Snowflake Sony DSC-TX1 spotted in Japan

This winter, Sony is offering a snowflake-engraved version of its DSC-TX1 compact camera. The special edition will be available in Silver, Black and Pink. There’s no surcharge for the engraving, but Sony will only do it for the holidays. I like the Silver version, it’s cool and discrete, but I don’t live in Japan…

If you are not familiar with the DSC-TX1 ($329): it’s a 10.2 Megapixel compact camera that has a 4X optical zoom and a Carl Zeiss lens. In the back there’s a big 3″ LCD touch display. There is a ton of features, but a few cool ones are: the 10fps burst mode, low-light capabilities (for a compact) and the 185 degree sweep panorama. If only Sony would switch to SDHC…