{"id":7042,"date":"2008-07-08T18:39:01","date_gmt":"2008-07-08T18:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/5_megapixel_camera_phones.html"},"modified":"2008-07-08T18:39:01","modified_gmt":"2008-07-08T18:39:01","slug":"5-megapixel-camera-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/5-megapixel-camera-phones.html","title":{"rendered":"5 Megapixel Camera Phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"display: inline;\" class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/omnia_m2%5B1%5D.html','popup','width=515,height=687,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/omnia_m2%5B1%5D.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"265\" height=\"353\" style=\"margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;\" class=\"mt-image-left\" alt=\"omnia_m2[1].jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/omnia_m2[1]-thumb-265x353.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/span>Is 5 megapixels the cutoff for effective camera replacement by cell phone? One would imagine it should be and even though camera phones typically can&#8217;t zoom like a camera they are always with you and as such, users get used to them and don&#8217;t want to drag YAD (yet another device) wherever they go.<\/p>\n<p>If you are taking photos with a camera phone in the US, you are probably not snapping at any more than 2 megapixels. Still, already cell phones are becoming the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/voip\/ip-communications\/articles\/33393-everyday-photography-cell-phones-becoming-camera-choice.htm\">choice<\/a> of everyday photography.<\/p>\n<p>And even with this fact in mind, one wonders if people will even buy cameras as 5 megapixel camera phones become mainstream. Already you can purchase the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcauthority.com.au\/News\/116219,nokia-6220-classic-join-the-5-megapixel-crowd.aspx\">Nokia 6220<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/internetcommunications.tmcnet.com\/topics\/broadband-mobile\/articles\/32173-mobile-imaging-redefined-motozine-zn5-from-motorola-kodak.htm\">Motorola Motozine ZN5<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/tom-keating\/mobile-phones\/lets-not-forget-about-samsungs-new-mobile-phone.asp\">Samsung Omnia<\/a> (pictured) and a number of other 5 megapixel gadgets which can make calls and remember your favorite memories.<\/p>\n<p>The next frontier for camera phones is to take on the video recorder and I would imagine within three years video recording camera phones will be much more common.<\/p>\n<p>With all this processing power, making FMC calls and accessing UC applications while surfing on 4G and WiMax networks should be cake. Where do I sign up for one of these gadgets? I just can&#8217;t wait to see them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is 5 megapixels the cutoff for effective camera replacement by cell phone? One would imagine it should be and even though camera phones typically can&#8217;t zoom like a camera they are always with you and as such, users get used to them and don&#8217;t want to drag YAD (yet another device) wherever they go. If<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158,168,178,170,172,160,212,199,188,198,189,118,177,174,190,191,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7042"}],"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=7042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}