I’ve never been a fan of cameras in cell phones. My Treo 600 had one, I think I took 2 photos with it. My a900 had one, I took a single photo – if that. My BlackBerry 8703e doesn’t have one, and I consider it a feature.
However, I may be close to changing my mind on this.
As I was heading out to lunch yesterday I decided to leave my little point and shoot at home because I didn’t want to bulk up my pockets. Last week I was hanging out with Danny and checking out his Nokia N95 with a 7 5 (thanks Derek) megapixel camera in it (and a second smaller one for video conferencing).
If my cell phone had a reasonably good digital camera in it, that might be something I’d use after all.
UPDATE: Some comparison photos from the N95 – pretty nice looking. Hopefully this is where things are heading.
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Derek adds this Comment:
The N95 has a 5MP
May 3rd, 2007 at 8:44 am
Carl adds this Comment:
Just picked up an n80 which has a 3-megapixel camera in it. Great device all in all and it’s great for the random candid shot.
May 3rd, 2007 at 10:38 am
brett adds this Comment:
Cell phones are a great illustration of how little megapixels can relate to quality. My wife and I have the same 1.whatever megapixels in our phones, hers a Nokia and mine a Sidekick. Her phone takes perfectly good shots, whereas the Sidekick takes passable shots only in full, preferably standing on the sun, sunlight.
May 3rd, 2007 at 1:41 pm
shawn adds this Comment:
I second the comment about MP being somewhat unrelated to usability. I had a Clie TH55 (until it died) and despite its low res I found myself taking shots all the time. It was so handy to have a handy camera available in a utility device I was carrying for other reasons.
I have been thinking the same thing as of late – would be nice to have a reasonable quality camera combined with my phone. The N95 may be a little out of my range, but have been pondering a switch to a Sony/Ericsson K700/800 for that reason.
My current LG has a silly little subMP camera, but more importantly my carrier charges for each shot sent to email. As its CDMA without a cable or card, I am tied to that methodology.
If you pursue the thought any further will look forward to hearing your experience.
May 3rd, 2007 at 7:30 pm
Rogier adds this Comment:
It’s the quality of the chip that determines for the most part how your photos turn out, noet so much the amount of MP’s.
May 4th, 2007 at 2:38 am
Orthomol adds this Comment:
…it`s perfect for snapshots…. and the chip is pretty fast totally full!
May 6th, 2007 at 5:35 am
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