I'm holding out a little longer on the details but there is confirmation of two new models (upgrades) end of this month.

Old news but I've been told its actually evolving into something useful other than just part ownership of the company.

@Rambo

About mobile phone tech at Go pro. Yes it is possible especially for bigger products. The thing about mobile phone tech is beating Ambarella is power consumption and heat generation. At the same process ambarella will likely win due to efficient custom circuitry, unless the mobile tech also has such circuitry. But if you want to do more than h264/265, like Raw, and cineform codec, it is another story. The snapdragon 800 etc, might come in handy and lower power. However, for very small POV action cams the snap dragon maybe too power hungry if it doesn't have custom encoder.

But now ambarella is established, have also done all their work with little and big boys, the release of 4k functionality in products has slowed down, and no 60p model. Their end of year release should soon be coming though. But it is getting to the end of ambarella love, and a new generation us starting up on mobile.

There has been talk of the possibility of a cinema camera level encoding on a go pro product for a while. They took over cineform, a leading high quality professional wavelet codec maker, and were one of the pioneers in low cost cinema cameras. They went through the trouble of incorporating the codec into a official standard, which would be excellent for dslr's and compacts for stills and video, as a top tier solution. The codec is lightweight enough to probably do 4k. A product as big as the pocket cinema camera, phablet or tablet is possible.

The bit I mentioned elsewhere, I'll post seperately.

So they have just announced a gopro hero 3+.

Yep. We have topic about it. As far as I understand GoPro 4 will follow with some delay.

what you need to know-

http://provideocoalition.com/jfoster/story/gopro-replacement-lenses-for-hero3-3

Any update on possible release date?

Things are getting interesting.

What you mean?

http://dgise.com/post/62262921573/gopro-hero-4-specs-and-release-date-are-disclosed

Release October 2014

13 MP

SoC Ambarella A9 chip

4k @ 30FPS

1080p @ 120FPS

720p @ 240 FPS

HDR

That Dgise post is from Sept. 2013

The same news from July 2014

http://www.hallels.com/articles/2759/20140724/gopro-hero-4-out-october.htm

http://airherald.com/gopro-hero-4-tech-specs-revealed-while-the-release-date-is-right-around-the-corner/4994/

Maybe it's all just copy and paste from 2013

If this is the case it sounds like a tiny beast more powerful than most larger camera's like a mini red epic.

The latest information (not official) about technical specification and pricing here: http://vegasaur.com/gopro-hero4-hero3-comparison What do you guys think?