When news outlet widely reported over a month ago that the Flip compact video camera had captured a whopping 13 percent of the camcorder market on its own, executives at Creative must have been listening – or at least rubbing their hands and waiting to show off their own version. The company’s latest release, the Vado, bears an uncanny resemblance to the Flip in both form and function.
The Vado takes on the same deck-of-cards-sized form factor that made its predecessor a success, and weighs just 84 grams, about equivalent to a cell phone. It also shoots the same 640 x 480 VGA-quality video, and uses a stubby, built-in USB connector to easily transfer video to a computer.
