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 Thursday, January 22, 2004

Megapixel Mania

2-Mpixel era

"Japan's three major mobile phone carriers KDDI, Vodafone and NTT DoCoMo have all flagged new models boasting about 2 megapixels.This article states that 'the designs offer more than merely a few more pixels, though. Models of KDDI and Vodafone also come with auto-focus (AF) mechanisms, for example. Some camera-equipped mobile phones are featuring the equivalent electronic flash found in digital still cameras'. With the capacity of two megapixels and flash, 'photography with mobile phones will make major inroads into digital camera territory'.
Mobile Phones Enter 2-Mpixel Era" [Smart Mobs]

Did I really say I wanted a phone with a 1-megapixel camera? Scratch that. I guess if I just wait a year, they'll hit U.S. shores with 3+ megapixels!

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Mobile phone webcam.

Jian Shuo Wang asks What if we combine Webcam, Windows Media Technology, GPRS and a SmartPhone together?

Here's the answer.

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