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By: Eirik (Administrator)

Eirik (Administrator) — Mon, 29 Aug 2005 15:45:01 +0000

Yes. 1,3 megapixels are far from enough. In addition to this they have to do something serious to the optics on the cameraphones.

Still, a key issue in this post is “in the near future”. I know they’re not there yet, but they will be. And they will be there with an operating system…

By: Oyvind

Oyvind — Sun, 28 Aug 2005 21:36:02 +0000

As long as most camera phones are crappy 1,3 megapixels, it’s not good enough. It’s fun for sending people funny faces on MMS, but not much more.

But – when they get decent quality at 3 megapixels and up, it’s showtime!

By: Eirik (Administrator)

Eirik (Administrator) — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 17:30:57 +0000

Good examples. By the way, the panorama functionallity in my old Canon PowerShot S20 is one of the features I miss in my new Sony DSC-P150. And, of course I can’t upgrade my new Sony… I’ll have to do a quick check for panorama software to my Nokia 6630!

By: Laust M. Ladefoged

Laust M. Ladefoged — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 15:09:28 +0000

I totally agree with you on this, especially on the unlimited possibilities that the OS in the phone gives and I do so primarely because I have expirenced it myself.

I own a SE P800 and right from the beginning I did not like the standard camera application, luckilly I found another camera application called PhotoFusion which suited my needs much better. As a bonus it added a feature I had never considered usefull namely the possibility to panoramas. Now I use the panaroma function all the time.

Another example is that the P800 did not come standard with a video recording program, Phillips later developed such and a quick install upgraded my phone to a videorecorder.

And the last example, Agile Messenger (an IM client) integrates with the built in camera and makes it possible to take and send a picture from within the IM program, very handy.

By: Eirik (Administrator)

Eirik (Administrator) — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 09:08:44 +0000

And, yes, I know that your mobile will have a hard time outperforming your high quality digital SLR. What I am talking about is the competition between your camera phone and your digital compact.