Creative Live! Cam Optia Review

Creative has had a relatively long history in the Web camera business, but until now its products have been a little uninspiring in the design department. Perfectly acceptable in terms of desktop performance for individuals, they lacked a certain amount of eye candy compared to new snazzy widescreen laptops and LCD monitors. All that’s about to change with the Live! Cam Optia, a Web camera so cool that it looks like it has been designed by Apple.

Creative’s Live! Cam Optia is small, stylish and packed with fun features, and it does a good job of automatically setting the best lighting and brightness levels for you. Image quality is very good for a low-cost consumer offering, and should more than suffice for making videocalls to colleagues. The ability to add a wide range of special effects and backgrounds to a video chat session is a great feature for families, and the handsfree stereo headset lets you chat away with greater ease and comfort.

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