Flip Mino HD = Dead

Well, it’s official. MY flip mino HD camera is dead. It suffered from Infant mortality.

When I unboxed it after Christmas I charged it up and made that test video that I posted on Viddler and here. We then took it to my inlaw’s house for a Christmas party and about 10 seconds into recording it died.. Totally dead and it wouldn’t even charge.

After that, I plugged it into my Vista machine and it started to charge with no problem.. I thought OK.. This must be a fluke. I made a couple of other short videos and it seemed to work. Then, Saturday night I took it out to do some video and this time it lasted about 15 seconds and died again.

I put an email into tech support at the Flip website. I will update you on how it goes. It seems to be a great product and I just happened to get one with a loose something inside.

***UPDATE: Flip is sending me a return number so maybe they will replace it. Had to jump though some hoops to get that far.

-Mike