It's not ruggedized, but I think you'll be pleased with the build quality.
The number one complaint on Amazon for this camera was the dreaded "lens stuck" error. Evidently, the build quality is pretty good except for that one thing that seems to happen to some of them with little provocation. That was the real deciding factor with the warranty. If I get the error, no problem, I get a new or repaired camera in 2 or 3 days.
Ah yes, I forgot about that. My apologies. That actually happened to ours, but it has been such a minor bump in the otherwise happy ownership of the device that I'd honestly completely forgotten about it!
The major difference between the S100 and the S110 is the WiFi, and that can be accomplished with an Eye-Fi card.
Also, both cameras have GPS, so Picasa/iPhoto should know exactly where a photo was taken.
Actually, the S110 doesn't have built-in GPS, but can use its built-in wireless to use the GPS on a smartphone (either Android or iPhone.) I liked the idea of a built-in one better (although I warrant I'll find out that the built-in one is probably not as good a quality as the one on a recent smartphone.) I did purchase an Eye-Fi card as well, so I should be covered with wireless. My wife particularly wants to be able to wirelessly upload to Facebook.
Well that is certainly possible! However, I have to ask: where do you see the S110 not having GPS? It does according to Amazon...
Actually, the S110 doesn't have built-in GPS, but can use its built-in wireless to use the GPS on a smartphone (either Android or iPhone.)
Is there an agreed standard for accessing the GPS over wireless, or do you need to run some special sharing app?
I don't think that's how it works. With the S100 (and I'm pretty sure the S110), the cameras actually have legit GPS in them, and record that information into the EXIF data.
The Eye-Fi, however, handles location tagging differently, and unless you get their top of the line card you have to pay for the service. What it does is when you take a photo, it looks at all the surrounding WiFi access points (which it's doing anyway, since it's looking to see if you're home and want to transfer your photos). When you do get home, when the Eye-Fi service transfers your photos for you, it matches the access points available when the photo was taken to their own database*, then they record the closest location they can come up with as the GPS data in the EXIF tag.
At least, this is how I understand it to work.
*might not be their own database, could be something like Skyhook, which might partly explain the subscription fee they charge...
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