Here in China there is a secondhand mobile phone shop (shady place) where I have seen camera's with optical zoom and phone capabilities. They are Korean import (or Japanese) and probably break when just looking at them. But they exist and work. Oh, same goes for that watch phone. Seen them around for two years. Comes with Bluetooth too!
... it looks like they might just have a form factor large enough to encourage them to increase the size of the CMOS censor to make the 12mp camera take decent pictures and not just generate back ground noise on the image.
That's assuming they can be bothered to make a proper job of the internals...
HTC Touch HD Pocket PC
MWg Zinc II
HTC Touch Pro
HTC Touch Diamond2
Palm Treo Pro Smartphone
Optical zoom arrives on 12Mp cameraphone
Yorkshirepudding
covert shots #
Posted Tuesday 29th September 2009 15:09 GMT
well thats the voyeuring gone out the window
Anonymous Coward
I would But... #
Posted Tuesday 29th September 2009 15:09 GMT
It wont remember the camera settings and they wil NEVER release a firmware fix.
Disgruntled i8510 owner.
Martin Huizing
Bullshit. #
Posted Wednesday 30th September 2009 00:46 GMT
Here in China there is a secondhand mobile phone shop (shady place) where I have seen camera's with optical zoom and phone capabilities. They are Korean import (or Japanese) and probably break when just looking at them. But they exist and work. Oh, same goes for that watch phone. Seen them around for two years. Comes with Bluetooth too!
Andrew Dodd
Zoom #
Posted Wednesday 30th September 2009 10:04 GMT
I had a Sharp 3G phone back in 2004 that had a optical zoom so there is nothing new here
But does look very cool
Monkey
Finally... #
Posted Wednesday 30th September 2009 12:08 GMT
... it looks like they might just have a form factor large enough to encourage them to increase the size of the CMOS censor to make the 12mp camera take decent pictures and not just generate back ground noise on the image.
That's assuming they can be bothered to make a proper job of the internals...