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HTC is well known for its mobile devices but in a turn to become a full-on lifestyle electronics brand it has released this Larry I'm Josh Coleman we've seen that and know the REE isn't a periscope for a toy sub or an inhaler for stylish asthmatics it is a camera designed for one-handed use to get you from behind your smartphone and keep you in the moment even if that moment involves water since it's waterproof down to a meter without a housing like a lot of small cameras these days there is no screen but it's wide angle lens means you can pretty much just point eight your subject and start shooting and as far as shooting goes you can just pick it up and press the big button there is no power button but instead sensors in the body turn the camera on when you pick it up so you just give a quick press to snap pictures up to 16 megapixels or a long press to record video at 1080p or 720p and this button here under the lens lets you record 720p video in slow motion if you do want to see what you're shooting you can use a direct Wi-Fi connection to an Android device eventually iOS devices and using HTC Sri app you get a live view finder and you can see and download your recordings to your device there are camera controls too and you have access to settings at a time lapse mode as for photo and video quality well their best enjoyed on mobile devices but that makes sense given its shoot and share features it's also priced a bit out of impulse purchase territory at 199 and the shape is awkward for mounting and pocketing you can read the full review on cnet com but quirky design aside it's a nice little camera for when your smartphone gets in the way of capturing your good times I'm Josh grobin and that's a look at HTC's read you