Canon releases actual product! Hurrah! (It's a Digital IXUS 85 IS camera)

Canon has saved us all from a tech news drought with a clutch of product announcements, including this successor to the popular IXUS 70. The 85 packs a 10 megapixel CCD sensor, 3x digital zoom and 3x optical zoom behind a 2.5" LCD screen.

The silver case has been rounded and softened and the details are now picked out either in matching silver or piano black (pictured). Inside there is also motion and face detection technology, image stabilisation and a Face Select & Track feature to ensure fewer blurry snaps. That's further helped by 19 shooting modes, high ISO and 30fps VGA video capture. It's available later this month for £239.

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