A Product Review: The GE EasyCam PC Camera H098063

I recently purchased a GE webcam, the GE EasyCam PC Camera HO98063, to be specific, and since I had not looked at the available webcams in quite some time, I was not aware of the variety on the market right now. Popularity of a product, makes the varieties from additional competitive companies, breed like rabbits, so there are many to choose from. The price range, style and features vary from one end of the scale to the other.

Previously I had been using my digital cam, which did double duty as a web cam. The problem was, it took forever each time to hook it up, set it up and get it running as a webcam, and half the time it would crash mid chat. Then I would have to spend another 15 to 30 minutes getting it running again, going through all the steps, sometimes more than once, until I was just about ready to smash the thing into little pieces in sheer frustration. I was glad to have one at all, but my digital camera got stolen, so I had neither a digital or a webcam after that, or since then, until now.

Price was definitely an issue, so obviously I wasn't going for the high end models, with extra features and better picture taking capabilities, and I had no idea what to expect from the low end ones. I figured in the few years since I had my digital camera, the technology would have improved a great deal, and hopefully the ease of use along with it, but sometimes with an improvement in features, come some real headaches in functionality for the average user, which I am.

Usually when some new gadget comes out, the variety and availability is limited, and the demand high, so the prices are fairly high until the next upgrade hits the market, or the current one has been out awhile and the prices start to drop. Think way back to calculators. When they first came out, they were hundreds of dollars, and were guarded as a prized piece of equipment, and now a perfectly good one can be found for only a few dollars. So patience is a virtue, in that case, and as I found out, it was in the current webcam world too.