Rating: 
Summary: What a horrible little camera
Review: I do not have the extra money to spend on another digital camera, but after buying this Gateway peice of junk I have no choice. When I bought it, I got the camera from Best Buy so I could be sure I was getting a quality camera and wouldn't have to bother doing research, but I got burnt. Best Buy doesn't even carry Gateway cameras anymore.
Sure the battery life sucks, and it is of medium size, but the real problem is the picture quality. This thing takes horrible pictures, I CANNOT believe it made it to the market. For a long time I thought I had a broken camera or perhaps there was a recall on the cameras, but no, the camera is just naturally horrible. Outside the camera does fine, but only 1 out of 10 indoor photos will turn out clear. The flash doesn't help the situation at all.
I tried everything to make this camera work. Everything.
I will not purchase anything from Gateway again, and I don't want to sell my camera online because I don't want to shaft anyone else with this horrible little camera.
In the end I am going to get myself a Cannon A75 or an ELPH. Both seem to be highly recommended.
Rating: 
Summary: A camera you will be proud to own!
Review: I love my Gateway camera. I get at least 70 pics out of mine before any battery warning comes up. But, I first feel compelled to make a comment on the battery use of this camera. I have owned the HP (and others) 3.3 MP cameras and they too used up battery power. Such as it is with these digital camera's. But only after 50, 60, 70 or more shots were taken. Now, I was not letting everything stay on to see if I can burn 'em up faster. Yes, like any other camera which uses only two AA's as power you will have to replace that power a little more frequently. Depending on what kind of pics you are taking. THIS IS NORMAL!!! Do not pass up on this fine camera because of this.
Now on the camera itself. I really am enjoying this camera. It is very quick to shoot and all the menues are easy to understand and perform. (Try the HP version and you will see what I mean!) This is the perfect camera for all us 'snapshot artists' out there that would like to make some really fine shots and not carry a big expensive piece of equipment with us that we can't put into our pockets. It has all of the features of it's competitors and with the 4.1 MP power it really does make fine foto's you can print to any size or send them over the web on email. Again, I am really enjoying mine and would recommend it to anyone. Again also, I carry enough rechargeables with me so 'power' is not a problem and have a 256 MB SD memory chip in it so's I can keep on shoot'n and not run out of space.
Try this one. I don't think you will be disappointed!
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Summary: Great Camera for the price!!!
Review: I picked this camera up on Sunday and began using it last night, great pics even in limited light! It is also simple to use and offers a lot of picture taking functions. Another review mentioned the low battery life and it is true if you use Alkaline, by the time I went through the programing I was able to take 4 pics before the low battery message, however last night I used NIMH and took 85 pics before I stopped, I never got the low battery message. I bought the Canon i860 printer and my photos look as good as if they were taken on a $500.00 camera! The only thing I dislike is the lens cap: plastic and on a string very 1980's! However this not a show stopper... If you pick this camera up make sure you invest in the NIMH batteries and memory!!!
Rating:
Summary: Bad product, worse service
Review: I purchased this product to replace a 1.2 MP Olympus camera. In every aspect it is an inferior product. The 4 year old 1.2 MP camera has far superior image quality under all operating conditions. Battery life is a major issue and represents a serious design flaw. After following advice from Gateway to return the product for repair, I received a replacement which was no better. At this point, they refused to allow me to return the product stating that they do not accept returns for replaced units. They have no concept of customer service. I am now stuck with an inferior product that is essentially useless for its intended purpose.
Rating:
Summary: battery killer, poor pics
Review: If you like purchasing batteries then this is the camera for you. You cant even download all your pics onto the computer before the batteries die. The camera does not even come with a wall plug in so you have to spend more $$. I have had this camera since Christmas and I dont like using it because of the battery issues. Save your $$ on this product. The pics dont even look good the quality is worse then my old 2 Mega pixel camera
Rating:
Summary: battery killer, poor pics
Review: If you like purchasing batteries then this is the camera for you. You cant even download all your pics onto the computer before the batteries die. The camera does not even come with a wall plug in so you have to spend more $$. I have had this camera since Christmas and I dont like using it because of the battery issues. Save your $$ on this product. The pics dont even look good the quality is worse then my old 2 Mega pixel camera
Rating:
Summary: Don't waste your money- youll regret it
Review: ive gone through 2 digital cameras and im now onto my 3rd one. i first bought the sony cybershot when it first came out only to find out it takes really crappy pictures and had a major problem with it that the company couldnt fix. so after that camera, i bought the gateway digital camera. i was sooo exited to use it and planned on taking it to prom- i thought it would save on film and i would get to take lots of pictures. well, the camera was a HUGE let down. not only did the batteries keep dying (i even had rechargeable ones) but the pictures stunk. the saturation was horrible and most of the pictures came out an off color, not bright vivid colors at all. i was really dissapointed the piuctures were so crappy. rather than the camera saving me money from developing pictures and enabling me to remember my prom, it did the opposite. i went through 5 sets of batteries half way through prom so i dont even have the 2nd half of prom on film. i called the company but they did nothin about it. i continued to use the camera for minimal things, but i finally just couldnt handle looking at my friends digital camera pictures and then looking at mine and seeing a HUGE difference. i just bought the canon elph sd200 and let me say, it may be more money, but it is worth it. if u want to save yourself from throwing away money and just having to buy a new camera (spending more money than necessary), and if u want to look back on ur pictures and enjoy them (not getting angry everytime u see the horrible quality), invest ur money in a higher quality camera, not this gateway piece of junk.
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Summary: Should be negative stars for this one :(
Review: Let's start with the very first issue... batteries. I plugged in the rechargeable batteries that came with it, programmed the time and date, and took seven pictures then the batteries were dead. I am not a new digital camera owner. I have the Hewlett Packard PhotoSmart C215xi 1.3MP Digital Camera. I thought that it was time to upgrade to a camera with more MPs so I bought the Gateway 4.1. I took my HP to Maui and took over 150 pictures on one set of batteries on the medium setting. And I couldn't even get 10 out of the Gateway! Pathetic! Put in some Duracel batteries, same deal... got 5 pics when the low bat signaled.
My next issue with this camera is picture quality. Took some landscape shots to test the "scenic" feature of this camera along with portrait and auto since these are the features that I would use the most. I then downloaded the pics from the camera to the pc *using yet again another set of batteries*. Picture quality at best with the brand new 4.1 MP Gateway was on an equal par with the LOWEST setting on the HP *that was purchased 6 years ago*. Picture quality on all were grainy and poor. Not even the portrait pictures were acceptable. SAVE YOUR MONEY! DO NOT PURCHASE THIS CAMERA!
Rating:
Summary: Not a recommend purchase
Review: Pros:
Easy to connect to PCCons:
Terrible grain even at 4.0 MP Fine setting
Poor colour saturation
Auto white balance cant adapt to flourescent lighting
Focus does not work well indoors
Very weak flash
Lengthy delay to achieve focus and between shots
High battery drain (even Ni-MH) Conclusion:
An inexpensive 4.0 MP digital camera, but one that underperforms in every aspect. I have since returned mine and opted to spend an extra $75 to get an Olympus or Minolta instead. Other buyers would be wise to do the same.
Rating: 
Summary: No battery power
Review: This camera doesn't hold battery power at all. I placed new energizer batteries in and it displayed "low battery" after less than 10 pics were taken. This continued through multiple batteries of different brands. Turns out even the rechargeable batteries included in the accessory kit don't match up to the power required to run the camera. No battery has enough power to run the camera for more than a couple mins. This problem makes the camera useless! nice camera, too bad nobody can use it!
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