Product Description

The 3 Com HomeConnect PC digital camera USB provides Video snapshots, video email, video phone calls, Webcam. It adjusts automatically from bright to dim light, detaches from cable for easy mobility. This camera is equipped with single button image capture - just click.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #44891 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: 3Com
• Model: 003718-00
• Platforms: Windows NT, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows NT 3.5, Windows NT 4, Windows NT 5, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000 Server, Windows
• Dimensions: .85 pounds

Features

• Video e-mail, video phone calls, and Webcam functionality
• Sharp, clear pictures
• 1-touch snapshot button for instant digital photos
• Automatic light-adjustment feature
• Portable

Amazon.com Product Description
PC Digital Camera is easy to detach from its 9-foot Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector, so there's no more fumbling behind your PC. Then you just pop it onto the USB cable on a different PC or laptop and you're ready to go. The unit adjusts automatically from bright to very dim light. You can see bright, clear images in conditions from full sunlight to hotel light to birthday candles. When you travel on business, what's better than your kids' snapshots in your wallet? How about saying good-night to them right from your hotel room? When you can't visit grandpa across the country, try video e-mail, featuring pictures created by his favorite young artists! With the HomeConnect PC Digital Camera, the Internet is more than a business tool or a big library, it's a way to share smiles.

From Digital Living Today
The 3COM HomeConnect PC Digital Camera is an excellent, low-cost, all-purpose digital camera that can be used as a Webcam, a video conference device, and even a still digital camera, by simply connecting it to your PC's USB port. Install the software off the included CD-R, you're up and ready to go in minutes. Use it at your desk, or take advantage of the 9-foot USB cable and move it around your room. Better yet, plug the HomeConnect into your laptop and you've got portable video wherever you go. Capable of handling a wide variety of conditions (the camera is excellent in low-light environments), the HomeConnect manages to include all the important features in a well-designed, compact and affordable product.

Customer Reviews

Barely Works
Very unhappy with this. Setup was a breeze contrary to much I have read but the picture quality is horrible because this camera is very used and very beat up. Upon first connect the images were a total washed out blur. I removed to lens to clean it all and it looked like milk or oil had been spilled all over this camera in the past. After much cleaning the images are now almost recognizable. Still very poor, I can't believe someone would sell a product, new or used, in this poor condition. Zero stars if I could. My $19 Labtec cam takes far better pictures. The 3Com HomeConnect might be good, I don't know because the one I got is in such bad shape.

TOO bad 3COM Web Cams are a thing of the past....
These webcams are excellent and it is a shame that they no longer make these web cams anymore... You will be able to buy them from Auction sites (e.g., Ebay) or here at Amazon... but most likely, you will have to search endlessly for the Drivers of the item! When you find the Drivers that you need to run this item... You will find an excellent, high quality webcam and worth the price! I use webcams for a living (conference calls..etc...) and own top-of-the-line video conferencing cameras... and for the price of these cameras... they are worth it!

Fantastic Camera
This thing rocks. You can put it in a pitch black room turn it on sit in front of it and light a candle anywhere in the room (given the room is not really huge) and it will auto adjust and look perfect in a few moments