The bottom of the camera sports the traditional tripod screw mount as well as a small dock connector. Unlike most camera manufacturers who leave you to buy their docks separately, a basic plastic docking platform is actually included with the HMX10A! Built to hold the camera on a sideways upward angle, it also has the connectors on the back for USB, AC power and video output. For those doing a lot of video recording and editing, this dock can eliminate the need to constantly fuss with cables and will let you get down to business the second you're back at a PC.

Helping to keep the body of the camera rather button-free is the touch-screen viewfinder. Being able to chose menus and navigate simply by touching what you wish to do cuts down on cluttering up the body of the camera with buttons that serve only that purpose. Beside the viewfinder is the Q-Menu button as well as another zoom controller and record button. Although I was unsure at first if these would serve any valid purpose as a duplicate of functions already controlled from another part of the camera, I did find them rather handy to use and almost instinctively began to use them because they were closer to the screen which I was already watching.

In the cavity that the viewfinder folds into you'll find a mere two buttons: display/iCheck and the screen brightness control. Under a cover below these buttons is your mini-USB connector, Component/AV output, HDMI output and factory reset button. The HDMI output supports Samsung's ANYNET+ feature which allows you to use your Samsung TV remote to control the camera's playback via HDMI communication.

If you're tired of having to rely on those old 3-block battery meters on your LCD viewfinder, Samsung has added a feature to this camera that you may find very useful. iCheck is a feature that allows you to dynamically check remaining battery time (in minutes) and remaining memory (in minutes). To do this you can either hold the display/iCheck button for a few seconds while the camera is on and the info screen will be brought up, or you can hold the button while the camera is off to momentarily power it up into this screen. Additionally, beside the 4-block battery logo on the viewfinder the battery time remaining in minutes is also shown. After a full charge the battery was reporting around 95 minutes of power. This battery time is certainly a step up over the old tape-based camcorders which required much more power to run the tape heads than a simple flash-based camera like this does.