It seems like only yesterday that we were telling you about the touch-screen Lumix DMC-FX500, and how somebody at Panasonic was running wild with the cool camera designs. Well, today's flavor is WiFi, and it's all over the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ50.
The TZ50 looses a megapixel from the TZ5 and FX500 (knocking it down to 9.1, which is plenty) to rock an 802.11b/g WiFi connection from any hotspot, but doubles up on the zoom with a 10x optical lens and has a non-touch 3" screen in back. Once you snap yet another picture of your cat in mid-air, you can upload it to the internets from any hotspot you can find, but forget sending it directly to LOLcats. The Japanese release, like a lot of WiFi cameras, is strictly limited to one destination... in this case, the Lumix club, though indications are you'll have more options by the time it hits our shores. At the very least, Panasonic's CES demos allowed uploads to Google's Picasa.
That zoom and the WiFi will probably bump the price to the higher end of the Lumix scale, so a SquareTrade warranty might be a good idea to cover your investment, particularly with some Accidental Damage coverage added. You are gonna be taking this sucker on the road, after all.
The TZ50 doesn't have an American date yet, but we'd be surprised if it lags far beyond the mid-May date it has in Japan. That's also right around the time other Lumix models hit shelves in the U.S. of A.
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