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the canon powershot s110 offers some nice updates over its predecessor the s100 these include better autofocus performance wireless connectivity and a touchscreen it retains the same general body as the s100 including a nice control ring but it also does away with the small indented grip and the rubberized thumb rest that made that model a little easier to hold than the s 95 at least this one's got a nice matte finish that's not so slippery it also has a touchscreen which you can now use for operations like touch shutter and touch focus but adjusting settings is a more hybrid affair for instance you have to pull up the shooting options via the func set button before you can select them via the screen overall I still like the interface screen feels very responsive and overall I still like the interface but it's clearly not optimized for touch operation the biggest new feature on the s1 tends wireless connectivity you can connect it to another camera to a phone to a computer or upload to the web via Wi-Fi access point I'm not crazy about canons implementation which requires that you set up an account with Canon image gateway in order to upload directly to Facebook Twitter or YouTube which are the only services that are currently supported you're better off connecting to your phone and saving the images there then using your phone for those uploads rather than the camera camera window application though this model has a new sensor it's the same resolution as the s100 and I found the image quality to be about the same good to excellent in bright light and ok up to about ISO 800 performance has improved a bit most notably with regard to autofocus which is very fast however it's still a little slow at image processing for someone who's looking for something a little better than a point-and-shoot with more manual features and slightly better photo quality but still wants the smallest camera possible the s 110 remains a good choice but it's not substantially better than its predecessors so if you can find them for less the S 100 and s 95 are still good options as well I'm Laurie grinning and this is the canon powershot s110