Hey guys, I'm graduating HS soon and wanna get myself a new camera as a reward for myself

I've had my eye on the Ricoh Caplio R6/7 for a while now and I just wanted to see if anybody here has any opinions on it. Does anybody have any experience with Ricoh cameras? Is it worth $250 (roughly) of my hard earned and saved up money? I've been a Canon user and for the same price of $250, I'd be able to get a pretty decent Canon point and shoot camera too, but the Ricoh is really appealing to me.
I just wanted some feedback on it and see if anybody has actual experience with the camera.
Thanks!