Samsung's 2009 connected compact — the first camera with built-in GPS, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
The Samsung ST1000, announced in August 2009 (sold as the CL65 in North America), was a landmark connected compact: the first camera to combine built-in GPS, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth in one pocketable body, fronted by a large touchscreen.
Specs centre on a 12.2-megapixel CCD sensor, a 5x optical zoom starting at a 35mm-equivalent wide end, a 3.5-inch haptic touchscreen occupying the entire back, GPS geotagging with on-screen location naming, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi with DLNA and email/photo-site upload, Bluetooth 2.0 for phone transfer, 720p video and microSD storage.
Its significance is genuinely historical — it anticipated the geotagged, instantly-shared photography that smartphones would soon normalise, and it makes a fascinating collectible from the last era in which camera makers, not phones, drove connectivity innovation. That story, plus the touchscreen-CCD novelty, sustains its solid UK listing volume.
UK used-buying checks: treat all the connected features as legacy — the upload services are long dead and GPS may take extremely long fixes or fail as its assistance data servers are gone, so price it as a touchscreen compact; test the resistive touchscreen corner to corner since it is the only control interface; check the sliding lens cover and zoom action; confirm it takes microSD (not full SD) and that a working battery and Samsung's 20-pin proprietary USB cable are included, as that non-standard cable is hard to replace.