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RØDE Unveils Wireless Micro Camera Kit For Hybrid Shooters

The new kit brings camera connectivity to the Australian audio company’s compact wireless mic line.

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10 months ago

October 30, 2025

Joanna Melki

rode unveils wireless micro camera kit for hybrid shooters

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RØDE has launched the Wireless Micro Camera Kit, adding universal camera support to its popular pocket-sized microphone range.

The system builds on the Wireless Micro, which reshaped smartphone content recording, and brings the same audio quality to mirrorless and DSLR setups. The new on-camera receiver carries both 3.5 mm TRS and USB-C outputs, plus a 1.1-inch AMOLED screen for quick visual control. Intelligent GainAssist automatically levels audio, while plug-in power detection turns the receiver on and off with the camera.

Each kit includes two transmitters with in-built microphones, a USB-C smartphone receiver, and a compact charging case offering up to 21 hours of operation. The transmitters clip or mount magnetically, and integrated windshields cut noise during outdoor shoots. For mobile workflows, iOS users can connect via Bluetooth through the RØDE Capture app.

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“The Wireless Micro Camera Kit represents the next evolution of our mission to make premium audio accessible to all creators,” said RØDE CEO Damien Wilson. “By expanding the Wireless Micro’s capabilities to include universal camera connectivity, we’ve created a consolidated creative solution that’s not only more powerful, but incredibly flexible and simple to use. No matter how or where you create, the Camera Kit empowers you to tell your story with pristine sound, any way you decide to deliver it”.

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The Camera Kit marks RØDE’s second-generation camera receiver, a follow-up to the original platform that helped define the company’s wireless range. The first generation remains available for existing users through an exchange program.

Priced at US$149, the new kit ships globally. It reinforces RØDE’s position in the creator hardware market, now crowded with brands chasing hybrid video makers. In the MENA region, where digital production and social media video continue to expand under national digitalization drives, such flexible tools are fast becoming part of the basic creative toolkit.

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Visa’s Return To Syria Starts With A Test And A Bank In Lebanon

Foreign visitors will be the first users to benefit, but whether Syria’s own banks and cardholders follow is still an open question.

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2 days ago

August 27, 2026

Dana Saadeh

visa's return to syria starts with a test and a bank in lebanon

Visa is returning to Syria. Its first live international card transaction in the country was a test rather than a launch, and the milestone event ran through a Lebanese bank.

The acquirer (the bank on the merchant’s side of a card payment) was Fransabank Lebanon, with Paymera as the other named partner. Nadim Moujaes, who heads a Fransabank Group subsidiary, describes the test as both the culmination of “longstanding efforts to link Syria back to international payment networks” and “the first step in a larger path”.

Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa makes the first electronic payment in Syria using a @Visa card at a store in Damascus, following the lifting of US sanctions on Syria. pic.twitter.com/lpAN7nQ6Fc

— Tech Magazine (@TechMGZN) August 27, 2026

“We are excited to have successfully tested live transactions today as we plan to enable international visitors to use their Visa cards while in Syria,” says Leila Serhan, Visa’s senior vice president and group country manager for the North Africa, Levant and Pakistan region. Although a significant first step, that plan doesn’t come with a hard date for when a visitor’s card will work normally.

Mohammed Safwat Raslan, governor of the Central Bank of Syria, says the test paves the way for international card acceptance in Syria and that maintaining strong compliance, risk management and operational controls will remain essential. Serhan likewise stresses that Visa has worked within applicable legal, regulatory and compliance requirements. For a test transaction, it seems there was a great deal of attention paid to the rules, with the entire operation being carefully managed.

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The test is the latest step in a sequence that began in December 2025, when Visa announced a strategic roadmap to support Syria’s integration into the global digital economy. In February 2026 it hosted its first industry gathering of banks, ecosystem partners and policymakers in Damascus and, the same month, signed an agreement with Syria’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology in San Francisco.

Michel Kattouah, Paymera’s CEO, called the test “the return of international card acceptance,” but while that’s positive news, there’s no word yet on when a Syrian bank will issue a Visa card to a Syrian customer.