Re: Galaxy Camera 2 users?
A bit late chiming in here, but I really like my Camera 2. The photo quality is frequently lacking (a lot of noise/artifacts), but I didn't buy it for submitting poster sized photos to photography contests -- I got it for posting better-than-smartphone pics to Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, etc., and for that it's perfect. I can easily transfer photos to my Galaxy Note 2 phone or just turn my phone into a WiFi access point and then use the camera's built-in WiFi to directly post photos and videos. It did not (and never will) replace my primary camera, but I frequently only take the Camera 2 depending on the event.
The video mode is frankly superb for this type of camera. I was also able to buy a inexpensive shotgun mic and got an iPad mic adapter cable so that I can plug the mic into the combo headphone jack on the Camera 2, put everything on a small flashbracket, and it makes a surprisingly nice 1080p video camera. I especially like the quiet zoom feature while recording video. It slows down the zoom to reduce the noise, so you don't end up with that amateur rapid zoom effect. I know, I know...pros don't zoom in videos anyway, but the extent of my "pro level" videos is a YouTube channel, so it's all good. Plus, zooming slow like this camera is capable of is not bad at all and looks really good.
The Android side of this camera is nice. It's not the very latest version of the OS, but it just one version older, and the difference between the two versions is mostly cosmetic. The hardware specs for using the Camera 2 as gaming device/mini-tablet are actually rather good. It has a quad core 1.6GHz processor which is definitely no slouch, and 2 GB of RAM which is more than some of the models of Samsung tablets have. It has 8MB of built-in storage, and can handle a 64GB microSD card perfectly (which are rather affordable right now). I believe it can handle up to 128GB cards. All that being said about storage, any games your kids put on there are going to go to the built-in 8GB of storage, so although that can hold quite a few games, it's not endless storage like a phone or tablet with 32, 64, or even 128GB of built-in storage.
Frankly, if I had to choose whether or not to give my kids the Camera 2 or an iPhone 4 to play games on, I'd toss them the iPhone 4 every time.