"Joshua Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I agree 100% with Coomac. Sure it would be nice if we had a Digital SLR with > us at all times but that is completely impractical. Unless you are some sort > of weirdo chances are you are not going to be carrying that large camera > around with you everywhere you go.
How rude :-) And also unobservant - subcompact point-and-shoots are coming with 10MP sensors and 10x zoom lenses with IS these days, and they're about the size of the larger phones, and have *hugely* better quality than even the N90 - and lots of people *do* carry them everywhere. > The point of a camera phone is for those > cases where an SLR is not available. I am also in that whole 20-something > college bracket and when I had my MDA (HTC Wizard) I used my camera on a > near daily basis. The same goes for a lot of people I work with, go to > school with etc etc. I hear so much talk on these lists about how this is > supposed to be a mass market phone and crap like it is an iPhone killer, but > none of that is ever gonna happen when you are catering to a niche market. Your mistake is, perhaps, *believing* any of that (this is a very enthusiastic "community" but not a hugely reality-based one :-) The GTA01 is absolutely not an iPhone killer in the short term (with over a million iPhones already sold) - but there are certainly some people for whom it solves problems that the iPhone can't touch (as mentioned, USB host is the big one for me...) > Let's face it maybe 0.5% of people aren't allowed to bring phones with > cameras to work. Where as I bet 20-30% of people can't live with out it and > the rest just don't care. I think your (made-up, uncited?) statistics are failing to take into account that the people who can't bring cameras to work (a growing number) are going to be a disproportionately large percentage of the people who *actually pay for phones* and *want smartphones in the first place*... if you look at the link posted earlier, http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/25/mobile_devices_who_decides/ it's more like 30% who can't have them, 15% who can't live without, and the remaining 55% who don't care... _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
