LG's planning on 5, 6, and 7-megapixel camphones in 2005

Samsung's currently the world-record holder for the highest-megapixel cameraphone on any market (5 on the SCH-S250), but never to be outdone by the likes of them, LG's talking some big talk about how this year they're planning on 5, 6, and even 7-megapixel cameraphones. LG VP Skott Ahn even goes so far as to seriously call Samsung out on their obsession with the "world's first" label, claiming their technology is so immature as not to feature an auto-focus lens or decent construction in case of a drop. Don't you just love it when prominent electronics makers talk the mad smack?

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[Matt @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM]

Finally!! We'll be able to see some hi-def shots of Paris Hilton's breasts. :-|

[TheZodiac @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM]

I could imagine that if 8MP prosumers are just out there as of last year..... putting a POS CMOS sensor of that high MP in a cam is going to make more POS junk. How about impriving on the OPTICS of the damn things currently out there?....

[Michael Olshansky @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM]

Eh.. not really.

More megapixels doesn't mean anything if the lenses suck.

I have seen older 2 and 3 megapixel cameras that smoke some newer 5 megapixel units because of the difference in lens quality.

[Asimmo @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM]

Isn't that Matrix phone??

[Harrie Nak @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM]

Man, that thing looks like Morpheus' (from The Matrix) ultra phat cellphone!

[ben @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM]

looks like the Palm Tungsten

[enzo @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM]

I never got the obsession with a camera on a phone. We have two completely different ideas here, taking photographs, and speaking on a telephone. Ten years from now, we'll laugh at camera phones as we laugh today at large 80s mobiles, while we use our videophones.