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hey guys john r Ettinger with John four Lakers comm with a review for you of the flip video minnow I did the unboxing I give you a bit of a hardware overview I'm gonna go ahead and do a real quick one as well for those of you that may not have seen it so the first of all the flip minnow is very compact video camera does not take still pictures it's meant only for video first size comparison I'll show you with the iPhone here see thickness wise it's a little bit bigger and on the front something a little bit smaller a very pocketable size as you can see there aren't that many hardware buttons on it but what it does have on the front are three hardware buttons you've got a play button right there a trash button there and a big record button in the middle but you can sort of see here there are four buttons to the left right and top and below the record button that are keep sensitive those are for zoom and zoom out and to scroll through your videos left and right and I'll show you guys that what's unit is turned on on the left side which makes the flip Mino very handy little lever here that if you push releases a USB 2.0 connector which you can plug right into your computer and immediately check for your video very handy no extra cords needed and that just folds right down I'll give this a device of the power button and on the back is the lens which is surrounded by black fingerprint magnet plastic fortunately in the box they include a bag that you can put it in to also clean off the inevitable fingerprints let's go ahead and turn the device on here I'll show you guys what it looks like hit the power button you're greeted by flip video splash screen and that's really it you can see in the inch and a half LCD screen that it is showing what's behind there on the lens that's record is very easy just hit the big red record button I'll go ahead and do a sample that and when you hit it red light on the front as you guys can see signifies that it's recording when you push record button again that red light turns off to play back what you just recorded you hit the play button right there very easily and if you don't like hit delete and if you have more than one video store on here you can hit the left and the right buttons to scroll through them and the zoom up and zoom out it's pretty self-explanatory let's go ahead and trying unit off for you don't give you guys my take on it splash screens running off flip Meno takes excellent video for such a compact recorder you're not gonna be able to make a feature film on it but for taking quick YouTube videos and wanting be able to have a camera with you for family vacations or personal milestones really I think can't be beat as far as pocket ability in price fits in your pocket very easily how do you even know that it's there and that's something right now in the US for 149 dollars that's what I paid at Best Buy which is a big-box realist retailer here in the US like I said before the video quality isn't the best in the world but it's certainly passable the audio quality is excellent the strength of the mic is fantastic how do you recommend this for anybody who's looking just to take some quick video and like to do some more serious recording it also has a port on the back for a tripod ex-delta mention i'm gonna leave a sample video of the flip minnow at the end of this you guys can see a little bit about what it looks like but i highly highly highly recommend it for just a compact you're recording it's a great camera at a great and reasonable price so guys hope you enjoyed watching be sure to check out the website at www.ge.com and if you're interested in hearing what i have to say about things not technology related check out the new channel at inside john's mine put a link to both up in the sidebar there hey guys john r Ettinger John for Lakers and I will talk to you guys soon alright guys here's a sample recording like I promised I'll the flip video minnow your go ahead and turning around saying hello um audio quality is great video quality I think is fantastic YouTube distorts a little bit but natively it's quite solid one last point I want to bring up guys that if you want to connect this to your computer you plug it in your obviously can have a little bit of a weight issue with the camera you might be worried about breaking off the USB 2.0 port so what I did was I bought a simple USB connection cable there plug into the back of the computer and I all I can do is plug the minnow right in stare and transfers nice and easily just a handy little tip I guess