Panasonic Lumix Phone, 13 Megapixels, Touch Screen
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Panasonic is teasing us with a few details of the Lumix Phone, containing a 13.2 megapixel CMOS sensor and a 3.3-inch VGA LCD*. It will be the same size as the iPhone, only twice as thick, at 17.7mm.
At this point, you’re probably expecting the standard rant about tiny sensors and high pixel-counts in cellphones. I don’t think that’s what we have here, though. It seems instead that this will be a proper camera with a cellphone built-in, rather than the other way around. This could be a fantastic idea. Why?
I carry a camera with me pretty much all the time. I also carry a cellphone, but use it only a few times a week. If I could make the odd call and send an SMS from my camera once in a while, I’d be happy.
What’s more, I could upload pictures to Flickr and other services, and have my photos geotagged automatically. And because I’d be thinking of this as a phone, I wouldn’t mind charging it every night.
The specs are being slowed teased onto the Lumix Phone site, but so far we know that the camera will have a flash, a dedicated shutter button and a flash. It will also have a touch-screen. An image and full details will be published on October 5th.
Lumix Phone product page [Panasonic]
Lumix Phone press release [Panasonic]
*Camera LCDs are usually measured in dots, which is actually triple the amount of pixels. This makes the Lumix Camera’s screen an impressive 900,000-dots: 640 x 480 x 3 = 921,600. I think. My maths is quite terrible.
See Also:
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