[pct-l] camera phones

[richard at hare22.demon.co.uk (Richard Hare)]

Dave

I think you might find that the quality may be inferior with these camera
phones.  I'm not really at the cutting edge of them, but I'm pretty sure
they only take 640 x 480 which is fine for simple picture messages on a
phone and even may look kind of okay on a web page (here's one a friend of
mine took on his camera phone
http://www.richardhare.net/photos/image(45).jpg ) Even if the lenses were
any good and the phone could take a 4mp shot  I doubt there's a  network
around at present which would cope with sending such large amounts of data.
(or even a backpackers pocket deep enough to stay connected whilst it gets
sent)

Maybe one day! It would certainly be a neat way to go!

Rik

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> Subject: [pct-l] camera phones
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>
> Just read an article in Time magazine that may solve the what to
> do with your
> digital images while still on the trail: Camera phones. Although
> the phone
> probably won't work in mountain valley you can e-mail them to a
> computer when
> you get to a trail town where reception is available. Your
> pictures will be
> awaiting you on your return neatly filed. Have a friend confirm
> it for you, or
> send them to their computer too, as back up.
>  Now if this picture phone was also a PDA including altimeter, compass,
> map/guide book data base, pedometer, GPS, diary, watch, worked on
> AA batteries and
> weighed only 4 ounces, I would get one
>    Almost forgot, It's gotta be at least 4 mp to satisfy the
> pixel nit pickers
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