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Camera phone photo from within The House on Grant.
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Digital photo taken from just outside The House's front door. (click for larger image)
No comparison, right?
For now.
Most camera phones currently in use have low resolution, a fixed focus, no flash, and no zoom. Photos tend to be poor quality, fuzzy pictures of friends at a party or street scenes or someone's eyeball staring at the camera.
Camera phone quality is improving at an astounding rate, however. In 2003, Samsung introduced a 1-megapixel camera phone. In spring 2004, Samsung introduced its first 3.2-megapixel camera phone, followed by a 5-megapixel camera phone in Fall 2004. Buzz is that camera phone manufacturers will be coming out with camera phones with hard-drives, telescopic zoom lenses, and video and MP3 players.
Just the other day, his nibs sent me a link to an article about Toshiba starting to ship a 0.85-inch, 2-Gbyte hard drive for mobile devices, with a 4GB due out mid-2005 and 8GB by 2006.
Zounds!
0.86"
What a world. What a world. What a world.
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