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hey there i'm josh goldman senior editor with CNET and this is a look at the panasonic lumix DMC FX 90 so it looks like instead of trying to beat smartphones camera manufacturers are looking to be friends with them by adding Wi-Fi to some models the FX 90 is one of those models and has a built-in 802 11 n radio used to connect to a Wi-Fi network for uploading photos and video to your PC sending them to a smartphone or Panasonic AV devices or upload to Facebook Flickr Picasa or YouTube getting all the necessary connections set up isn't the easiest experience and can become fairly frustrating but since for the most part it's a one-time thing you'll have to figure out for yourself if the headache is worth it once everything is set up though things work pretty well but again it could be easier outside of the Wi-Fi the FX 90 has some decent specs including the F 2 v 2 v 9 ultra wide-angle 24 millimeter lens with a 5x zoom a 12 megapixel high-speed CCD sensor and a 460 K dot resolution touchscreen the touchscreen is good but if you're using it alongside a decent smartphone you'll probably be disappointed with its size and responsiveness for me a bigger issue is the cameras photo quality a big reason you'd want to have this Wi-Fi camera would be to have better photos than you'd get from a smartphone and while they're better outdoors in good lighting indoors or in low-light the difference will be negligible for a lot of people that makes its lens and image stabilization the only real advantages overall it's just a disappointing execution of a solid idea I'm Josh Goldman and that's the Panasonic Lumix FX 90