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Get the Flip Ultra HD instead or something more solid like

Canon FS200
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001OI2VXG?tag=dcmb-20

or

Canon VIXIA HF200 HD Flash Memory Camcorder with 15x Optical Zoom
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001OI2Z2I?tag=dcmb-20

Flip Ultra Camcorder 2nd Generation, 120 Minutes
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0023B14U4?tag=dcmb-20

Review:I bought family members first generation Flips some time ago, and they were so impressed by their simplicity and convenience that I had to get one for myself. I justified it by explaining to my wife that it would make Amazon reviews so much easier (I haven’t once used it in that way), but really I saw it as a new toy. Sometimes less is more, and that certainly seems to hold true in the camcorder world — at least as far as the Flip is concerned. While there are certainly bigger, better, and far more professional solutions about, the real value to the Flip is that it can go with you anywhere, and you can forget all about it until a shooting situation comes up. We’ve used ours to record press conferences, and post the same online for others to see. We’ve created our own virtual tours of homes we were interested in. We sent it to Princeton for my grandfather’s 65th reunion, so I could at least enjoy the festivities from a distance. We’ve used it far more often than we ever imagined we really would, and it’s proven to be as much a real tool as a novelty. That you can hand it to someone who has never seen it before, and instruction can be limited to "on/off here, start/stop recording there," means that it’s near universally accessible, and fun even for those who might otherwise be somewhat technologically averse.

I grabbed the 2d gen Ultra because I wanted the additional storage space. What I didn’t expect was to enjoy a larger view screen, a better (by my eye) on/off toggle (a simple push button, rather than a slide), higher quality audio, and a number of functional enhancements on the software side, such as mass delete with confirm.

Curiously, I no longer seem to be able to just pull the .avi files from the Flip into the Movie Maker software that comes bundled with Windows Vista, but I’m not prepared to actually complain about that fact, as it may be as easy as saving them in another format before pulling them in. If someone else has a meaningful solution here, I’d love to hear it.

That aside, I’d be hard pressed to come up with a single complaint about this generation of the Flip. Unlike hauling around a ‘real’ camera or camcorder, you can toss this one in your pocket and forget all about it until you need or want it. You can teach others to use it in under 30 seconds. Uploading to services like Youtube is easy even for those who have never done it before, with or without the software bundled in the camera itself. I couldn’t be happier that I took the leap from the basic first generation to the Ultra 2nd.
References :
Flip Ultra Camcorder 2nd Generation, 120 Minutes
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0023B14U4?tag=dcmb-20

you can consider buying
Sony HDR-CX100 AVCHD HD Camcorder
# Capture 1920 x 1080 HD video to built-in flash memory
# 10x optical zoom, 120x digital zoom; Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar lens with SteadyShot image stabilization
# 2.7-inch wide touch-panel Clear Photo LCD Plus display
# 4-megapixel still image capture; Face Detection
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001PY41YQ?ie=UTF8&tag=bestdeals-y-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B001PY41YQ
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