Nikon continues to make curious decisions with their compacts. I've been looking at Nikon's recent Coolpix cameras, for example. The S8000 once again has a slightly questionable charging choice: no true battery charger is supplied, instead you get a wall wart that plugs into the camera and charges the battery while it is in the camera. The good news is that this time Nikon used a wall wart with a USB connection, so you could simply plug the supplied cable into your computer (or any other USB wall wart you're carrying) to recharge.
But the whole notion of "charging the battery in camera" is a bit problematic to start with. First, there's the "don't handle it so much" factor. Plugging a cable into the camera and having it hang out on your desk (or whatever furniture is in your hotel room) while a charge completes is asking for a bit of trouble in my book. Too easy to trip over or otherwise engage the cable and send the camera flying. Don't laugh. It happens more often than you might expect. But more to the point, Nikon's choice means that the camera is unavailable any time you need to charge a battery. Some may argue that this is a reasonable trade-off for a compact digital camera, but frankly, I don't buy that argument. (Yes, I know you can buy an optional charger to actually charge the battery out of the camera. But forcing users to buy options that they deem necessary isn't exactly a good practice, either.)
Compact digital cameras are being rapidly disenfranchised by cameras in cell phones, and the S8000 is a top-of-the-line camera. Nikon shouldn't be making any compromises. Dozens of similarly-specified cameras exist now, so it is in the details that sales battles will be won or lost. Too many details are wrong on Nikon compact cameras these days. I understand that they need to drive costs out, but perhaps supplying thick paper manuals in multiple languages that don't tell you much might be a better place to look for cost reduction.