Mobile phone with an optical zoom camera.

[DJ OD]

Does anyone else not think that the way forward for camera phones is not to keep shoving in higher mega pixels, but to put a decent optical lens mechanism in them.

Newer camera are small and light, with a telescopic optical lens so why don't the phone manufacturers realise this is a better function to adopt than the 10mp camera they are trying to squeeze into the next nokia.

IMO a 5mp camera on a phone isn't going to be anymore useful than a 3.2mp. Sure the mix of camera and phone is a good idea, but how long is it before they become cameras that can make phone calls..?

Mobile technology moves so fast these days, it's hard for anyone to really get full use from a phone before they are in need of an upgrade. Often the build quality is crap, and more often than not, there are bugs and glitches in the software.

The arse has to fall out of the market sooner or later.


On another note... With all these fancy toys about at the moment, not just phones, but ipods, psp's, pvr's etc' as well, people are more of a target to theives and muggers etc.

Parents are giving kids mobiles so they are safer and can contact or be contacted in an emergency, but it's the bloody phone that's making them a target for trouble in the first place. Why, because it's a 20gb media playing, 5mp, internet capable, tri-band, gaming phone... FFS.


DJ OD

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optical zoom needs large-ish mechanisms, everyone wants their phone to be as small as possible so i dont think it will ever really happen.

As for 10mpix cameras, most people only ever view the pics on their phone screen which probably has the resolution of 0.2 mpix. so what is the point!

[Sanj[UK]]

im sure sharp phones on voda have optical lens?

[DJ OD]

im sure sharp phones on voda have optical lens?

Yeah, you're right. The Sharp 903 has a 2x optical zoom!


DJ OD

[Termy]

I dont want a camera on my phone, but a teasmaid would be nice for a brew on the move, lol. But I dunno where the cup could possibly go ??

As everyone knows, technology id getting smaller and smaller, therefore it wont be too long before these new handsets will have all these optical lenses and 60 Gb mp3 players already installed into them (without the use of memory cards)

TBH, I think the market will have to change soon as many people who I know are getting bored with all the same functions on different handsets. A new gimmick is needed.

And yes, the arse has fallen out of the phone ,arket, not just in the major shops and networks, but also in the unlocking/flashing sector too. There are too many people who claim to be experts (me included, lol) who think they can unlock/flash anything. Everyone has jumped on the same bandwagon as they think there is money to be made in this sort of thing.

[Sanj[UK]]

Yeah, you're right. The Sharp 903 has a 2x optical zoom!


DJ OD

im sure some of the older phones in the gx rang e(10 or 15 or whatever) had optical zoom to

[evilsatan]

I saw in a gadget mag last year that in Japan they are releaseing a phone where the camera moves out of the phone as a digital camera does when on to allow a optical zoom. It was something like 8 or 10 MP too. Probaly a concept phone though...