB card in it? I know from the previous review that it does not work, but maybe other memory brands are supported with 4 GB?

While all the functions mentioned in the reviews previously work flawlessly, in every picture is made up of lines. I am calling Samsung and hopefully it will just need new firmware.

The camera is soo nice.. and soo worth what i spent on it. I have absolutely NO regrets of purchasing it. It takes AMAIZING pictures. I love how small and thin it is. Its not heavy at all its the perfect weight. And i love how it can record videos while recording sounds. I have nothing to complain about it. It was so worth my money.

I wasn't planning on writing a review for this, but read the reviews for the black color version of this camera. I noticed several of them saying how great the video was on this camera.

Well I have used several different digital cameras over the years, and the video on this camera is not that great. It appears to be using too much compression (unless they changed the compression used since when I originally purchased this camera last year).

That was the only reason I returned it then. Otherwise I would have kept it because I was very pleased with the pictures it took. It also has a very nice solid feel to the camera.

Also, unlike what some others reviewed for the black version. I found the anti-shake feature to be worthless.

This is a great device. It comes with a manual that appears to be nothing but wastepaper with pictures- throw this manual away. There is a much better manual that should come with the included software but is also available from samsung.com. You'll want to spend some quality time with the manual to make some adjustments, but it's versatile and will take excellent pictures. The mp3 player is a nice feature and it's functional, but it has some limitations. It will satisfy most users needs and the sound quality is good to excellent, even with the included earbuds. The video features for capturing and previewing are also above average, but are a drain on the otherwise-everlasting battery. The voice recorder is...a voice recorder. The software is easy enough to use and it also works as a swappable drive, which means you can transfer information to and from any computer- without the software. It functions well all around, especially considering the pricetag. This thing is a steal.

A few minor things: The clip on the front- not really a clip, more of a grip. Accessories are difficult to find. The 1gb storage capacity is a big downside to me, but again, this will suit most users. Don't let any of these things stop you from buying this camera, just letting you know.

Enjoy!

Warning for Mac users. This camera, despite the advertising on their web-page about this working on OSX, you can
not get the full functionality with Mac.

Mac users should get the i5. The i5 takes the same beautiful pictures, and the same video, but does not have
the PMP extras.

You need 2 FREE softwares for recording Video. One: DivX. You can get this on the Quicktime webpage. Two: Xvid for Mac OSX. You get this at xvidmovies.com/mac/ This will allow you to play all the movies you record on this camera in Quicktime, and bring them into iMovie. They will still be AVIs with a Xvid Codac but you will be able to see them. You will have to Export them as Quicktime to give them to your friends.

I still have not found how to convert your other films to Xvid, so you can play them on the i6, like it's advertised.
at softpedia.com there is the Ultra Quicktime Converter 1.2.2 which says it can convert QuickTime MOV, QT, MP4, M4V files to AVI, DivX, Xvid, MPEG1, MPEG2, VCD, SVCD, DVD(*.VOB) files.

The PMP player is an MP3 Player and Movie Player. They didn't make this iTunes compatible, despite iTunes being one of the Largest download sites in the world. You can only play MP3s. You must create a folder called MP3, and then you can dump all the music you SD card can hold on it. This works just fine.

The movie Part requires a piece of software that they give you on a Disk (only works with PC). This converts the movies into something that can be played on the camera. AVIs with a Xvid Codac.

When I called, and asked why they say it's Mac compatible, they told me the Camera IS, so they can say that. But When the unit is advertised as a PMP, and none of the PMP functions work without a bunch of plugins (if at all), then I feel it's false advertising.

There is a slow delay between pressing the button, and taking the picture. About 1 second, I'd say.

It has an amazing Macro lens. (see the picture I took of a Quarter above).

The low light pictures are better then most of the cameras, I used (except the Casio Exilim), but this camera doesn't have the extending lens that can break in your bag, or refuse to retract.

It's a fantastically great camera. I love the pictures it takes. I have a 2GB card in it, and it works fine. The battery has lasted several days, and is only now missing one bar.

I am not going to return it, but If I had the choice again, I would have bought the i5 for $. It's a lot cheaper, and takes the same great pictures.

I've only had the Samsung Digimax i6 6MP Digital Camera, for a couple days now, but I can't stop raving about how truly fantastic it is.

This camera is perfect for on-the-go use for active people, who just want a reliable quality camera (like me). Overall, this camera is very easy to use. It is simple in it's design, but yet it is very practical. Note: the wave in the design does.... nothing (it doesnt really affect how i hold the camera), and the clip on the camera is more of a hindrance (i wish it was removable).

The features on the product are amazing. MP3 works great, but the only qualm I have with that, is that it only reads .mp3 files. So, all of your .wma, etc. files have to be converted to .mp3 before transferring to the camera. The process of adding songs to the camera is very simple.

Cons: battery life does not seem to last long (especially on the PMP mode), it seems to only work with 2GB SD cards and under, there is a delay between taking pictures for the flash to get set, and there is a very very very slight delay between hitting the shutter button and actually taking the picture, and I dont really like the fact that the lens is located in the corner(its a bit awkward).

It's an awesome camera so far, and I am really satisfied with it.

I have had a couple of cameras (sony dsc models) in the past and have been looking for one that will just suite my taste in the long run. Looking for size, picture quality, media functionality, Wow! this camera does it all. For its size, I would say, anyone should go out and get this camera. The only drawback I would say is the 2GB max. SD card input and the fact that the battery dies quickly when using the PMP mode very often.

The last review on this camera was in May 06 so I thought I should say the camera is still incredible. I bought one for my daughter and learned how to operate it before giving it to her ... fell in love with it and ordered another one for myself just last month. I use a 1 gb card and it holds all kinds of still, movies and mp3 music.

My daughter recently went to Rome and took almost 400 pictures and about 10 movie clips on her Digimax i6 from which I made a DVD for her and the rest of the family. Great fun. She put a bunch of her MP3 songs on the disk and walked all around Rome listing to music and taking pictures and movies at the same time with the same camera.

Only problem I had was the camera takes DivX movies and not AVI, but once I figured it out how to work with it they were fine. The color and the sound on her movies were really good - maybe not camcorder quality but close, and a way better than cellphone movies. Biggest problem with movies on such a small camera is holding it still but if you anchor yourself against a wall or pole they'll be fine. The advantage of this movie format is that it is compressed and you can load a whole movie onto a disk and take a few movies with you. Think about that - it really works.

The camera comes with everything except a memory card, but they are cheap now. The earbugs are not bad but plugging in good headphones to listen to MP3 songs is incredibly good.

Price is right - quality is excellent.

I love this camera,
First of all, its price is good.
And it takes a real high quality pictures in so many different modes.
I like the fact that I can use this camera as a MP3 player and also as a Media player to watch movies and music videos.
Also it has one of the highest quality LCD screen you can find.
You have to see it to believe it.

I'm extremely happy with this camera. I've had this for a month now, and I bought it for my trip to Yellowstone National Park. During the trip I was pleasantly surprised how this camera takes such great pictures. I especially liked the "backlight" mode for pictures taken under strong sunglight - without selecting this mode, people in the pictures are dark while the scenary is bright. I love the LCD screen, and the time between turn off and turn on is very short. This camera does film great movies as well. I haven't used the movie/mp3 function yet because I've been so caught up with taking great pictures. The hand shake reduction mode (by pressing a button on top) is very useful, although it takes longer to take pictures in this mode. The 3x zoom and the digital zoom are also great. I don't know how to use all functions/modes this camera offers yet (be sure to read/study the full users manual from the CD, not the one in the box), but I am still able to take great pictures, not because I'm a good photographer (I'm not), but because this camera is just so good. I'm very pleased with this Samsung camera.

La Camara está excelente, la calidad de las fotografías y los videos son excelentes, solo que al usar el PMP para ver los videos que pase de mi Computadora la batería de la camara dura bastante poco.

My camera is seriously defected. It worked for the first few months but now i can only take pictures at night because the camera is seriously messed up. there's nowhere for me to take it in to get fixed because i live in canada and Samsung does not sell cameras in canada.

POOR QUALITY!

This camera was one of the best investment I put into something in a while. It has many great features including a really close zoom, it is a great music and movie player, and tons of additional camera options that make it one of the best digital cameras ever made.

The only downside about it is it has only 45mb of memory.

I bought this camera when it first came out. I used it happily (still shots and video) for a year. Then without any apparent reason the still shots would come out overexposed. The video was fine.

Any photo I took outdoors in sunlight would be overexposed. Sometimes I could get it to take a 'normal' photo if I took 3 in quick succession, the 3rd or 4th would be fine. And then sometimes if I changed some of the settings I could 'trick' it to take one or two good shots and then back to over exposed.

I finally filed a claim with Amex and they honored their extended warranty. It was a week over the one year warranty that Samsung offered, and would have been nearly the cost of a new camera to fix it through Samsung.

I was really hoping for this camera to be better. I loved the quality of the macro shots. Ah well... maybe this is something Samsung fixed in later cameras. Maybe mine was part of an early batch that had an undetermined bug or something. Whatever it is, I was very disappointed in the quality after the first year.

I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS CAMERA.
GREAT QUALITY PICTURES, DON'T EVEN HAVE TO TURN ON THE FLASH MOST OF THE TIME BECAUSE IT COMES OUT BRIGHT, LOVE THE MP3 FEATURE, LOVE HOW THE CAMERA IS SHAPED ON SIDE BECAUSE ITS VERY COMFORTABLE TO HOLD AND IT DOESN'T SLIP OUT OF MY HANDS. I ALSO LOVE THE DESIGN BECAUSE ITS VERY SLEEK AND THE SCREEN IN THE BACK IS BIG. DON'T HAVE ANY CONS TO REPORT ABOUT THIS CAMERA.
I LOVE IT!!! :)

I have purchased this camera in May before my trip to Mexico. I was skeptical about buying a Samsung camera, however it was the only one I have found that could record VGA quality video with sound with the ability to use the optical zoom. Compared to my previous camera, Nikon L2, this one rocks. During the day its picture quality is comparable to other cameras in the market, where this one shines is at night. Considering that the flash light is extremely small, it has quite a big punch. This camera easily lit up a medium sized room. Back to the video feature. I can easily record over an over worth of video on a 1GB SD card in 640x480 resolution at 30fps. Samsung's decision to use an Xvid codec was the reason for this unique ability to record so much video in so little space. This camera is good, but it is not perfect. It comes with Digital Image Stabilization, however using this feature is not recommended. It delays the shot to shot to roughly 5-6 seconds. Way to long for today's standard. I would suggest upping the ISO sensitivity manually and using a fill flash setting to get similar results. Next issue that I have found was that the camera creates excessive red eye problems that are hard to fix from within the camera. Some of the pictures that I took of my wife came out looking like she was possessed by something :) Another problem that I found was that during video recording with the anti-shake feature on, the side to side movement of the camera become very jagged. Considering that you can pick this camera up for less than $200, its small size and solid aluminum body, the extra features like MP3 and video playback with the build in stereo speakers. Its one hell of a deal. I highly recommend this camera.