{"id":10339,"date":"2014-04-14T14:48:51","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T14:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/camera-phone_opportunity_exists_for_samsung.html"},"modified":"2022-10-14T18:34:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T22:34:35","slug":"camera-phone-opportunity-exists-for-samsung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/google\/camera-phone-opportunity-exists-for-samsung.html","title":{"rendered":"Camera-Phone Opportunity Exists for Samsung"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There exists an opportunity for a superior camera with 10x or greater zoom coupled with the traditional things we are used to on a phone like Instagram and Facebook support. Note, last year&#8217;s Samsung&#8217;s Galaxy S4 Zoom camera-phone went too far&#8230; You don&#8217;t want to hold a big clunky camera to your face. The point is, if you are going to sell a camera that zooms, then it will be a data only device. Market it as such.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/platypus_in_geelong.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/assets_c\/2014\/04\/platypus_in_geelong-thumb-500x333-13681.jpg\" alt=\"platypus_in_geelong.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you market it as a phone, you end up with a platypus &#8211; an animal sarcastically said to have been designed by a committee.<\/p>\n<p>Having said that, Samsung is set to unveil an updated camera later this month and it is expected to have a 10x zoom as well as a 20 megapixel sensor.<\/p>\n<p>While this is less than half of what the Lumia 1020 offers in terms of megapixels, it could differentiate itself with a superior lens and optical zoom capability. Not to mention support for Android and its ecosystem of apps.<\/p>\n<p>There is tremendous convenience in being able to have a high-quality camera which also allows instant and easy uploads through familiar apps. Samsung has an opportunity to capture significant share if it finds the right combination of features and price.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here is the invitation Samsung recently sent journalists which hints at their intentions<\/strong> (Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestreet.com\/story\/12668371\/1\/samsung-to-try-again-with-a-camera-phone.html?cm_ven=RSSFeed\">TheStreet<\/a>)<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/samsung-kapture.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/assets_c\/2014\/04\/samsung-kapture-thumb-500x330-13679.jpg\" alt=\"samsung-kapture.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"330\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There exists an opportunity for a superior camera with 10x or greater zoom coupled with the traditional things we are used to on a phone like Instagram and Facebook support. Note, last year&#8217;s Samsung&#8217;s Galaxy S4 Zoom camera-phone went too far&#8230; You don&#8217;t want to hold a big clunky camera to your face. The point<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,163],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18820,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10339\/revisions\/18820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}