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Nokia Shows Off Megapixel Camera Phone
Anonymous Coward writes "According to PC World, the Nokia 7610 has been announced at Cebit in Germany - it boasts a megapixel camera (1152 x 864 pixels), 65,000 color screen, and 4x zoom, along with an MP3 music player and smart phone features that allow users to manage and edit digital images. It can also create short films of up to 10 minutes and with the Movie Director application users can add special effects and music to the video clips." Other readers point out a picture of the phone, which comes with the LifeBlog software "to help people organise the information they capture about their lives on handsets."
Best stick with the mobile phone that's also a low-res video camera aspect I think instead of making wild marketing claims about how the phone can make you the next Steven Spielberg...
Sorry, but my karma just ran over your dogma.
Megapixels is the most idiotic resolution measurement system ever. Quick, what resolution does 3 megapixel equal? 3.2? 4? 5? IF THE CAMERA HAS A RESOLUTION OF 1152x864, just fucking say so. I should make a camera with a resolution of 1x5000000 and call it a 5 megapixel camera just out of spite.
Since the early 1990s I've seen immense value in having a mobile phone - just to remain in contact. 1990s phones were temperamental, fragile, bulky and permanently approaching a flat battery. In the noughties things started to look up - phones designs started to become more robust (no aerial sticking out); came in conveniently small packages and battery life sufficient for a working week on standby.
Britain recently passed drive-phoning laws - which bans using a hand-held phone while "driving" (including when stationary - say in a not-infrequent motorway hold up) and I decided a legal hands-free kit would be needed. Blue-tooth seemed to be the perfect answer to the problem - a simple system wired into my car so that whenever my engine is running, the in-car hands free kit takes control of any phone calls - allowing me to legally use my phone without taking it out of my pocket. Off I trooped to the mall now obscenely cluttered with mobile phone shops. To say I was surprised is an understatement!
Phone size - if I want blue tooth then I must have a larger phone (very undesirable) but that it would have a camera in it (no use at all thanks - maybe even a hindrance as I might not be permitted to take it with me everywhere I go) and a snazzy colour screen (Why!?! I just want to make and receive calls!) and a dramatically reduced battery life to boot. As for wireless connectivity - the vendors advise it is normally turned off, and activated only for the duration I'm using a particular blue tooth service...( What's the point then!?!!! ) and that using blue tooth would dramatically reduce battery life again!
Don't get me wrong I've been very impressed with my current Nokia 8310, but can't help feeling that more modern phones have become feature crazy and now neglect the primary requirement to make mobile telephone conversations convenient and reliable with minimum effort. Nokia - PLEASE - stop concentrating on the gimmicks and get back to making solid reliable phones for business use.
The point of phones on cameras is that people bring their phone everywhere. People don't bring their camera everywhere, no matter how small it is. Of course a tiny fixed lens is going to be worse than one with real optical zoom, but it's plenty good enough for a lot of things.As you should. It is after all primarily a phone.People said the same about digital cameras when they first arrived, but now you are including them with film to make your point. This Nokia phone has the same resolution as the Kodak that I bought 5 years ago. That's not such a long time really. Other manufacturers have already 2 and higher megapixel phones, and I can't see them stopping competing with each other anytime soon.
I guess now would not be the time to mention that Japan is already up to two megapixel phones . . .
Phones with additional features will always be a compromise, between packing all the features in, keeping the size manageable, and trying to make it fit in the hand like a phone should (does anybody really like using those matchbox sized phones?). As it is, in the US and UK, you really need a hands-free device. That could easily be connected to a wristwatch with the same features. Maybe we could even use the cord running between as an aerial, and improve the signal. Then, it becomes an all-purpose device, with less concern about the fit in the hand. With Hitachi's new mini hard drive coming out, it'll be the camera/watch (and/or phone). If you think it's annoying not being able to have your cell phone in a locker room, wait til you can't have your wristwatch in there, because it can store hours of DV. Phones with additional features will always be a compromise, between packing all the features in, keeping the size manageable, and trying to make it fit in the hand like a phone should. As it is, in the US and UK, you really need a hands-free device. That could easily be connected to a wristwatch with the same features. Maybe we could even use the cord running between as an aerial, and improve the signal. Then, it becomes an all-purpose device, with less concern about the fit in the hand. A+ certified, and just as proud of being potty-trained
I've had nothing but bad experiences with Siemens so called cellphones. One died after 3 days of purchase. The next one (the one I got with my warrant) lost all my contact information and notes after 4 months of operation. Repairman upgraded the software and before I walked home with my upgraded Siemens phone I noticed it hat gasped it's last breath. Sad. Never gonna buy Siemens again.
I for one am sick of all these new feature being put into phones. What happened to wireless sets that were actually good as phones.. Since my first wireless in 1995 it seems that every generation of phone seems to get worse and worse, more feature and poorer reception. Gimme a good old fasioned brick phone with support for the new wireless networks and I'd be a happy happy person, imagine the standby time you could get with a brickphone sized battery and newer more efficient processing....
-*The above statement is printed entirely on recycled electrons*-
Or, just have the phone use a general wireless device for storage. That way you could keep all your data (mp3s, digipics, pda, etc) in one place, and devices could leverage functionality.
/add/ functionality (new devices) without worrying about swapping data around, or incompatible memory card formats and such.
I'd really like to be able to use 1 data source for my phone/pda/camera/mp3 player. Convergence devices are cute, but impractical. Removing storage from each of those items listed would let them shrink to about the size of a sharpie (real digi camera excluded, but getting there), and would let me
At the gym I like to have mp3s without the phone, and I'd like to not violate the 'ban' on digital cameras.
Pictures I take with my real camera, I'd like to be able to email.
Songs I get from iTunes i'd like to be able to email, or directly, wirelessly, share.
contacts in my pda i'd like to have access to on my phone - but I really don't need/want the power drain of a palmOS or winCE just to make a phone call.
// "Can't clowns and pirates just -try- to get along?"
Sony Ericsson have a 1.3 MegaPixel 1280 x 960 16x zoom called SO505iS.
True. Workstation framebuffers always used to be 1152x900, which gave just over a million pixels (that resolution was chosen to maximize the display area for cards with 1MB of video memory). However, when the PC world finally caught up with workstation resolutions, they opted for 1152x864 instead, in order to preserve the 4:3 aspect ratio[1], thus it's slightly less than 1 million pixels.
[1] No, I don't know why they did this either, as they were quite happy to use a different aspect ratio elsewhere (e.g., for 1280x1024).
"The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike." -- Delos B. McKown
Here full specification Comparing with Nokia 6600 8mb instead of 6mb and packged with 64mb card instead of 32mb. In fact some user alredy using 512mb card with Nokia 6600. The same OS version, so I guess the same RAM and CPU. Actually, if prices drop it may be a good time to pick up Nokia 6600. The only significant difference seems a camera.
Let me try to explain...
If you move your right thumb up and down like you were dialing a number, it can be somewhat natural to move down and to the left at the same time. I think the keypad shape reflects this movement. It might be more natural than expected to dial numbers with the distorted keypad shape.
Guess I gotta go to a shop and try it out first.
Until recently it has taken me no time to get up and running with a new phone-- this has all changed. The samsung SCH-a310, for example, has a normal key layout but the tactile response is poor and its hard to feel the difference between keys when scanning with your fingers.
Nokia has been making some terrible design choices with their key layouts lately.. the first one I remember trying was the 3600 and the 3650. Recently they've been marketing the 3200's like crazy, which look like 1993 pager technology, albeit with a camera. I tried this one out thinking it might be easy to use, but its neigh on impossible to know what key you're hitting, then you have to make sure you hit the right SIDE of the key to get the correct number.
Now I know, after awhile you get used to it, and then when you get a new phone you need to unlearn what you have learned. But shouldn't the interface technology we use strive for ease of use and ergonomics instead of visual acceptance and clever button placement? I mean we could all be using Datahand ergonomic keyboards in the future, but somehow I doubt these new cell key layouts are for anything other than aesthetics.