Cnet has reviewed the cool GoPro Digital Hero 3 and give it a mediocre 5/10 rating. The camera was disliked for its sluggish performance and the fact that it took soft images. However it was appreciated for its underwater enclosure, its good white balance settings and the fact that it produced low distortion.

The GoPro Digital Hero 3 is a compact 3 megapixel digicam which can be fitted inside a waterproof enclosure mounted on a wristband, making it ideal to capture extreme sports footage like snowboarding. It includes a viewfinder and has only two buttons and a monochrome status display. One also come across Single-shot, Timed-shot, Burst-shot, and Movie modes and a a fixed-focus lens.

In the end the website concludes "The GoPro Digital Hero 3 is a cool idea for a camera, but in action, it simply isn't very good. It's a sluggish performer and shoots soft, small images. That said, the wrist-mounted, underwater housing is a great boon, and it might prove a fun, inexpensive alternative to swimmers and other water-dwellers who want a camera they can submerge."