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so your smartphone camera is not that good what if you could strap a lens to your smartphone and make it better Michael Fisher this is pocket now this is the qx100 and its sibling the qx10 from sony let's check them out and see how they improve the smartphone cameras of today so this demo unit doesn't have a battery in it so we're just going to take you on a on a hardware tour here unfortunately Tony only has a couple of these on display so we have to make do the basic conceit is that this latches on if you can see over here this latches on to your smartphone doesn't have to be a sunny smartphone it can be any iOS or Android device running reasonably modern software and they replace the camera on your device this is where the battery would live right here let's just take a spin around then like I said this is a qx100 the higher end of the two models you can see the tripod mount down below you can mount this on a tripod it does not need to be strapped to the phone to function this is the NFC connection point and on/off power button right there microphones on top Titan wide zoom slider here and a shutter release and find this door NC connection point for the micro SD at scooting up my christy this is a sony memory stick and micro USB connection point let's have a look at the software see if we can learn something here we have the qx10 next to the qx100 we've just been told by a very friendly sony rep that there's a quite a bit of difference here we have 10 times optical zoom on the lower end qx10 but four times only four times optical zoom on the higher end qx100 both of them though incorporate sensor size is larger than 1 inch which is pretty incredible pretty awesome low-light performance as well and the resolution difference between these two is only 2 megapixels 2020 and then some and 18 and then some on this device over here you can see this one is powered on and we are paired to this smartphone here you can see the build is quite similar to the model we just took a look at there a couple differences but nothing really we've got a tripod there so nothing really major in terms of the the feel one is a little heavier than the other but yes I mean they both are going to make your phone a little bit more cumbersome to carry this is a one and as you can see we are paired currently so we can track up here and just take a shot and we're not going to examine the image quality right here we're just kind of showing you how the app works obviously we're going to get a review unit here and waiting for the processing good let's see if we're going to hop on over the hell do you give it all right there we go when you open to the gallery of a choice of which gallery you want to check out obviously we can happen to the album here and there we go there's a shot we just took with this image do a little zoom action like I say well check out the image later but this app will function on any Android device it is called the the play memories app and one of the nice things is because you will forget if you're not careful there we go see we're connecting is a little bit of a lag time as it connects and but then finally we are back to finally we're connected there okay that takes a second a little bit longer than even the Lumia 1020 takes to boot up its camera we pop that off I probably did that improperly and you can see the connection mechanism here these doors fold up and as you can see hopefully if I did this right the camera is completely independent of the phone so you can put this on a tripod you can put it somewhere else you can just remotely control the camera with the phone it doesn't need to be connected to the device itself although that does provide a much more stable shooting platform anyway this is a quick look at the qx10 and qx100 a very interesting product definitely something we're not afraid to geek out about not really sure what our total thoughts on it are we're just happy to have gotten some hands-on time I'm Michael with pocket now that's Tony behind the camera we're going to talk about a whole lot more here at Eva it is only the first day so stay tuned