| Capture it with your camera cell phone | | Posted Tuesday, January 24, 2006 3:25:18 PM by Rose Martins | Camera phones are the trendiest in today's mobile phone selection. Everyone purchsasing a mobile phone today, wants a phone that sports a camera. Camera phone pictures are not of the highest quality, but camera phone manufacturers are working on it. 
Even prepaid phone options are now offering camera phones. The one downside to the prepaid phone option, is that the camera phones offered are usually cheap camera phones.
The best camera phones capture great phone photos, which can be emailed or sms from your phone, but still don't compare to a photo taken by digital camera.
Camera phone companies, such as Nokia, Motorola and Nextel, are continuously improving the camera phone capabilities, and the quality of the camera phone pictures.
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| | | Curbishley losing on all fronts as TV camera crews feed off scrambled Eggert | | Posted Sunday, February 04, 2007 3:05:26 PM by Blog57 Team | | Perhaps Alan Curbishley never really expected to beat Liverpool on Tuesday - if West Ham are to save themselves it probably won't be at the expense of teams in the Champions League bracket - yet it is a fair bet that the manager did not appreciate the full extent of his problems until he returned home and watched the video. What might not have been apparent from the technical area was glaringly obvious to the television cameras and the country at large. Curbishley is being upstaged by his boss. .... | |
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| | | Free Phones for the Masses | | Posted Thursday, January 25, 2007 1:19:19 PM by Blog57 Team | | When I hear the word free, I can't help but think "what's the catch?" "what's wrong with it?" and "do I really want something from the reject bin?" But today's free cell phones don't deserve any such reaction. Though you won't see any premium handsets included among the freebie options, carriers now offer no-cost phones that go far beyond basic. I tested one phone from each of the four major U.S. carrier--Cingular, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon Wireless--and found handsets that ranged from fair to very good. Cingular's selection was easily the most generous, while Verizon had the slimmest pickings. Clearly, many carriers have improved their array of free phones, but you may have trouble finding these models at their retail stores: Many freebies are available exclusively via the carrier's Web store.... | |
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| | | Grandville: District takes new look at cell phones | | Posted Sunday, December 17, 2006 1:12:27 PM by Blog57 Team | | GRANDVILLE -- Advances in technology have made the school district's cell phone ban impractical, administrators say. Four years ago, the district banned camera phones in the schools. But now it's hard to find a cell phone that doesn't include a camera. Last week, Superintendent Ron Caniff asked the Board of Education to reconsider the ban on camera phones and instead focus on the proper use of the devices. "What we have right now, to be candid, is a policy that's not being enforced as it should be," Caniff said. Caniff suggested prohibiting the use of cell phones to video or photograph another person on school grounds or at a school-approved activity in a way that "compromises the person's privacy." He also proposed dropping a clause that calls for "permanent expulsion" of students who break the policy.... | |
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| | | Pantech challenges Chocolate with PT-S280 | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 11:11:33 PM by Blog57 Team | | Slider phones are all the rage, especially in Korea. Pantech & Curitel has new music-centric slider targetted directly against the ubiquitous LG Chocolate Phone. The PT-S280 is quite the fashionable handset, sporting a 2.0-inch QVGA display, integrated media player (naturally), text viewer, mobile banking capabilities, and a 1.3 megapixel camera. It does seem to be a touch on the chubby side compared to some of its Korean cousins, but we all know that the camera adds ten pounds. Price has been set at around 300,000 KRW (US$321) and there don't appear to be any plans to bring it over to our side of the ocean, at least not anytime soon. Read [Via akihabaranews.com] .... | |
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| | | Eartha Kitt, Live from the Cafe Carlyle - with quintet let by ... | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 1:24:12 PM by Blog57 Team | | The phenomenal show biz equivalent of the Energizer Bunny keeps entertaining sold-out crowds at NYC's posh Cafe Carlyle at age 79. The slinky, seductive, purring and growling Kitt enthralls her audiences with her own patented style, while still honoring the tunes she performs. Singing in ten different languages, she originally got her start performing in a Paris niteclub and was called by Orson Welles "the most exciting woman in the world." She's had an Emmy Award, three Tony nominations and two Grammy nominations. Kitt was blacklisted for years after she spoke out against the Vietnam War. Eartha' 17-song act at the Carlyle is basically the same thing she has been doing for many decades now, but somehow faster and funnier. One of the gems is Eartha singing Come-On-a My House in Japanese.... | |
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| | | A brush with a star at art expo in Phila. | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 11:43:22 AM by Blog57 Team | | With all the camera phones, video recorders, and people lining up for autographs, it was easy to tell there was a celebrity in the room. Yesterday, Billy Dee Williams, known for roles in Lady Sings the Blues and Brian's Song, was busy signing autographs and posing for photos. But the man known to many as Lando Calrissian in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi wasn't promoting a new television series or out on the road filming a movie. Williams was in town as the featured artist for the 21st Annual October Gallery Philadelphia International Art Expo, held at the Liacouras Center at Temple University. This year's theme is "Connecting People With Art." By the time the show ends today, 40,000 people will have visited the Liacouras Center to see about 140 artists from the United States, Africa, Canada and the Caribbean.... | |
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| | | TI touts low cost chip, platform for multimedia phones | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 3:32:41 AM by Blog57 Team | | Texas Instruments will start sampling early next year a single chip version of its OMAP-Vox platform targeted at the increasingly popular entry level but multimedia enabled handsets. It expects the first phones to use its next generation "eCosto" device, the 1035, to be shipping by early 2008. The "Costo" moniker is already being used at TI for the 1030 version, dubbed "LoCosto", which is targeted at the low cost phones sector, including those targeting the developing countries, and the company says is being used by 15 phone manufacturers. The processor combines TI's single-chip DRP technology with the multimedia features of OMAP-Vox platform. The latest version was announced at a wireless event this week in China where Rich Templeton, TI's President and Chief Executive Officer, told an audience of handset manufacturers and mobile service operators that "all of us have an important role to play" in helping China connect more people in its rural areas and across the country.... | |
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| | | Nearly Half of Mobile Phones Will Have a Camera in 2006 | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 11:27:24 AM by Blog57 Team | | Worldwide sales of camera phones will account for 48 percent of total worldwide mobile phone sales in 2006, growing to 81 percent by 2010, according to new forecasts from Gartner. Worldwide sales of camera phones, which have almost tripled since 2004, will reach 460 million in 2006, an increase of 43 percent from 2005. This trend is set to continue, leading to sales of one billion camera phones by 2010. "A camera is a feature that consumers expect to see in new devices whether they are interested in using it or not," said Carolina Milanesi, principal research analyst at Gartner. "With improved quality of camera phone pictures, users can now really enjoy viewing pictures on their PCs, printing them or uploading pictures directly from their phones onto their blog, thanks to services such as Flickr." Gartner says that the 'mega pixel race' will continue to gather pace as consumers apply the same judgement in selecting camera phones as in selecting digital cameras.... | |
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| | | Some way my prints will come | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 7:14:37 PM by Blog57 Team | | In the high-tech here-and-now, people are preserving magical moments using camera phones, digital cameras and, for now, antediluvian film cameras. But film cameras will eventually go the way of the dodo bird, says Andreas Browne, a Ritz Camera sales associate at Fairlane Town Center in Dearborn, who admits he often uses film. Nikon Corp. said in January it would focus on marketing digital cameras. Konica Minolta also announced plans to leave the photo business because of the shrinking film market. It all boils down to photo processing. The problem with film is you have to wait until photos are developed to see if they're any good, Browne says. With digital cameras, buyers can capture and save the images and delete unwanted images, which is a money saver. Freelance photographer Ben Scott, 36, of Hazel Park says his $1,400 Nikon D50 digital SLR camera was worth every penny.... | |
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| | | Vimicro Launches the First PC Camera Multimedia Solution in the World Certified for Windows Vista(TM) | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 11:24:39 AM by Blog57 Team | | Vimicro Corporation , a leading fabless semiconductor company that designs advanced mixed-signal multimedia products and solutions, today announced that its PC camera processor VC0326 has received Windows Hardware Quality Lab (WHQL) certification for Windows Vista by Microsoft. By cooperating with Microsoft CTC (China Technology Center), Vimicro leads the way with the first PC camera multimedia processor in the world to receive such qualification. The WHQL certification, which is expected to lower support costs and increase customer satisfaction, confirms that Vimicro's product is compatible with Windows Vista and differentiates Vimicro's processors from other products on the market. Microsoft plans to conduct high-impact marketing activities to drive market demand for products bearing the Windows Vista logo.... | |
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