Mike_Panic opened this issue on Jan 28, 2003 ยท 8 posts
Slynky posted Tue, 28 January 2003 at 2:28 PM
640x480 are what's being put out right now. These things aren't meant for hardcore photography, but internet photo albums are fast replacing traditional albums. With an internet album , pics can be viewed from anywhere at any time, and while the print quality of these pictures is absolute garbage, on-screen display is a quite decent quality. Instead of buying the 400$ 2.2 megapixel fuji camera (where the quality lands on the line between display and print quality), teenagers and business people may very well prefer to have a camera cell phone instead. The cellphones themselves are quite small in comparison to what was out 2 years ago, plus they take pictures that are decent for onscreen display. The popularity of these things is going to skyrocket in the next year and a half. And even with the semingly hefty price tag, cell phones themselves (the higher end ones) don't cost much less anyways, and digicams cost a pretty penny too. For all the features included on these phones, you get a pretty good deal (this is in comparison to other cell phones and individual digi cams, both of which are already overpriced), which means the popularity of these gadgets are going to skyrocket in the next year and a half, especially when they start putting 2 mega pixel censors in them, which you can bet they will as internet and broadband bandwith gets bigger and bigger to transmit the images themselves. That also means older models, the ones coming out right now, will cost even less, and you can bet they will still be sold for a little while to come. No clue where I'm going with all this... but watch out Mitch, the celltographers may be comin to the forum and gallery soon...