I use to think I couldn't live without a camera on my phone but I decided to pick up a neo for the open source part. I've been using it with qtopia as an every day phone for the past week or so and I couldn't care less about having a camera anymore. I just don't care about it.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 11:40 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: No Camera??? >Needless to say there won't be a camera as standard since the case >tooling can't be altered at this stage. Then (IMO) the neo is going to be a failure in the market. >If every design change requested were to be incorporated then the Neo >would be the since of a laptop and would be ready in 10 years time. True - But we're talking about a feature nearly every other phone has and the neo is missing. It's also a feature people actually USE. >A survey on The Register (UK site) had camera at the lowest required >feature with about 25% of people saying they need one and 25% saying >the couldn't care less. Do you have a link? I can't seem to find it. Also, The Register's readers are hardly representative of the mobile phone market! >the Neo is in no way a phone for the average. This marked is well >served with the usual suspects. Ok, I was under the impression the Neo would be aimed at end users. >If I'm going to take pictures, I use a camera :-) Me too - much better quality. The problem is that I don't usually know when I walk out the door in the morning if I'm going to want to take a photo that day and so I don't walk around with a camera. I do however (nearly) always carry my phone with me. That's why 30 of the 35 phones Nokia sells come with a camera. The neo will not penetrate the consumer market without a camera. Not a chance. So, intentional or otherwise, the neo is going to be a geek's toy and nothing more. What a shame. Cheers, Tom PS: Sorry if this is going over ground already covered on the list. _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
