Is it a phone? Is it a camera? Does it really matter anymore? If neither
the mirumo 934SH nor the Solar Hybrid 936SH are quite to your liking, feast your eyes on this other wonder from Sharp that's hitting SoftBank Mobile in Japan this summer, the AQUOS SHOT 933SH. The headlining feature on this sucker would be the massive optics combined with a 10 megapixel low-noise CCD sensor, which is made infinitely easier to use as an actual camera thanks to a rotating touchscreen display -- just flip it around, snap it facing outwards, and
voilà, your old point-and-shoot is on notice. Otherwise, you've got a 3.3-inch WVGA display (perfect for viewing one-seg television) and global roaming capability, so don't be surprised if we try to smuggle one of these stateside when it launches in late May, alright?
posted May 19th 2009 4:10AM
so...did you say massive optics? then that little turd of a lens is just to throw me off, right?
Exactly!
The massive optics are skillfully concealed to not scare off potential users - they're there, concealed somewhere in the skinny body, seriously.
You missed something better!
"800-megapixel camera"
In the "read" link (search for "934SH").
That backside, its like putting a inflatable RollsRoyce skin on a guy peddling a tricycle
Will this never stop?
One would assume that by now the Megapixel race is pretty much over, except for Pro cameras - clearly, cameraphones / phonecameras were kept out of the loop. Besides the fact that most such shooters are simply incapable of taking truly good photographs [inherent limitations], what about the space needed to store all this junk? Ever Bigger, not-so-great, generally unseen images stored somewhere for posterity on hungry little spinning platters...will this never stop?
For better photography, please visit the experts at dpreview, where they seem to be particularly good at sorting through this mess. More here :
http://thinkmoreinc.wordpress.com/2009/05/19/82-2/
The difference is that this is using a CCD sensor, so while in a normal (european) cameraphone quality won't really improve above 3.2MP, this might actually be capable of taking some good pics.
You obviously are like the rest of the gang, know nothing but claims plenty.
@Gnormie: CMOS > CCD
Phone cameras are fine. Can you get a better camera if you buy a "real" one? Sure. But a good phone cam today is just fine for holiday or party snaps. Compare to consumer film cameras. APS cameras took horrible photos (at least mine did - my camera phone makes clearer and sharper prints than my old 400ASA APS snaps), but people were absolutely fine with them!
And regarding "cameraphone quality won't really improve above 3.2MP", having phones with 3, 5 and 8 MP, yes it really does improve between generations, and my 8MP phone while maybe not resolving the full 8 MP does resolve more than the 5 MP does. The 8 MP even has better low-light/night performance than the 5 MP did.
@Tony C: Expensive CMOS > Expensive CCD > Cheap CCD > Cheap CMOS
@Tony
CCD > Conventional CMOS
CMOS with per pixel noise reduction > CCD
Traditionally CMOS sensors sucked compared to CCDs. Up until someone realized that they could exploit the digital nature of the CMOS to help suppress noise. This is how they've been implemented in dSLRs. But not in many cheaper applications.
Massive optics, indeed.
This > any DSLR.
Judging by the optics, I'm guessing that the sensor is physically a bit larger than what you would find in a typical cameraphone. But dear lord... did they have to put the flash *that* close to the optics? That's just asking for trouble.
Is that a tiny camera inside a huge lens?
Majority of that huge bezel ring looks like it's just for show, maybe just to disguise the phone into looking like it's a real ultra-compact digicam or has a huge lens like a Samsung. No idea why. You probably already noticed the tiny camera-phone sized camera element, that's all there is to it, nothing more.
I remember the same trick was used on my previous phone, the Nokia 6630, even when i bought it i thought the whole thing at the back was part of the camera, but the huge ring was just for show: http://www.66mobile.com/images/zoom/nokia/Nokia_6630_phone.jpg
it still made decent pics for a 2005 phone though
I have a older 5mp version of this and its not really good. 5mp is fine but the lens is soft. Obvioulsy its better than most cellphone but you are better carrying a small canon point and shoot cam.
Oh god I wish this would come to Verizon.
Verizon just can't get a good camera phone...
Hmm.... no info on its video capturing capability.
I had to read this twice to catch that it is also a phone...holy balls, why do US cell carriers suck so much? Course, I've known this for years since I stumbled onto something called NTT DoCoMo some 5 or 6 years ago but COME ON!
Just not fair...'drools'
Finally ! now apple, nokia and sony needs to come out with the same phone specs but they probably fudge it up again and leave out important stuff like wifi, 3g or other stuff.
.. they always play the Generation Game, like car manufacturers, they hold out until way late to put all the features on their products.
feel bad for the people who got an iphone with a crappy cam.
Seems to me that if you're going to use any camera in a phone more frequently than for that brief Rodney King moment, you'd want a lens cover to keep your shit clean and scratch free. Why don't they just include some crappy little slide cover for these things?
nice