2008/12/18 Michael Zanetti <michael_zane...@gmx.net>: > As It seems this thread is becoming more and more some sort of a whish-list, I > will put my 2ct here also: > > - Please don't add a camera: Has ever anyone made a picture with a mobile > phone camera that doesn't suck? Get a real camera if you want to make some > nice pictures! There is just one way to get a useful camera within a mobile > phone: Using very expensive optical lens and zooming technologies. But in that > case, I'd prefer to use the money for a 3G modem which brings me to the next > point in my whishlist.
I think this is a misunderstanding of the concept of having a camera in a phone. For many people it is the convenience of *always* having a camera on them. Who knows when you need to take a picture? It doesn't matter if the picture sucks - they have a "real" camera for quality photos. But they don't have it on them all the time. Furthermore, as Raster points out, for some people the better cameraphones actually do suit their needs *well enough* to replace a normal camera (my gf is one of these). There will always be a large group of people for whom this will never be the case, I know. I say this as someone who would personally gladly do without the camera in place of 3G. But doing this might turn off a whole other group of people, because some sort of camera is such an expected thing in a phone these days. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community