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Sogatel - Sphere 1.3 megapixel Skype-webcam - Apple Mac OS X | 
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| Manufacturer: Sogatel
Category: CE
Buy New: £16.85 (On sale from £27.95)
Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 3415
UPC: 000070005219
EAN: 0000070005219
ASIN: B000XA86FS
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Webcam for MAC OSX 10.4 or higher - Tiger/Leopard (the internal microphone is not compatible with MAC) - for Skype, iChat, Yahoo | | • | Excellent quality picture (24 bit true colour), 5-glass lens, High Resolution CMOS sensors ensure best picture for light conditions | | • | Standard frame 800 X 600 size picture, Take instant snapshots, shoot and save video clips, many effects | | • | New flexible swivel base to fit all screen types, easy install and operation | | • | Included: Webcam, Flexible stand, Driver, Comprehensive instructions inc Skype, Yahoo, iChat set-up |
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Product Description
This webcam's picture is excellent quality - it has High Resolution CMOS sensor that always creates the best picture for the light conditions. Easy installation - supplied with comprehensive instructions with a walkthrough for the not so computer literate. Compatible with most video based services: Skype, iChat, Yahoo Messenger.
Webcam features
- 10 x Zoom
- Snapshot photo
- Record video directly to computer
- Full 360 rotation
- Special background effects
- Special lens effects
- Built in microphone (not compatible with Mac)
- USB output compatible with 2.0 and 1.1
- Flexible stand
System requirements
- MAC OS X 10.4 or higher
- 400MHz processor or higher
- 128 MB RAM or higher
- Free compatible USB 2.0 or 1.1 port
- Microphone is not MAC compatible
Package Contents
- Webcam
- Flexible stand
- Driver/Manual
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
bog standard December 12, 2008
This webcam works with skype and damn all else. Which is fine, if you use a mac and all you want to do is use skype. No complaints, really. I couldn't find any webcam for mac that didn't cost the earth, and am using a mac without a webcam. You need to download the drivers but that takes about thirty seconds.
 Useless October 20, 2008
I bought this a while back as it states it works on mac mini. It does, but it involves downloading external drivers that take a long time to find on your own, and even then it only works on one or two programs. None of these are skype. In fact, it is so non-compatible with skype that every time \i try to make a call with it plugged in, skype crashes. I sent skype all the details of what happened, including all of the code and terminal readings generated on my computer... and after well over a month or maybe even two... they haven't figured out why it won't work.
Sounds like the cameras a waste of money to me.
 Not a great buy for a Mac September 13, 2008
This is a cheap product and it feels it and the picture quality is bad and the software for it is absolutely minimal and only works for Skype. It won't work with all the other built in apps that use a webcam unless you purchase additional software.
Instead spend the extra and get a Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000 Webcam, which gives a Hi-Def video quality, works with everything and needs no software, it works out of the box. Oh and the mic is excellent and is linked into a single USB connection to the Mac.
I am not sure when OS X included universal drivers for webcams but I am running 10.5 on both my Macs and they worked beautifully out of the box.
Okay Skype, nothing else though. August 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Picture is okay. Run on vista the software in the box didn't work. downloaded the driver from the website and it worked fine. Only in Skype though. All other video capture software refused to recognise it. I could record video but NOT sound on to my PC, either from the camera's built in mic or an aditional mic. Useless. Its cheap looking in the box and even cheaper in performance. Go elsewhere, please.
 No Mac Mic March 27, 2008
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Works fine on a Mac (Mac OS 10.4.11) except that the microphone doesn't work. There's a note on Sogatel's website that says the microphone is not compatible with Macs.
Fortunately I don't want to use the microphone.
I got it up and running in a moment once I'd visited the Sogatel website and downloaded the drivers - there are no Mac drivers in the box but there's a leaflet telling you where to get them. Configuring it to run with Skype seemed simple - though you do need to quit the Skype application and restart it before it recognises there's a camera available.
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