I told myself I wouldn’t post again until I found images to accompany the Wegman story, but I couldn’t resist this one.
It seems that either Nokia has money to burn or they are attempting to draw photographers into the camera phone market. But how recognizable is the Zeiss name? It seems like this decision will only impact a very small market segment, which I am a evidentially a member of since I really want one.
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Maybe what they are trying to capture is the phone/photo market. If they can show significantly better image quality it might encourage folks to buy their phones. Someone was telling me the other day about how far behind the US is in the photophone area. Like, in Japan they already have these two mega-pixels phone cameras.
Yeah, I think it is aimed at the general consumer…not photogs. I think that they just want people who already own a digital camera to see this as a way of combining phone and camera. I think ten years from now it will be a normal thing to have your camera/phone/pda/mp3/dvd/wireless connection/pc all as a single unit. Hell, maybe even more stuff than that, but that’s all I can think of right now.
I would be surprised if it took ten years. I know that the digital camera market is already starting to feel the influence of the phones in cameras. And I think ever new phone has enough memory for mp3’s. Most are already blue tooth capable. The PDA stuff is easy after all that. This only leaves the dvd player and sony’s new PSP with its minidvd’s has shown that a handheld can play that stuff (I will be really annoyed if dvd’s go the way of 8 tracks). So, they are pretty much already there.
http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000480041512/
speaking of new tech, what is the deal w/ people using bluetooth wireless handsfree sets…more to the point, what is it w/ them leaving them in their ear all day like it is one of their cyborg body parts? i see these guys w/ a big pod coming outta their head, not on the phone, talking to me as if it was common as HELL to look like Lt. Ohurra from Star Trek.
Have you guys read about that cameraphone lens which basicaly a droplet of water? Here’s a quote from Wired:
“cell phone makers are salivating over liquid lenses, tiny gadgets that suspend a drop of liquid in an electrostatic field. Change the field and the shape of the droplet changes, too, altering how the light bends when it passes through - just like a lens.”
And here’s the link:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.04/start.html?pg=10