Pro photographers won’t use it, but for quick convenient prints the PoGo is hard to fault

As an extremely portable printing solution the Polaroid Pogo Instant Mobile Printer is an appearlling choice, priced competitively at £86, there are very few competitors. The Polaroid Pogo offers acceptable, albeit small, prints, and has good connectively through bluetooth and USB pictbridge. The only concerns are the slightly high cost per print, the short battery life, the average print quality and the small photo size, but if you just want something ultra small and portable then the Polaroid Pogo could be for you.

While there's no doubt that the PoGo printer is extremely convenient and easy-to-use, the ZINK technology is not at a stage where you're going to see good images. Give it some more development and another couple of generations and it might get somewhere near the standard of the old Polaroid instant photos.





ZINK licenses its technology to Polaroid, but this isn't an exclusive licence and other manufacturers are known to be working on cameras and laptops with built-in ZINK-based printers. We'd like to see larger prints, at least up to the size of old Polaroid instant prints, and fervently hope the next generation of the print technology will offer greater detail in the images it produced.





However, if you want a printer that's immediately fun as a talking point, and one that produces expensive, business card-sized prints you can stick on your friends, the PoGo is ideal.

+ : Fun and truly mobile printer that you can actually take with you.
- : Power brick is huge; battery life must be improved.

The Polaroid PoGo's appeal lies in its mobility and its near-instantaneous picture production. The price is steep for what amounts to a one-trick gimmick printer. But that doesn't detract from the silly fun people can have by printing pictures on the go. Teens and tweens, in particular, will love this feature; and casual users and business people (for example, real-estate agents who want to print pics of specific rooms for clients without delay) may appreciate PoGo's portability.

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