Smile Classic Digital Instant Camera with Bluetooth (Blue) 16MP Pictures, 35 Prints per Charge – Includes Starter Pack 3.5 x 4.25" ZINK Photo Paper, Sticker Frames Edition

This is a fantastic instant camera! The prints are slightly larger than other instant camera on the market. The print quality is good, you can take photos with the camera or you can print them from your phone, the camera feels well made and has a retro look to it. The best thing about this camera though, is the AR feature! On the app, you choose a picture to print from your phone and you can upload a video with it, whoever has the app can scan the photo and it will show the video. This for me makes the camera so worth the money.

As many others have stated already this camera is full of faults. I genuinely do not understand how a new camera can be faulty straight out of the box. It took forever to charge, if it isn't full charged (which took me about five hours) it will only print half the photo. When it was fully charged it printed the photo but stopped just short of the end and turned itself off, and then I was not able to turn it back on. I reset it and turned it back on and it got incredibly hot (worringly hot). So it takes forever to charge, does not print all the photo even when fully charged, gets too hot and keeps turning itself off. Needless to say a waste of money

It's a very simple to use point and shoot (and print) camera. I like the retro design of this instant print camera and yet it has very modern features. Throught the app you can receive the shots and print them after applying filters or adjusting the crop, rotation, brightness, contrast, saturation. You can add text, doodles, stickers, and borders to your image. Also the print color rendition and resolution are great. There's a standard USB-A charging port and if you do not want to print just insert the micro sd card and the images will be stored for future uses. Four adhesive prints are included as "starter pack".

As some one who remembers the original Polaroid, and is also a pro photographer since 1978, was curious what this was going to be like. Simple enough to turn on and put paper in. Taking the pictures takes a while to get to grips with and it takes a while to focus and take the image (so difficult to 'snap' images), indoors anyway so it could have a better user experience so one knows when the image is 1, taken and 2, what is happening with the printing. After a while you get used to it but could be better.

I would give it zero stars if I could. This was my 13 year old daughter's Christmas present last year. It worked fine for the first two pictures. I bought extra packs of the photo paper for her too. After the first two, the pictures would not print fully, just an inch or so. Absolutely devastated because amazon wouldn't take it back, Kodak didn't want to know, said it has their name on it but it's not made by them. So for nearly a year it has been sat in a box totally useless. LOADS of other customers have had the same fault with theirs. Please please, if I can stop another child being devastated because their Christmas present is useless, I will. Do your research. It's not even like it's a cheap present, it was her main gift. It's appalling. You trust a brand like kodak.

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I bought this for my daughters birthday in August and the sample paper worked great. After reloading with a new pack again bought from Amazon it doesn't work properly. I wrongly thought a dodgy pack of paper, I ordered another pack of 10 for a Christmas present. I took out the old and put in the new but still no joy, paper doesnt always grab, sometimes it does but only prints the first inch or two. I came on to request help from amazon but its been over a month since I bought, so I am expected to chase Kodak. Really wish I had bought it from a actual shop now, they sort it themselves. You live and learn. No response from Kodak at all, but fingers crossed Amazon are going to credit when I return. Amazon did allow me to return and credited my account, only response I got from Kodak was that they dont sell retail products and it must be a licensed product.

The advertised app that comes with this and is a significant reason for choosing the camera, is appallingly, appallingly, appallingly bad, in that it crashes almost always (99%) and when it doesn't crash, it fails to connect to the camera, rendering the app useless and the camera as a printer, totally pointless. Other than one single acknowledgement from Kodak support, nothing has come back from them to offer any help, despite several approaches. The troubleshooter advice simply gives the usual 'uninstall', 'forget device' 'restart' baloney that makes sod all difference to the app being utter crap. This camera is being returned and a refund demanded, with Kodak's reputation trashed in my mind. I'm off to Polaroid land.