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.
The N95 has a 5MP 😉
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.
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.
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.
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.
…it`s perfect for snapshots…. and the chip is pretty fast totally full!
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I think N95 created for camera. This mobile have really nice camera feature. If compare with mobile I use Siemens. It don’t have high mega pixel.