HP camera functional but ephemeral

I bought the r607 because I had faith in HP: I have HP computers, printers and believed in the company. I bought a 3 year warrantee. The camera comes with HP software which indexes all your photos, very helpful. The memory can be expanded with a card and the picture quality (printed on a HP photosmart printer ) was good.
The camera suddenly stopped working. Support was not helpful. They offered to sell me a camera "at a discount" price that was more than it was seling for on the web.
There is no way to repair this camera, per support, and when it needs " service" it is just disposed of.
I am very disappointed that, given the money I spent to buy this camera, that it could not be fixed. A review of the web revealed many others had the same experience