A refreshing new digital camera from BenQ, the BenQ X610 belongs to the Luxury series of cameras. Equipped with a 6-megapixel CCD, you can have up to 3x optical zoom with the X610. The camera made its debut at the CeBIT 2006.

One of the things that stands out in the X610 is its huge 3" LTPS LCD screen for image preview. The screen offers 230k pixel resolution for better clarity. An interesting feature is that the LCD includes two levels of brightness - backlight off and wide viewing angle.

You are not limited to digital still images, for the X610 lets you take videos as well, at VGA (640x480 pixel) resolution, at 30 frames-per-second, storing them in MPEG4 format. While I wouldn't advice you to throw away your handycam for this one, it does deliver good quality.

PC interface is via high-speed USB 2.0. The X610 includes built-in photo-editing functions like trimming, resizing, image rotation and color filter. With the touch of a few buttons you can even edit movies on the camera.

One of the sleekest models around, the BenQ X610 is a great travel accessory as well thanks to its compact size. While pricing is not known, more info is available from BenQ's website.