Few companies do tiny cameras better than Sony, which -1 made dozens of pocketable Cyber-shot models over the years. The company’s latest pocket-worthy wonder is the Cyber-shot DSC-T2, a brightly colored eight-megapixel point-and-shoot camera that sports four-gigabytes of on-board Flash storage. This means that this thing is actually good-to-go for a gazillion pix right out of the box and may never require a memory card at all — not a bad feature consider the camera only supports Sony’s generally unloved Memory Stick format.
The front sports a tiny 3x optical zoom lens which, like all Cyber-shots, is made by Carl Zeiss. The lens also features optical image stabilization, something not typically found on a cam of this size. The back is covered with a 2.7-inch touchscreen LCD for scrolling through menus of features like the odd-sounding smile detection, which is supposed to automatically snap shots whenever someone is smiling — hopefully this function will work better here than it did on Sony’s last entrant, the T200.