Solar X action cam gets 6-hours of battery life from solar panels
Jan 8, 2016
Gannon Burgett
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Nikon stole the action camera spotlight at CES 2016, but a company called ACTIVEON is looking to make a mark of their own with the Solar X, an action cam that can use solar panels to keep the battery running an extra four hours.
Without the add-on solar panels, the Solar X is a 4K action cam with two hours of battery life. With the X Station solar panels, the Solar X is capable of up to four extra hours of shooting time for a total runtime of six hours.
Further improving battery capabilities, ACTIVEON has included what they call ‘Burst Speed Charging’ technology, which can charge the camera to 80% in only 30 minutes or 100% in an hour when placed in direct sunlight.
As for other specs, the Solar X packs in a 16-megapixel sensor behind a seven element f/2.4 glass lens. For composing and reviewing images, the Solar X includes a 2-inch touchscreen with a graphical interface. For connectivity, built-in WiFi will let you connect the Solar X to your phone and automatically upload footage to ACTIVEON Cloud platform.
Additional accessories include eight different mounts, seven grips, selfie sticks and an underwater housing.
The Activeon Solar X is set to hit shelves in March 2016 for $450.
Gannon Burgett
Gannon Burgett is a communications professional with over a decade of experience in content strategy, editing, marketing, multimedia content creation. He’s photographed and written content seen across hundreds of millions of pageviews. In addition to his communications work for various entities and publications, Gannon also runs his multimedia marketing agency, Ekleptik Media, where he brings his expertise as a full-stack creator to help develop and execute data-driven content strategies. His writing, photos, and videos have appeared in USA Today, Car and Driver, Road & Track, Autoweek, Popular Mechanics, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, DPReview, PetaPixel, Imaging Resource, Lifewire, Yahoo News, Detroit Free Press, Lansing State Journal, and more.
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