Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This camera turned out better than I hoped. It's a godsend for any parent who is tired of handing their kid their cellphone so they can take pictures. First off, this camera is generic hardware: if you search amazon, you'll see the same electronics (look for the signature pushbutton arrangement) available under a variety of badges with a variety of case styles. They're all the same camera inside. This one (badged under Seckton) was priced about mid-range, but came with a microSD card. Usability: The controls are simple. Once I showed my 4 y.o. how to turn it on, within a couple of minutes he was taking photos, videos, playing games, and discovering features that I hadn't known were there yet. Durability: It's definitely kid-proof. The lens is is plastic, and the glass screen is strong enough that my nephews were able to throw the camera across the room with no obvious harm to the camera. Quality: The picture quality is good enough. Like any camera with a plastic lens, the photos have an artsy "Holga"-esque quality to them. The camera integrates two cameras: one forward-face, and one backwards-facing for selfies. Both work great. The camera also integrates a microphone so you won't lose the audio when your kid starts singing or newscasting into their videos. Features: The camera integrates some primitive games (snake, for example). Enough to make a kid happy their there, but not enough to steal a kid's attention away for more than a few minutes at a time. It also integrates some pretty neat artistic features: colorful frames, sprites (hats, glasses, mustache) that can be superimposed on the image, and a few stranger modes (various color mappings, and some fairly nice "mirror" and "insect eye" distortion modes. The camera also integrates an mp3 player -- byo mp3s. I'm really happy with this product. It's cheap enough that I won't cry when it is inevitably lost or destroyed, but good enough that the kid can take great pictures with it. I periodically steal the phone overnight and raid it for photographic treasures. Some of the photos the kids take are priceless treasure!