Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I have an S90 which I purchased about 6 months ago, it watches our vacation home in the Pacific North West. The solar panel works great, even when covered by a tree canopy, the camera manages to keep a charge. I had to turn off motion detection on the S90 to keep the batteries charged, as it is hanging in a tree that didn't give it a lot (or really any) direct sunlight - if it kept waking up to take video, I was worried the panels wouldn't be able to keep it charged. So when the S600 came around, with the ability to load it with SIX rechargable batteries (it ships with 3, you can order additional batteries easily and cheaply on Amazon) I jumped at it. The solar panel on the S600 is CRAZY big, and with six batteries, my camera should be able to survive even the longest period of grey days in the Pacific NorthWest. The remote panning and tilting control was just a bonus! The S600 seems to have some "image processing" going on that jacks the sharpness, which you can see in the comparison photos. I hung them side by side to take some apples-to-apples photos so as to show how each camera compares. The cheaper S90 is still a great camera - I honestly kind of prefer the softer image quality to the somewhat over-processed S600. The apps on both are pretty easy to set up; weirdly, the two camera use different apps, so you can't easily combine them in the same system. If you want a few, be sure to buy the same cameras. My cabin is in a very rural area with absolutely terrible internet, it's capped at 2mb up, so i have motion detection turned off, and use the camera as a sort of "hey, i wonder if the house has burned down" kind of on-demand check-in. Both work great for this, and now, I can rotate the camera on S600 to see more of my property (and my S90 is headed to my friends cabin). Both cameras record locally, so if you have detection on, you essentially remote into the camera, and can watch recorded images stored on the memory card (the app crashes when you try to download the movie, which is something I hope they fix). Once you get either camera configured, it's essentially bulletproof; the software for the S90 (the "Soliom" app) seems to be a little more polished than than the newer "Soliom +" app that the S600 runs on - I was able to easily share the camera to my wife's phone on the S90, but we can't seem to get it to work on the S600, so that's either pilot error, or (hopefully) the software is still in the process of being updated and that will work better in the future. For a worry free camera that has no monthly fee, either of these are great. The solar panel on the S600 is insane, and the six 18650 batteries means it should absolutely never run out of power. Even on the smaller S90, the solar panel worked really well, even in indirect sunlight - even in the winter, when there was very little direct sun, it would often show maybe 1/3 of a full charge for weeks on end. Both are solid choices. The S90 is easier to mount - the S600 has the annoying flaw of the screw holes being directly BEHIND the camera, so you can't get a drill or screwdriver past the "head" unless you have an insanely long bit. I fixed this on the S600 buy bolting it to a board, and then screwing the board into the tree. Between the two, the S90 is way easier to install (and much less noticeable when hung).