I've never owned a camera in my life, but with a HD touch screen and Android Jelly Bean the Galaxy Camera looked like a worthy purchase. I usually feel that most cameras look either cheap or old fashioned - but the Galaxy Camera looks great with a mix of aluminium, glossy plastic and chrome. It'd be an understatement to say it matches the style of the Galaxy phones and tablets - I think this is one of the best looking devices Samsung have created.
I won't try to comment too much on the photo quality as I wouldn't know where to start - it's easy to say it's a huge step up from current camera phones, but maybe not so much that phones couldn't catch up in a year or two. That said, the additional hardware benefits of an optical zoom, large flash, shutter button and tripod support will probably not make it to phones any time soon, so I think it's a fairly future-proof device that will get a few years use out of it.
The main selling point of the device is that a mix of HD screen, Jelly Bean and a quad-core processor make it the first camera to be truly capable of installing and smoothly running Android apps. I think the possibilities here are huge but there's a severe lack of useful apps at the moment - most existing camera apps don't support the device's zoom and Samsung's smart camera apps such as remote viewfinder don't seem to work yet. I expect that this will all pick up of over time and it could be an amazing opportunity to develop innovative camera-optimized apps.
A key reason I bought the Galaxy Camera was to use it for streaming Hangouts on Air, so was disappointed that there was no option in the Google+ app to start a Hangout. The helpful G+ page responded on this issue, and I discovered it's possible if you start the hangout on another device and invite the Galaxy Camera in. So while it could be clearer, I think it's incredible that this device can be used to wirelessly broadcast high quality livestreams from effectively anywhere in the world with a 3G or wifi connection.
Assuming app support improves, there's very little I would change about the Galaxy Camera. While it's not cheap compared to other cameras, I think the build quality and uncompromised power of Android make it a very recommendable purchase.
