Cisco Working on Flip Camcorder With Wi-Fi

Cisco who purchased Pure Digital at the beginning of the year has announced that its next-generation Flip camcorder will come with Wi-Fi. Engadget explains that this has come as no surprise and was an obvious evolution of the device. The new device should go on sale by the first half of 2010.

According to Pocket-Lint, this will be the first Flip device to benefit from Cisco’s networking technology. There is not much to go on at the moment, but Pocket-Lint was informed that the new Flip camcorder would come with a larger screen, which has a sliding feature.

When a user slides the screen, menu buttons are revealed, these allow you to then take control of the device allowing you to record your video. In a way to keep costs low, Cisco has decided to steer away from touchscreen technology.

The inclusion of Wi-Fi will allow a user to record a video and then upload it directly to another device sharing the network. This is a feature that has proved successful on a number of digital cameras.